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Healthy Diet and Lifestyle: 5 Reasons to Drink Water

drinking water

A couple of months ago, we talked about French women and water and how water is a key component in most French women’s daily routine. Today, we want to highlight five reasons why water is at the core of a healthy diet and lifestyle. Healthy Diet and Lifestyle: 5 Reasons to Drink Water Water is the […]

Tip: How to Reduce Your End of the Day Fatigue

swollen ankle remedy

Today, we are offering a tip on how to reduce the fatigue accumulated throughout the day — it will also relieve sore feet. This is a grandma’s home remedy (remède de grand-mères) that has helped many. Check out our Art of the Home tip below for a 10 minute simple pleasure that will make you feel refreshed. Tip: […]

How to Extract Vanilla Seeds from a Vanilla Bean

Today, we are offering a kitchen tip on how to extract vanilla seeds from a vanilla bean. Knowing the technique to get the vanilla seeds out of the vanilla pod is an important step in cooking as quite a few recipes (baking, making ice cream, etc.) require their use. So if your recipe calls for vanilla seeds, […]

Tips: How to Use Lavender Oil to Help You Sleep Better

dried lavender

Recently, we talked about how we can use lavender herbal tea to get rid of stress. Today, let’s discuss another one of lavender’s many virtues — helping us sleep. Check out our Art of the Home tip and get a well deserved good night sleep with lavender. You may even travel to Provence in your dreams! Art […]

How to Make Homemade Decorated Easter Eggs: Natural Dyeing Techniques

Homemade Decorated Easter Eggs

Today, we are offering ideas on how to make natural Easter egg dyes to create homemade decorated Easter eggs the old fashion way. It’s a great way to have wholesome fun with your young ones. So before the egg hunt, take them for a easter egg dye hunt in the pantry.  They may find just […]

Farmers Market Tips: How to Choose Flavorful Strawberries

French Farmers Market Pictures of Strawberries

Fresh Gariguette Strawberries from farmers market in France Today, we are offering a tip straight from the farmers market — how to choose the best strawberries, wash them so they retain their full flavor and also store them if you can’t eat them right away. Check out our Art of the Home tips below for […]

1 Green Idea to Bring Your Favorite Aroma to The Kitchen

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You just baked a cake or made a quiche and your oven is still hot?  Why not make good use of this warmth to bring your favorite scent to the kitchen? Check Art of the Home tip below and be eco-friendly at the same time! 1 Green Idea to Bring Your Favorite Aroma to the Kitchen Art […]

3 Simple Fragrant Country Christmas Decoration Ideas

cloves orange christmas cookie plate

Clementines are delicious year-round but they have a special place during the holidays. It is a favorite holiday scent at Art of the Home and brings back sweet memories of discovering the clementines the Père Noël (Santa Claus) left inside our slippers on Christmas morning.  We like to use them to decorate several spots in the […]

Tips: How Do You Keep Pancakes And Crêpes Warm?

pancakes

How about a calm Sunday morning with the family enjoying your “petit déjeuner” (breakfast) all together instead of you passing out the pancakes as you are making them? Tips: How Do You Keep Pancakes And Crêpes Warm? Art of the Home Tip — to warm up your pancakes without drying them out, simply place your […]

Art of the Table: Beautiful Napkin Folding Technique

Napkin Folding Technique

There are many ways to make your table inviting. Having beautifully folded napkins is one simple way to set the ambiance. You can do this for special occasions but also for simple weekend meals — a great way to make having lunch and dinner together a special rendez-vous. Feel free to include children and grandchildren, […]

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