Category: Travels
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馃崐 Italian Marmellata
While I was in Italy working on the renovation of my friend Laurie’s home, the neighbor next door was cutting branches from what appeared to be a bush. When he saw me, he said that I understood as, “Worthless, thorny,…
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All the Moving Parts
Renovating my friend Laurie鈥檚 Italian property has been a creative adventure, filled with countless moving parts. The first step was clearing out the space, a process that involved removing years of accumulated personal belongings, furniture, and memories. As we cleaned…
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Renovation in Italy
Laurie, who bought an house in the Italian village where her Grandparents lived, and I have been on an incredible journey renovating the property. With a skilled team of carpenters, masons, painters, plumbers, and electricians, we鈥檝e turned the space into…
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The Italian Renovation
A couple of years ago, my friend Laurie, whom I met through my friend Lizzie on my blog, asked me to help her renovate her holiday home in Italy. Laurie lives in Hawaii, and I live in France, and neither…
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If It Is This Green –
As the plane descended, the landscape of Italy unfolded beneath me, rolling hills and fields that seemed to echo the soft, endless green. For a fleeting moment, I was lost in the illusion that I was flying into Ireland. It…
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