Stories Collected While Living in France

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Birds of a Feather

A day to celebrate

 

Do you notice when someone's personality or style rubs off on you? Have you ever hung out with a friend and after awhile you started talking, or dressing, or acting like them? The expression, "Birds of a feather flock together" must come from this.

French Husband isn't impressionable as I am. Gee, sometimes I wonder if I am just a simple impressionable potato head. Maybe that is why our home is an eclectic collection of mash up styles and colors depending who I am with. The other day I nearly, bought deer horns. "Seriously," French Husband asked, "How do you justify being a vegetarian if you buy deer horns?"

I shrugged my shoulders, "I don't."

But the look on his face brought me to my senses, at least for awhile, then it made me think what are my senses anyway? It is not wrong to admire and adapt, accept and change, grow and become, recognize and expand.

 

Corey amaro paper collection x

 

Are you impressionable?

Do you think that it means gullible? Inexperienced, trustful, naive, childlike, green?

I think it means I am open to new ideas. Deer horns yes, mid century modern I like it, but I couldn't live with it.

Liking it and living with it are two different things.

Where is this blog post going?

Heck if I know. This is random thought weaving. Weaving without a pattern or a plan.

You see earlier today I was putting some photos together and noticed I was influenced by hanging around Lorna for the last two weeks. (Lorna is a graphic artist.)

 

Corey amaro photography st baume

 

A few weeks ago I asked on my blog to describe yourself as a color, or whatever.

Check out the comments HERE.

As I read the comments today I thought, "Yes we are birds of a feather…"

What are your random wonderings today?

 

 

Comments

12 responses to “Birds of a Feather”

  1. g

    well you may think wandering-, meandering post but I understand it as having a direction-with many avenues off the main road… corey as I read these posts prior to dinner preparations- yesterday’s and today’s-I am given cause for pause-I read the words the thoughts and sigh, an audible sigh, though only me and my cats are here to hear it-I say out loud “I think she is writing a description of me”-impressionable gullible naïve trusting believing I AM ALL OF THESE THINGS- sometimes I say I am a marketer’s dream I believe what people say- why wouldn’t I- only to be shocked when something is not so-some of my best discoveries have been taken from those around me at the time… although I always give credit to the inspirational source-I think “improving” “customizing” if you will- upon it to make it mine-exposure- assimilation– synthesizing– the new habit or look or taste etc-another quite thought provoking post

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  2. martina

    Not so easily influenced by stuff in stores-other than thrift/consignment shops. However one friend has greatly changed my decorating style. She has a terrific sense of design. Her 500 sf home is done with lots of quality Western items and some vintage things, including antlers. My living room now gets many compliments from visitors who say it is homey but not cluttered It makes me happy too. Still eclectic, but it all works. How many other people have a steer skull, rodeo poster, scale model steam launch, framed vintage French postcard,painted sideboard and vintage Indian wool rug, etc. all in one room? I’d never have thought of combining these favorite things in one room before. I did set a limit on antlers as décor. The dog would think they were chew treats! We all need the encouragement and inspiration of our friends.

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  3. Diogenes

    I know what you mean, Corey. I’m always rethinking and re-seeing (is that a word?)furniture and art. Sometimes I feel like I have interior design multiple personalities. But change in point of view is growth and what I buy today is very different from the past.

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  4. Debra

    Seems that I am always looking and seeing, and wanting that look or thinking of ways I could improve my whatever. Today, I am just super hard on myself: why did I do that, say this . . . Why couldn’t I remember that or his name? Do you have days like that?
    Thank God for friends and their influences . . where would I be without them.

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  5. Merisi

    “How do you justify being a vegetarian if you buy deer horns?”
    Stags shed their antlers every winter. The antlers simply fall off and regrow in the spring.
    From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antler
    “Antlers, on members of the deer family ….. in most species only occur on males, reindeer being an exception. In many temperate zone species, antlers are shed and regrown each year.”
    “Gathering shed antlers or “sheds” attracts dedicated practitioners who refer to it colloquially as shed hunting… In the United States, the middle of December to the middle of February is considered shed hunting season, when deer, elk, and moose begin to shed.”
    Collecting naturally shed antlers is a form of recycling.

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  6. 24/7 in France

    “random thought weaving,” trying new ideas, seeing things in various ways, and changing one’s mind = a woman’s prerogative, non ?! 🙂

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  7. La Contessa

    Those comments were AWESOME!
    Thank you PATTI LLOYD for your words…………..!!!How fun to have others write to you!
    I would have bought the deer antlers…….(They sell well too!)
    Cant stand mid-century!
    Now what was your question today?
    Fighting jet lag, nursing a cat with a bad eye,and doing laundry thats the day ahead of me!

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  8. Peggy Braswell

    copy is the most sincere form of flattery(give whoever credit)love this post. xxpeggybraswelldesign.com

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  9. Stella

    Hanging deer horns in your house is o.k. if the deer is not still attached to them.

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  10. Kathie B

    For me one of the hardest parts of being vegetarian is avoiding items made of leather (unlike shed antlers, skin entails the animal’s death).

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  11. Jeannie

    There once was an eclectic woman, who lived in an eclectic house….. pretty much sums me up. I think I have something from every century since 1700. My creative spirit goes from watercolor to acrylic to needle and cloth and then over to needles/hooks with yarn. I often think I am a hummingbird, flitting from one flower to the next trying to find the sweetest. To do otherwise, I think, would be boring. I am always learning, adapting, adjusting, and loving every minute. 🙂

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  12. Smariefabry

    I am sugar-snap sugary. 🙂 I wonder who I will end up marrying…

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