I'm 20 years older than you Stephanie, but I want to be you when I grow up! You are so kind and generous, and always make everyone feel so special. You are as beautiful inside as outside. Thanks for the beautiful vlogs you share. I especially liked this one with the bit of history about women. I'm watching all of them in order now after discovering you a few months ago.

I love your passion. 🐓Cooking, sewing, travel, entertaining, art, photography, history, reading, shopping and decorating...plus so much more! All in one video. I travel myself and find a long and lovely meal alone with a great book can be a luxury. Thank you for the weekly doses of inspiration Stephanie! 🦚

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

I’m glad I’m not the only one! It’s so rare to be able to find the time to read whilst eating a delicious meal 😋

Seven Pins! this is Stephanie's charm and genius -- she understands the pains and pleasures of daily life. She knows that THIS is also part of the story of her life. Only seven pins? Well, that's seven more than nothing -- I'll just get started!

You took us on a fabulous journey this week. Thank you for sharing your favourite shops in Paris! Your mother's English is perfect - I understand she has lived in the UK for many years but I wonder when she started learning to speak English and have you always been bilingual? What a gift! When you are alone with your mother, do you speak in French or English? Thank you again for such a beautiful glimpse into your world.

The best thing is finding things you thought were lost... it's like Christmas all over again!

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

4 жыл бұрын

7 pins makes an other christmas ?

@gioiapharo7433

3 жыл бұрын

Michael Potts ...... it is August 2020 & I am just watching ......... This gives me inspiration for our Old Arts & Craft home ....... And an escape into a dream I have always had .... to redo and live in a massive home - while opening up for others to also enjoy ...... 🌻 ...... so happy you are living the adventure ........ Namaste

Oh Stephanie! You never cease to amaze me! The bit with Roger was hilarious. You are so funny!

Chateau Diaries has become my favourite vlog. So well done, informative and entertaining. You have definitely hit your stride with vlogging and found your trademark style and brand.

I live in the northern part of Australia, hot, humid, expansive and sparsely populated. Your lovely videos showing European life at its best, Paris, France, chateau life with your fabulous furnishings are such a treat, thank you once again, I look forward to ever one. 💐💐

@sarahburton3110

4 жыл бұрын

Catherine Phillips a fellow Aussie fan of TCD here but living near London! I love the contrast also between life in oz and idyllic chateau life in picturesque France 💚.

@breakfastattiffanys741

3 жыл бұрын

Aussie here too! I was meaning to return to live in London last year but Covid stopped that. I feel so blessed to come across this channel. Words cannot express I much I love the Chateau and it's inhabitants!! 💜

So lovely to see all your Paris sights, I’m very envious of all the ambiance and aromas in the restaurants and shops. It’s funny or sad I guess that the younger generation don’t use furniture polish anymore, the smell of paste wax or oils always made me feel like a job well done, along with everything polished and sparkling, windows clean and bright, the fabrics freshly washed, hung in the sun and crisply ironed with starch. My Nan always used blueing in a huge pot on the wood stove to wash her whites, no one could ever say her whites were yellowed or grey. I remember coming fresh out of the bath as a child, my hair put in rags or pin curls in front of the fire then crawling into a crisply starched bed of Snow White linens. Those were the days, they were also a ton of work though and once women worked outside the home who had time for all that nonsense and lovely smells come from candles and aromatic sprays. 😂🤣🙋🏼

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

We definitely have an easier time of it now! But what beautiful memories! I do use a beeswax polish (when I’m not too lazy!) and it smells absolutely wonderful. It makes the house seem sparklingly clean and cared for ❤️

Mother's are your best friends even when they are a bit difficult. God gave us to the perfect person to make us better women, no matter who they are. So glad you are close to your mother!

I watched this glorious vlog in its entirety ... All of them over two days! And I am probably going to do that again in the not too distant future. Your sparkle and joie de vivre is contagious! The Chateau's decor and location and the plethora of talents displayed by each and every volunteer and friend make for such compelling viewing. Thank you so much! I see a new drop today! Time to put the kettle on.

