And so the first part of my lovely, dastardly plan is complete: The Salon Workshop has landed and together myself and my Salon Members are about to embark on a week-by-week journey towards a life less ordinary: bringing together all the resources currently to be found in the Salon Library and adding direction, purpose and a new ritual I…
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The Salon Workshop Is Here!
Halfway There…
Hello me Darlings, I thought I would just pop in to tell you where I’m up to, so you know I am still alive and still busy behind the scenes cooking up a storm… It has been absolutely beautiful here for the past seven days and though the weekend brought with it the kind of news that chucked the past…
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The Decision
It’s a gorgeous day. Outside the sounds of a suburban Summer are humming through the lane gardens: lawnmowers, children playing, bees buzzing – and inside Ste and I are working in companionable silence, iced lemon water at our side and shared intentions unspoken between us. It has been half-term this week and I have spent it with Finley, enjoying…
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Housekeeper’s Diary
There are words in this life no sane woman wants to hear. Namely, “I’m really sorry but I have dripped fish juice all the way from the kitchen to the front door and I haven’t got time to sort it out, sooooooo sorry, byeeeee, mwah!“ Fish juice!! At seven forty-five in the morning the very idea of “fish-juice” makes…
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Aphantasia
There are no teabags. Well of course there is an abundance of tea of the Matcha kind, the mint sort and the rose variety, but the common or garden breakfast teabag is nowhere to be seen on this very ordinary Tuesday morning. I feel mildly appalled, and butter a scone in compensation. Then stand over the kitchen sink eating it,…
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Feeling For Change
So hot on the heels of my existential crisis came an actual crisis. Two separate issues that threatened to pull the rug from under BrocanteHome completely and had me staring at my computer all day long yesterday wishing them both away and bewildered by what trust we place in large companies now, when we are but a cog in…
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Existential Crisis
It takes no time at all for what is made simple to become so deeply complex. We stand back and admire the empty space we have created, congratulating ourselves on the effort taken to exist in a beautiful vacuum and all of a sudden we are back to where we started. Begging for More. Now. Again. Disparaging what clarity there…
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The Housekeeper’s Digest
A Muchier May I sometimes think that it takes me until May to really get into the year and that when I do my urge to get further along the journey to my own life less ordinary suddenly feels all the more urgent: as if there is no more time to waste on the humdrum and that all my efforts…
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The Fashionable Reader
I don’t usually like very stylized Instagram pages because I am intensely nosy and always terribly keen to see the truth about someone’s life, rather than a manicured version they have arranged into pretty boxes, but I make an exception for The Fashionable Reader. Because I love her with all of my pastel-colored, book loving heart. Not only does…
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