Let it Snow!

Brrrr….It started snowing in the middle of the night and literally has only just let up (and it’s 7pm)… Lacoste is covered in snow and I imagine everyone is snuggling close to an open fire as there isn’t a single car on the road (we tried to leave our drive but the car politily declined…) [...]

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Walk through Vieux Oppede

We had our first Irish guests of the summer come stay and thankfully the heavy thunderstorms blew over and the sun came out to play. On their second day, we woke up early and headed off to Coustellet market to pick up some luscious local cheese and still-warm, freshly baked artisan bread for our lunch [...]

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Weekend fun

This weekend has been a washout, great for plants but not so wonderful for little ones who like to get out in the fresh air and mess about…so in between showers we managed to nip down to the park and have a tour of the swings.  

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The Unseen Sea

When you take the time to slow down, as I’ve had the luxury of doing the last few months, you see the beauty of nature as she shapes the landscape around you. From our perch atop Lacoste we can see the seasons make their mark on the fertile land below in the valley. It is [...]

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Lacoste interiors

Beautiful sculpted stone staircases frame the interior A breakfast snug features framed slippers with the motif cleverly continued in the upholstered seating Ancient crowns which once graced the statues of the Virgin Mary now sit upon the heads of quirky busts.  Similiar crowns can be found at brocantes or on Ebay.fr, in french they are [...]

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The last few days….

Have seen Louis experience his first Easter egg (or rather Easter bunny in this case) hunt….I love that this pic captures the look on his face just as he finds the first golden Lindt bunny We were invited to our landlords house, where his mother, the vivacious Incarnation, was visiting from Barcelona and she cooked [...]

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Bad blogeuse!

I’ve been a terribly bad blogeuse. I wish I had a noble excuse but alas I just got caught up in a ton of things including my dad and stepmum visiting, getting a surprise job offer (no mean feat given I am so completely useless at interviews), trying out resin and acrylic techniques for my [...]

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Monday morning inspiration

I came across this video from a CNN news piece and really wanted to share it and its simple but beautiful message on nourishing the soul

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Do What You Love!

Detail from an antique silk ribbon from Faure family I should introduce this post with this great and inspirational video featuring Krista Vernoff (executive producer and main writer of “Grey’s Anatomy”) talking about encouraging creativity. I watched it a few weeks ago and it got me thinking!     I loved art, it was my favourite subject [...]

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Patience

Courtesy of Dweebist Apologies for not blogging in a very very long time….we took some time off  to visit family and catch up on much-needed house maintenance (boring I know) and as is Murphy’s law, when you decide to take a holiday to wind down, someone always gets rundown and sick….so I just haven’t had [...]

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