Take up your pen...........

I have plans to write letters as promised.

Some of you will remember the secretary I put in the guest room last year ~ part of the French inspired decorating project? Even before I spent October in France I was already embracing the French look. I've no idea why I'm becoming a Francophile this late in life. To think I lived for almost 19 years just across the English Channel, almost able to see the distant coastline on a clear day, but never made it to France then!

Maybe it's because part of my English family live there now. Much of it revolves around simplicity and the old ways. Living, or staying for a while, in an old village truly makes you see life differently............perhaps writing by hand is all part of the magic.

Pen, ink, sealing wax and seal..............lovely paper, envelopes.

The desk, a lamp to light the room as dusk falls, lavender in glass to perfume the air..........

.............a chair nearby. Take up the pen, the words will come.

My French writing box from J. Herbin

~ Producteur d'encres et de cire depuis 1670 ~

~ Producer of inks and wax since 1670 ~

Hope you have decided to write by hand to someone special.