She also said that she does not want to rely much on electricity, so she does not use air conditioners even in midsummer, but instead uses uchiwa paper fans and electric fans.

I hope she can continue the show for a long time..... but... it may not be possible? Replies. September 10, 2013. want a tele-visual, informative poem, this is your show. My role was to measure up for new lampshades, as she was offended by the unmatched ones in the existing rooms.

"Once, I couldn't sleep at night due to overwork. This show features Venetia Stanley-Smith, a British woman who moved to Japan thirty years ago. I would never begrudge her the wealth she has accrued as there are 100's of people who have benefitted from her collecting, designing, writing, and run-ins with the law. lol ;)I guess with Oprah - the thing is I was a superfan and so I followed her career - she actually put a lot of time into this house...and it shows that some people just have that x factor - like with clothes right? I've been watching her shows for several years now and have come to the conclusion she is actually not very authentic. I haven't watched that anime or perhaps I have but in Korean so it has a different title? For one thing it is spotlessly clean with no visible clutter, and she does lots of cheap things like have burning candles, jugs with greenery from her garden around the place. Do the "Ground Force" people still do television in the UK? once I get past the hostile urge to take over her house. I need to get her latest shows on DVD or NHK somehow. The place seems stuniing!Gloria xxx, You are so knowledgeable! In 1971, at the age of 19, Stanley-Smith fled her aristocratic roots in the U.K. to wander the earth searching for a more meaningful purpose in her life. I do hope you enjoy it from time to time with a nice cuppa! The BBC have stopped any programes like that since the property crash.But Ground Force I recall would have been BBC2. He lost possession of Venetia’s deathbed portrait in one of his flights from England during the English Civil War. I've been looking for less stupid shows to watch, so this will be perfect. Her garden that took 6 six years of cultivation won the Japan National Garden competition in 2002. Venetia Stanley-Smith - the bobo version of Martha Stewart My last post was about my frenemy Martha Stewart. He commissioned plaster casts made of her head, hands, and feet, and had Van Dyck, a good friend, paint Venetia on her deathbed before she was buried at Christchurch, Newgate, in London, in an elaborate tomb of marble topped with a portrait bust. One such jewel is NHK’s long-running television journal, “At Home with Venetia in Kyöto.” Based on the daily meanderings of British expatriate Venetia Stanley-Smith, the series operates on a simple premise that human life is best lived at a slower pace in congruence with the natural world. The Dulwich Picture Gallery's catalogue, Death, Passion, and Politics (ed. I also have a huge respect for her - I hope you do read her monthly blog as well? such a quick, humorous style... confident and engaging. She is quite honest and forthright. I hope she is okay?

On the flip side, I once (think I blogged about this) had to go to an apartment in Mayfair that was owned by a very wealthy American Heiress for her trips to London from New York. Mad Men - Season 6, Episode one and two review. eeek xx. I have to get up and do dinner now :(... but am jobbing back here to read more asap! But seriously I also like her restful quality and I feel like I have been to a spa after I watch her show. Do you know which episode? Nonetheless, it is probably the best current visual resource.