And just like last year, January doesn’t seem to happen until the middle of the month while most of us wrestle our way out of the muddle of the festivities. For isn’t it true that all of December is lost these days to the performance that is Christmas Day? Isn’t it true that we need a little recovery time thereafter?…
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Housekeeper’s Diary
Sunday Poetry – Kitchen
I remember this as her kitchen, the one room in our house where no one questioned my mother’s authority— her cast iron pots bubbling over on the stove, cracked tea cups in the sink. How I hated the difficult oven always hanging off its hinges, so loose a clothes hanger rigged it shut, gas range whose flames leapt beneath fingers…
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A New Year on BrocanteHome!
It’s here! 2019 has arrived and here on Brocantehome I am giddy with excitement about all that I will be offering over the New Year ahead… You see I want this to be the year that as one we elevate our lives way beyond all the clutter and uncertainty we have been dragging around for too many years now. I…
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The Edited Woman Payment Plan!
Well now.You have wrapped the turkey and stuffed the Christmas tree. The kids are polished and the house is washed. Everyone from the budgie to Grandma has got new pyjamas and even the fridge is sporting set of fairy lights. You have in fact, done all the things.And honestly, if I could offer a medal to each and everyone of…
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The Festive Housekeeper’s Diary
The older I get the more random I behave in shops. This week I have told many a shop assistant that “I am at that stage of Christmas shopping when I’m actually completely done, but I’m buying more nonsense just in case I’m not” and they have humored me with a smile and I have watched them wrap something nobody…
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Christmas The Brocante Home Way
There’s no getting away from it and rumour has it that if you can’t get away from it, you are going to have to get on board with it, and so, me darlings in the spirit of Christmas, last night I poured myself a cozy cup of non-alcoholic mulled wine (you know, the kind with the fun taken out!), let…
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The Life Less Ordinary Library
Welcome to the final of my 2018, Birthday Celebration offers! And me darlings, its a good’un! You see it struck me how very grateful I am that so many of you trust me enough to have bought a lifetime subscription to my lovely Salon, and I wanted to give you something back in the form of a Prize Drawer on Christmas…
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The Life Less Ordinary Digest
I made you a little something! Well actually I made you a 97 page something full of BrocanteHome goodness. You see I know how hard it is to get to the good stuff here on the site: and I KNOW that my long diary posts and thoughts on a life less ordinary are your favorites, and so as a…
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The Life Less Ordinary RoadMap
Week by week recently, I have been sharing the pieces of the lovely puzzle that will be The Salon in 2019 and today I am ready to share the last piece. The Life Less Ordinary Roadmap is both a step-by-step guide to creating a life-less ordinary defined by the six pillars of Brocantehome – sanctuary, authenticity, well-being, creativity, routines…
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