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!

Brenda Cantrell

• • • • Have you see all the comments on our blog???
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      • I just had a spider as big as a tarantula come crawling across my desk!!!
        
        
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      3 hours ago

      Sacha Kay

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

      Brenda Cantrell

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

      Sacha Kay

      • Of course it scared you. What did you do with it?
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      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???
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      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.
            
            
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          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!
            
            
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          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.
            
            
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          3 hours ago

          Brenda Cantrell

          • And me screaming like a girl.
            
            
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          3 hours ago

          Sacha Kay

          • LOL!!! Too bad you didn't have your webcam on.
            
            
            
            
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          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.
            

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              Sacha Kay

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

              Brenda Cantrell

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

              Brenda Cantrell

              • And there's no proof of that.
              • that they can't eat me...
                
                

            
            

    • Sacha Kay

      • 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!!!!
        
        
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      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.
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      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!!!
        
        
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      3 hours ago

      Brenda Cantrell

      • OMG NOW THAT'S JUST WRONG

        
        

        • Sacha Kay

          • Vacuum it.
          • I know!!! You just shouldn't be scared of a spider, my dearest Brenda.
            
            
            
            
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          3 hours ago

          Brenda Cantrell

          • Somehow having a vacumm cleaner full of live spiders doesn't sound a whole lot better!!! LOL
            
            
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          3 hours ago

          Sacha Kay

          • He cannot harm you. Catch it, release it. Or kill it (bad spider karma, though).
          • LOL!!!
            
            
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          3 hours ago

          Brenda Cantrell

          • Well I'm going to spider karma H**L then.

            
            
            
            
            

            And yes, that spider is still around here somewhere!

            
            

            He's waiting...and watching...
            
            
            
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Surprise me! De-hoarding the Brenda and Sacha way!

I'm sharing at
 Beverlys Pink Saturday
http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.com/

So everyone knows that Sacha and I have started an Ebay store together, no surprise there!

Boudoir-de-Paris

My barkcloth listed!

I wonder if we are the first people to ever do this from different sides of the world?

Now that's a question for Ebay. And I have such a funny blog to write about the service call to Ebay to explain that!  But that's another story..maybe tomorrow?

Anyway...I was talking to Sacha last night...and it occurred to me that everyone probably thinks we plan out everything...discuss listing stuff...have a strategy...a plan...and I had to laugh.

I drag myself out of bed...get my coffee..turn on my computer...and Sacha is there...having wine and dinner and a relaxing bath, already having finished her day in France.

Our conversations usually start something like this...

Sacha: "How was work last night?  Is your rosemary plant still doing well?"

Me: "Still alive! It and me. :)  Did you list anything today?"

If this poor Rosemary plant lives, then lavender should too...right?

Sacha: "You know you can separate your rosemary now to have more?

  Yes, one of my favorite pillow cases!

 What are you going to list today?"

Sacha's Monogrammed Pillow Case

Me:  "I don't want more rosemary plants, I want your lavender!
 I haven't had enough coffee to decide about listing anything yet, I'll decide later.
 Oh I love your pillow case, I want it!"

Sacha: "No we're selling!!  Selling!  And I love the lace you listed..I want that!"

Me: No! We're selling..not buying..just say no!"

Sacha: "Here's my recipe to the Clafoutis you asked for.
I'm going to finish knitting my shawl, have a great day!
 Can't wait to see what you list while I'm sleeping!"

Me: "Me too! No clue. LOL
Thank you, you have a wonderful night.
Thanks for the recipe and say hello to hubby for me!"

And that's how Sacha and Brenda De-hoard!

Shared here!

Common Ground

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.

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

Sacha's first Ebay listing from France!

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...

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. :)

The link to the shop...http://myworld.ebay.com/boudoir-de-paris/

Sacha and Brenda's Ebay shop!

It will take a few hours for the listings to show up...so patience please..