blog giveway - let's dance

There once was a little girl who loved to dance. She would whirl and twirl around her canopy bed. Her Mom brought her to ballet lessons when she was 4 1/2.

Thanks Mom!

I took lessons until I graduated from high school

then danced in the state dance company.

Mom drove me to dance lessons for years and years... she watched countless dance recital rehearsals

until I am sure she knew all the dances by heart...

So here's to you Mom with all my love

and thanks to you for reading.

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On Pointe II

Rehearsal is finished for the day...
shall she view the Eiffel tower from the Art Nouveau wrought iron balcony or gently tip toe to the adjacent park with her friend to rest their bodies and minds-always careful not to stain their white satin pointe shoes. If necessary they can cover them with lovely yellow raw silk dupioni covers...
relaxed, yet always poised, they listen to the birds..

On Pointe

She tires after a long ‘On Pointe’ ballet session, her dance studio located in a marvelous Art Nouveau building in Paris. After so many pirouettes on the antique oak floor she wonders how many ballerinas must have danced on it before her to achieve such a perfectly worn patina…
Image: Country French Antiques.