It is a life less ordinary. Yoga while you wait for kettle to boil and face-masks conjured up from store-cupboard basics. A walk in the woods. A bedroom that feels like a sanctuary. Entire evenings in the bathroom. It is routine, ritual and daily celebration. Journalling instead of gossiping. Asking for help when you need it (and accepting it even when you don’t). Organic housekeeping, candlelight and vintage books. Sea-salt baths and early bedtimes. It is holidays at home. Blogging, seasonal scrubs and board games at the kitchen table. Lavender-fresh bed-linen, fresh flowers and fresh ideas.
BrocanteHome is about visualising an authentic future, creating a home that reflects the very essence of who you are, and living a sustainable lifestyle that ensures the future of both our bodies and our creative minds. It is all this and it is so very much more.
Welcome home.
A slow morning after a long night. Finally climbing into bed at four o’clock in the morning when Ste returned home after a seven freezing hours sitting in the car waiting for the breakdown recovery that didn’t arrive. His shivery misery compounded by an act of abject cruelty I can barely comprehend. The milk of human kindness apparently much in…
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As you know, before I took my August break, I promised you that I would have a little surprise for you when I returned, and though it always takes me an age to get back into the swing of things in September, I am finally ready to announce the opening of The Puttery Treats Club! The Puttery Treats Club…
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Well I don’t know about you, but I simply cannot wait…
Created in the spirit of Diana Vreeland who ran a darling little column called “Why Don’t You?” in Harpers Bizarre, I bring you a new weekly feature – seven teeny little somethings to do to make life that little bit less ordinary… On Monday… Decide to do the 5:2 Financial Diet: spend nothing at all on five out of seven of…
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And just as I said: I have been thinking. And it has be an odd, somewhat revalatory, somewhat disturbing process. Not what I imagined. For it seems I am not a person given to truly thinking at all and that when I do the thoughts only have to be formally invited to come dashing in and stomp all over my…
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I gave myself a rather boomtastic headache yesterday. So boomtastic I had to be tucked up in bed at nine o’clock with a cup of hot chocolate and a Night Nurse because I had convinced myself that a sniffly nose and a headache equals the kind of flu Finn’s Dad was spreading to all and sundry this week and only…
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Well now I have polished the child, packed him off to school, spick and span, wiped away the dust of the Summer from every surface in the house, mowed the lawn into Autumnal oblivion and of course, bought myself a new pencil case and plucked my chin hair because I am a woman of a certain age and…
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Hello my Lovely. Over the past few years I have taken August off Brocantehome in order to be a little more present for my family during the Summer holiday and to reset and clean up my routines and rituals in my newly printed Housekeeper’s Planner ready for a new season, and this year will be no different. So for the…
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I don’t care if you are cringing. As she in charge of making your life less ordinary, this I know for sure: she who plans early catches the Christmas Crackers before they are all sold out. And so this is the week I am inviting you to hop on board the Christmas train with BrocanteHome. I know. I know the…
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I am delighted to be able to invite you to take part in our first Living Room Bookclub in my lovely Facebook group: The Living Room… The Living Room group is FREE to join and I cannot think of a better group of women to talk all things bookish with in the monthly book-club I am hosting there. Each…
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Well I think the image above just about sums up how I feel right now, if you care to replace the screaming baby with an overgrown teenager and a man with his head firmly facing the darn World Cup… I talk a lot here about creating a life less ordinary, but I know it is true that the ordinary…
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