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A Mother’s Heart at Christmas
Photography and text by: Corey Amaro The house stood still, while memories ran around like children playing peek a boo from every corner. I sat and watched. The candles flickering…
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Christmas Decoration: Michel Biehn
Gather snippets of brocade, velvet, baldachin, kincob, tapestry, arrasene fabric and a handful of sequins and old glass beads. Find a strofoam ball. With silver and gold threads sew…
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Brocante Stocking Stuffers
Hand picked French brocante stocking stuffers. In France they do not have Christmas stockings. Some put their shoes out instead (hence the reason for Chocolate shoes in the candy shops.)…
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Tous les Deux
Breakfast for two. Lunch for two. Tea for two. Dinner for two. Missing two… but happy together.
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French Lesson Number Two: The Love Affair
French Lesson Number Two: The Love Affair. If you want to be French you must love cheese (I bet you didn't see that coming!). It is obvious that the…
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Having your Cheese and Eating it too
Photography and text by Corey Amaro A few days after her twenty-first birthday and Christmas, Chelsea will come home for a few days before heading off to China. While talking…
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Creative Wall Papering, or Just Another Wild Hair Idea
Photos and text by Corey Amaro When I was back home, my friend Ellen took me to this fantastic recycyling shop called, "The Scrap Exchange". The Scrap Exchange is a…
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Self Portrait
Self Portrait Sacha was in San Francisco visiting Chelsea. When she went to class he took the bus to the Golden Gate Bridge, hiked to a point alongside the bridge,…
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Marseille, and the dirty little secret…
Photographs and text by Corey Amaro Marseille has a bad reputation. Real bad. Everyone says so. Marseille is dangerous… Marseille is not the French Riviera… Marseille is dirty… …
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Can You Sing with all the Colors of the Wind?
My daughter changed her brown hair to blond, and then yesterday I noticed her FACEBOOK photo changed too…. Chelsea is a blond Pocahantas. Seeing the image of Pocahantas…
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