Around the House

Around the House

 

Poking around our apartment in Paris. Some friends from Willows are coming next week, and I want everything to be just so. Also a magazine photographer and stylist came over this morning to take photos for an article about designing and creating home with old things. I guess they thought I would be the one to talk to. I wonder how they got that idea?

The funny thing is I thought they were coming around one in the afternoon, and instead they arrived at eleven in the morning. They caught me with my fair unbrushed, in my cleaning-the-house clothes and well, really not ready. They looked very glam and professional I looked like a cave dweller.

At least the apartment did not disappoint them.

Needless to say they did not take my photo, whew.

 

Around the House

Sacha is coming over for dinner.

Chelsea is in Provence with Yann… she took the bad weather with her. It hasn't rained in Provence in several weeks. And it hasn't felt like summer in Paris until a few days ago. Lucky me.

It didn't just rain it poured, the flowers must be in wonderland.

 

Around the House

 

I added three more plates to the wall; I want to cover the wall with plates. Call it ironstone paper. Thirteen of them. I am not worried that thirteen has a bad rap… but if any of them fall I will re-think the thirteen thing. 

 

 

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Looking out.

Such a glorious day.

I can hear it calling, "Come out and play!"

A evening walk with the boy is on the menu.

 

 

Around the House

The magazine people brought over a lovely bunch of flowers. Some of them were pink which really doesn't go with the color scheme, but once they were placed here and there I had to admit the those pink flowers added such harmony and grace, that they could have been purple with red polka dots and still I would have felt like singing.

I hope your Sunday is a singing one too.



Comments

10 responses to “Around the House”

  1. Some people like to think of 13 as a Baker’s Dozen 😉

  2. Your apartment is always beautiful, even with pink flowers. How I would love sitting and sleeping there someday.

  3. What magazine will you apartment be featured in? Do you know when it will be published? Thanks. S/E

  4. Diogenes

    Two hours early is quite a surprise. I usually don’t even think about getting ready til one hour before.
    I’m sure.your place looked beautiful. Can’t wait to see the pics.

  5. peonies! 🙂
    Now that the ‘newspaper people’ have come to see you (scrap that, your flat!) you REALLY MADE IT…. 🙂
    wishing you happiness; I wish it would rain here, just barely 30km from Paris downtown – my garden is patched with dryness, I’ve been watering at 6 in the morning and the meteo shows unrelenting sun until at least Friday…. I’m – once more – slave to my paradise garden! But I’m not complaining (well, just a bit)

  6. I so hope Bill and I will be able to visit you in Paris this September. And if Ironstone plates start falling off your wall, I hope it isn’t because of the 3M adhesive hooks!

  7. Beautiful and inviting!

  8. True — although written by a different Kathie.

  9. Nancy Smith

    I want to know what the gadget was that so many thought was an Asparagus Server—-totally wrong with that answer as it would massacre the asparagus in serving.
    Cheese, butter or pastry server? Please advise—it’s too curious. And I own a silver sardine server—no one can ever guess what that is!

  10. Rebecca from the pacific northwest

    I quite like the cloud of plates and platters above that corner piece. (And that the backs of some of them are displayed so the mended places show.)
    If I didn’t know you and your decorating styles through this blog, I’d look at photos of a place like this and think “this doesn’t exist! the magazine art directors just made it up!”
    I’m not a fan of pale pink either but I bet it did look quite nice with all the greys and quietness.

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