Category: Brocante
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The French Muse Touring a Chateau of my Dreams
Friends of mine have cared for a chateau that has been left to decay in graceful surrender. A tragedy beyond belief. Today the French Muse went inside, as my friends are retiring and selling their collected cherished pieces. The chateau…
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Antique Shopping in France with the French Muse
When sharing something I love and having it received with gratitude and appreciation, then the giving flows like the River Sorgue, abundantly with ease, rushing on one shore to another until one becomes the other. Ruth and I went…
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Ephemera
French Ephemera. I have a thing for it. Crazy truth. Whenever I see old French paper I have to stop to check it out. Name cards, invitations, announcements… Bits of a history of a…
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French La Vie: An Old Silk Stocking Factory… Turned into a Private Antique Textile Warehouse
Imagine driving to an obscure Provencal village where only a handful of people live, to go to an old silk stocking factory turned into a warehouse FULL of antique textiles. Having a friend comes in handy,…
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The French Muse: The Old Fashion Way Indigo
Indigo wow is all I should say. But I cannot. The wow started first by making the natural dye. Then the dipping the old white linen into the not-at-all-photogenic plastic garbage tubs. Dipping and squeezing, dipping and squeezing,…
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Walking Around Paris to Celebrate French Husband’s Birthday: The Worse Meal EVER
Yesterday was French Husband's birthday. Sacha, Chelsea, Alice and Mr. Espresso joined us for a day of hanging out. All was well, until dinner… let's just say that if Paris had a horrible place to eat, one that you…