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Yes, the brand new, hot-off-the-presses issue of  VAKRE HJEM & INTERIØR magazine Just dropped off by Fedex today! Below, one of my favorite new things... a very special piece from Jeanne d'Arc Living --    a VERY large, fabulous zinc tray set... giant handled tray with a wonderful divided insert... so versatile and so unique! And some new  natural hemp cross-shoulder bags that you will LOVE! In no time at all (maybe another week) our huge shipment of the next issue of  Jeanne d'Arc Living (issue #6)  and  Jeanne d'Arc Living (issue #6) and their book French Atmospheres (in English this time!) will be hitting the doorstep  along with a fresh, feathery supply of those  gorgeous white angel wings Oh how beautiful they are!!  Hope you're having a wonderful week so far! :)   

As promised, time to announce the winner of the giveaway of  any piece of jewelry in the gorgeous shop of SimplyMeArt . The winner is...... "Lolo" from The Adventures of Stig & Lolo Yay for you!  :) And now the fun begins... what piece from Jamie's shop to narrow it down to!! Congratulations to our winner and thank you to all others who played along!! Happy Weekend, by the way!  :)

This potting bench is an old workhorse here at Acorn Lane. I made it about 10 years ago with reclaimed and recycled pieces of weathered windows, doors and anything else that looked "shabby". The two little window boxes perched on top are also vintage, usually filled with maidenhair ferns. An old zinc tub,was imprinted with roses and serves as the sink for conditioning our flowers. A lovely light green colour is starting to appear naturally over the wood which means that the moss is going to give it a an even better patina. Peonies, Sarah Bernhardt from the garden, being conditioned in a plastic, looks-like zinc sap bucket!! They are so beautiful, they could be sitting in a tin can and no one would notice. These large tubs are great for holding dozens of roses and other flowers whose stems  need to be recut under water, and then conditioned, so they will be in perfect condition for bouquets and arrangements. I found these chipped and slightly imperfect, garden ornaments at a ...

((Commenting is now closed for this giveaway.)) Ladies, n-o-t-h-i-n-g is more glamourous  than  the creations that  Jamie from  SimplyMeArt brings into being in her shop, SimplyMeArt I have been buying pieces from Jamie for years and WITHOUT FAIL whenever I wear my treasures from her shop, I get so many compliment on each piece. I can be found wearing jeans just about every day of the year, but it's what I put WITH those jeans that makes the difference. I love to pair Jamie's elegantly glitzy jewelry with jeans as my "statement piece"  rather than opt for getting allllll dressed up.   It just says "me" and still allows me to be "me" wearing  my jeans at the same time. Rather than hoard this info about all this fabulous jewelry for myself, I'm THRILLED to do a giveaway offering the VERY LUCKY WINNER the piece of her choosing from the shop. A-MAZING! Simply leave me a comment here, on this post, and your name will be entered to win  whichever ite...

Hi there, friends.  :) I wanted to keep you up on some of the new things now available  ON THE SITE... Yes - those are "THE" wings... the ones we've swooned over for years in so many issues of the Jeanne d'Arc Living magazine! And now YOU can have the very same ones to display as you wish in your own home! (click HERE to go directly to them). We've also gotten in these wonderful trays... (better pics coming when we put them on the site tomorrow)! In magazine and book news... The coming issue #6 - the late Summer issue... coming in early August and pre-ordering available now! (click HERE to pre-order!) And then there is this... the first NEW book from Jeanne d'Arc Living  in quite some time, and it is going to be FABULOUS! All about the most unique Summer homes the ladies at Jeanne d'Arc Living could find to bring to us in the lovely new book. To be released in mid-October, but you may pre-order YOUR copy now on the site -- click HERE to place your order...

It seems only fitting the first post should be about the garden. It has been a bittersweet relationship from the beginning. It started with a simple wish to create a patio for a table and chairs. After very little thought, we enlisted the aid of  a newly graduated landscape designer whose work we had heard of.  After a few short meetings, he presented two very young and naive individuals a set of plans that would rival the gardens at Versailles!!! The South Garden He proposed dropping the front and rear elevations of  the house, a set of four raised flagstone terraces, a pond with a recirculating stream, two sets of waterfalls and a series of stone stairs to each level. On paper it looked great. A dream! So without much thought about maintenance or anything else,  we gave the go ahead. It took most of that summer to complete, approximately 8 months, and we were left with the "bones" for a magnificent garden. The pond in early spring. Numerous beds were cut out and le...