October 27, 2005

More Scrumptious By The Day…

Coming soon!

A delicious new line of BrocanteHome greeting and E-cards…

How utterly fabulous Darlings!

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Merry (Belated) Christmas

Well I do hope you have all had a lovely Christmas… blink and its gone isn’t it? My bestest present came from my Auntie Barbie… A vintage Singer sewing machine in full working order with which to replace the long dead but oh so very very missed Frister and Rossman machine I received for my…

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Anne Lamott on Time Lost and Found

Alongside Sarah Ban Breathnachs “Simple Abundance” it is Anne Lamott’s “Bird by Bird” that I most commonly credit with shaping the way I live my creative life. I read both books when I was around twenty three and in the process of setting up the scrumptious little interiors shop I ran for three years: a…

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Casanova and The Chocolate Cake.

Peace flits in and out of my life like a nesting bird. Lining my days with books and gardening and contentment and then just as quickly, abandoning my house for pastures new and leaving me once again bereft, restless, aching for something I can’t explain but unable to read and unwilling to write… It has…

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Today

A house full of broken glass. An Anthropologie tumbler destroyed by little hands. A glass lamp shattered across the living room. A lantern flung across the garden by the wind and smashed in to tiny pieces. But then they do say bad luck comes in threes don’t they? A weekend abundant in boyish masculine…

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Housekeeper's Diary

Finally, some rhythm to the month, just as it draws to a close. But it doesn’t matter. For the year has finally begun. Today then: a new cabinet in the bathroom to be made useful. Copper wire baskets just waiting to be filled. The things I found in the old one: more hair bobbles than…

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Enid Blyton’s Tea Party

Oh heavens, I’m really not sure I’m up to knowing the ugly truth about my Darling Enid Blyton. Some reputations should never be sullied. And yet, and yet and yet, how can one resist Helena Bonham Carter and all that 1930’s eye-candy? Just be grateful this BBC 4 drama (Monday 16th November 2009, 9pm) will…