• Guessing Game Challenge

                           Here it is the guessing game challenge. It doesn’t look like much and it certainly isn’t old. But it is a reproduction of something that was used often…and just…

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  • A Glass of Roses

                          Oops. Oh no, this is not the guessing game post that I promised yesterday. I ran out of daylight to take the photo of the item that I have…

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  • French Lavender Baskets

                              French lavender baskets. Similar to lavender bottles or wands, except the floral part is not concealed and the stems fold upward and are not sealed above the lavender blossoms. I am…

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  • The Moment at Hand

    Enjoy the boredom, enjoy the silence, enjoy the sleepless night, enjoy the guilty feelings. Enjoy the traffic-jams, enjoy the pants that are too tight, and the glass that is half…

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  • Jumping on the Garden Bed

                                                                                                         My little cousin Liam jumping on the garden bed in the back porch or his Grandmother’s house.

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  • Bastille Day (a few days late)

                       If you have never been to Paris on Bastille Day (July 14th) and if you love fireworks check out these links. Paris……Bastille…. Fireworks.…

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  • The Abandon House and its Leftover Dreams

    Last summer I was lucky enough to tag a long with my Godmother to a house that had been abandoned for over fifty years.  My Godmother had over the years…

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  • The Inner World of Childhood

                             My two little nieces and I were taking a nap…. actually I was pretending to be taking a nap in hopes that they might actually take a nap. In the…

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  • The Vachement Son-Bee and other things you learn in a mixed language household

                              The fabulous foot-in-mouth mishaps that French Husband, the children and I have had tripping over the English and French language has been in the time past (and present) enough fun…

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  • Home Nest

                           Creating a home is certainly more than creating a nest. It is more important to care for what is growing in the nest than the decoration around the “nest.”…

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