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Hello Housekeepers!
Welcome to the first edition of the Brocante Newsletter. After five years on line at BrocanteHome I rather think it is time to celebrate Vintage Housekeeping in all it's wonderful, life-changing glory!
To me Vintage Housekeeping has always been about making the mundane, delicious. It is about appreciating the teeniest details of our day, layering our lives with domestic ritual and routine and at least on some level committing to our current home, whether it be caravan or castle...
But then you know all this already, for haven't I been harping on about it for five years now? Isn't it time I changed the record??
No! Not at all. For every housekeeper who is old hat at living a life stuffed with puttery treats there is another who has lost her way, or has just discovered that there is a scrumptiously delicious alternative to despising housework. And everytime I think I know it all, I discover another vintage guide to housekeeping thats turns my way of thinking on it's head...
Vintage housekeeping, you see, still excites me. It shapes both my days and my way of life and I am so terribly grateful for all the correspondance I receive telling me that it is shaping your way of life too!
However, life mustn't stand still and so today I bring you this email to remind you to keep on keeping on incorparating the unknown into your day: to seek out ways to make the dullest of tasks bearable, to trail around European blogs seeking inspiration, to start a collection of vintage womens magazines to remind you of how a slower pace of life enabled the kind of dedication to domesticity we can only dream of today, and to re-read The Vintage Housekeepers Manifesto all over again and commit to a life more scrumptious....
Incorporate the unknown: that is my lesson for today.
Have a lovely November Sweetheart.
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Puttery Treats For November...
* Fill a vintage, enamel jug with salt and leave it standing by the front door, ready to sprinkle over the iciest of garden paths.
* Collect the most exuberant of Autumn leaves, dry and thread onto fine cotton, for the cutest of Autumnal bunting.
* Wrap teeny, tiny matchboxes in scraps of pretty fabric, tie with festive bows and pile into a bowl for the merest hint of Christmas.
* Make hanging pyjamas over radiators half an hour before bedtime a snuggly evening ritual.
* Create a Christmas Inspiration board, and load it with tear sheets, vintage cards, twinkly decorations and vintage paste brooches.
* Line a tin with something pretty, and store childrens hankies (fabric or indeed paper) , sprinkled with eucalyptus, in there. (Don't forget to pop one in their school bags daily!)
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Scrumptious Posts You Might Have Missed Recently!
And An Old Favorite...
*One Hundred Tiny Pleasures:These are the things that make my heart sing...
P.S: I am in the process of migrating all the old Typepad posts into the
current Blogger site so you won't have too much trouble digging around the archives in the future...
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The Christmas Countdown...
There's Still Time To Sign Up Housekeepers!
As the Christmas Countdown doesn't start in earnest until the 24th of November, there is still plenty of time to tie on your festive pinny and have yourself a merry, little, organized, vintage Christmas...
Click here for a sneak peek at on of the Christmas Countdown emails and when you are thoroughly inspired, hop on over to Etsy to sign up!
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About BrocanteHome...
My name is Alison and I am The Vintage Housekeeper. BrocanteHome (my baby!) has been online for five years now and I am still thoroughly enjoying this utterly scrumptious blogging life... You can read more about me here, follow me around the internet here, subscribe to BrocanteHome hereand if you want to ask me any questions at all, about life, love, the universe or even Vintage Housekeeping, you can contact me at Alison@BrocanteHome.Co.Uk, and I would be happy to help, but please allow up to seven days for me to get back to you...
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