The Old School
Vintage video of a French Autumn Day
What a beautiful day it is, yet again!! We are having a beautiful Indian summer here, and I just couldn’t resist going out and shooting some video of our village in its blue skies and lovely warm sunshine. I needed a break from the laundering and preparing of all the Vintage French Linens that I am about to put [...]
A gallery of beautiful bookcases
I got to thinking about book displays on Saturday. I was out at a flea market and went to the book section for the first time. I was bowled over by the quality of some of the books for sale beautifully bound volumes going for a song. I am looking for matching sets of volumes [...]
Lovely aerial views.
The annual apple and cider festival was held in our village about two weeks ago. As you can imagine all things apple are available, apple cakes, apple tarts, baked apples and cider and apple juice. Well little did I know at the time but a lady from the village was up in the air taking [...]
A Vintage Picture Wall for the Billiard Room
For those of you that have been following our renovation of an old school in a French village on facebook, you will know that the Billiard table area was finished enough to receive the Billiard table, now I am thinking about the decoration and how best to make use of the large wall spaces around [...]
WIN 6 French Pastis Glasses!
The details: After 4 years of renovating our old village school into a luxury French vacation rental we are running this little give-away to celebrate achieving a step closer to the opening – with the wraps coming off the French Billiard table. 6 Pastis shot glasses: Pastis a drink loved throughout France and drunk in [...]
