The Chateau Diaries #203 I'm dreaming of a Emmaüs Christmas...🎶

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A fake refugee.
What does that say about Pavlina then? Is she reslly even Ukranian? What kind of person cashes in and pretends to be a refugee while her country and people are suffering?
Exactly. It is my belief that anyone who visits or stays at the shittoo is of the same mindset as the scheming new flues Fanny. To accept her behaviour is to condone it and that makes you just as culpable and guilty of deceit as she is. They are all greedy grabbers who have no thoughts except what’s in it for me and deserve to have bad karma raining down on them. But unfortunately life doesn’t work that way as much as it should.
 
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I’m with @JustGriftWood on the Fertes decor style.

I have watched them for a couple of years & am extremely impressed with how hard they work & the huge effort they have made to pare everything right back & make things good both structurally and decoratively and to do everything themselves with great care & endless patience. Carol in particular is admirably painstaking with her determination to repair/replace and sand, prime, paint & paint & paint all the decorative features…. but in my opinion the end results sadly completely miss an appropriate aesthetic.

I actually think the original panelling/moulding in the main rooms is the nicest of any of the chateauverse. The original french gray green colour of the panelling was subtle & perfect and at one point she mentioned redecorating in the same sort of tones & to be fair she did try very hard to find a similar replacement wallpaper. (Unlike F4F balked at paying 17,000 to have it recreated) However it breaks my heart to see how hard she has worked but how so much of it is now ‘gilded’ to within an inch of its life using the brightest gaudiest gold colours against white walls & woodwork and a shimmering patterned wallpaper. It seems once she started she just couldn’t stop. Even if she wanted to lighten/brighten up the room the choice of white & gold is just such a shame. Even if she wanted to have so much gold it would have been possible to use far more subtle & antiqued’ gilding effects ….but somewhere along the way it all started to go down a shiny sparkly Disney Princess Castle vibe. Perhaps in real life the white is softer and the gold not so gaudy. I really hope so.

I also worry that as she has gilded some of the features using metal leaf as opposed to using real gold leaf (which would have understandably been far more expensive) it might all start to tarnish quite badly if she has not sealed it … which I’m not sure she has. Even though it is so not my taste I would hate to see her hard work become spoiled within a relatively short time.
Glad you agree I feel I am a bit of a design snob. I think exactly like you the gold is sooooo bright and the white soooo bright. Brilliant white is not the right white for these properties she should have gone to William Bulmer, Little Greene or Farrow and Ball and grifted some paint and appropriate wallpaper. The thing is she tried to match the wallpaper but failed miserably it is so shiny and cheap looking such a shame because all the effort to strip back and repair plaster work. I nearly fainted when I saw they even gilded the front doors fret work-it is how Donald Trump would do a Chateau. Reminds me of the couple on Chateau DIY who did a Queen Victoria room and then a brash rose for the bathroom. Mrs. Smug to give her her due would have made a much better job. I think people are incapable of knowing their own limitations she is obviously handy and crafty but that is totally different to having style and an eye for decor-it would be like me trying to rewire a house. Unfortunately her Chateau looks very QVC craft show
 
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I don't think we will see much of Ruthywriter, as usual. As much as I hate to admit defeat, I can't figure this girl out. Maybe it's the open nature of her relationship with Potty that keeps her in the dark, but at the same time she has never showed any shyness or embarrassment before when shittoo shenanigans are involved, like luring in Tess Hofmann's then husband and repeating that episode by seducing Potty. She must have the world's lowest self-esteem imaginable, or what?
 
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Definitely fillers in the cheeks too on this last shot. She has the most peculiar eyes they are so cold and dead looking like a shark or a reptile. They say the eyes are the mirror to the soul and hers is clearly cold and emotionless
 
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So glad you commented today! I was just thinking we’d been missing you! Enjoy the holiday season and blessings on you and yours!
Thank you!! So nice of you to say so. Things are a bit messed up at the moment, so I feel a bit overwhelmed. But let's hope they will be sorted out in the best and quickest way.
❤ :)❤
 
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Thank you!! So nice of you to say so. Things are a bit messed up at the moment, so I feel a bit overwhelmed. But let's hope they will be sorted out in the best and quickest way.
❤ :)❤
Hope things get sorted for you and you're taking time to try and relax. Not sure if it's possible for you but if you're feeling anxious and overwhelmed acupuncture can really help.
 
