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  • février 12, 2013

    Grapefruit spoon

     

    A French girl I met a few weeks ago asked me if I had a grapefruit spoon for her boyfriend, because this is what their love story started with... They spent the first night together, and as she was getting ready to leave the next morning, he tried to make her stay for breakfast by showing her his grapefruit spoon and how to eat one with it. She stayed for breakfast that morning, and 3 years later, she lives in Vancouver and he is coming to visit her from France in a few days!

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  • janvier 24, 2013

    Sheraton Hotel spoons

     

    Yesterday I spent several hours of my day cleaning those very tarnished and dirty spoons, all coming from the Sheraton hotel. They show 2 logos, the very early one and the current one. The oldest spoons are probably form the 40's and were found in a little antique store in Indiana (thanks Bev!).

    Funny story, the Sheraton chain was founded in the late 30's when two Americans started buying hotels on the East Coast... one of those hotels had a very big sign with the name Sheraton on it, which was too pricey to remove. They left it there and named all their hotels Sheraton!










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  • janvier 14, 2013

    Moulin à Carole

    Moulin à parole is a french expression used to describe someone who talks a lot (literally word mill).

    This ladle went to a girl in France who's name is Carole, and she was called Moulin à Carole by her family because she talked a lot when she was little!
    The alphabet in the bottom reminds of the alphabet noodles in the soup from when we were kids!
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  • décembre 11, 2012

    You are an angel Ideh

    I was going to rewrite this story but it's perfect as it is: 

    "I moved to Vancouver two years ago. The only person I knew at that time was Ideh. She helped me and my sister a lot with everything. Now both of us love her like she is our sister. We thought by giving her the spoon and the knife she'll have something special from us for forever. We are best friends now. I always see Ideh as an angel."

    What a beautiful little story :) Thank you for sharing it Armineh!

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