Welcome to a new incarnation of the Housekeeper’s Bookshelf… Ordinarily The Housekeepers Bookshelf lives in the sidebar, but very soon that sidebar will be overhauled and my recommended reading will be right here in a monthly blog post you can save for future reference. Divided into the six categories all my content is now shared across, Sanctuary, Authenticity, Wellbeing, Bibliotherapy, Creativity and The Kitchen Table- in each Housekeepers Bookshelf post, there will one book for each aspect of our lives as Brocanteers. Sound good? Then I shall begin…
Sanctuary
First up Un-Stuffed by Ruth Soukup. I greatly admire Ruth and my participation in her Elite Blog Academy is partly responsible for the changes you are seeing around BrocanteHome. In Un-stuffed she changes her lovely attention to de-cluttering and as I think we are Kon-Mari-ed out, the time seems right for a more heart-centered approach to creating space in our lives… Buy it on Amazon.Com here and Amazon.Co.Uk here…
Authenticity
“Hygge” is something of a buzzword at the moment. With the Danish concept of embracing cozy all the rage everywhere from the loveliest of Interiors blogs to the darn old Daily Mail. But in The Cozy Life, Pia Edberg shows us that there is more to living well than just snuggly socks and twinkly candles and applies the concept of hygge and slowing down to all aspects of the way we live… Read it on Amazon.Com here and Amazon.Co.Uk here…
WellBeing
I am obsessed with sleep. Mostly because, unlike the rest of the population I can’t quite seem to do it with a barrage of ungeants and pills and rituals and meditation. So when the power house that is Arianna Huffington steps up with her own extensively researched thoughts on what sleep is and why we need it if we have any hope of thriving, I for one cannot wait to download it to my Kindle… Buy it on Amazon.Com here and Amazon.Co.uk here…
Bibliotherapy
Only recently back in print here in the UK, The Long View by Elizabth Jane Howard is a masterpiece and a book I simply cannot recommend enough if you are in the mood for dissecting the universitality of marriage and its destruction and exploring both extraordinary characters and writing so subtle it sometimes takes your breath away. This then is a book to save to the quiet of your bedside table. For getting in to bed early and losing yourself in somebody else’s life… Buy it on Amazon.Com here and Amazon.Co.Uk here…
Creativity
The title of this book (and it’s beautiful cover ) intrigued me and I simply couldn’t resist a more feminine approach to productivity and so Sexy + Soul-full by Tara Rodden Robinson is the book I will be reading during my Miracle Morning Hour over the next few weeks. Should it light a fire in my own soul I will be sure to share it with you… Buy it on Amazon.Com here and Amazon.Co.Uk here…
The Kitchen Table
Even those of us who could probably blog in our sleep could probably use a few reminders and the occasional push in the right direction occasionally… so step in Miss Dana Fox if you please. Adding new books about the business of blogging to the little mini bookshelf on my desk reminds me what business I am in and I always more than happy to add another… Buy it on Amazon.Com here and Amazon.Co.Uk here… Happy reading Housekeepers!
Create your own Brocante Life Book, plan Christmas, set up routines and rituals or live life the BrocanteHome way with my guided workbooks and planners.
Bear with me while I throw a little strop. This month Country Living (USA) have issued their scrumptious magazine with the two different covers you see above. Same content. Different covers. Hmmm. Now I am stupid when it comes to buying magazines….
Mark’s girlfriend Nicky is upset. Everybody say aah. In the time she and Mark have been together he has not yet seen fit to introduce her to a single member of his family, nor taken her to meet his friends. She is,…
Good morning Vintage Housekeepers, welcome to another giddy ride around the internet, as seen through a Vintage Housekeeping single Mommy-ing, blogging for a living and dancing for fun, kinda woman’s eyes! It’s been a funny old week, mostly I suspect, because it’s…
While I am certain I have mentioned this little delight before, I am chasing away the blues of being both childless and Markless today (It’s dutiful Daddy, take your son to McDonalds day), with a gentle titter at the wit and humour…
Just before Christmas, in a list of Puttery Treats for December, I do believe I urged you to clear out your Comfort Drawer… * Clear out your Comfort Drawer! It is Christmas and thus the season when all kinds of comforting nonsense…
Darlings, after the hurly burly of the boudoir, there is nothing nicer than a cup of tea… There is just something so genteel about a cup and saucer and ladies, I am nothing if not genteel. Elegance is all, so naturally I…
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