French Flea Market

Last year, my husband took me to Paris so when I read on Margo's blog that she was going to join the Red Shed Antiques French flea market tour, I had to check it out. Lucky for me, Valarie from Red Shed Antiques had a generous giveaway on her blog that I won!! Yeah, me!! My favorite item has to be the ledger page. It's handwritten with pen and ink, notarized and embossed. I plan to use this on a digital collage I have running around in my mind right now. I can't wait to wear the ginormous Mona Lisa watch. How did she know that I enjoy Mona so much? I love, love the postcards. They are handwritten in French and one is dated June 1, 1919. That's really, really old! There is also 5 pages from an old French novel, a notebook with Paris illustrations, a page from a 1800's book that is suitable for framing. Gorgeous! There are several pages from a French storybook and French music pages from 1931. She even included a nice necklace with bling and the Eiffel tower on it.

But wait! There's more . . .

She added lots and lots of Paris pretties. When I first opened the package, I could smell the lovely lavendar sachet. I don't know why, but that smell always takes me back to a historical park somewhere in Georgia that I visited as a little girl. The treasures include pages from a really old French prayer book, a tag with beautiful vintage lace wrapped around and around it, 4 French dinner napkins, a yummy box of butter cookies with milk chocolate (not destined to last long. I aready ate a couple of them) and a handwritten letter from April of 1918. Whew! That's quite a stash!

If you ever want to go on a shopping trip to Paris or Provence, you can join the Red Shed Tours and go with a bunch of ladies on a trip of a lifetime. They do trips twice a year; one in the Spring and one in the Fall.
 

Scary Paris traffic

Lucky, lucky me! While in Germany, my husband insisted that we go to Paris.

I had heard horror stories about the Paris traffic and wasn't so sure that I wanted to endure it just to see Paris. As far as I was concerned, there were many, many wonderful spots in Germany that we hadn't yet explored. I had also heard that people were so rude there. (We didn't experience any rudeness. Everyone that we encountered was very gracious and polite.)


Each time Howard would talk about us going, I would say that we didn't have to go. He never heard me say that.


Between all of the one way streets and people just walking right out in front of us, we were so scared that we would be in an accident or run over someone.

We had no idea how you were suppose to drive in these roundabouts that had so many lanes.

They park really close on the street.

I mean really close. If the space is too small, they will just keep bumping cars until they make enough space. There was no way we were going to put our rent car on the street. Instead, we found a parking garage and paid 30€ per day. Since we were so unnerved trying to drive around we went to the first one that the GPS listed. The parking garage was almost a kilometer away from our hotel. There was one that was closer, but we didn't find it. We took our GPS with us so we could find our hotel. Once we parked, we didn't move the car until we were ready to leave. 

We walked to the arc where we found the red touring bus and purchased a couple of tickets. It was only then that we started to relax.

The bus took us down the Champs-Elysees and we saw the big Louis Vuitton store.

We hopped off the bus at the trocadéro where you can get a good view of the tower.

We hopped back on the bus and rode it over to the tower itself. It was well-protected. Before I left for Germany, someone had left a mysterious package there at the tower and it had to be evacuated. Fortunately, none of that drama took place during our visit.

The view from here is simply stunning. The tower is so massive.

 

We went back to the hotel and had some dinner, then got on the bus again so that we could see the tower all lit up.

The arc de triomphe is lovely at night.

Gorgeous, isn't it?

Paris

I had SO much fun working on this project. It all fell into place so nicely. I am going to take this window to my downtown booth the next time I go. I am already looking forward to making another!

Perfect friends

'Sometimes we make the most perfect friends...' by ThatOldBlueHouse2

...enjoy!

Teachers pet bib shirt ... Minxshop $80.00	FREE SHIPPING-Paris Roo... petekdesign $45.00
ball locket necklace in... acommonthread $22.00	Wrist Cuff Hand Embroid... Waterrose $82.00
Boughs of Pine - Fine A... theeye $20.00	Vintage Scalloped LACE ... EmmaDear $6.00
Merino and Cotton Short... ohthisnose $24.00	Red brown Leopard Skin ... Jealousydesign $36.00
celluloid comb with sil... 5gardenias $18.50	what holds us up...23/1... corid $20.00
Hazy cactus hand felted... delica $68.00	Lots of Bows Pillow cov... secdus $31.00
The English Thompson in... Yokoo $60.00	Meet Me in Paris - Skel... cedarjunction $18.00
SHEER FLORAL - Crochet ... Silvia66 $140.00	Handwoven Recycled Cord... fiveforty $485.00

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Lisa created a treasury today and am so very pleased that she included my necklace in it.

She has a shop on Etsy called That Old Blue House where she sells her handmade jewelry. She fashions her jewelry using vintage lace, crazy quilts, and ephemera. It is all so beautiful. Currently, she is taking a break while she is on the mend, recovering from her recent surgery.

See what I mean?