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Franca Bollo
Roma
No, I not really Monica Bellucci but it's the Internet ... .
Interests: napping pretty much sums it up.
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My cat's whiskers.
Commented Mar 13, 2013 on Finds from the French Brocante: Tell Me What do You Collect? at * Tongue in Cheek *
Finds from the French Brocante: Tell Me What do You Collect?
French Antique Fish Chocolate Mold, On April 1st the French give each other chocolate fish called: "Friture." The tradition has it that on the 1st of April children try to stick a homemade paper fish onto people’s backs without the person knowing it, then run away yelling ‘poisson d’avril’, wh...
Sugar makes Franca insane.
Commented Mar 11, 2013 on When Life Gives You Lemons What Do you Do? at * Tongue in Cheek *
When Life Gives You Lemons What Do you Do?
Lemon Tart or Tarte au Citron I love to cook. Baking is further down the list on the things I like to do. Don't get me wrong, I like to bake, but baking is more like rocket science... Whereas cooking on the other hand is more my speed... seat of the pant style... like race car driving in t...
Keep Calm
and
Keep the Xanax Prescription
Filled
Commented Mar 11, 2013 on Keep Calm... at * Tongue in Cheek *
Keep Calm...
Keep Calm and Carry On As long as I am carry on at the Brocante I can keep calm for days on end, well, unless I see something I wanted sold for ten cents in someone else's hands. Make your own Keep Calm and Carry On by clicking on this link. And/or let me know your motto.
I thought you told FH that you weren't participating in a ménage à trois anymore? I guess you can't blame a man for trying.
Commented Mar 1, 2013 on French Laundry at * Tongue in Cheek *
French Laundry
French Husband came home with a twinkle in his eye, handing me a note that had the name and phone number of someone I didn't know. "A certain Monsieur wants you to decorate his home on the French Rivera, and possibly other properties he owns! He wants you to call him today." Saying this ...
Elevator shoes, bien sûr.
Commented Feb 21, 2013 on French Antique Guessing Game at * Tongue in Cheek *
French Antique Guessing Game
French Antique Guessing Game. French Husband pointed these out to me at the brocante fair in Vanves Paris last weekend. He LOVES it when I don't know what some old thing is. Immediately he beamed, "I found a good one for the Guessing Game, right?" He did! These things stu...
Franca loves a Gallic nose. Rather Derrida-esque, she purrs.
Commented Feb 15, 2013 on Discovering Our New Neighborhood at * Tongue in Cheek *
Discovering Our New Neighborhood
Our apartment is in a neighborhood that is not touristic. My most favorite brocante is literally fifteen minutes away on foot. At the turn of the centtury, the neighborhood was were many artists had their studios, Monet and Renoir to name a few. The only thing that has changed at the restauran...
Franca says that bathroom needs a bidet.
Commented Feb 15, 2013 on In the Beginning... The Paris Apartment at * Tongue in Cheek *
In the Beginning... The Paris Apartment
Took the morning train to Paris, to look and measure the apartment. "Oh la la," said in the typical downbeat French way. The apartment needs more than TLC, it needs a ball and chain. The walls have been spray painted silver, gold and green. I don't know why. I wrote down everything tha...
Franca's French est merde (and she is insufferable) but isn't it Rue du Chateau? She would hate to see lost Tongue in Cheekers wandering around Montparnasse, clutching maps and looking bewildered. That would break Franca's nicotine-stained heart.
And, maybe an overhead fan? Franca prefers this to AC when possible.
Commented Feb 8, 2013 on Weekend Apartment In Paris Giveaway at * Tongue in Cheek *
Weekend Apartment In Paris Giveaway
Clean crisp sheets, A good bed, To walk into a room that feels like you are in France. Soft big towels, Comfortable place to read, Good table lights, No TV, WIFI, Hot water (I guess that means five showers in one hour), No dishwasher, French coffee press, Wine glasses, Pat Herndon wrote, "....
