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Thursday, 5 June 2025
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” - Maud Hart Lovelace
I took a long time envisaging a newsletter for my shop Poésie Privée, until finally a thought landed – La Lettre Privée, a gentle monthly round-up of seasonal moods, recipes, studio notes and Friday favourites, usually in the form of some interior candy. The very first edition goes out tomorrow, arriving in your inbox like an early-summer breeze. You can subscribe via the La Lettre Privée link over on poesieprivee.com
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Wednesday, 26 June 2024
"Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?"
"Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?"
"Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden,
and softly,
and exclaiming of their dearness,
fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,"
"with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling,
their eagerness
to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are
nothing, forever?"
Excerpt from Peonies by Mary Oliver
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
rainy day, baking day.
the soundtrack of Normal People on repeat.
summer calls for no recipes,
simplicity, spontaneity.
fresh raspberries & blueberries
crush and melt in the mouth.
I taste freedom,
I taste ease,
I'll say it
– happiness.
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Saturday, 7 September 2019
it's sure been a while,
but here comes a megapost
to make up for lack of life over here.
welcome to our hideaway from this summer
in the Loire Valley.
a former gatekeeper's cottage
on the edge of the grounds
of beautiful chateau d'Hodebert,
tucked between two tiny villages,
enclosed by fields,
at the end of a tree-lined alley.
the mornings would begin with a cup of coffee
on the front steps
saying hi to the cows opposite
& end under a starry sky
that seemed to arch
right above one's head.
you get the gist,
so enough with the talking
& on the with the pictures.
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Friday, 5 July 2019
wishing you lingering summer days,
light that glows on the inside & out,
memories to treasure.
more life on here in a few weeks!
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thank you to my model
Anastasiia Lokkila
Anastasiia Lokkila
Sunday, 23 June 2019
becoming june,
becoming freedom.
a moment with Julia Margaret Cameron.
coffee with cream left over
from yesterday's pavlova
(everyone's had better things to do
than pop to the corner shop
for some more milk.)
it made me think
about my Finnish grandma Hellin
who would sip on hers
from a saucer
sitting on her yellow porch.
softly blurred childhood memories
like photographs faded by the sun.
if I could have a wish,
I'd ask for a chance
to sit there on that porch
and have a chat,
woman to woman,
heart to heart.
moments with roses.
becoming roses.
patient attempts
to capture fluttering butterflies,
but they won't be tamed.
strangely i feel them take flight
somewhere deep inside.
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