Ooh La Frou Frou Girl Aimee ~ Close Up!

Happy Monday, Lovelies!

If you're new, welcome to Ooh La Frou Frou!

This is the place where, each Monday, we peek into the lives of the
girls I've created to be the stars of the
Ooh La Frou Frou Collection card line:
Hope, Tiffany, Cherie, Aimee, Belle, Alex, Violet and Sunny.
I hope you see yourselves in their glamorous adventures, as well ...
for you are the inspiration and our real-life Ooh La Frou Frou girls!

We recently started a fun series of posts
to review the details of each of these girls.
If you missed our Review of
Hope, Tiffany and Cherie
be sure to peek in at those posts and see
the glamorous places they live in the city!

Today we're doing a Glamorous Review of

our Paris-loving girl:

Description of Aimee:
Brunette, green-eyed Aimee is all about anything French.

Like Hope, Tiffany and Cherie,

Aimee leads an exciting life in Manhattan
and loves it so so so very much ...
but she also has romantic dreams of Paris
and jets off there every chance she can get!

(isn't that a dream of us all?)
Ooh-la-la.

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To Aimee, dreams of Paris are the key to her happiness ...

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For our Glamorous Review of Aimee,
let's start by looking at the cards she's been on so far:

The first card: "Glamour Girls."
The inside message of this card:
Glamour Girls ... that's who my bridesmaids are!
(she's in green on the right)

And she recently appeared in our

very sparkly blank card called

"Rain Drop Dreams" ...
if you've never thought of raindrops as diamonds before ...
welcome to the Ooh La Frou Frou way of thinking!

Let's take a quick look at the posts
that have featured Aimee so far ...

In her first post, she told us a few things
she loves about the City of Lights and Love ...
and, of course, Laduree was on the list!
She was looking very chic on her turquoise bike with
her little Yorkie, Paree, in the basket, no? ...





And Aimee is very excited about recent very sweet news ...
her beloved Laduree is opening a shop in New York this July
at 845 Madison Avenue!
Sweet dreams do come true!

Continuing with Aimee's posts, earlier this year,
Aimee let us in on her New Year's resolution.
She said she'd always wondered what it would actually
feel like to live in Paris.
She resolved to have a
"Parisian Fantasy"
this summer and share it with us in a post!
We'll watch as Aimee and a few of the other Ooh La Frou Frou girls
(which ones will she choose to join her?)
lease an apartment is Paris and live the fantasy ... for one week.
They'll be buying fresh French food, stopping by the flower markets,
cooking and entertaining ... sipping cappuccino in cafes ...
shopping in boutiques ...
it will be a fun post ... stay tuned!

On our Valentine's Day post, Aimee was one of the girls
holding up our Valentine sign ... you can see
little Paree at her feet on the right ...
(if you're new, the other Ooh La Frou Frou dogs are
Hope's poodle, Olive, and Cherie's pug, Luxe).

I thought the above illustration would make an awfully cute
blog button, so I changed the wording on the sign and
you can now find it on our right sidebar, available
with our other blog buttons.

In Aimee's most recent post not long ago called
"If Raindrops Were Dreams,"
she fantasized about what she'd prefer to fall
from the sky instead of raindrops ...
designer bags, perhaps?

or maybe ... little Eiffel Towers and macarons?

or perfume and lipstick!

That completes our quick review of Aimee's posts so far.

And to get ready for her glamorous "Parisian Adventure" post this summer,
you can be sure that Aimee will be brushing up on Parisian style ...
and the fabulous Parisian Chic
by Ines de la Fressange
will be her guidebook ...

Inside Parisian Chic you'll find these categories:
Dress Like a Parisian ~ About Fashion/Style
Belle of the Ball ~ About Beauty
Chez Moi ~ About Parisian Lifestyle
Ines's Paris ~ About the cafes and boutiques in Paris

Here is a little intro about Parisian Chic I think you'll enjoy ...



Now ...
are you wondering where Aimee lives in New York?
Of course, as an artist, when deciding where she should live,
I first had to decide on the style of architecture ...
an obvious choice for Aimee ... French!
Just as I did with Hope, Tiffany and Cherie,
I've created a quick rough sketch and watercolor of
the chic Parisian-style limestone townhouse
(with glossy black arched door)
that Aimee's apartment is in.
It's steps away from Central Park ...
perfect for walking little Paree!

When she and Paree step out for that fashionable walk,
she passes by the beautiful Plaza Athenee of New York
and sometimes pops in quickly when longing for
just a little more French ... oui?

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Yes, Aimee lives in two worlds and loves them both.
Her fabulous Manhattan never fails to excite her.
And romantic Paris provides sweet, sweet dreams.

Many of you know that I've been introducing,
one-by-one, the four notecards to be a part of our
Summer "City Girls" Boxed Notecard Collection
to be released soon.
See the post with the introduction of the first notecard: "Tiffany Dreams" here.
See the post with the introduction of the second: "Summer in the City" here.
And THIS week, we're introducing the third!
"Taxi Girl."
And starring in Taxi Girl is .... Aimee!

Aimee has swept her hair up and is looking dramatically chic
after a busy day of shopping, shopping, shopping in the city.
Dressed in her favorite color, pink, she looks for that one
empty taxi to fill with her glamorous finds
and whisk her back to her lovely apartment!


There will be twelve blank notecards to a box:
Four exciting city designs, three cards of each design.
Each of the four notecards designs has a white envelope
with color-coordinated envelope liners that have
printed designs made especially for each card design.
These are not your average notecards ...
embellished with touches of glitter or crystals,
they're like miniature paintings of exciting girls in
one of the most exciting cities in the world ...
New York.

The Summer "City Girls" boxed notes
will be available for purchase in approximately two weeks.
The fourth notecard in this Collection
will be introduced at that time.
Thanks so very much for joining us, everyone.
Have a glamorous week!

Illustration Credit:
All illustration in this post
and on all cards
is the work of the artist and creator of
The Ooh La Frou Frou Collection card line,
Sandra Shelton Markwalder.

The Parisian photographs in the beginning of the post
of the Eiffel Tower, breakfast on the balcony,
black and white photo and macaron key chain
do not belong to me and the source from which I found them
is marked below the images designated with a link that says "via."