Month: January 2009
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My Vintage Wedding Scrapbook
My Vintage Wedding Scrap book starts out with few photos. Twenty-one years ago on this day, French Husband and I were married under a rainstorm. I wore my Grandmother's moth-eaten, paper thin, silk wedding dress. My mother was worried…
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When it Snows in the South of France…
On the rare occasion when it snows in the south of France, roads close. Schools close. Shops close. A winter wonder land appears and the day to day life stands still. Yesterday it snowed over 11 inches within a…
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Snowing in Provence and the Garden of Eden
A pear, a clementine, and an apple that is what we have in our house to dine on, (oh and some orange liquor too.) a garden of Eden without…
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Creating a Bathroom 101
The plumber's handshake nearly broke my hand, as I welcomed him into our home. We talked about the details of installing a bathroom… I showed him the old claw foot bathtub that I proudly salvaged from a second hand…
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French Bathroom Style
We worked on the bathroom project. Last year, before I left for California, our bathroom was going to be reinvented. But because of family matters more pressing, the bathroom project went on hold. Yesterday we restarted were we had…
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French Husband is up to something Good
French Husband is downstairs cooking something. I hear the wire whisk against the bowl. French Husband doesn't cook. He doesn't even like to peel a clementine. In all fairness he does make pasta al dente.But peeling and cooking are not…