@vindengrace7971

4 жыл бұрын

Agree, Karen, with your comment about Stephanie's sparkle and joie de vivre being contagious! We stayed at Lalande that evening & Stephanie was as lovely & welcoming as you would expect from her always entertaining vlogs. Looking forward to returning next summer. Best wishes, Stephanie from Vinden & Eve

That was wonderful 👌💋 Stephanie. Your little sketch looks beautiful, as well as the framed pictures of your parents 🖼💞 so special. I love old photographs and have a wall full of them too - I enjoy getting lost in the background details, as with paintings too. Paris is stunning, visited once many moons ago, as well as Versailles 🏰 wish I knew about those candles 🛍. Thanking you as always 🦋. Beautiful Blessings Mandy 👑SA

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mandy - I think I'd like to use photographs much more in the decoration of Lalande. My friend, Michael (who's one of the owners of Lalande, along with me and Nic), is a wonderful photographer. He's also South African, his family live in Southbroom! I'd like to make much more use of his photos.

oh. one of those CANDLES....thank you for showing us the beautiful things wherever you go! and I truly appreciate the history lessons you give! blessings!

Adore Paris, desperately need another visit , would love to see your chateau sometime, love your videos .

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

I love Paris - I definitely don’t think I visit it enough!

Never feel embarassed about dining alone. 😁🍽🍷 A feast for one is never wrong ; Lucullus dining with Lucullus !

I am in love with Roger! Thanks for a lovely video:-)

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

Roger is awesome. I hope he visits again soon 🤞🏻

@33piolin

3 жыл бұрын

We now Roger is taking care of the garden while Mummy is in So. Africa.

@Eric-kf6dy

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheChateauDiaries Roger was giving you a message. Overwhelmingly in most cultures, the mantis is a symbol of stillness. As such, she is an ambassador from the animal kingdom giving testimony to the benefits of meditation and calming our minds. An appearance from the mantis is a message to be still, go within, meditate, get quiet, and reach a place of calm.

Such a great vlog this week and Boucher is my favorite painter! I am blown away you featured him and the lovely restaurant Le Dome this week. So fun! Thank you Stephanie! 😘💖

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

Boucher is so wonderful - his portraits of Madame de Pompadour are perfection 😍

Just discovered your vlogs a couple of weeks ago and now I find myself waiting for them every Thursday and Sunday! love your energy and passion and Lalande

Hello Stephanie, As always a wonderful episode. I so very much enjoy these wonderful glimpses into your life and thank you so much for allowing us to view them. I am in New Zealand and will probably never get a chance to visit Chateau de la Lande. With these vlogs it lets me dream of wonderful things, beautiful buildings, furnishings and people that are part of the daily life at Chateau de la Lande.

This was such a treat! I really don't know what else to say about these vlogs- being stuck at home and dreaming of travel- you took me there and then some. Thank you

These videos keep getting better and better- thank you for sharing your trip to Paris. Will put that candle shop on my bucket list

Lovely to see you and Isabelle together in Paris, Le Dome looks wonderful. So pleased la journee de patrimoine was a success.

The candles evoke Proust’s memories in Swan’s Way.

Paris, dinner, candles, rain .........what's not to like? :))

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

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I love seeing all the beautiful places in Paris that I may never see. ❤

Love Roger and his twin brother ! That is soo sweet! You must have a great vibe they want to be with you

You take the viewer on such a journey with your vlogs. You are a consummate storyteller. I feel like I have stepped into your world, and what an enchanting world you and your friends have created. What you have achieved together is formidable. ❤️

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you ❤️

I think Roger is my new favorite family member

Now I'm in love with Roger 💚

The video was so good today 👍, I see that there was no running up and down the stairs in the museum (you didn’t have your mother or Percy to hold the camera) 🤣🤣🤣

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

😂 I need my crew to follow me around! 😂

Enchante How could I have missed this one Stephanie I’ve enjoyed walking down memory lane spending time with mummy the Chateau before the phenomenal changes that followed just so relaxing and a pleasure those candles I can imagine the fragrance I cannot imagine my life without fragrant candles flowers perfume Thankyou my love Abiento😘😘😍😍❤️❤️👌👌

Loved this weeks episode , wish we had smellivision so we could experience the candle and tea shop haha

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

I've been longing for smellvision for ages - imagine how it would transform our experience of movies! It's such a shame I couldn't share the actual scents with you. But if you're ever near a department store that stocks those candles, it's worth going in to smell them for fun. I used to do that whenever I passed Selfridges!

