Already December. I love this time of year. I can hang more fairy lights around the house (i always keep one all year round on the kitchen mantel piece as I love the soft light). Simon has already bought THE British handmade Xmas pudding at Ophelia's...

I'm loving my precious time with Lucien all bundled up and keeping warm and cosy in the house. He's now 3 weeks old. Time goes so fast and I feel like i've done very little since he was born (I know I shouldn't do that but I still answer emails often...

The new book Paris made by hand by stylist Pia Jane Bijkerk is now available. For lovers of all things handmade, French, Parisian...

Thanks to Hannah at Easy Living for featuring our maps of Paris and London on the special Xmas shopping pages:

We, I'm sure like you, have an ever growing network of cables taking over our house....lamp cables, computer cables, phone chargers, i-pod chargers. Artist Maisie Maud Broadhead has come up with a rather beautiful solution to the problem: