Category: Brocante
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How Much Was That Charming Key?
Are you sitting down? When the dealer, who I know, told me the price of the key I was surprised. "Really," as I looked back at the key, "You are joking right?" But he wasn't. He explained…
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What I Saw Today and a Guessing Game
A box full of lids, various ages, purpose, design and value. Another box full of gilded porcelain pedestals. Ideas raced through my head of what I could do with them, if…
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Victoria Photo Shoot in Lagnes: Lisa’s House
Lagnes is a beautiful village in Provence by Isle sur la Sorgue. The cherry trees are full of pink white blossoms, the irises are begging to follow suit, dotted here and there are poppies dressed in flashy red. I…
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French Doors: Would you paint them?
The first thing I did this morning before leaving for the third Victoria Magazine photo shoot was to hit up the salvage yard to look for French doors to use as sliders between the kitchen and bedroom. My lucky…
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The French Brocante
Are you ready for the weekly French brocante tour from the land of plenty. To see the juxtaposition of age, history, purpose, the charming and the invaluable all jumbled together for the pleasure of the discerning eye. And of course…
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Meeting the Original Owners of Our Apartment in Cassis
This is a "d'evier en pierre de cassis" a hand carved stone sink similar to the one in our apartment in Cassis. Most of the homes in Provence had them in the 1800s. In the last home…