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Bonne Année 2012!

Happy New Year, Mes Amis! This last year was an excellent one, if a little tight in the budget.  We managed to have a lovely New Year's Eve dinner regardless. We had seltzer water toast to a prosperous 2012. Wishing you a fun and creative, prosperous new year. P.S. I'll catch you up on my news [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:47-08:00January 4th, 2012|Christmas, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Pepper Art

In its raw state - not so pretty but enough to give us a neat idea. At a small dinner party at my apartment in Aix, Judy asked for some salt.  Lacking salt and pepper shakers I just poured some on a plate for the table (I'm a stickler for keeping things pretty on the [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:47-08:00November 5th, 2011|Food in France, Life in France, When in France|0 Comments

French Friends

The Red Shed Girls beat me to the punch (gosh our language is so agressive at times) about some of my favorite French friends.  They did a beautiful post about the Noel's in Aix-en-Provence and Régine, the lace lady in Lourmarin. Their photos rock. Luckily I can add a few of Régine's place for interest.  [...]

Vivent les Partenaires!

Umm - well "I've been busy."  Sorry about that big old 2 1/2 month break.  It's been quite the whirlwind and I've been dying to share the goings-on and the news but there's been too much going on.  I'm back in France.  Have been here three weeks with lots of changes and, then so much [...]

The Pace!

Despite the French wisdom I do a pretty good job of practicing over in France and try to pass on to my tour clients, I haven't achieved taking on a slow pace when I'm in California.    I used to think it's because before I only had a few weeks' visit back in California at a time. But it's [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:49-08:00July 24th, 2011|California, Uncategorized|1 Comment

A Sucker for a Sale

Give me a hint of a sale of interesting items and I'll pull over.  I used to live on a vineyard in northern California (Amador County) and drove by this property full o'junk all the time.  The junk used to just sit out there behind a tall metal fence day and night, season after season [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:50-08:00July 11th, 2011|California, Markets, Uncategorized|2 Comments

Mac Wine

I promised more posts of the vintage buying tour - but am having some technical woes with Shutterfly.  Plus I've been running around, as usual, getting my act together in California. (Man, it's not that easy switching countries.)  So sorry the posts are  infrequent. I did find a great pic from that week of a sign [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:50-08:00July 6th, 2011|California, Uncategorized, Vintage, Vintage Buying Tours|2 Comments