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Leblon Delienne Paris Shop, France - Statuettes cast in resin in the Leblon Delienne workshop in Normandy.
Desloy Jean-Claude - Sculptor of woodcarvings, statues, bas-reliefs, figurative, symbolic, religious art.
Artefact studio - Glassblowing studio, art blown glass for houseware and gifts.
1001 bougies - Carved candles and decorative gifts.
Provence Cotton - Hand crafted products in embroidered cotton and linen.
Magic Flyer - Flying model to include with letters to individuals or companies to be a surprise. Based in Châteaurenard, Bouches-du-Rhône (13).
The Baobab Factory - Handmade crafts and textiles from Zambia.
AB Blown Glass - Hand blown glass for tableware, gifts and housewares.
Atelier du Bracelet Parisien - Personalized watchstraps and leather goods. Paris.
Herb Atlantic - Pot pourri and medicinal herbs, candle holders, oil lamps, frames and trays, perfume burners. Company based in Champ-sur-Layon (49).
Poteries deNaurouze - Pottery manufacturer. Presents products, techniques. In Montferrand (31).
Thierry de Marichalar - Hand painted thimbles from Limoges. Catalog, news, ordering.
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Crafts Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Crafts Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Crafts Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Crafts "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Crafts "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Crafts Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Crafts "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Crafts It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Crafts "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Crafts Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Crafts "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Crafts "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Crafts Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Crafts A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers Crafts "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Crafts Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Crafts "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Crafts You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Crafts It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Crafts All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Crafts People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist Crafts
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