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I wake up to air thick with the split pea and smoked bacon soup I have left to simmer in the slow cooker over night and the crazed tinkle of wind chimes gone berserk. The house is in fact making a racket….
I saw this video on Gala Darling a few weeks ago and knew that at some point I had to share it: that even if somehow, someday the words, please don’t stay, it won’t be ok, haunt the mind of just one…
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…
Habitat’s new book "Love Your Home" is simply fabulous. Declaring itself as "accessible, joyful and anti-coffee table", it is the antithesis of so many of the glossy, essentially empty books published within the interior design sector… I ache to read about how…
I swear that if it weren’t for books (and Finley, and Rich, and the darn cat!), this house would be a little palace. But it isn’t. Because when I take it into my pretty little head to start a-scrubbing, the stacks of…
I read too much. I suspect it is getting in the way of having a life, or maybe, maybe, maybe, books are life… Are they? Please tell me they are because I’ll give up eating before I’ll give up reading, and this…
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On my next birthday, I'm spending it at your house. 😉
Your sure blessed. Im lucky to get one or two little things on my birthday, if that. Usally were poor and my parents somehow gave up on my birthday when I turned 18. Well enough of my pity party. Happy Birthday! I'm so glad it was a beautiful one!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALISON!!!!!! LOVELY GIFTS…ENJOY THE REMAINDER OF YOUR BIRTHDAY WEEK… (Put on, "Happy Birthday, Old Bear," and cuddle up with Finley, while having some scrumptious birthday treats!!!
Happy Birthday sweet Alison. Today is a very special day for me too, my 26th wedding anniv. A good day for both of us! And everyday I read Brocantehome, I feel like I am getting a present.
Oh, how beautiful! Just as you deserve, for who can forget that table you set for Mark and for Finley…. I'm glad to see what goes around "came around" to thee! Happy Birthday, and many more! Hugs! Gayla
Wishing you a most wonderful day. I believe the celebration should continue for the entire birthday month. And I do hope that you get presents as wonderful as those you have given to us. Sandi
Happy Birthday Alison. The beautiful ways you and your family celebrate birthdays inspires me to create special days for my family and friends. Thank you for sharing your lovely day. May all of your days be as special as this one. You deserve it! (I do hope you could hear everyone singing Happy Birthday To You!)
Oh my Ali … are they some of your gifts??? So thoughtful of your family and friends if they are. Hmmm … much as my family would try, I don't think they could do the whole vintage gift giving thing too well. Love to you honey bunch.
Happy Belated Birthday! Glad that it was scrumptiously, splendidly special! Love all the photos, especially the lemon cake with the tulips on the tray…so lovely! Blessings! Joanne
Belated happy birthday Alison. Looks like your family loves everything vintage too. When I gave my relatives Christmas presents with 1950s gift tags on them, they said I was living in the wrong decade! Hope you had a wonderful one. Petah
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On my next birthday, I'm spending it at your house. 😉
Your sure blessed. Im lucky to get one or two little things on my birthday, if that. Usally were poor and my parents somehow gave up on my birthday when I turned 18. Well enough of my pity party.
Happy Birthday! I'm so glad it was a beautiful one!
Happy, Happy Birthday!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALISON!!!!!! LOVELY GIFTS…ENJOY THE REMAINDER OF YOUR BIRTHDAY WEEK…
(Put on, "Happy Birthday, Old Bear," and cuddle up with Finley, while having some scrumptious birthday treats!!!
Glad you had a lovely day.That lemon cake looks delicious!(my favourite!)
Oh, wonderful pretty gifts…I hope it was special and that the year ahead is filled with blessings and treasures and new adventures!
Happy birthday, Alison! I'm sure your gifts will keep you busy for a while.
Happy Belated Birthday wishes Alison ~ it all looks so scrumptious!
Many, many Happy Returns for a wonderful year ahead ~ Kali xo
Many happy returns, as Pooh might say! Have a lovely day and enjoy your goodies!! Your website is a wonderful gift to me all year long!
Happy birthday! So many gorgeous things!
Happy Birthday sweet Alison. Today is a very special day for me too, my 26th wedding anniv. A good day for both of us!
And everyday I read Brocantehome, I feel like I am getting a present.
Happy, happy birthday, Alison! What a wonderful bounty with which you've been blessed.
Oh, how beautiful! Just as you deserve, for who can forget that table you set for Mark and for Finley…. I'm glad to see what goes around "came around" to thee! Happy Birthday, and many more! Hugs! Gayla
Wishing you a most wonderful day. I believe the celebration should continue for the entire birthday month. And I do hope that you get presents as wonderful as those you have given to us.
Sandi
Happy Birthday Alison. The beautiful ways you and your family celebrate birthdays inspires me to create special days for my family and friends. Thank you for sharing your lovely day. May all of your days be as special as this one. You deserve it! (I do hope you could hear everyone singing Happy Birthday To You!)
Oh my Ali … are they some of your gifts??? So thoughtful of your family and friends if they are. Hmmm … much as my family would try, I don't think they could do the whole vintage gift giving thing too well.
Love to you honey bunch.
How very special. We all deserve a celebration like that! Good for you–and we want to hear all about those fantastic books!
A very happy and scrumptiously vintage birthday to you dear Alison. Thank you for everything you do. Hugssssss
A happy belated birthday dear Alison! From the photos you have posted I can see you've had a scrumptious day! Beautiful pictures!
Happy Birthday! Looks like it was a gorgeous one!!!
Happy Belated Birthday!
Glad that it was scrumptiously, splendidly special!
Love all the photos, especially the lemon cake with the tulips on the tray…so lovely!
Blessings!
Joanne
Felicidades Alison! Happy Birthday, may you be blessed with many more! Love, Susana
Belated happy birthday Alison. Looks like your family loves everything vintage too. When I gave my relatives Christmas presents with 1950s gift tags on them, they said I was living in the wrong decade! Hope you had a wonderful one. Petah