Pretty Upgrades.

To my sisters constant disappointment I never know what is going on in the world.  I don’t watch news programmes,  buy newspapers,  listen to the radio, subscribe to newsfeeds,  join in current affairs discussion, or choose to voice my vastly under-educated political opinion. But the fact is that we live in a fast paced, media…

Vintage Housekeeping If you are eagle-eyed, I do believe that you may have spotted that the BrocanteHome logo has gone back to “Vintage Housekeeping” instead of the “Vintage Well-Being” tagline I had here in the first six months of this year. You see, I, Alison Joanne May, am a woman in the habit of constantly…

One of the first puttery treats I ever remember writing was framing a pair of your babba’s tiny ankle socks…and now you can do it in style, with one of these gorgeous shadow boxes from Cox and Cox, each one backed in a scrumptious piece of vintage fabric and gently distressed.. Gorgeous. Other Things To…

Spotted! A collection of vintage brooches pinned to a dusty velvet cushion and displayed in all their twinkly glory on a rather fine brocade chair. Sparkly. Other Things To Do At BrocanteHome Join the BrocanteHome Community Discover my daily domestic to-do lists, join the conversation, read-along with the BrocanteHome bookclub and find exclusive Community only…

Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so little is a stone. Where there was something and suddenly isn’t, an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves…