Category: Brocante
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Lessons about Antiquing
One of my favorite antiquing experience was over ten years ago, I went to visit an antique dealer’s attic. It was a dream come true. Attics are usually dark, this one was no exception. In my excitement to get there, I…
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French la Vie the Journey and Journeys
What is up with the brocante? Oh, a lot. Always a lot, which is a good thing, I could never say, “Been there done that.” Which is, by the way, something I can hardly stand hearing. I guess…
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Provence Poetic Collecting Ephemera
French ephemera. I have a thing for it. Crazy truth, it is an addiction. Whenever I see old French paper I have to stop to check it out, touch it, study it and because of it I can…
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The Road Map
A child's map I found the other day in a French children's newspaper called, "La Journal Rose" it was dated 1901. Do you know that France is made up of regions? Each region has its specialty and they are…
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Girl in Blue
A vintage candy box blue ribbon, An older piece of lace, Beige ticking that covered a throwaway mattress until I tore it off. A favorite French postcard of a girl in blue holding an egg in a…
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