Category: Living in France
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A Mother’s Heart at Christmas
Photography and text by: Corey Amaro The house stood still, while memories ran around like children playing peek a boo from every corner. I sat and watched. The candles flickering light added a softness, so did French Husband reading at…
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Christmas Decoration: Michel Biehn
Gather snippets of brocade, velvet, baldachin, kincob, tapestry, arrasene fabric and a handful of sequins and old glass beads. Find a strofoam ball. With silver and gold threads sew the old glass beads here and there to the fabric.…
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Tous les Deux
Breakfast for two. Lunch for two. Tea for two. Dinner for two. Missing two… but happy together.
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Having your Cheese and Eating it too
Photography and text by Corey Amaro A few days after her twenty-first birthday and Christmas, Chelsea will come home for a few days before heading off to China. While talking to her on the phone the other day, I asked…
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Creative Wall Papering, or Just Another Wild Hair Idea
Photos and text by Corey Amaro When I was back home, my friend Ellen took me to this fantastic recycyling shop called, "The Scrap Exchange". The Scrap Exchange is a non profit creative reuse center located in Durham, North Carolina.…
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Marseille, and the dirty little secret…
Photographs and text by Corey Amaro Marseille has a bad reputation. Real bad. Everyone says so. Marseille is dangerous… Marseille is not the French Riviera… Marseille is dirty… Do you want to know its dirty little secret? …