…while I wait for the kettle to boil.
PS The fabric is by Maramiki – it is hand drawn then screenprinted onto cotton. I bought one of Maramiki’s remnant stashes a couple of months back and have been using them endlessly in my shoots. I will show + tell soon!
…from my cousin (aka the sister I never had). She always knows what I will love. Right now it sits proudly on my prop shelf. I have not yet used it but tomorrow morning, I think I just might.
Brocante is the French word for flea market. And the French love flea markets – you will find brocantes all over France, all time of year. They are just one of the many reasons why I love France and her occupants (by now you are also well aware that I love her for her food and wine). When I was living in Paris last year, going to brocantes were a weekly treat. At the beginning of each week I would research what brocantes were on within the city as well as in the surrounding suburbs, and plan the weekend around it. I found so many antiques and vintage wares, and on many occasions my arms would be so overloaded that I could barely get on the metro back to the apartment. There is no doubt I am addicted to brocantes, and now whenever French Boy and I travel back to France, we instinctively find the nearest brocante to explore, and last weekend’s sojourn was no exception. Sure I lamented over what I didn’t claim as mine (read and weep with me here), but below are a few of the treasures that I did claim. First, a set of vintage number stamps…
Then came this gorgeous terrine. And below, a set of perfectly kept French cotton napkins…
…We also found a tin box of antique wooden bowling pins that are specifically from the Jura area. They were quite a find and I will show you once I have cleaned them up and find a place for them in the boat. Also among my collection of brocante finds were some vintage doilies which I am using to make something (another show + tell to come no doubt).
I adore re-using, re-thinking, and re-styling oldwares, and finding such things in flea markets is just the best fun!
Pretty lame title I realise, but I’m sure once the week continues I will get wittier (let’s hope so anyway).
How have you been?
What have you been up to this weekend?
Thank you to everyone who took the time to listen to my little musical blog debut! I loved receiving your comments over the weekend. I am looking forward to recording more and launching each tune right here on the blog, I do hope you like this idea. And maybe I can put together a little album, recorded live on the houseboat. Would that be a bit of fun?
Today I am cleaning and organising – the boat is a mess as I have been on a shoot all weekend, finishing up yesterday. After lugging (the most dreaded part of the job) my props to and from the location, I find myself rather pooped today, and in need of a long yoga session. But oh how I am looking forward to showing you the story! We will all have to wait until it is published in a month or so.
These images are from my photo library – I shot them on film a few years back, in Sydney, with my Canon AE-1. Unfortunately that last one got chopped a bit at the bottom from bad scanning (I have no one to blame but myself). I thought you might like these to start off the week, nice and calm, cool and collected.
Toodaloo for now,
xx
