A Handmade Vintage French Bedspread & Friendship

Don't you love friends that know you so...so well, and who really value that friendship.

I was gifted the most beautiful handmade french bedspread over the weekend...to say I was deliriously, crazy happy is an understatement of huge proportions!

I've had this girlfriend for many years now, and whilst we have our differences {she's Italian, and even more passionate about her life than I am!} we are embracing of those in our friendship, are honest with one another, and truly have a huge love and respect for our friendship.

She delivered her youngest to play with our youngest on Saturday morning- and handed me this with very little ceremony, but a huge knowledge of what it would mean to me.

Friends are all about grace, and gratitude and honesty- aren't they!?

I must admit I sorted the girls, and just sat looking at the finer work, detail and fabric patterns of it for quite a while...

It's wonderfully heavy, and finished in that way that only handmade pieces are.

I couldn't love it more...and I love her for knowing how I'd feel when living with it...reading snuggled under it and hanging it, freshly washed out in the sunshine in our garden.

Bedspreads are a bit of a *thing* with me.
I collected quite a mountain few whilst living in England- from both the UK and France...and even some beautiful handmade bed linens and covers from the Greek Islands we visited.

This is such a special, truly loved addition to that collection.

Friends are the bomb.

French bedspreads are heaven at home.

This was a wonderful weekend.

Happy Monday.

Melissa 

xox

french farm inspired coastal living...loving it!

morning lovely ones...i've been a little MIA this week...

i wonder how long i can blame my *balancing* it all on the huge move home to the beaches from 

the English countryside...?

 not for much longer- but whilst i can...i am :)

this week has been very much about sorting life...making decisions about *what* we need to do, to get

this little beach house sorted to accomodate our *bigger-than-when-we-used-to-live-here* kiddos...

to sort this little beach house now it has a very lovely...very flipping busy enthusiastic puppy living

in it's rooms...

i've decided that simple simple simple is the answer...

french farm house inspired simple...on the gorgeous beaches of Oz...

coastal farm-inspired living...

 we're waaay past the plastic baby toy stage...although miss.6 does have an incredible imaginary 

world of miniatures constantly in progress on her bedroom floor...

we're waaay past lots of little ones having play group on the lawn...

so simple, for the first time in this little beach house, is totally achievable...

i'm thinking that *sharing* the spaces with y'all here will get me organising each room as we 

make our way through...together...


so...today you are getting the sitting room...

a little coastal house with a lot of french farm house love in it...

our last four years of travel have very much influenced *how* we are choosing to live...

none of it seems to link to any of the *coastal-dictated-this-is-what-beach-living-star-fish-collecting*

should look like mainstream shops i used to frequent!

it's all coming together very much from the heart in *how* we want to live...

as we work our way through this little beach house...i'm loving the aesthetic mix that is being


created...


i love that our vege garden planning reminds us of our big old country house in the English

countryside...

i love that there will be a surf board or two leaning up alongside that vege garden...

i love that our sitting room feels like the wonderful old village houses we stayed in throughout the

French countryside...

& i love that there is Australian sunshine pouring in on this room through the coastal windows...

 

little miss.6, audrey would love her room to be up next...

i'm thinking you'd like to see my herbs planted in french tubs...twice...after the puppy dug them 

up the first time.... hmmm....!!!

will keep you posted on the house tours...

thanks for all your comments & emails gals...and your thoughts on vege garden...

i've never had one in the Southern Hemisphere- i'm madly excited about it...

yep- my life is BIG! :)

have a good one!

love to hear your thoughts on coastal french inspired living

it's rocking my little world today!

Melissa 

xoxox