It's been a long cold winter, but finally the brocantes have started up again....Yippeeee!!!
Showing posts with label brocante. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brocante. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 March 2012
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Les Marchés de Noël
Well, 3 weekends in a row doing Christmas markets, not much left now, so I'll just have to make some more!!
Monday, 6 June 2011
Buttons for raspberries???
Today was a great day for me, but not for my husband....
When attempting to sell his freshly picked homegrown raspberries to one of our neighbours, she promptly gave him bags of buttons "for his wife", and then he didn't feel he could ask for money for the raspberries!!!
Seems a fair swap to me!!
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Blue is the new green...
Well, today I met a stallholder at a brocante as obsessed with blue as I am with green!
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Finally, a Brocante......
At last, the long winter days are lifting, and the first (and biggest) brocante arrived...
and, yes it was worth getting up in the dark and going snuffling out treasures with torches in the early hours of the morning!
Not for a long time have I seen so much fur, it was -6° and all the ladies from Bordeaux were dressed in floor length fur to ward off the cold and all stood clutching either their recently purchased antique dolls, or small dogs in handbags. Bizarre at 7am.
Sunday, 15 August 2010
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Fabulous folds (and finds)
I keep coming across these beautiful cushions at the local Brocantes. They must take days to make, there is only one seam, and the fabric folds are all sewn in place by hand!
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Shopping lists...
We need a new "produce in season" board for our gites. Do people still use chicoree?
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Friday, 2 April 2010
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Or a few diamonds...
And it has only got a mere 750 crystals on it....a subtle little number for our bathroom!
Monday, 25 August 2008
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