I look forward to each of your vlogs, finding them enjoyable, informative, and so filled with your passion for life's many beautiful things. Thank you--

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

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We loved the shops that you visited, it is like being in Paris, without being there! Lovely!

Education and progress! Monsieur Ernest of Samaritaine and his collection. Delightful!

I am another 'packageoholic' and have the same delight as you in pretty packaging - one more delight in life! Stephanie - may I thank you for all your 'full of joie de vivre' videos, which i have been binge-watching this week in an effort to assuage my considerable flying phobia before an upcoming trip. You seem to deal with 'flitting about' with such aplomb - so I have decided to take a leaf from your book and 'act as if'...and so far, it is working! I am so grateful

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

I’m very happy to hear that these videos have helped you! I’ve been travelling a lot all of my life. From the age of 3 I flew to France as an unaccompanied minor several times a year to visit my grandmother. So I have taken hundreds of flights. But suddenly, in my 20s, I developed an irrational fear of flying! So I know what you’re going through. I forced myself anyway, and after a few years it disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared. So strange!!! I hope your fear goes away too! We can’t be governed by our phobias.

You will love C.J. Sansom , you really feel like you are in Tudor times , real page turners.

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

I’m loving it already!

@lesleythomson2823

4 жыл бұрын

GRAHAM MOBBS amazing books

OMG! that tea shop.. heaven!!

Hello Stephanie, Wow nice time in Paris.. and good quality moment with mommy Isobel. What a beautiful pictures you have, spending time with her. To her you're always her little baby. You are a very gentle, kind,loving and patience daughter. No matter what you kept cool.. you have a good level of tolerance which is very good trait in individual. Keep it up. Please do vlog piano playing with nice piece any genre will be good .. . Also with the singing too. It is entertaining and good to see a professional doing so. Wow your mom is very discipline when come to eating. Good that you treat her good times every now and then.enjoy them... What ever it is you are so lucky to have a very loving and caring mother and father .. including step dad. Have a good day.. Your orphan friend....😹👆

Paris!! So romantic🥰 love the pink corridor. 💕

I rented a chambre de bonne in rue Dauphine just across the Pont Neuf from la Samaritaine for a year. Just a stroll away.

Love, love, love this vlog💕💕💕

It's always a great pleasure to watch your videos .

Love, love, love this episode!

I am on a trip to the New England States but just watched and LOVED your latest show, I love seeing Paris through your eyes❣️

Oh I just love that piano piece from Jane Eyre!!

My new favourite thing is traveling with you. Thank you, so very much! ❤️🙏❤️

Some of my favorites in Paris❤️

I love that you have the bed now!! Watching these from the future is such a treat! much love

Wonderful! The aromas of the candles are in my looking-glass!

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

I wish I could have sent them to you!

Very lovely vlog in every way!👍🙋🕊️🧚🌟

mariage freres is one of my fave -their green tea is soo divine. taste and smell kind of like chocolate but its green tea!

14k subscribers Stephanie and Lalande team, fantastic xx

Ah! I have solis rex as well! Such an evocative scent

Lovely 😙💕💕💕💕💕

your videos are chicken soup for the soul. and I am so very happy KZread suggested one of your videos ... but more so... about people like you living the spirit of love, kindness, openness and grace. much love to you and all around you ❤

I enjoy watching the chateau diaries it is good to come across so much positivity at this time. Just one small correction in the vlog living the Downton abbey life today . The house you call Waterhouse hall is in fact Eaton Hall built by the architect Alfred Waterhouse 1830 -1905. This is not the sad story of a lost country house. Today Eaton hall near Chester has been rebuilt the chapel, stables, tower and terrace remain. A new house was built on the terrace in about 1971 it was an ugly concrete building . This large building was however rebuilt in 1991 when it was to take the form of a french chateau a new roofline was built and it was clad in red sandstone . The beautiful park and gardens remain and are open to the public normally for about 2 days each year. It is still the home of the Duke of Westminster.

