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Tranquility du Jour #392: The Bee Cottage Story

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6554 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Bee Cottage Story with Frances Schultz. We talk about her House Beautiful magazine series on the makeover of her house, Bee Cottage, that turned into a book, what she learned and how she changed during this emotional process.

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Writer, artist, traveler, and tastemaker, Frances Schultz is a contributing editor for House Beautiful magazine and writes also Veranda,Indagare, The Wall Street Journal and others. Former on-air host of the cable show Southern Living Presents, She is author and co-author of several books on design and entertaining. Her latest, The Bee Cottage Story—How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happiness is now in its sixth printing. Frances was the 2015 recipient of the Horticultural Society of New York's Award of Excellence and was named one of the Southeastern Horticultural Society's Visionaries of Design. She is on the boards of the Horticultural Society of New York and of Empowers Africa. A North Carolina native and UVa graduate, she lives with her husband Tom Dittmer on a ranch in Los Olivos, California, with frequent forays to New York and East Hampton. You can follow her at FrancesSchultz.com.
 
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0:00.0

Tranquility DeJure, March 20th, 2017.

0:09.3

Hello there, and welcome to spring.

0:12.4

This is Kimberly Wilson and delighted to be here with you today for the 392nd edition of Tranquility DeJure. While I was having trouble sleeping last night, I was

0:23.8

pondering. I was like, what really is Tranquility DeJure? Because there's so many different

0:29.3

topics that we cover from today's episode is about decorating. Of course, we have style,

0:35.3

we have animals, we have activism, we have style. We have animals. We have activism. We have entrepreneurship.

0:40.7

So I was like, I need to come up with a cute little subtitle that that sums all of that up.

0:45.9

And then, of course, the premise, the overarching premise is how to find tranquility in the

0:51.1

every day, which, you know, the many people that are interviewed, it's sharing their

0:55.7

stories in the way in which they are doing it. Really, to show how diverse I think this

1:01.1

exploration of tranquility is. There is no one size fits all. And today's episode, as I hinted at,

1:10.2

is all about kind of this particular person's experience

1:15.1

with decorating and not just decorating. So you're going to hear a lot. This is the Bee Cottage

1:20.8

story with Francis Schultz. And we talk about her House Beautiful Magazine series on the

1:27.4

makeover of her home, which is called Bee Cottage, that turned into a book that is now in its sixth printing.

1:34.1

I'm holding it in my hand.

1:35.6

It's absolutely darling.

1:37.2

What she learned and how she changed during this emotional process.

1:41.7

So the subtitle, How I Made a Mudle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to

1:47.6

Happiness. And before we hear from Frances, I wanted to remind everyone that our next Tranquility

1:53.7

DeGi-Jure live is happening next Thursday, which is Thursday, March 30th from 8 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time. And this will be our,

2:04.0

clearly our spring focus. So eight tips on finding tranquility in spring. And it will also include

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