I’m in love with Paris says Helen Orr

Another specialty shop across the River (nearest métro Alésia) is The Stencil Store at 60, rue Du Couédic, 75014 Paris. Rama Rigolot has the only pochoir (stencil) store in France. Hers is near a large shop specialising in china for china painters, so she has found a niche producing lasercut stencils for china painting as well as other small stencils.

Her website (in French) is www.pochoirdeco.com or contact Helen at sales@stencilgallery.com .

For those motoring outside of Paris, not far from Lyon in Tain L’Hermitage we discovered the Valrhona factory outlet – Aux Sources Du Grand Chocolat. Gorgeous chocolates, lots of free samples of all their chocolates, as well as their hot chocolate –

Rama Rigolot with husband Ghislain and Helen Orr

the cocoa powder makes a great gift to bring back to Australia. The area produces 50% of the chestnuts in France so seek out some candied chestnuts in the town

Rama Rigolot with husband Ghislain and Helen Orr

or the twin town across the river – Tournon.

Helen Orr and her son, Nicholas, own Stencil Gallery, the only stencil showroom in Australia, at 238 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. www.stencilgallery.com.au They have a range of over 3000 stencils from all bygone eras, as well as large contemporary designs suitable for modern Australian homes.

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