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{photo from the monthly Pure Style online newsletter}

Jane Cumberbatch is my favorite professional designer, and her Pure Style was my first-ever decorating book purchase. It remains my very favorite! (And look how cute she is above, wearing a cardigan over an apron. I am going to start doing this. Next time you see me, I will be wearing a cardigan over an apron.) (A hardback compilation of both Pure Style and Pure Style Outdoors has just been released, called Pure Style Home & Garden.)

I have been enjoying her Pure Style Online website for awhile, and love that she has reformatted her little Notebook so that it's now PureBlog. I love every single photo in it.  (Even the bucket of fish.) It's just gorgeous, and clean and airy, and makes me want to do that thing where you walk around your house and choose twenty things in each room to remove, to make things gorgeous and clean and airy. (But then when I start to do that, I always think, "Hey, I like my stuff!" and end up not removing anything.)

{photo from PureBlog}

And I love how she says wonderful British things like "beastly draughts this winter" and "there are a surprising number of English country gardens that possess the quince" and "a blue and white checked tablecloth is an important part of my kit, whether it’s to spread out at a picnic on the beach, or to make the table look jolly for an everyday meal."

When you see me wearing my cardigan over my apron (over my pajamas)(because it is necessary to not mimic someone else's style directly, but to personalize it and make it your very own), I will also be saying "beastly draughts" a lot.

:)