Dispatch from France: Eric Jourdan’s Hampton’s Chair
Bear with me for a moment as I try to explain a bit about this chair.  Most of the information about it is in French, but I think I get the gist of it. It’s a new release from French designer Eric Jourdan – who, among other things, has a big collection coming out in January that he created with

Simple, Satisfying Baked Custard
This is a little delight perfect for a Fall weekend that you should try.  It’s almost ridiculously easy and takes just a few ingredients.  If you want to jazz it up you can add a bit of Vanilla or Almond extract to the egg mixture. Carrie’s Uber Easy Baked Custard Ingredients: 2 cups of organic mil

Let’s Get Pale & Interesting For The Holidays
Maybe we should consider Thanksgiving “pre-Christmas” this year as retailers are really going all out with early shopping suggestions.  The catalogs are coming in droves and the emails are pretty overwhelming already.  Because I get so much of it I unfortunately have to dump-truck most of it without really looking in ord

Welcome To Digs!
This is the first official merge day of the old bloomacious.com and the new Bloomacious Digs.  As such we’ve moved off our old platform at Typepad and have come over here to Wordpress.org which offers an ever expanding universe of design and function options.   In the move

Embroidery & Lace
I’ve been to enough antique and 2nd hand shops over the years to have come across enough of those beautiful hand crocheted doilies to know that they were once chic rather than merely an icon of days gone by.  And over the past few years furniture designers have been incorporating the look into their work in an entirely new way. Above,