Monthly Archives: April 2011

Weekly Favorites: Spring Earrings

This week, these gorgeous earrings are my weekly favorites. Not antique. not even vintage, but made with the same care and attention to detail as the older pieces.  I love discovering jewelry artists who develop jewelry they love, and make in small quantities. Hand crafted, how could you not love these drip drop earrings? Perfect [...]

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Children’s Dream Garden

Now that I’ve had much more time than usual to rest, and look around on all sorts of international websites, I found the most delightful children’s play house I wanted to share with you.   What child wouldn’t dream of one of these in their garden? LOVE. And then to find your own miniature pony [...]

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Soothing

Dreamy, this bedroom is just so dreamy. While I am very happy with our own room at home, this one, below, has me thinking redoing it wouldn’t be a bad thing. {Sorry, I always think it wouldn’t, there are just so many gorgeous rooms and colors to inspire!} I am supposed to rest and “take [...]

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Pâques en Paris

Inspiration! Seen around Paris and what the Easter Bunny may be filling those empty Easter Baskets with en France: Michel Cluizel Café Pouchkine Dalloyau Patrice Chapon Christophe Roussel La Maison du Chocolat A la mère de famille

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Ironing Antique Linens

It’s a love that many of you share with me…. Antique Linens.  A collection of antique linens doesn’t take even close to as much space as most other collections, and there is nothing as lovely as sleeping in a bed covered in luscious linens hand embroidered long ago, or setting a table with linens from [...]

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Mélanie Bourlon

Be Inspired! I wish I had wings so that I could fly over to see this fabulous place right now. Laëtitia’s E-magdeco always delights me when I see it in my “in” box, she discovers the most amazing shops in France. Welcome to the amazing world of Mélanie Bourlon. A fellow antique dealer for many years, [...]

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