23 Friday Apr 2010
Posted in Flea Market Style
A “best in show” line up of my earliest roses…
A great weekend to garden and visit Flea Markets far and wide….
This weekend is Atelier de Campagne‘s container sale…
Earlier post here
I don’t know whether to ask for your luck in finding
something incredible, or to be able to leave without
having a terrifying tale to tell my husband…
Nevertheless…I will have my trusty camera
to share it all with you….
21 Wednesday Apr 2010
Posted in Joie de Vivre
From my files of all things garnet and glowing….
Sometimes colors just tease at me…beaconing me
to work them in to my home somehow….
An antique textile recently sold on Ebay
19th century French brocade…
Isabella de Borchgrave
Paper Illusions
Last year’s Madame Issac Perrier…
This year’s crop is just starting to flex their sepals…
once they reflex back the blooms are ready to pick
and bring their intoxicating scent indoors….
More old roses in French Garden Antiques here
Madeline Weinrib
Original handmade textiles….
Bejeweled Carolyn Quartermaine chairs…
all set for the performance…
Mozart script fabric …musical chairs….
Michael Trapp’s home above his Connecticut antiques and garden shop…
Rooms to Inspire
Annie Kelly
Top photo House and Gardens April ’07
From Paolo Pejrone’s home in Northern Italy
20 Tuesday Apr 2010
Posted in Joie de Vivre
The lovely Sharon of My French Country Home just tagged me to talk about the 10th
photo in my photo file. Last April I took a photo of one of my favorite “finds”…
The terra cotta Houdon bust is in one of my first posts Rosy Scenarios here ,
as well as a later post Vintage Terra Cotta here. It has French, art, motherhood,
and even earth (gardening) all wrapped into it. An object that personifies my passions…
Houdon captured the most magnificent expressions on his subject’s faces, particularity
his studies of children. A moment of arrested thought…wonder….simple joy…
This is one of my little masterpieces….
my youngest…18 now and set to go off to college in the Fall…
He used to tag after his sister when she went to preschool…
He’s always been curious about how things work and built
his own computer last year, fixes everything, and loves
AP Physics (which severely traumatized his math wiz sister).
Our cat is putty in his hands, waits for him at the bottom of the
steps until he goes up to his room and trots after him…
When his sister visits from college he gets underneath her serious
side and makes her laugh heartily…music to a mother’s ears…
Here he is after giving his adorable girlfriend her corsage
on Prom night last Saturday….
Sigh…motherhood has simply been marvelous…
That’s what I think of when I look at that photo…
So…I tag….
Carolyn Green from Draffin Bears
Theresa Cheek from Art’s the Answer
Solange from Celebrating My Home
Valorie from Visual Vamp
Maryanne from Beadboard Upcountry
Joni from Cote de Texas
to looks into their photo files and tell us a story about their 10th photo….
I know some of you have some VERY deep archives to fall into…
ahh…memories….
