Lilabean: A Storybook About Simplicity for Grown-Up Little Girls

If  I ever grow up enough be considered a font of wisdom, this is what I shall say:  Wait.  Just wait.  But live a life worth talking about in the meantime. Live it wholeheartedly. Live it so wonderfully, scrumptiously, deliciously well, that when that you have been waiting for finally whispers its way into your…

So you know how it is a truth universally regarded that a certain vintage housekeeper has got astonishingly bad taste? Well I thought it was high time I explained myself… Take the red shoes. What can I say? They are shiny, red patent leather with a grosgrain bow. Absolutely hideously ugly but oh how I…

Allow me to introduce the other men in my life, My gorgeous Daddy and my scrumptious little nephew, Gabriel. For some reason they call themselves the Spiky Nana Backs- now this is a long story: Gabriel likes cars. To put it mildly, more than your average child. His favorite outing ever is a trip to…

I might be a good housekeeper, but I’m a truly terrible record keeper. I start shopping lists and promptly lose them.  Ask me for the recipe of something delicious I have  served you for lunch and I will disappear into a pile of cookbooks never to be seen again.  Receipts  evaporate and home inventory doesn’t…

Well as you probably guessed from my absence, the weekend, as weekends are prone to do, went to pot. I do not have a decorated house, or a beautiful Christmas tree. I have a strand of smoked garlic and two scrumptious goat cheese and quite frankly, compensation wise, it just ain’t good enough… Yesterday my…

Oh goodness, I couldn’t leave you without a sneak preview at what looks to be an utterly divine  vintage site, coming it  seems, very soon… Caravan Style.  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…