Month: June 2010
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Terms of Endearment: Coco Puff
When the women are from America and men are from France, wait isn't there a book with a title like that… how does it go? Venus and Mars isn't it? Well, let's just say when you heart parks in…
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French Antique Candy Boxes and other sweet things
Photos of antique candy boxes by Corey Amaro. A French nineteen century fabric covered candy box. A blue grey paper candy box with gold lettering. Chocolate covered chestnuts from Ardeche… an antique candy box without any chocolates. A French baptismal…
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Match Making, or How a Volcano can make a Hot Apple Pie…Match Maker’s Tale One Year Later
Photographs and text by Corey Amaro Match Making: Two willing souls who did not know they wanted to be together. One Match Maker: Who was not thinking about matchmaking. Came together unexpectedly. The French Man (Pierre) Late fifties, divorced over…
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Giving a New Chapter to Old Things
Photo and Text by Corey Amaro A pair of doll house candlesticks, on an old handwritten letter, surrounded by a frame with flowers on the corners. Little things found at the brocante. Bits and pieces tattered, torn, broken… that someone…
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The Purse Hanger and a Portrait of a Ding Dong
Photo and text by Corey Amaro Today I was to pick a winner for the purse hanger thingy. This morning I searched all over my house trying to find the purse hanger thingy so that I could take a photo…
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Where to Hang Your Purse
Dang, if I cannot find the comment (that one of you left) asking me, "Where do the French women place their purses when out to dinner?" My friend Charlotte answered that question better than me. You see I use to…