Never been to Paris but Mariage Fréres have a shop in London where I've often been to and I love their Teas, they make so many exquisite blends.

Love 💕

Wow as ever a fascinating Vlog , loved seeing you in Paris ! Now I need to buy that candle, my favourite is Manuel Canova’s but here’s to change. Wonderful to see the museum as you bring out the best in information and history ! You are a master of that Stephanie, I adored that French Bed

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

I haven’t tried Manuel Canova’s scented candles! So now I have a new goal! I absolutely love their wallpapers, though. I once stayed at a stunning German castle and my bedroom was an incredible orange and pink Canova toile 😍

I am FAINTING! I NEED one of those candles!

Thank you for sharing. A lovely video ❤️❤️❤️

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

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As I've commented before in the past several weeks; I'm plowing through your vlogs during Lock-Down. --- Stephanie, this is my FaVouRite vlog ❤ I'm single and travel alone a lot. Your day on your own, reminded me of myself and my love of travel and doing what I want. Thank You! -- Also, Thanks for a new museum to see next time I'm in Paris! - Eric in Illinois, USA

Fabulous Video Stephanie. Ooh I was in the beautiful tea shop in Paris last October and I treated myself to a gorgeous earl grey loose tea with lilac flowers in the tea also. I drink it on special days. ❤️

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, that sounds delicious!!!! Now I wish I could try it 😂

Love you vlogs.

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

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ps - I am going through your videos in order...I LOVE it!

I so want to smell that candle!!!

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

You could check to see if there are stockists near you - I originally smelt them in Selfridges in London!

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks! I hadn't seen that video before, it's beautiful 😍

@Babylons123456789

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I am going to leave subtle hints for a Christmas present!!!!

This was wonderful, I wonder if you could Stephanie, mention some of the best books you have read about Marie Antoinette ?

With thanks!

You and your mother are beautiful!

Agreeable vise, yup some of the best things in life are indeed agreeable vises. Thank you for your time, I was not aware they made candles that smell like a building?

Damn thought you were going to say you are starting a purfume line. Maybe a crowdfund and plant a rose a rose bush with the donators name on it which will eventually be used as an ingreidient. Just thoughts...

@mihills4168

4 жыл бұрын

how many acres are around the chateau purhaps a apple or plum orchard for funding restoration.

You remind me my relation with my mother even some of my friends are jealous of our complicity.

I grew up in Suffolk also, Ipswich .

It will be very lively looking with some flower bushes in front of the Chateau, I think😊

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

I would love that. Hopefully one day I’ll have a gardener! 🤞

@101life9

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheChateauDiaries , You are so talented. Forget about gardener! Look at that greenhouse you have done. Amazing! 😍

Oh, I've read all the Matthew Shardlake mysteries by C.J. Sansom and they were wonderful! You must go back and read them all in order. There are several other series I can recommend if you enjoyed those, especially the Thomas Chaloner series by Susanna Gregory, which take place in England at the time of Charles II. my favorite English king.

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So lovely! But I was left wanting to see the photograph of mummy as a young woman...could you show us in another video?

