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Baby Fat
When I was expecting my first child, my Belle Mere (Mother in law,) gave me a dozen, antique, pristine, hand-made, white cotton chemises for the baby-to-be.…
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Flo Blue Salt Cellar Celebrates the Miracle of Life
Ah ha! Look Shelley look, a flow blue salt cellar! My friend Shelley who collects flow blue, asked me to bring her a salt cellar the next time I went back to California. Never…
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Passionate Flame
These two vintage tassels hung out with me for years. (I didn’t even have curtains when I bought them in Paris at the flea market.) The silk threads were once before bold like red and…
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Eating Pie
Today after 19 months of blogging every single day I drew a blank. I looked at the empty screen and it looked back at me. …blank. Maybe because there is a ton of laundry and an empty frig starring at…
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French Cafe and the Internet Cafe, all in one day.
Photo: Last summer I met fellow blogger Lauren. This is a gift she gave me. find more of her creations at Alice land’s Yesterday, I went to Aix en Provence to meet an American friend. We had lunch at one…
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Lessons in Buying French Antiques
Yesterday, I went to visit an antique dealer’s attic. It was a dream come true. Attics are usually dark, this one was no exception. In my excitement to get there, I parked my…