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September 17, 2012
Inspired by Mandarin Oranges
This week our inspiration is a Mandarin orange. A slight spray of juice, a peel’s texture, a vibrant color (Libbie’s favorite), a stringy pith and a sweet woman from The Congo who holds them ever so gently against her skin. Welcome into our home for a week of orange clad citrus inspired living and take a peek under the rug.
April 10, 2012
strawberry sauce
We all know the pleasures of eating strawberries and some extol their aphrodisiacal properties, but none so well as Madame Tallien. Born to the aristocracy, given six names, and raised by nuns, this strawberry lover survived a march to the guillotine, bearing the fruit (ten) of multiple lovers and husbands (including the notoriously seedy and filthy Napoleon Bonaparte), several stints in prison and all of the great political and social shifts of the late 1700s. A style maven and risk-taker throughout her life, she insisted on bathing solely in the cure-all juice of strawberries.
September 7, 2012
Rock-N-Roll Mushroom Jewelry
Ok, first of all, I LOVE mushrooms….pretty similar to my salt obsessed self, throw those little guys on or in anything and I’ll eat it. Let’s go ahead and set the record straight here too…I, of course, am only referring to all legal mushrooms in this post.
