Month: February 2006
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French Postage Stamps and love letters
Vintage French Postage Stamps This person, like me, must have lived far from home too ! (S)he must have gently removed the collected stamps from the many letters received, and attached them to this box. Inside, the stamped covered box,…
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Antique Doll
How many hours spent playing, pretending and being happy, did this doll give? How many times did the child’s Mother pick up the little toys and put them a way with care? And now her life scattered all about on…
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Eight Ball
Hustler: A hustler is someone who goes into a pool bar pretending not to know how to play, finds some losers who aren’t pretending, and then tries to trick the losers into betting huge amounts of money on a pool…
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For John Biale
Pressed between the pages of an old book a name a flower and forgotten words. Pressed within my heart you are and I will never be the same. First love, one day we will bloom again in the same garden…
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French Kisses, the First Signs of Spring
vintage postcard. 1929 the unbutton coat scarf tossed aside the cherry trees blossom babies are born flowers change the landscape tenderness fills the air the first signs of Spring are like french kisses!
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SeaShells
First, I must say I collect seashells. Secondly, my daughter's prenom-first name is, "CHELSEA." My Father-in-law, a man of very few words, let alone English ones, said to me at her birth: "Chelsea is, "Sea-Shell, backward, non?" The French pronounce…