Category: Brocante
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Living an Artful Way
A curtain ring, tied with twine around some old music sheets. A silver ex voto with a ribbon from years gone pass. My favorite bowl, catching some light, waiting for tea and…
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The French Provencal Nativity Scene
The Provencal creche is similar to North America's nativity scene, except it includes the entire village, not just a handful of shepherds, drummers, angels… The Provencal santons are made of harden clay. They are either painted or dressed. The creche…
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French Antique Guessing Game
Okay for those who have been following my blog, you know how these French Antique Guessing Games work. -Take a guess in the comment section. -If you do not know what it could be make a wild guess in…
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The Floral Brocante Find
Brocante Find: Not as early as usual, after a truckload of medicine and woollens wrapped around me to the high heavens, Alice and I headed towards the Paris flea market at Porte de Vanves, which is ten minutes away on…
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Brocante Buddies
Brocante Buddies Look how they are taken life in as the antique dealers and treasure hunters walk by. Today was the first day that autumn seem to give way to winter. The Brocante Buddies huddled closer. I would…
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Brocante Home in the Kitchen
Brocante home it starts in the kitchen: Linens, jars, baskets, plates, silverware, cups, pots, lids, bowls, knives, cutting board… Endless practical beauty that serves with grace and perfection over a hundred years later. A Creil jam pot, ironstone that…