french blue

  No reason for this, except that sometimes it only takes a few minutes to put together a little vignette that looks pretty enough to share.  Antique coffee bowls, a blue soup tureen and a vintage jug.  Blue and white rarely fails to please!

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a mood board for a christmas table - cream and gold

Today I start two weeks of non-stop christmas ideas and, I hope, inspiration.   Unfortunately it's not snowing here in Normandy, but I added falling snow to the blog just to make it feel festive!

Today's offering: a mood board for a tablescape.  As I already told you, I'm not clever at shooting whole tables, but I had good fun today putting bits together around  a cream, gold and green theme.

I used an antique soup tureen and soup plates, antique cutlery; crystal knife rests; some cool feather christmas trees I found this week; and instead of laying all this onto a real tablecloth I borrowed a wonderful metis embroidered sheet from my stock.

Hope you enjoy.

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in the mood for fall

this image totally puts me in the mood for fall.  it's one of the prettiest tablescapes i have seen this season.

{belle maison}

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