Tulip tips
Being the daughter of a tulip farmer (yes, really) and having grown up on a tulip farm (acres and acres of flowers complete with a Dutch windmill), I know a thing or two about tulips… Because we’re...
View ArticleTrolley Dolly
Sometimes someone comes up with a new concept that feels so logical and natural that it’s hard to imagine you ever lived without it… This is how I felt yesterday when I first went grocery shopping...
View ArticleShopping made easier
To save on labour costs, many Italian supermarkets now allow regular customers to use a bar-code reader while shopping to scan their groceries. Once the shopping is done you return the reader to a...
View ArticleSavon de Marseille
Marseille as a town is not particularly known for its cleanliness, but one of its most famous products is the soap. Le savon de Marseille is a French institution. It has been around for a least 700...
View ArticleBaking Soda
This post is about the environment, money saving, muffins, clearing drains and a mother in sheer desperation due to 2 small children covered in chickenpox. You may wonder what all of these things have...
View ArticleMurchison-Hume
I can’t stop wiping my kitchen bench. Or my kitchen table. And mopping… I mopped twice yesterday. It all started with a trip to my local kitchen/home-wares shop ‘Roost’ in Malvern where I was searching...
View ArticleHanging children’s art
We are moving home! The new one is larger and, of course, better decorated. I have made the usual promise to myself (and my husband) to be more organised and to keep it tidier. So I’m on the lookout...
View ArticleFree Download from Homemade Happiness — for all of you!
You probably recall that for our latest Birthday Week I wrote about Homemade Happiness: great downloadable deco kits for every birthday, holiday or other special occasion. I’m really quite fond of...
View ArticleMoving house (with children) — 10 tips
We experienced again that moving house with a family is not an overnight job — it’s like giving birth, you sort of forget how painful it actually is! The new house is very nice though, and room by...
View ArticleThird Drawer Down
I do appreciate a nice tea towel… and I’m fussy with mine. Perhaps it relates to my textile obsession. Nonetheless, I like them to be made of good quality linen, aesthetically pleasing… and generally...
View ArticleA Supermarket find
I know it is a pretty hellish activity to do with kids but I love going to the supermarket and I love it when you find a new whizzy product. A while back I discovered Method cleaning products — a...
View ArticleA quick word on Baker’s Twine
I have a bit of an obsession with baker’s twine. I ordered 4 huge spools of it a few months ago and I am looking around for more. Now I’m no crafty, but even I can think of a million uses. In fact,...
View ArticleRetro-inspired Personalized Lunchboxes
These gorgeous personalised lunchboxes by Feterie are high on my birthday list for my children this year. With a bit of a retro-cool vibe, they are of lightweight tin construction and as functional as...
View Articledonna hay kid’s magazine
I think the time has come to introduce my party bible! It is none other than the superb Donna Hay Kid’s magazine! What a treat! Eye-candy from the first to the last page; the photography is so...
View ArticleHome safety (and the Ouch! Box)
I was recently chatting with a friend and she told me that they had just spent the weekend making their house safer. Of course my interest was roused — what did they do that I should be doing?? Well,...
View ArticleTG Green Special Edition Mugs
Some people spend their life searching for the holy grail. I spend my life searching for the perfect mug. I was brought up with the belief that a cup of tea is a remedy to anything from a common cold...
View ArticleCerise sur le gateau
I don’t know if you are the same but I have a drawer in my kitchen in which I stuff everything: instructions for the toaster (easily the most useless thing ever printed!), loose pieces of wire, pens,...
View ArticleDuralex Glasses
In a household of 3 clumsy girls (I can bank for the fact that clumsiness is indeed genetic), we need hardened utensils, that can survive a lot of rough and tumble. Thus, I am a big fan of Duralex,...
View ArticleCachette — wonderful finds!!
Cachette is a new Anglo-French lifestyle concept store that has recently launched, and it is selling a gorgeous selection of homewares and children’s products. I love the artisan quality of it all, the...
View ArticleLandmade, for simple household items from France
One of the many advantages of living in a relatively small flat in Paris is that my storage space is limited, which in turn means that I don’t accumulate a lot of useless stuff. (BTW, this actually...
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