Month: January 2008
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Stepping back in Time: Tunisia
Last year around this time my family and I went to Tunisia. The colors still spring up in my mind’s eye causing my cheeks to blush and my heart to race. While I was…
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The Art of Making Coffee
The Theme: A Mother/ Daughter moment. The Stage: The daughter’s (Chelsea) studio. First Scene: The Coffee Machine Daughter shows Mother her new coffee maker. Mother does not like coffee, but drinks it to be…
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Islamic Art and Little ole Me
Yesterday afternoon I went to an antique dealer’s home. Isa is someone I have known for years but we have never spoken more than ten words together. Usually we see each other at the international antique fairs where her hand…
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A House in Provence
Not far away from where I live is this big old abandon house. It has stone walls, frame less windows, a basement, and gigantic wooden support beams without a roof. Over the years I…
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What you can find at any French Flea Market
At the French flea market you can find almost anything. It seems to me if you line up every linen bed sheet, dish, wine glass, table, chair, mirror, sconce, vase, painting, silver tray etc.…
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There’s something about Eva
There is something about Eva and Mattieu that I forgot to tell you. A juicy tidbit that would make any girl’s heart beat faster, and any man wondering why he didn’t think…