February 2, 2007

Vintage D.I.Y.

Deliciously retro images from my collection of early sixties Homemaker mags.

I’m off to mosaic myself a tufted bar.

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Grumpy Puts The Bins Out.

This, I am ashamed to say, is my current recycling system. Pretty flowery bag for paper and red string bag for everything else. Hanging on the back of the laundry door, so everytime I go in, I get smacked in the face with a milk bottle or a can of beans. I’m not a happy…

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The Girls

I received the most gorgeous collection of birthday gifts from all my lovely people: from the Penhaligon Scent Library, to business books, (I do love a good business book!), this little book of cosy joy, a rather divine box of Rituals tea, flowers, crystals, a necklace, violet cremes (of course) and the loveliest, personalised box…

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Housekeepers Diary

An odd day. My lane completely closed off for road re-surfacing and the clatter of lorries and chatter of workmen my music for the day. And here I am. Sliced watermelon on the desk and the cat, squashed into a shoe box on the floor beneath me, purring loudly as if the answer to bliss…

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The HouseKeepers Planner.

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Home Is The Hunter.

She’s watched for his returnat each day’s evening, his briefcasestuffed as if with deermeat,umbrella a spent spear.Forty years of triumphal entrances,attentive welcomings, end in thisgift-loaded euphoric homecoming.Something near to fear stirs in her. The house has been hers throughout the coreof every day, close shelterfor her busy morning hours, her re-creative afternoons.Now it opens its…

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BirdCage Cosmetics…

Spotted! A minty green birdcage perched on a dresser in a divine little bathroom, with the rickety wooden cage door flung open to reveal a lovely little collection of vintage cosmetics… Yes, I am obsessed with birdcages. Other Things To Do At BrocanteHome Join the BrocanteHome Community Discover my daily domestic to-do lists, join the…