Franca pours herself another glass of wine or two.
Commented Feb 8, 2013 on Weekend Apartment In Paris Giveaway at * Tongue in Cheek *
Weekend Apartment In Paris Giveaway
Clean crisp sheets, A good bed, To walk into a room that feels like you are in France. Soft big towels, Comfortable place to read, Good table lights, No TV, WIFI, Hot water (I guess that means five showers in one hour), No dishwasher, French coffee press, Wine glasses, Pat Herndon wrote, "....
I'll pack my five-fingered shoes for a run along the Seine. Have a glass of wine waiting after you've beat me back to the flat. A minerally white, s'il te plâit.
Commented Feb 6, 2013 on Birthday Giveaway all this Week: Weekend Place to Stay in Paris at * Tongue in Cheek *
Birthday Giveaway all this Week: Weekend Place to Stay in Paris
Your birthday wishes made fifty five breeze on in, thank you for wishing me well! I appreciated every single birthday note! As promised the winners of some little thing French are.... All of who wrote a comment telling me we share the same birthday day: Ellen from American Homestead, Cherr...
Word.
Commented Feb 6, 2013 on Birthday Giveaway all this Week: Weekend Place to Stay in Paris at * Tongue in Cheek *
Birthday Giveaway all this Week: Weekend Place to Stay in Paris
Your birthday wishes made fifty five breeze on in, thank you for wishing me well! I appreciated every single birthday note! As promised the winners of some little thing French are.... All of who wrote a comment telling me we share the same birthday day: Ellen from American Homestead, Cherr...
Franca just needs a pack of Gauloises upon arrival or, at the very least, the location for the nearest tabac.
Gros bisous
Commented Feb 6, 2013 on Birthday Giveaway all this Week: Weekend Place to Stay in Paris at * Tongue in Cheek *
Birthday Giveaway all this Week: Weekend Place to Stay in Paris
Your birthday wishes made fifty five breeze on in, thank you for wishing me well! I appreciated every single birthday note! As promised the winners of some little thing French are.... All of who wrote a comment telling me we share the same birthday day: Ellen from American Homestead, Cherr...
Franca is ageless.
Commented Feb 5, 2013 on Fifty Five on the Fourth at * Tongue in Cheek *
Fifty Five on the Fourth
photo source via Whipper Berry Holy Mother of God, Fifty five sounds old. I don't feel old. photo source: Lakshmi And I know it is just a number... A number closer to seventy, than to forty... I remember forty wasn't it last week? photo source Fraulein Klein Dang. Fift...
Hah! I make a mess.
Commented Sep 30, 2012 on Saturday Art ... What are you Creating? at * Tongue in Cheek *
Saturday Art ... What are you Creating?
What are you creating? What inspires you? What is one of your favorite artistic medium? .... Creating, Home. Inspiration, Antiquing! Artistic Medium, old things. .... Tell me yours?
Franca Bollo fell into a diabetic coma just reading that.
Commented Sep 30, 2012 on French Toast / Pain Perdu: The Breakfast of Champions at * Tongue in Cheek *
French Toast / Pain Perdu: The Breakfast of Champions
This weekend Chelsea and Sacha were home. Sunday breakfast instead of the brocante. French Toast or Pain Perdu as they say in France, was the plan. Day old baguettes as I have said before, can be used as a hammer... but the French had a better idea when they came up with Pain Perdu, or Lost B...
I covet those beads. One feels they're under the sea while sitting under them.
Commented Sep 13, 2012 on A Story of Buying Antiques... at * Tongue in Cheek *
A Story of Buying Antiques...
Once a long time ago I came upon a large box full of antique Venetian glass beads. I had never seen anything like it. Each bead was unique, hand crafted and whimsical beyond my imagination. I stopped in my tracks and caught my breath. Then I asked the antique dealer the famous qu...
Now that your gentle readers have moved on to today's post, I can safely say on my butt! It symbolizes ... yes, that's right ... I'm a derrière intelligent.
