Month: December 2017
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Doppelganger Pillow Talk
The pillows in Pascale's incredibly inspiring and most faded grandeur showroom spoke of a time passed by. Pascale has taken her collection of portrait oil paintings and has had them transferred to linen prints so that they could…
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No Red Barrettes
French Husband went to Sanremo with Gina and me. I say that cause whatever we wanted to do he tagged along, even when we spent a healthy amount of time shopping. French Husband detests shopping. Has age softened…
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A Christmas Memory 2007
In France Christmas begins on Christmas Eve and continues twelve days until Epiphany. The moment before Christmas is called Advent which is a time to prepare the way for the feast of Christmas. But we all know that.…
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Artichoke’s Gina Style
Gina has a way with food. A magic touch. She enters the kitchen, grabs some fresh vegetable chops, stirs, and, voila, a meal. The artichoke: First, cut off the outer leaves and chop the pointy tops off, steam…
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Sanremo for the Day
We went to Sanremo to the market, but when we arrived it had been canceled as they expected bad weather. The sky was blue, the day perfect in every way and the market was nevertheless canceled as it…