Create Your Own Boudoir!

Boudoir is a French word for a woman’s private bedroom, sitting room, or dressing room. Today, it can also be a small area within a bedroom or bathroom where a lady keeps the things that make her feel most feminine.  I am planning to bring you wonderful things from Provence to fill your own boudoir.


 There is really no American word that translates well, so we seem happy to use this French word, pronounced "booed wah".

In a lady’s boudoir, one might find such things as perfume bottles, a candle holder, a bud case, a jewelry box, pill boxes, special soaps and soft facial cloths, a small time piece, or an especially precious photo. 




Whatever you keep in your boudoir, there are many delightful pieces that can bring the joy of Provence into your little corner of the world. 


I plan to find these precious things and bring them to you right here, so that you can bring them into your own home.  Write a comment below to let me know what YOU would love to see in your own boudoir..... 

Antique Provence Pharmacy Boxes hold just the right medicine!

If only the medicine to cure today’s ills came to us in such lovely containers! Imagine getting your prescription filled at a pharmacy that uses delightful boxes like these. 

Made of parchment-like cardboard and wrapped in brocades and ribbons of the most lovely colors, these boxes also serve to advertise the pharmacy itself. This one happens to come from a pharmacy that existed in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s in the town of Beziers France, not far from the south-western border between France and Spain. Beziers is best known as a center for brocante and antique shops. The village hosts markets and faires and events throughout the year. 

I was lucky enough to find a woman selling a box full of these containers in several colors. I use them to hold fresh lavender seeds, jewelry, or even—imagine--pills at my bedside!  

Then of course there are the more 'common' pill boxes with lovely, whimsical, or elegant designs made of everything from porcelain to brass and ivory.