Or, at the very least, "Where this Woman Creates" WWC is a fine magazine run by the amazing Jo Packam and once I had the honour of being on the cover of Jo's food based "Where Women Cook" (found here). That was back in the blogging hay-day... but... Forgive my old...
Parisienne Farmhouse Design
The Rejected House, The Before Pics
If you missed it, you'll want to go back and get up to snuff because I'd love to share with you now the before photos of this French Farmhouse Makeover and why I rejected this house for TWO years! I can't tell you how wonderful it feels to actually have something to...
Bloom Where You’re Planted (My French Inspired Living Room this Spring)
It's finally here. We're in the throws of Spring and yet it's been a strange season of life for me... at least deep inside my heart, it has. I know I've done a lot of prattling on about moving lately. I've been kind of obsessed. And that obsession has had some...
The Days of Wine and Roses – The Curse of the Creative
The curse of the creative. I think a lot. A lot. My poor brain. I work so hard to turn it off. There are multiple obsessions... I ponder my business and how to support my oil team, I ponder my patisserie and what kind of equipment I'll need... what kind of menu I will...
French Farmhouse Elements
So here it is. My living room. In all, it's so-called glory. I've been sitting on the post for three weeks because... confession... I'm a perfectionist. There. I said it. As if you didn't know. Maybe I didn't really know. Maybe my desire to do this stupid post...
Perfect Farmhouse Flower Arrangements
There's no magazine-picture-perfect house with six kids, a hubby and a farm but you can have Perfect Farmhouse Flowers. Style it up as I may... stay on top of it as I might, there's always an overripe sock (on a kitchen counter) today's stack of junk mail (right where...
Shiny Brites! My Shiny Brite Collection!
So.... wanna see my holiday pride and joy... A little peak at my Shiny Brite Collection? I thought you'd never ask. What is a Shiny Brite? Only the most fabulous of all vintage Christmas ornaments. A mon avis. Shiny Brites! Even Wikipedia knows about them for...
French Country Christmas
This is a repost of a blog post written about two years ago... to get into the Christmas Decorating/Pinning Spirit I thought I'd bring it back front and centre. French Country Christmas: The Parisienne Farmhouse... Noël Unbelievable: it's our second Christmas here at...
Basic Distressing Technique
Here's a fun one which originally posted last October 2014. If you loved it... enjoy it again and if you haven't... it's new to you! I've been trying to think of another fun video since the great response from the "Mom Makeup Tutorial" and then I remembered my...