Blog Posts - La Belle Vie

I’m chugging along with Project Simplify and wanted to update you on my second area of focus: closet/wardrobe. As I said in this post, I decided to take drastic measures and play the Minimalism Game with my closet. (If you’re not fa...

Hello, my friends! Happy belated new year! I didn’t intend to be away so long but….. I got an early Christmas gift in the form of a pre-holiday holiday to Sri Lanka. I’ve been fascinated with its history, tea culture, stunning scene...

Hi, friends, two posts in one week! What in the world is going on, you ask? I’m so invigorated from my decluttering challenge (it feels so good to be rid of so much stuff!) that I just want to keep the momentum going on Project Simplify! Today...

Good morning, friends, I’m sharing about a million good things with you today as we say goodbye to summer and usher in fall. #favoriteseason From our summer vacation, I wanted to show you a few snaps from Sala Phuket Resort because I loved e...

Thank you so much for all of your helpful comments on the last post! I really appreciate all of your input. I would love to continue the discussion so please keep them coming. So as I said there, I want to look at five different areas as part of Pr...

Lately, I’ve been completely consumed with the idea of simplifying my life.  If you’re a regular reader, this may sound entirely antithetical to my love of all the pretty things. Initially it did to me too and I was embarrassed to even...

Since the end of last year, I’ve been consumed with organizing and overhauling everything in sight. I’ve always been sort of an organization geek but this is on a whole other level. It started with the guest room but I soon realized...

Hi, friends, how have you been? My travel schedule has been crazier than usual lately and I’m not done yet so I wanted to pop in to say hello while I’m home for a hot minute. The past month has been so, so inspiring. Here’s some of...

(Our yurt camp on White Lake.) Hi, friends, it’s been a while and that’s because the past few weeks have been a whirlwind. Here’s some of where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing. First, I was on a once-in-a-lifetime ad...

It’s fall and we finally have weather conditions to match. Thank heavens. It means I can finally start layering! I decided layering is my favorite thing – in clothes, decor, pastries, meaning….. if you think about it, there’s...

It’s fall and we finally have weather conditions to match. Thank heavens. It means I can finally start layering! I decided layering is my favorite thing – in clothes, decor, pastries, meaning….. if you think about it, there’s...

I’m normally excited for my My Month in Pictures posts but September? Not so much. The stars were definitely not aligned in my favor the past month. After all the ups of the summer of too much fun, I guess I was due for some downs. I don’...

Goodness, this summer has been so. much. fun. I’m kind of sad to see it come to an end even if fall is my favorite season. I think I’m going to declare every summer the summer of fun and hope it works out as well as it did this year…...

You guys, this month has been completely ridiculous.  Paris and Napa Valley in one month made July one for the record books. It looked something like this: It’s a wonder I can still fit into my clothes. It’s kind of hard to top Paris but...

C’est tellement vrai !!! « La vie c’est comme la bicyclette ...il faut avancer pour ne pas tomber. »> Albert Einstein Né/e entre 1930 et 1965: Quelle belle jeunesse nous avons eue !!! Voici une citation d' Yvon Deschamps extraite de l'un de...

(L.A. from above.) Of all the questions from my readers, the one that I get asked the most is “Why do you travel so much?” And it’s so funny to me because it’s just what I do and it never occurred to me that people would want...

It’s summertime! I think most people would agree that summer is the happiest season of the year, am I right? I equate summer with fun and in my family where everyone’s birthdays are all in summer months, there’s even more of an excu...

In May I got to spend a big chunk of time at home which I always appreciate because that meant I got to do two of my favorite things in the entire world – a lot of decorating chez FTRB and spending time with these two: We had a big scare when F...

Adios, April. I appreciate all your spring blooms but your pollen not so much. Other things I appreciated this month….. …..that my backyard looks like this: …..speaking to a nice group of folks at AB’s Design Camp: …..ca...

(Clockwise: 1.Souvenirs 2.Brown’s Hotel 3.Rain, rain and more rain 4.Ben Pentreath 5.Roganic) And just like that March is coming to an end. Crazy. There were two big highlights for me this month. First, another action packed trip to London wher...

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