Another interesting vlog must admit never been to Paris living in the north east tyneside it's easier to go to Amsterdam and places in northern Europe keep the vlogs coming

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love Amsterdam! I’m hoping to visit later this year 😊

I have that copy of Vogue in front of David 😁

Oh, Hunty you can send me a few empty Cire Trudon vases to South Africa.

it is fascinating to listen, observe, and research the history of your life and that of your family. i have enjoyed following along the historical path you lay in your video diary, even though I have chosen to get the information as it comes to me, not necessarily sequenced in time. as time goes by, I continue to find interesting pieces of the puzzle, and when they are found, it is good to go back and revisit the particular video. literally, one can use verbal accounts, photos, documents, past gifts, treasures, artwork, etc., to weave a complete and thorough narrative about your family. i wish, sometime in the future, you would dedicate a little more time telling about your father's works and work in the art community. i get the impression that he had several art expressions, e.g. oil medium, carving, and I believe some work in pottery and sculpture. i think my views have drastically changed concerning the "diary" aspect of recording history. to me now, my view of a diary is seemingly what I have seen in these videos. logging information, organizing, preserving, framing, storing, writing notes, on, and on. you have taught me that the diary is really not just words on a page, but rather, a careful and never-ending execution of bringing together all aspects of the essence and constitution of the person, the life, and his activities. and, for that, I say "thank you" and "God Bless you!"

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i had a preying mantis too! She was hanging around on my porch and I called her Ruby.. There was a male for a while too on the other end of the porch and he was called Burt.. Im pretty sure Roger is a female. she has a large rear end lol

I hope you eventually found your pins! I prayed to St. Anthony to ask him to help you find them!

Roger is a female Mantis :-) I love your vlogs! Thank you

@Jayrose59

4 жыл бұрын

She also has a rooster called catwoman🤣😂

Can you please tell me what book it is you are reading about letters at/from Lalande? Love, love, love the vlogs!

@TheChateauDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is the book that I’m reading: amzn.to/2mWwNvb It’s called ‘Against Marriage’ and it’s an extract of the correspondence of Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans, who was known as ‘La Grande Mademoiselle’. She did not live at Lalande, but she did own it during the 17th century. She was the richest heiress in Europe and must have had many properties - I don’t even know whether she ever came here or not, but she was certainly engaged in a court battle over the ownership of Lalande. She’s a fascinating woman. As her fortune was in her name alone, she was able to reject offers of marriage, much to her cousin’s (King Louis XIV) annoyance. She saw marriage in those days as the enslavement of women, and was an early proponent of women’s rights. It’s an interesting read!

@lesliecooper9847

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheChateauDiaries , thank you so much for the reply. I absolutely love letters, diaries and memoirs, so will order this straight away.

Thats Henri wanting to be close to ou. lol. the preying mantis.

At that time he married Marie Suzanne Le Maitre de Laage, who inherited the Chateau de Lalande. Charles Joseph became Marechal of the King's Armies in 1823. The Marquis de Nadaillacs kept the chateau for nearly 200 years. In the 1860s a fire led to the rebuilding of a wing and the addition of the two circular towers. The chapel was built in 1865 after the drowning of the five year old Charles de Nadaillac in the moat.

Darling can we have an episode about your parents life?! Xx

it is so difficult to decide on who might have the première woodcarvers in the world---the french, germans, English, Chinese, Indo-Europeans? but, when you see all that the french did it their public spaces, homes, furniture goods, and their fabulous churches, I imagine I would choose them as slightly above the Germans and the English.

oh no wonder big houses do not freak you out either , lol

Have you read the whole CJSamson series if not it’s a must Stephanie x

Good afternoon! This might be a little late since this video is uploaded during September 2019 but still.. Where did you find your parasol?? I just love it :D

In the magazine, House and Garden, April 1984, pages 106-123, you will find a Renaissance apartment in NY, of the Baron and Baroness Guy de Rothschild. It is gorgeous and would fit nicely in that apt, where the Marquis lived. Look it up, you will love it, Stephanie.

A praying mantis is good luck! …I don’t know about the mantis but we had dragon flies figure out that mosquitoes were attracted to us, so the dragon flies would sit on us to hunt the mosquitoes. Win\win!

I want a woman like you.... you know so much about History

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Anyplace that has pigeons is a "no go" for me. I was in Paris for nearly 3 weeks. Pigeons and their gooey poo dominated too many spaces, even when trying to eat, they constantly stood by waiting for someone to toss them freebees. And the cooing sound - gives me PTSD responses. Aeek.

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