Miss Frenchie's Holiday Brocante was a wild success- a beautifully decorated historic barn, dealers with inspiring displays and the best customers ever.
With all the excitement, I didn't get a lot of CLEAR pictures- but I know you'll be able to find some here, here, here, over here and for sure, here.
One of the great things about the show was the customers "got it". They didn't ask, "Why are there book pages on Elizabeth's floor?"
I had a stack of four ironstone plates, two that were crazed and two that weren't. When a customer bought the crazed plates instead of the perfect plates, I knew she "got it"- the crazing brought character to the plates and gave them a past life, which, to me, is infinitely more interesting to me.
This is a great display put together by Deb & Elizabeth. Stacks and stacks of tarnished silverplate, greenery and a fantastic light fixture adorned with antique men's shirt collars. Nobody asked "Didn't you have time to polish the silver?"- they just "got it".
Meeting people who read our blogs was a highlight of the show. I've bought paper on-line from Mary Green in her eBay store Green Paper Packages, and she's bought stuff from my booth at the antique mall. We both live in the Kansas City area, but had never met.
Mary had a great package of paper & buttons for me- this tobacco envelope, a deposit box key tag, ledger paper- and these WONDERFUL cards:
Check out Mary's Etsy store too- she offers FREE shipping.
I bought some great OLD French postcards from Gwen. She travels to France twice a year to bring back a container of wonderful antiques & paper goods.
Besides the older postcards, she had a basketful of newer postcards with French handwriting on the back.
I scanned a bunch of backs- I think this will make a great collage background. If you'd like to use it your work, just click the picture and it will open in a new window and you can save it to your computer.
I didn't even look at the front of most of these postcard- I was strictly buying for penmanship..
The card about did catch my eye because it's so darn spooking. It's a picture of Notre Dame in France.
Just for fun I typed the message on the back into Google's translator.
It translates to: big kisses from Jacques and I arrive in extremis. it is cold and gray but work is really relax. I embrace you very well and soon.
It doesn't really make sense to ME either.
