Les Poissonchats

Today’s door is a very special door, as I’ve asked my friend Sarah if she wouldn’t prepare a guest entry for Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar. Sarah is a textile artist, painting Angel’s Dreams on fabrics. No 22 is meant to be a gift for you, a little preview of her upcoming collection and art Read more

I’ve never seen the film The Phantom of the Opera as we didn’t have television when I was little and also I would never ever have been allowed to watch such a film, such a crazy film as mother called this sort, but somehow I must have picked up scenes somewhere and they stuck!  In Read more

You know about that divine smell of making baked apples? I think it’s THE most absolutely Godliest nostalgic smell.   The one you see here in the picture is a trial I’ve baked to accompany the duck we’ll have on Christmas Eve. I baked them in my woodfired stove overnight, at very low temperature probably as Read more

To think, I said to my husband, that Suzanne most likely stood exactly here, buying a box of nougatines, it must have been this chocolaterie, for I found the box in the attic back when we tidied up the place.  Visiting an old fashioned chocolaterie is giving me so much nostalgia, especially when it’s one Read more

Planning Christmas Dinner, for me, is a very serious and, as far as merriment goes along with solemnity, happy business. Come the first fairylights and wreaths of the season and a significant portion of my thoughts are taken up with the question of all questions: What will there be for Christmas Dinner!  All my Christmas Read more

When I was little I was taught to always be polite and whenever I’d cross someone in the street, that I was to greet them and smile. Now that was easy in the village, where everybody knew everyone, but I remember it got quite complicated in town. Also there were so many people, and I Read more