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Did you know that pulling out your hair helps roses to bloom?
I was up on a ladder, in my garden, trimming a rose bush when my friend Annie came over to visit. Looking up at me, then the rose bush she…
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Floral Art and Antiques make for the Sweetest Perfume.
Take an old, chair carcass, cover it with moss, set the chair on the table as a center piece. My friend Laure is a floral artist. Need a shelf? Laure…
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Hot Chocolate
Hot chocolate like nothing you have ever tasted.In a sauce pan pour four cups of fresh whole milk.Add a drop of pure vanilla,and 200 grams of dark baking chocolatesugar…
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French Antique Photographs on Glass PART 2
French antique photographs on glass (1880 or there of more or less.)The glass photographs are 4 x 8. I found them at a Brocante (antique market) in the south of…
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Antique Glass Photographs
At the brocante market I found a box of antique glass photographs. Lifting one up at at a time towards the light I saw the images of a family, sitting…
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Lent… a time set aside for us to look at who we are and give it away freely.
Each year when the season of Lent approaches I recall the time I spent living in a monastery. This year is no exception. Today is the first day…
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Scones made by an American in France. International House of Pancakes… Watch out!
School holidays are happening as I type. French Husband and Sacha went skiing. Chelsea came home with more books, binders, and notepads than laundry. She has finals and nothing…
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Romantic Lessons without Reason
Romantic Lessons with out Reason except to say Oh la la: Every girl needs a touch of living the romantic way… The illustrations are from a magazine I found at…
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Daisy
Daisy (my Godchild in California) is back in the hospital. Tom and Sara (Daisy's parents) said that Daisy never takes her eyes off of them. That no matter what is…
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Bugnes: A French Classic during February
Grabbing the plastic bag that I had prepared the night before, I left early in the morning to my friend Annie's house. (Annie is my friend who is 89, though…
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