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I'll have to vote for nigella lawson's Forever Summer, along with donna hay's New Food Fast. The clean bright flavours are perfect for outdoor eating & the recipes are quick enough that I still get time to enjoy the sunshine. But now I want to check out the Canal & chez panisse books after reading this post!

Hi fellow cur-ees. I'm a Canadian living in Paris. I'm trying to get a grip on a apartment that lots of character but no closets. I also started the Spring 2009 Cure, but soon fell off the wagon as I was simply too overwhelmed by the move over here. But 6 months later things are smoother and our living room is too dire a need of help to ignore.

It's a lovely bright day over here so I'm planing to take some pics to post online shortly....

Looking forward to hearing your Cure stories!

Yo fellow Euro-curees

Hmmmm...I now get why the AT book tells us to wash floors as part of week 1 homework. There's nothing like trying to manoeuvre around around boxes, chair legs, a/v equipment and skitterish cat in a small apartment to bring home the less = more philosophy.

Overall, my 'Deep Cure' progress is moving, just a bit slowly. Some of the homework gets me a bit homesick for my ex-apartment in Vancouver, which had less charm but was in far better condition....

1. Washing floors: Half-done. I vacuumed & washed all tile floors, but dragged my feet on the wood floors and dealing with their canyon-sized gaps between the boards. Will tackle 'em tomorrow.
2. Flowers: Done! Daffodils now grace our newly decluttered fireplace mantel.
(Before pic is here.)
3. List of home repairs: just started. After assessing one room, I suddenly got homesick for my previous apartment. Built in the 50s, it was devoid of architectural detail *but* had been fully renovated by my extremely house-proud ex-landlord.
4. Creating a vision: Not started...yet! I know, this bit should be the fun, easy part, but for me it's the hardest. Our budget is tight (currently only 1 income) we expect to move back to Canada in 5 years or so: chances are we'll have to liquidate most of our possessions before we go. This means making the most of our collection of disparate Ikea items & keeping new purchases to a minimum. Anybody else in this same boat?

And another YAY from a Parisian Cure-seeker. We moved to here from Vancouver Canada late last fall, moved into our 63m2 1 bdrm apartment at the end of December.

Our first challenge was installing a kitchen, since ours was empty aside from a sink.

Now the next challenge is to sort out our living room, which is also our dining room, office, guest room, library and media centre. And do something about the dingy white walls, which are papered in strange textured wallpaper that I think is supposed to resemble rough plaster....we'd like some colour!

We've got plenty more projects to last us another 3 years of curing. For now I think the living room and maybe lighting (since the apartment had none when we moved in) will be work enough for this spring.