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Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Commercial Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html

Saturday, January 7, 2012

{Romantic French Rose Boxes}

To my many loyal readers I finally want to introduce some very special and rare French Country Style gems, that I have put on my Spectrenoir for sale. Hope you will like them and the images that I will post here are to explain in more detail the beauty of those pieces. First of all let me introduce this artist friend to you. She is a lady about my age, who lives just outside of Paris in France. Her name is Françoise Kiéné and she does sign all of her work with her initials FK in a very discrete way. You almost have to look for it with a magnifier!
But she does a quite remarkable job; judge for yourself!

Don't forget my GIVEAWAY that is coming soon...
This is a lovely, larger box made out of wood with boiled carton in a rich burgundy color. An exceptional old box and you can see it here at Spectrenoir.
Great French Country Style Gifts!
Sorry, SOLD OUT...
Unique painted composition of roses on raw wood; LIME. See it on line at Spectrenoir for description of the piece.
Sorry, SOLD OUT...
Wooden Box with Yellow Roses 6½" in diameter. See the description again at Spectrenoir by scrolling down.
Romantic Arched Wooden Chest with Roses. Read for more info on line at Spectrenoir.
Sorry Sold Out...
Shown here is a lovely Round Wooden Box with Pink Roses Painted Composition on lid and also on the sides. See my corresponding info from link above, for details.
Wooden Box with Roses and Forget-me-nots composition, also painted on all four sides. See it in detail at Spectrenoir.
Sorry Sold out...
See my on line info from link above...
This is a lovely round Chocolate or Bon-bon tin that Françoise neatly painted over with a roses composition. For more detail see my Spectrenoir listings.
This is a Jewelry box made of small bamboo and composition painted by Françoise. See it on line at Spectrenoir for more detail.

Great French Basics Gifts!
My GIVEAWAY is soon to follow...

Friday, January 6, 2012

{WOW I found my Dutch Cousin + she has a GIVEAWAY!!!}

Yesterday with my post: Papa is 91 today! I got one very special comment; from my 1st Cousin, THEA. She has the fabulous blog: CREA by THEA. A while ago I did figure out that she is from the same city where I used to live for about 5½ years in the 70s. When asking her if she is from Panningen, The Netherlands, I got a reply from her that, YES she is. Don't tell me that you lived in the same street where I live she joked. Well, it turned out even far better. We're KIN to each other! Two 1st Cousins from two continents meet again via Blogger. SMALL WORLD after all. Now the good news for all of you... Thea is having a fabulous Giveaway till January 16. That will blow you away, just have a peak at ALL what is included. So I proudly show it to all of my readers here:
Just hurry over and follow this very talented lady!
Our Moms were sisters and we discovered a lot of things we do have in common.
Certainly Thea's Mom will be smiling down from heaven, as will her Dad!
One more fact is that we both did our ten-finger-blind typing course (from Scheidegger) together in 1974 in Panningen, The Netherlands. Little did we know that we would find each other again decades later...
Will tell my Mom soon via Skype about this meeting via Blogger, told Dad already but Mom was having her kidney dialysis when Dad had his birthday guests over... Sad that her life is affected by this 3 x weekly treatment. But she's still alive and that is great!
For you to take with you

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Watch also for MY GIVEAWAY that is coming soon!
Have a great day and I'll visit you again soon. 
Yesterday we went to Atlanta for our shopping. 
Had not been since we went with daughter Liz on December 6; almost one month ago... LAST year.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

{LOOK what's blooming now...}

In the dreary time of winter it is sometimes a miracle how certain plants can surprise us 'unexpectedly' and even outside of their usual blooming season. Maybe it is because of the long hot and dry summer that they wanted desperately to make up for it NOW?... Whatever the reason, inside the greenhouse our salmon red Pelargonium geraniums are blooming at their best. So I like to share them with you here.
Capturing their beauty in the sunshine, showing all stages of budding and full bloom.
Look at this perfection! We received them years back from our dear friends Heinz & Maria for Pieter's birthday in April.
From Lady Chef Maria from 'Ristorante da Maria' and their B & B. Link about a post I did on it, you find below under Agriturismo & Geraniums - Pelargonium.
Those buds do resemble a rosebud that's why I used this silver rose vase.
Hope you enjoyed our pelargoniums!

Related link:

AGRITURISMO & GERANIUMS - PELARGONIUM | previous post by me



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