The lovely shop Cranberry Milk is filled with wonderfully pretty French-inspired things for the home and office -- from picnic baskets to lavender mugs, numbered paper clips and polka-dot tape -- and despite being unable to read the text, it's all so beautifully photographed, everything feels as if it belongs in a charming stone cottage in Provence . . .
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. . . deep into summer and it's as many wonderfully languorous hours en plein air as possible, an afternoon spent dreaming away or lost in the pages of a beautiful book and breathing the scent of a million blossoms, or idyllically swinging from the boughs of a perfect tree, or best of all, lilting conversations over an early evening dinner under the cover of the most charming canopy in a shade lost somewhere between lilac and lavender . . .
{two lovely things:} the most utterly perfect and palest shade of pinkish lavender in a warm and dusky reading corner . . . and tiers of extravagant chocolate truffles dusted with flourishes of cocoa perfect for a daydreamy tuesday morning . . .
. . . while there are many ways to handle overcast late-winter afternoons, there is nothing quite like romantic winter florals and cozy & soft smokey lavender scarves to instantly brighten things up . . .
. . . can hardly contain the excitement of decorating for the holidays, and every year, a new colour theme -- seafoam & silver, champagne & gold and everything all aglow, or the frostiest shades of blue mixed with shimmery shades of tinsel. . . and this year, of course, smokey lavender & the palest gold . . .
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