Tonight the thing I cherish most of all is the sweet balm of friendship and love. There are some people whose hearts are so wide that you can easily find yourself falling into them. There are some so honest and profound that listening to them talk steals away all your unhappiness, until you have forgotten [...]
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La douceur de la vie
Also posted in La vie intérieur, Odes to Joy Tagged candor, chocolate covered cherries, cream, Dating Myself blog, food, France, friendship, generosity, happiness, joy, Kristen Gale, La Marquise des Anges, pastry, pink, red, strawberries, sweets, sympathy, The Sweet Life, truthfulness Leave a comment
Now in Shop! Honorine Necklace by la collagiste
Encircled in a laurel wreath motif, the brilliant red faceted cabochons and patinated “gold” bezels on this necklace call to mind a festive evening on the town: a ruby elixir, a trip down the red carpet, her scarlet-red lips.
Fittingly complemented with 6 mm chartreuse cathedral beads capped in gold and finished with a regal 8 [...]
Also posted in Bijoux, Collage, Object Making, Objets trouvés, la collagiste: Adornments Tagged 14 KT gold-filled wire, allure, ancient, antique engravings, antique prints, Assemblage, bezels, bohemian glass, bohemian style, boho girls, cabochons, cathedral beads, cocktail length, costume jewelry, Czech glass, discretion, fire polished, gold toned, grande dames, handcrafted, jewelry, La Femme, La Mode, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mme. Honorine, My Etsy Shop, necklace, pale blue, patina, pendants, purple, red, red carpet looks, Roman style, Romantism, ruby, scarlet, silhouettes, vintage glass, vintage images, vintage style, wire wrapped Leave a comment
Le porte-pique nique
When I lived in Brooklyn, I was forever seeing empty suitcases. Many were stunningly well-preserved 1960’s era Samsonites. With their sturdy functionality and mod high style, they were pretty well begging for me to bring them home to our 675 square foot apartment with no closets (that’s NO closets – not small, or few closets [...]
Also posted in A Sense of Place, Object Making, Objets d'art, Objets trouvés Tagged 1960's style, Assemblage, Brooklyn, cast-offs, collecting, Design*Sponge, green space travel case, junk, Man and Nature, Mod, Modernism, New York City, Paige Russell, pastoral art, picnics, Retro, Samsonite, Sidewalks of New York Leave a comment


