Showing posts with label brenda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brenda. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2012

French Teapots and Spiders


As usual, during coffee I was having my morning (her evening) conversation with Sacha...


She was showing me what she was listing today. Love these French prints! Why does she have all the good stuff! Yes, I'm whining here!


Look at this cute, cute enamel teapot!!


Anyway...

I was gracefully (slouching) reclining at my desk when this HUMONGOUS
wood spider came crawling across the top of my desk towards me.

I'll tangle with almost anything, I have bears and coyotes in my yard every night...

but spiders, and especially one as big as one of my cats???

(Brenda: known to exaggerate a teeny bit)

Oh man, I'm outta there!

And just in case you thought Sacha was the sweet one...




You can see how sympathetic she was!




        • Have you see all the comments on our blog???

        • I just had a spider as big as a tarantula come crawling across my desk!!!

      • Sacha Kay
        3 hours ago
        Sacha Kay
        • YIKES! Don't you have dogs and cats to capture creatures like that?

      • Brenda Cantrell
        3 hours ago
        Brenda Cantrell
        • Heck they would have been afraid! LAMO
        • SCARED ME!!

      • Sacha Kay
        3 hours ago
        Sacha Kay
        • Of course it scared you. What did you do with it?
      • Brenda Cantrell
        3 hours ago
        Brenda Cantrell
        • I chased it, it got away. I've moved to the couch!! Freaking out! LOL
        • Gotta go back in for my coffee...OMG...Do you think it's laying in wait???
      • Sacha Kay
        3 hours ago
        Sacha Kay
        • Ehm? Chase it?!?!?! LOL! You DID know where it was. Now it can get back to surprising you. LMAO!!! This is hilarious.

            • Try catching it with a glass / jar and piece of paper and release it outside. Or if you don't mind killing spiders: vacuum cleaner.

          • Brenda Cantrell
            3 hours ago
            Brenda Cantrell
            • Says you! LOL I've got to go back over there eventually!
            • I did! I had a can and paper! It LEAPED behind the desk!

          • Sacha Kay
            3 hours ago
            Sacha Kay
            • I'm not afraid of spiders. I always catch and release them. Except for the ones that come with 1,000s. Those I vacuum.

          • Brenda Cantrell
            3 hours ago
            Brenda Cantrell
            • And me screaming like a girl.

          • Sacha Kay
            3 hours ago
            Sacha Kay
            • LOL!!! Too bad you didn't have your webcam on.



              grin
          • Brenda Cantrell
            3 hours ago
            Brenda Cantrell
            • I was just saying...thank god she couldn't see that!!!
            • I'm not afraid of ANYTHING BUT SPIDERS!!! Give me the freaking heebie jeebies.

                • Why? You're too big for them to eat you.

                  smile

              • Brenda Cantrell
                3 hours ago
                Brenda Cantrell
                • The dogs and cars are asleep on the couch while I'm being eaten by a gigantic spider!

              • Sacha Kay
                3 hours ago
                Sacha Kay
                • I think I would have died if I had seen you with that spider. OMG! I'm already almost dying by thinking of it. I'm almost wetting my pants here.


                  grin
              • Brenda Cantrell
                3 hours ago
                Brenda Cantrell
                • And there's no proof of that.
                • that they can't eat me...


        • Who can I call if you're not here tomorrow at this time of day? In order to check if you haven't gotten eaten by a spider. LOL!!!!

      • Brenda Cantrell
        3 hours ago
        Brenda Cantrell
        • LOL Just send the ambulance for what's left of my spider eaten body.
        • It's just a wood spider. Not dangerous. they always try to come inside when fall gets here. They are just HUGE.
      • Sacha Kay
        3 hours ago
        Sacha Kay
        • Ohw. Okay. I will. Keep your webcam on when you go to sleep. Maybe it just crawls inside your mouth and you won't ever know that it's living in your stomach if you don't film it. LMAO!!!

      • Brenda Cantrell
        3 hours ago
        Brenda Cantrell
        • OMG NOW THAT'S JUST WRONG

Saturday, August 18, 2012

In The Beginning...

This year is my anniversary of a lot of things. Twenty years with my husband, fourty years on planet earth and ten years in France. That makes me be half a life with my man and a quarter of it living in La Douce France.
Does that make me half my husband and 25% French? I don't know. I just know that I am more "me" now than I was twenty years ago.

Moving to France was a step of Epic Proportions. Not only was there the "quitting a solid, very well earning job", a huge language barrier, to say the least, and the construction work on a 500 year old house that had been abandoned for almost fourty years.

To paint the pixels: the house had walls (very solid, 60 centimeter thick ones) and a roof. That was it. And when I say that was it, I mean that in the broadest possible meaning of the sentence.

No bedroom. No kitchen. No bathroom.
Ha! Eat this, Thoreau!

The one thing that I did have, was my husband. A whole lot of husband. As in "24-7-365" husband. And no possible way to avoid each other when doing construction work.

Oh well. We survived. As did the house. All of us came out quite a bit stronger.

While writing this, I'm soaking in my bathtub. One of the earthly pleasures I found that I could not possibly live without. Like Thoreau asked himself "what do I really need and what am I willing to pay for it?", I did too. And somehow, just somehow, enjoying a nice hot bath with fresh herbs and sea salt, doesn't feel like paying. At all.

Sacha, simply living.

sacha kay simply living french france country campagne

(this blog is cross-posted from SachaKay.com)

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Sacha's first Ebay listing from France!


antique can / tin French boudoir de paris chic vintage eBay


Sacha and Brenda are now LIVE on Ebay together!

After hours and yes, many more hours...

we both need a sip of wine after that day...

Sacha's first Ebay listing is up and running!

How am I going to stop myself from buying everything?

Selling...we are selling together...keep saying that!

Although some of those hair pins in the second auction are MINE...
parisette antique hair pins bobby pins French boudoir de paris chic vintage eBay

So we put our heads together (figuratively speaking) since she's in France and I'm in Georgia...)

And we now have Boudoir de Paris on Ebay, Etsy and blogs!

My brain is very tired with new names and passcodes and shipping rates...
But of course I had to brag a bit before never looking at this page again today. :)
It will take a few hours for the listings to show up...so patience please..