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A Chic Paris Lockdown – Part 2: Day 2 – Inspiration
November 4, 2020 Day 2 in Fiona Ferris’s book 30 Chic Days At Home is titled “Inspire yourself and dream of better days.” In this chapter, Fiona writes about collecting photos and magazine articles that capture our imaginations for a beautiful and well-lived life and surroundings. I especially like her comment that with her collection of inspirational images, she has an easy wonderful and positive place to “go” when she wants to relax and feel inspired rather than a draining news site/”scandal rag.” Today, my focus is to take advantage of some recent cooking inspiration and finish tidying up the two “clutter corners” that I wrote about yesterday. Part of…
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A Chic Paris Lockdown – Part 2: Day 1 – Get Your Hyggie On
November 3, 2020 It’s “Confinement 2” here in Paris since last Friday (Oct 30.) Same rules apply – you can only go 1 km distance from your residence and you can only go out of your apartment (max of 1 hour) for certain reasons (such as getting the essentials of life like food, medicine, fresh bread and chocolate.) One big difference is that the schools remain open so children do not have to do on-line school. In some ways, things are a bit better than last March when France first “locked down” – at least, we know what to expect. In other ways, it’s just as unsettling as it…