Room for one please!

Sacha has been redecorating her guest house loft!

I mean..really?

She already lives in France...

Has a fabulous cute hubby...

Who helps with the lavender harvesting...

Yes! Lavender too!

Access to vintage French linens that she manages..somehow..to list in our shop!

 food and wine...

And now she has the ROOM....

I'm so moving in!

Had to share this with
Shabbilicious Friday

Make it pretty MONDAY!

 Feathered Nest Friday

Home stories A2Z

 Romantic Home 

Knick of Time

Cozy Little House

White Wednesday

Delighful Order

Where did my cat naps go?

And what do I do on my day off from work?

 

 Talk to Sacha Kay and see what she's doing today. Drive her crazy with logo requests. ;)

 

 Pack, print, ship Ebay sold items.

My beautiful lace is going to China!

 

 

 Then list more items.Bottles today!

 

 

 

 Answer some Ebay questions. List items to our Etsy store. Wash linens to be listed.

 

 Hang up packing tissue in the closet with rose scented sachets.

 (Isn't that what everyone keeps in their closet?)

Did you see FOOD in that list anywhere?? 

Or a kitty nap???

 

Ah well, I need to lose a few pounds anyway and I bet there's a snoozing cat here somewhere.

Surprise me! De-hoarding the Brenda and Sacha way!

I'm sharing at
 Beverlys Pink Saturday
http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.com/

So everyone knows that Sacha and I have started an Ebay store together, no surprise there!

Boudoir-de-Paris

My barkcloth listed!

I wonder if we are the first people to ever do this from different sides of the world?

Now that's a question for Ebay. And I have such a funny blog to write about the service call to Ebay to explain that!  But that's another story..maybe tomorrow?

Anyway...I was talking to Sacha last night...and it occurred to me that everyone probably thinks we plan out everything...discuss listing stuff...have a strategy...a plan...and I had to laugh.

I drag myself out of bed...get my coffee..turn on my computer...and Sacha is there...having wine and dinner and a relaxing bath, already having finished her day in France.

Our conversations usually start something like this...

Sacha: "How was work last night?  Is your rosemary plant still doing well?"

Me: "Still alive! It and me. :)  Did you list anything today?"

If this poor Rosemary plant lives, then lavender should too...right?

Sacha: "You know you can separate your rosemary now to have more?

  Yes, one of my favorite pillow cases!

 What are you going to list today?"

Sacha's Monogrammed Pillow Case

Me:  "I don't want more rosemary plants, I want your lavender!
 I haven't had enough coffee to decide about listing anything yet, I'll decide later.
 Oh I love your pillow case, I want it!"

Sacha: "No we're selling!!  Selling!  And I love the lace you listed..I want that!"

Me: No! We're selling..not buying..just say no!"

Sacha: "Here's my recipe to the Clafoutis you asked for.
I'm going to finish knitting my shawl, have a great day!
 Can't wait to see what you list while I'm sleeping!"

Me: "Me too! No clue. LOL
Thank you, you have a wonderful night.
Thanks for the recipe and say hello to hubby for me!"

And that's how Sacha and Brenda De-hoard!

Shared here!

Common Ground

Brenda's first eBay listing from the US

As we've already said earlier: Brenda and Sacha are LIVE on eBay together! In the meanwhile, there's an Etsy account as well, although it doesn't have listings, yet and a blog. Yeah! I still can't believe this.

Every morning I wake up to yet another surprise of what Brenda has done. It feels like having an Elf who does all the work that needs to be done overnight. A Fantastic Feeling! :)

Now that the HTML layout has been made for the eBay store, we're starting to play with the banners and colours a bit.

Like the total change of colours on Brenda's very first Boudoir de Paris eBay listing: 7 very gorgeous Victorian calling cards.

And they are SWEET! I just love to fantasize about the stories behind those cards. They have such a history!

Brenda's calling cards can be found on eBay HERE

It would be nice to hear your comments on the change of colours on her listing, compared to the first banner and matching colours. 

This:

Versus

This:

We'll probably be experimenting for a bit. And don't be surprised if there will be a complete change of look in the near future...

To be continued!

This is all just so exciting.

Sacha.

In The Beginning...

This year is my anniversary of a lot of things. Twenty years with my husband, fourty years on planet earth and ten years in France. That makes me be half a life with my man and a quarter of it living in La Douce France.
Does that make me half my husband and 25% French? I don't know. I just know that I am more "me" now than I was twenty years ago.

Moving to France was a step of Epic Proportions. Not only was there the "quitting a solid, very well earning job", a huge language barrier, to say the least, and the construction work on a 500 year old house that had been abandoned for almost fourty years.

To paint the pixels: the house had walls (very solid, 60 centimeter thick ones) and a roof. That was it. And when I say that was it, I mean that in the broadest possible meaning of the sentence.

No bedroom. No kitchen. No bathroom.
Ha! Eat this, Thoreau!

The one thing that I did have, was my husband. A whole lot of husband. As in "24-7-365" husband. And no possible way to avoid each other when doing construction work.

Oh well. We survived. As did the house. All of us came out quite a bit stronger.

While writing this, I'm soaking in my bathtub. One of the earthly pleasures I found that I could not possibly live without. Like Thoreau asked himself "what do I really need and what am I willing to pay for it?", I did too. And somehow, just somehow, enjoying a nice hot bath with fresh herbs and sea salt, doesn't feel like paying. At all.

Sacha, simply living.

(this blog is cross-posted from SachaKay.com)

Sacha's first Ebay listing from France!

Sacha and Brenda are now LIVE on Ebay together!

After hours and yes, many more hours...

we both need a sip of wine after that day...

Sacha's first Ebay listing is up and running!

How am I going to stop myself from buying everything?

Selling...we are selling together...keep saying that!

Although some of those hair pins in the second auction are MINE...

So we put our heads together (figuratively speaking) since she's in France and I'm in Georgia...)

And we now have Boudoir de Paris on Ebay, Etsy and blogs!

My brain is very tired with new names and passcodes and shipping rates...

But of course I had to brag a bit before never looking at this page again today. :)

The link to the shop...http://myworld.ebay.com/boudoir-de-paris/

Sacha and Brenda's Ebay shop!

It will take a few hours for the listings to show up...so patience please..