A Bunch of Things

05 October 2015

A Bunch of Things

A bunch of little things from Paris to Provence.

French Antique Tray

18th century piece of red toile and a small catch tray.

That is the trade off… if I sell some I can keep some, but more importantly I can go to the brocantes where I enjoy the hunt.

Ironstone.

Chunky beveled glass sides,

a faded blue cushion inside,

better than chocolate with a flavor that last.

Purpose.

Glass.

Ink.

Where will our daily lives be told, our history recalled in this computer age. if tomorrow the internet crashed, every single blog post of mine (and others) would vanish. Maybe I should print them… Four thousand entries poof gone. How long would it take to print out two thousand entries and 40,000 photos? (I made up those numbers, but I might not be as far off…)

Cotton.

Mix and Match.

Reflection.

Rust.

Junk drawer finds.

Piggy Bank Not.

Chipped.

Old paper turned into tags. Make you own…

Paper sickness.

I use to think those souvenir spoons were silly.

Not real but real.

Tarnished happiness.

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g

05 October 2015

love it all-especially the first picture!

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blissfarmantiques@gmail.com

06 October 2015

I would LOVE to root around in your junk drawers:)! Please come visit me in Massachusetts. We can root around the basement, the leftovers of an antique shop, the cellar and the yard. We’ll have such a great time tufflin’ with our little snouts:)

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Lilly

06 October 2015

Beautiful things.
Is it hard to store all the things you are selling ? or do you just display them in your house until they are sold? Is it then hard to part with them?

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Sharon Nicholes

06 October 2015

Timeless beauty! I need your advice on how you let some items be sold? I hold on so tight and love things so deep, that I am well….does hoarder come to mind? Is there some kind of intervention that can be done to help me? Thanks for sharing the new treasures. I want them all!
Sharon

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Kiki

06 October 2015

two comments:
It IS such a ‘passing’ thing, the internet…. it’s ephemère now here, now gone…. and it’s the main reason I still write a lot. Personal cards, tiny signs of my love, thoughts, sending a piece of my heart to the receiver. I also do phone a lot (living at long distance to my family, many friends & just needing to hear their voices!).
A huge difference between you and me is that I ony buy stuff I really, really want for myself. I can hardly ever part with anything I acquired from a fleamarket, brocante, as every piece had a story and has got another one with me., I DO however give away pieces, and again, BECAUSE the receiver is part of yet another (new) story (history). It also makes it quite a nghtmare becaue I definitely have wayyyyyyy too much – and my inner serenity seeking self is fighting heavy battles with the rest of me…. Right now we have emptied and passed on our Swiss appartment and I find myself with all my ‘usual’ stuff PLUS many, many of the ‘doubles’ I acquired or brought to CH at the time. But it always works out in the end, doesn’t it?! Job gone, flat gone, but got my Hero Husband back with me here instead of both of us doing the ‘high rope dance’ of travelling forth and back, of living apart week after week, of cramming way to much into the too short weekends…. Would we do it all again? I doubt it very much BUT we gained more insight into our Swiss capital, we grew to absolutely adore it, we made some new friends and re-established old friendships…. and we now have even more visits to make because of this!!!

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A Bunch of Things

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