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  • The Peace of Wild Things When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come…

  • I've always owned old cars, for several reasons. They're built better, they're easier to work on, they're cheaper to buy (or, they used to be, before the money grab of the great pandemic) and lastly, it's against my personal religion to waste or throw things away, "Are you gonna eat that?". Also, I'm not someone…

  • It's all so phosphorescent and luscious. The fragrant Magnolias and wild Chamomile are deliriously delicious. Views of the neighborhood known as Normaltown: No, this is not France… It was breezy today, hastening a thunder storm…

  •   The chair that had many incarnations…   Dressed for winter…   Lost under a pile on re-decor day…   And finally, left behind on moving day…   And now, a pair of French Bergere chairs… They were a steal, of course 🙂

  • Champagne for 999 sales on So Sylvie Etsy! New stock daily!!!   Vintage Australian Royal Blue Ensign Flag   British Bowler Hat   Embroidered Chinese Shoes   Mid Century Dining Chairs   Large Needlepoint Purse   1950s Floral Cotton Day Dress   Floral Needlepoint Pillow   1920s Ribbon Cloche   Orange Silk Japanese Obi  …

  • Celebrating the red bed, here are some happy rooms to get you motivated for springtime 🙂   Carina Olander       Designer Kelley McDowell, House Beautiful   Fine Little Day - Source   Principles Of Home by Kevin McCloud   Source     Photo: Megan Thompson   Photographer Joanna Henderson, Source   Source   Source  …

  • Worldwide Walls: If you build it, they won't come.   Photo of baby Kikito peers over the border fence in Tecate, Mexico ~ by French artist JR   Ana Teresa Fernandez “erasing” the border between the United States and Mexico in Tijuana.   The Overpass Light Brigade projects messages of hope on the border wall…

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  • My accidental cloche — I found a moth on my floor, the Victorian note spike and the bell jar were at hand. C'est tout. This vignette will change many times, I'm sure.     Enjoy some other cloche still-lifes (lives?), beautiful in winter's light…                        …

  • If it ain't baroque don't fix it!! 17th Century Antique Brussels Baroque Tapestry Pillow     18th Century French Tapestry Pillow   17th Century Antique Brussels Tapestry Pillow 17th Century Antique Brussels Tapestry Pillow       19th Century Tapestry Pillow         18th Century Aubusson Antique Tapestry Pillow     18th Century…