Flames and Celebration
What's a New Years celebration without great friends, food, drinks, fireworks and oh yes, fire. It seems that MiMi's beautifully decorated apartment in the Trocadero was the ideal place for all these and not one, nor two but three small fires as we celebrated the arrival of the 2005.
Candles provided the ideal backdropped for a chic dinner party to celebrate the entry of the new year. They also provided the ideal situation for small fires. The first was when the beautiful tall slender candles in the huge hurricane lamp decided to merge as one large flame shooting 6-8 inches above the top of the lamp. This sent several guests running about trying to resolve the situation. It was MiMi herself to the rescue with of course water. How else would one put out a fire that large in your foyer. Let's not mention that cold water and hot glass can create their own emergency situation.
The second fire came when Magda decided to make a grand gesture with her napkin setting it afire. Of course, true to form Magda had her own way of dealing with this situation .... she began blowing on it which in turn made the FLAMES spread FASTER. This second situation occurred after several bottles of champagne were consumed and reactions were a little slower than normal. But MiMi was more than prepared for this situation. Asking Magda in her best hostess voice stand still, she also doused this one with water which for some reason she seems to always have easy access.
The third fire was similar to the first (i.e., candles in hurrican lamps) and true to form extinguished by hostess MiMi with her every ready bottle of water. It was after this 3rd near miss at burning up MiMi's beautiful apartment that we concluded that all flames should be extinguished and more champagne should be consumed!
All was made right just in time to welcome in 2005.
Candles provided the ideal backdropped for a chic dinner party to celebrate the entry of the new year. They also provided the ideal situation for small fires. The first was when the beautiful tall slender candles in the huge hurricane lamp decided to merge as one large flame shooting 6-8 inches above the top of the lamp. This sent several guests running about trying to resolve the situation. It was MiMi herself to the rescue with of course water. How else would one put out a fire that large in your foyer. Let's not mention that cold water and hot glass can create their own emergency situation.
The second fire came when Magda decided to make a grand gesture with her napkin setting it afire. Of course, true to form Magda had her own way of dealing with this situation .... she began blowing on it which in turn made the FLAMES spread FASTER. This second situation occurred after several bottles of champagne were consumed and reactions were a little slower than normal. But MiMi was more than prepared for this situation. Asking Magda in her best hostess voice stand still, she also doused this one with water which for some reason she seems to always have easy access.
The third fire was similar to the first (i.e., candles in hurrican lamps) and true to form extinguished by hostess MiMi with her every ready bottle of water. It was after this 3rd near miss at burning up MiMi's beautiful apartment that we concluded that all flames should be extinguished and more champagne should be consumed!
All was made right just in time to welcome in 2005.
posted by JPT at 9:38 PM
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