Month: March 2010
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Breakfast with Chocolate
Breakfast with chocolate is equivalent to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" fore-go the beautiful gown and the hair that is. I won't show you what I wore this morning… Breakfast with my newfound love… an antique hot chocolate pot… I could just lick…
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French Antique Details, stories of another time.
French antique details: Transfer-ware ribbon design on a soup tureen. A bundle of lavender ribbon in its original packaging. A hand painted china plate… the small details of someone's artist labor that remains true hundreds of years later. Small…
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French Wine Tasting for Beginners
There are many things that say French: The Eiffel Tower, the black beret, a baguette, Edith Piaf's music in the background, cheese, the words Oh La La… and if you put all those things together on a red checked tablecloth…
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Talking, Kissing, Brocanting and the whole Apple Strudel
It is a given that I have a thing for antiques, the brocante, the marche aux puces (flea market), the peeling, scratched, tarnish left over from another time. It is a fact I cannot deny. I asked French Husband, "Do…
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How to Make Vegetable Soup
How to make vegetable soup. For four servings: Take whatever *vegetable you fancy, preferably one in season. Wash it, cut it into large pieces. Peel an onion, chop it in fourths (Saute golden for extra taste if you so desire.)…
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Annie, and The Fact of Life
Annie and I drank tea. She asked me what was new since I saw her last.I told her that Chelsea had come home for the weekend, that our roof was repaired, that Ladelle had arrived home safely, and that my…