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The Season Starts: Antiquing in France
We are off to a fantastic start collaborating with Red Shed Tours. 14 women as crazy as we are about French antiques.- I hope you will follow along.
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Pickles Painting
and while they painted we talked about types of paint, painters such as Matisse, what we would have for lunch (pasta with sardines,) and how the word « bro » is not…
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Opération Lola: a little girl’s big plan.
Olivia wants a baby sister. She is on a mission to have one, and she has a name picked out: Lola. She says it with total certainty, as if Lola already exists…
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On the Coffee Table
On a rough wooden desk that was cut down to make a coffee table sits a silver- tray, a silk lavender ribbon, a hemp-woven cloth, a stone urn, faux flowers,…
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Homecoming- Olivia and Her Feather Friend Sparkle.
« … Imagine me and you, I doI think about you day and night, it’s only rightTo think about the chicken you love and hold her tight. So happy together… » the…
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Too Big
But that’s okay. She said. Save them for another day. That’s the attitude. Patience- trusting tomorrows will come. Dancing until they do.
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What Catches Our Eye-
At the brocante last week I spotted three paintings that caught my eye. Talking with the dealer I discovered that they were œuvres cotées, meaning works that are listed and valued…
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Henopause
Growing up on a farm my mother had chickens— but we never treated them as pets. They were simply part of farm life. Gabriel and Olivia, however, are in love…
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Starting a Cabinet of Curiosity for a Client
Little by little, piece by piece, one unusual thing after another—I wade slowly through the brocante, peering into every small box and across each tabletop like a scavenger hunter. I…
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