Today I woke up and knew my mother would be okay. Yesterday with your loving attention, and the ton of family and friends cheering her own, she was on her way to healing and being her natural self again. The…

                             Halloween French style… is there such a thing? I am going to wear this (photo above) and it is going to be scary! French Husband is going to wear this vintage collar and nothing else. Of course he doesn't…

                                         French lace to make a Halloween costume. Only if you want to that is… I didn't say the winner had to use the lace to make a Halloween costume… Though I have some old postcards (borrowed from my friend Shelley)…

                                                  Monogram patterns found in an old (I bet I didn't need to say the word old? Most the stuff on this blog is old including me.) French magazine. I rarely see my initials on old linens, though I…

  Autumn in Provence, the changing colors, grapes picked, the smell of wine to come. Plants putting on their golden coats dressing doorways with a shawl of foliage lace. Lacoste, Bonnieux, and Lourmarin small Provencal towns nestled in the hills. Inviting long…