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Hope things get sorted for you and you're taking time to try and relax. Not sure if it's possible for you but if you're feeling anxious and overwhelmed acupuncture can really help.
Thank you dear. Yes, acupuncture is very effective IF you can find a good practitioner, which isn't the case around here. But I find extremely helpful Bach Flower Remedies and even more so the Australian Bush Flower remedies, which are even more powerful.
 
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I think we know what happened to the bottom part of Fanny’s new coat!🤣
I think we know what happened to the bottom part of Fanny’s new coat!🤣
You're not wrong, the amount of Farrow and ball paint they used they could have gone and bought some ribbon. They should have tied in pomegranates and oranges on the wreath that size. Maybe doing two smaller ones, one on each gate would look better.
 
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Seriously, just watched last nights flog. She does absolutely bugger all including putting any effort into Advent content. It was virtually unwatchable and I am beginning to think she has done something to her whole face it just looks so odd. Timeline all over the place fake concern over Pavlina and what's his chops being cold making that not so great wreath, just an excuse to get herself a large vat of booze. The absolutely bizarre meal, if you're hosting don't get others to cook every day plan menus and cook yourself. I certainly wouldn't pay Stuart to come as Chef. Then we get on to her shallow empty gesture, trite commentary about standing with Ukraine- oh please Fanny take your expressionless face somewhere else. Then the truly bizarre decorating a tree for Potty and Struth with pictures of Fanny's memories including a very staged kiss with Pube. I honestly think she has lost any control on how freaky and inappropriate she allows herself to be-why would Ruth want to look at Fanny and co. Loved how Fanny said "it looks all lovely and cozy in here" translation it just looks warm but is bloody freezing. Potts didn't warrant Champagne like Aunty and old fiddle about he just got grifted Prosecco and chocolates. I am having to ask myself why I am watching at this point she just infuriates me as do all the misfits in the house. People still gushing in the comments, I honestly think she is so odious at this point it is too hard to watch. Amaury is such an oik.
I really can't watch anymore, I enjoy all the commentary on here from all you braver than me. SJ and her fake 'Boyfriend' make me want to 🤮. Worse still are all the fans writing their adoration of them. Just seeing her face on my YT feed gives me Hives.
 
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I’m with @JustGriftWood on the Fertes decor style.

I have watched them for a couple of years & am extremely impressed with how hard they work & the huge effort they have made to pare everything right back & make things good both structurally and decoratively and to do everything themselves with great care & endless patience. Carol in particular is admirably painstaking with her determination to repair/replace and sand, prime, paint & paint & paint all the decorative features…. but in my opinion the end results sadly completely miss an appropriate aesthetic.

I actually think the original panelling/moulding in the main rooms is the nicest of any of the chateauverse. The original french gray green colour of the panelling was subtle & perfect and at one point she mentioned redecorating in the same sort of tones & to be fair she did try very hard to find a similar replacement wallpaper. (Unlike F4F balked at paying 17,000 to have it recreated) However it breaks my heart to see how hard she has worked but how so much of it is now ‘gilded’ to within an inch of its life using the brightest gaudiest gold colours against white walls & woodwork and a shimmering patterned wallpaper. It seems once she started she just couldn’t stop. Even if she wanted to lighten/brighten up the room the choice of white & gold is just such a shame. Even if she wanted to have so much gold it would have been possible to use far more subtle & antiqued’ gilding effects ….but somewhere along the way it all started to go down a shiny sparkly Disney Princess Castle vibe. Perhaps in real life the white is softer and the gold not so gaudy. I really hope so.

I also worry that as she has gilded some of the features using metal leaf as opposed to using real gold leaf (which would have understandably been far more expensive) it might all start to tarnish quite badly if she has not sealed it … which I’m not sure she has. Even though it is so not my taste I would hate to see her hard work become spoiled within a relatively short time.
She used real gold. I like what she’s done. If there was endless money of course $17k for the wallpaper. It was not to be. I think when the room is dressed it will come together. But you have to give it to her, she put that room back together piece by piece and it will be relatively easy to just change the colors or paper someday. All the real work has been done. Let’s wait and see.
 
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To all tattle menopausal hags, trolls, gays:
Stop criticising the Smuglies Fleuries ! They are survival specialists (sort of).
Aldi has this survival backpack on offer. Contains:
Waterproof bag/backpack
Foldable water container
Camping cooker and accessories
Valve gas cartridge
foldable mug
multifunctional tool
wristband with whistle and compass
Radio with solar power
inflatable pillow
Microfibre towel
Lighter
Toilet paper
Bin liner
Disposable gloves
Scented candles


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Oh yeah, scented candles are essential for survival, you haters !
And 110 € are not too much to save lives*.

