Month: July 2012
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Saturday Art Saves: The Art of Loving
Photo Source A Holy Experience. Every Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers… anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart on…
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Creative Process…
Waiting to the last minute has been my style when it comes to getting things done. Several months ago Jenny Doh asked four other women and me to embark on a creative project that she had in the works. I…
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How to do the French Cafes without Looking like a Tourist
French cafe, morning: Walk straight to the counter, when the bartender looks at you, nod your head, point your pointer finger up, and at the same time mouth whisper, "Espresso please". Grab a croissant off the platter, pinch off a…
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French Flea Market – Brocante Happiness
After the longest break in the history of my passion, I will be reopening my brocante online shop, started adding bits and pieces today. It is not very often that life surrounding me gets in the way of what I…
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Traveling the Lavender Route in Provence
If you want to see lavender in France you must come in July. Fields and fields, with rows and rows of lavender. The scent alone will send you into la la land. Intoxicating. The lavender fields are in the south…
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French Bread and Tomato Salad
How to make French bread and tomato salad. In the land of baguettes, where a bakery is on every corner, and bread is baked in a wood oven once and sometimes twice a day, where buying a baguette daily…