Nostalgia

my cousin just comes back from my paternal grand mother's country :

Algeria

He was the first person of the family to go back to our left country since 1962 ....

It is so great to see the pictures of where you are from .

"Alger la Blanche" sight from Notre Dame d'Afrique

the house my grand mother was born

The school she went

the square she met our grand father

My grand mother 6th grade class

My sister and I are the best of two cultures and 2 ways of life : provencal french and  "pied noir"

Some north african souvenirs

We are suposed to go Back to Algiers with our grand mother in October.

Have you ever imagined to leave everything you have somewhere and not to be abble to see it again ?

I guess my grand mother's memories look more like this picture : it is full of Nostalgia

Comments

[Rédigé par : Linda]

It's an interesting experience to return to childhoold places. Everything looked much smaller than I remembered it when I did it.

[Rédigé par : rochambeau]

Dear Melenie,
You and your sister are lucky to have the chance to go with your Grandmother to see your roots. What a exciting adventure for everyone. Especially for your Grandmother to be able to share her life with you!

[Rédigé par : tongue in cheek]

What a blessing to be able to go back and discover your roots.
You look very much like your Grandmother in this photo... Beautiful.

[Rédigé par : Pam Aries]

THank you so much for visiting my blog! Your site is fabulous..and of course I LOVE French things! It is so interesting to see where you have been! Merci !

[Rédigé par : elsa]

i am happy to have found your blog. i *love* these photos from algeria. the nostalgia is so very rich.

[Rédigé par : Donna O'Brien]

Oh, your treaures!!!! How can you part with them?? I'm tempted, for sure!!
Donna O'Brien

[Rédigé par : Olivia Kroth]

It is interesting to follow one's roots a few generations back to see where and how our ancestors lived.
So much of them is in us. I believe that we understand life better when we understand where we have come from.

With best regards to the "pied noir" in Provence.

http://olivia-kroth.blog.de.vu

[Rédigé par : Laleh]

Dear Melenie,

I have a big problem with finding the right fabrics for cushions on my sofas, I would appreciate your advice very much. I have Lelievre Diderot fabric, bleu, or, rouge stripes for curtains, solid velvets of the same colours, also Lelievre are used on my upholstery, a button tuffted sofa done in Languedoc fuchsia, Berry velvet, colour verveine on a loveseat that goes next to it, Rubelli's stravinsky multi stripes on two single chairs, all in one side of the salon, then Languedoc velvet, colour ciel done on another 3 seater and 2 seater with two chairs done in Tassinari, Cernuschi bleu, in the other side of the salon. Cernuschi bleu turned out to be the wrong thing to use but alas!
Now, my original idea was to use rouge, yellow and blue damasks and other classic fabrics all over the upholstery but nothing is working. I want to avoid using solids but cannot find any suitable multicolours to blend them in. Once, I had seen a hanger from SAT Creations lampas beautiful colours but that hanger is not available to me. I have visited lelievre again and again but have not found fabrics that I like enough to use or they turn out to be the wrong tints of colours.
I would appreciate your advice very much.
Thank you very much.

Laleh

[Rédigé par : ugg store]

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