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.
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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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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We try too hard. We look for this, that or the other to make life better and in the process, we end up knee-high in nonsense that will not improve our lives, nor bring us closer to finally meeting our most authentic selves. We buy too much. Shop too much. Want too much. We browse the internet and convince…
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To me Black Friday is deeply tied in with the act of thanksgiving, and so I believe that offering discounts on the last Friday of November is about saying thank-you to those of you who read my work all year round… So this weekend I have created three separate offers, starting today with more products added to my PAY WHAT YOU CAN…
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An early start, sniffling into my latte by fairy light. After a weekend spent re-arranging furniture and ornament, it feels like sitting in someone else’s house. A visitor in my own living room, thrilled that the rug I imagined would take over the room simply ties everything else together. Not so thrilled with the croaky voice and irritating blocked nose….
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Well heavens, one minute I was there and the next the slings and arrows of family life, illness, and a sudden urge to get the backend of BrocanteHome in order after so many of you were kind enough to join The Salon before the big change on the 9th of January, stole me away from you. But here I am…
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So where were we? I know… in my last anniversary post we established that I am not a six-figure blogger. That I am a fussy madam who has held herself back with a dose of the pedantics so persuasive it is a wonder Brocantehome exists at all. That I will not compromise my ideals, nor dilute my message by littering the…
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I am in hiding. The window-cleaners are due and they are CHATTY MEN. Men who want cups of teas and plates of cake and biscuits and though I can usually be relied upon for such matters (and there is indeed a mighty fine slab of Parkin in the cake tin), today my ability to make small talk about the…
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On the 17th November, BrocanteHome will enter her fifteenth year online. I know! I am as astonished as you. Though this site has been the one and only mainstay of my life beyond my son, that I should have been able to commit a little bit more of my life to these pages for all these years strikes me…
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To my surprise I’ve got a little treat for you today: The Festive House is now available in the Kindle Store for you to sit down and enjoy with an early mince pie and a cozy-covered pot of tea. I wasn’t expecting it to go live quite as early as it has, so I’m thrilled to be able to…
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The problem with Halloween is that it is U.G.L.Y. In fact, Halloween merchandise is so often the epitome of tat (lovely word is tat!) that I can hardly bear to have any of plastic nonsense gracing my home and presumably, as is the wont of plastic, ending up causing havoc in our oceans. And so I have taken the liberty…
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