*or saving a lifestyle for Anna, Philipp and their daughters
 
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A falling out? Was there ever a falling in?
Oh no, I don’t think Alexander and Teabag were ever involved romantically (although I have a feeling Alexander might not have minded if they had been! But Teabag showed no interest at all). I just wonder if they had a “falling out” with their friendship. Just strange that Alexander is following all the Pethericks on Instagram except Teabag (and vice versa). He’s even following Fanny on a Instagram…and she just kicked him out of the farmhouse right before Christmas!
 
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I really can't watch anymore, I enjoy all the commentary on here from all you braver than me. SJ and her fake 'Boyfriend' make me want to 🤮. Worse still are all the fans writing their adoration of them. Just seeing her face on my YT feed gives me Hives.
I agree and I don't want to watch either but then I read the comments on here and I have to watch... It's not often in life that you'll come across so many ludicrous people in one place so in a way it would be a pity not to experience it... Exercise detachment and breathe deeply😀

I thought that Christmas was for children? I can't imagine any child remaining unscathed after spending time in Aunties overdecorated barn, I really can't.
It's also notable that there are no children enjoying Christmas at the farmhouse. Yes, yes, I know. Fanny and Phillipa are children in that they appear to have some sort of Peter Pan complex but I'm thinking in terms of chronological age.
 
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I agree and I don't want to watch either but then I read the comments on here and I have to watch... It's not often in life that you'll come across so many ludicrous people in one place so in a way it would be a pity not to experience it... Exercise detachment and breathe deeply😀

I thought that Christmas was for children? I can't imagine any child remaining unscathed after spending time in Aunties overdecorated barn, I really can't.
It's also notable that there are no children enjoying Christmas at the farmhouse. Yes, yes, I know. Fanny and Phillipa are children in that they appear to have some sort of Peter Pan complex but I'm thinking in terms of chronological age.
Would anyone want to expose their kid's to a whole house of whack jobs. I wouldn't want any of them influencing my children they're amoral.
 
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Today's advent thoughts...

Another nasty Lalande meal. I don't know what's worse, soup from fish, or soup from weeds?

More proof they read Tattle:
  • We called her out on the blue coat so she had to justify it by informing us it's second hand.
  • We called out Snorts for wearing his beanie at dinner so Amaury shows solidarity with an orange beanie at the table.
Jared's reet was truly paarfect (aside from the peacock feathers.)

I'm sure Potts loved seeing the Fanny & PhiPhi kissing ornament on his tree. If I were Potts, Mummy, or Nick, I'd put locks on my door.

Elsewhere in the chateauverse:
  • Colombe has candles too! Unlike the Fleuries, Colombe makes theirs by hand. Apple Pie (so original) and Library which sounds inyeresting.
  • Viv is MIA.
  • Lalacelle has a new GoFundMe, but this time to benefit their nephew's school.
  • La Ferte kicking ass on their own dime.
Has Fanny mentioned the make of her coat, if not then it could be new and she doesn’t want us to find it online. Will try and find a decent picture and do a reverse search.
 
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Yes, the scale is just wrong for those gates. Two smaller, simpler wreathes with seasonal produce would’ve been so much more appropriate. But appropriate and Stephony don’t even have a nodding acquaintance!😏

I agree and I don't want to watch either but then I read the comments on here and I have to watch... It's not often in life that you'll come across so many ludicrous people in one place so in a way it would be a pity not to experience it... Exercise detachment and breathe deeply😀

I thought that Christmas was for children? I can't imagine any child remaining unscathed after spending time in Aunties overdecorated barn, I really can't.
It's also notable that there are no children enjoying Christmas at the farmhouse. Yes, yes, I know. Fanny and Phillipa are children in that they appear to have some sort of Peter Pan complex but I'm thinking in terms of chronological age.
You know, you might be onto something there! It’s possible Fanny is determined to recreate the childhood she thinks she deserved instead of the one she got! PhiPhi is more than happy to play along and enable as long as he gets something out of it. Before the influx of Patreon euros Fanny had to give way to Isabelle’s strictures, and I’m damned sure Busy Izzie thinks Derek’s little princess was hopelessly spoiled. Now Staph can be even more ruthless in dismissing Mummy while pretending undying love for her cultists. The best Isabelle can hope for is to end her days as unscathed as possible and tie up her financial legacy in a such a way that Fanny either can’t touch it, or it’s eked out in tiny amounts over the rest of her life. What I can’t figure out is who Izzie would name as an alternate beneficiary to Fanny. We all know she’d take it with her if she could.
 
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