Commented Sep 12, 2012 on French Brocante Giveaway: Beauty Mark Box... Les Mouches at * Tongue in Cheek *
French Brocante Giveaway: Beauty Mark Box... Les Mouches
Photo Source Beauty Marks: Back in the day in the year of 1700s Beauty Marks were made of black velvet, taffeta, or leather. They were known as "mouches", which is the French word for fly. Not so sexy, a fly... I found the above diagram on Pinterest and knew I had to do a post about it. ...
What!? Mr Franca Bollo doesn't even drive Franca to SFO! She's on a first-name basis with the shuttle drivers. Franca's calling Lana next time she needs a ride from Russian Hill to SFO. Hi Lana!!
Commented Aug 29, 2012 on Kindness from Strangers, the Power of Blogging at * Tongue in Cheek *
Kindness from Strangers, the Power of Blogging
Sacha is on his way home thanks to Lana, and family. My brother Mat drove (six hours round trip) Sacha to my cousin Julie's place in San Francisco the night before he left. Thank you dear brother! Sacha wanted to spend some time with his Budda Mere Julie before he returned to France. Though Ju...
It sounds like Lana drove him from Sheba's place to SFO. Please tell me he flew out of Sacramento.
Commented Aug 29, 2012 on Kindness from Strangers, the Power of Blogging at * Tongue in Cheek *
Kindness from Strangers, the Power of Blogging
Sacha is on his way home thanks to Lana, and family. My brother Mat drove (six hours round trip) Sacha to my cousin Julie's place in San Francisco the night before he left. Thank you dear brother! Sacha wanted to spend some time with his Budda Mere Julie before he returned to France. Though Ju...
Choopy's drool has reached San Francisco.
Commented Aug 25, 2012 on Saturday Art Saves Ellen and Frank at Cassilhaus at * Tongue in Cheek *
Saturday Art Saves Ellen and Frank at Cassilhaus
Photo source Cassilhaus Every Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers... anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart on fire to create. Those who inspire art to flow wh...
God, she's adorable.
Commented Aug 22, 2012 on All is Good When All is Good! at * Tongue in Cheek *
All is Good When All is Good!
Chelsea's home and all is good. I made banners to celebrate her arrival. Mr. Espresso came by, happiness spilled over. Pink espresso cup was happy again, blue fingernail polish and making faces are back. Sacha arrives soon.
That was mean to be a reply to Brother Mathew ... your brother, the monk.
Commented Aug 18, 2012 on Encouraging Each Other: Eat Less Move More: How is it going? at * Tongue in Cheek *
Encouraging Each Other: Eat Less Move More: How is it going?
Three weeks into Eating Less / Moving More. The first two weeks I lost a pound. Today, makes three weeks, I am eating less, culinary mindfulness, and I was mindful to begin with, but now I am ultra mindful. I lost zero pounds this week. I have been moving more by swimming and walking, okay...
Keep the wine, lose the gluten.
Commented Aug 17, 2012 on Encouraging Each Other: Eat Less Move More: How is it going? at * Tongue in Cheek *
Encouraging Each Other: Eat Less Move More: How is it going?
Three weeks into Eating Less / Moving More. The first two weeks I lost a pound. Today, makes three weeks, I am eating less, culinary mindfulness, and I was mindful to begin with, but now I am ultra mindful. I lost zero pounds this week. I have been moving more by swimming and walking, okay...
Franca Bollo added a favorite at Tongue in Cheek Antiques
Aug 16, 2012
Irina, I almost fell off my chair, too, but for different reasons. Your reproduction of Dürer's hare is a trompe-l'oeil. It IS sitting on your table. Exquisite. I have to go lie down now.
Commented Jul 21, 2012 on Saturday Art Saves: Irina Lapko at * Tongue in Cheek *
Saturday Art Saves: Irina Lapko
photo source Irina Lapko Every Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers... anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart on fire to create. Those who inspire art to flow...
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