What is on the menu for Charlottes Brocante?

 Sweet little writeable ones like this with the faintest remnants of Petite dejeuners gone by.  This is just the appetizer.I will be back to show you the other courses the third week of August.The Brocante will be on Friday, September 7 from 6-9.Bring your appetite.It is gonna be delicieux.

And the winner of the drawing for 10 times to Paris is.............All of you who entered!!!!!.

Do not forget to entertain strangers for by so doing some people have entertained angels without even

knowing it.Hebrews 13:2

If you can believe I had 9 entries and one was a set of twin sisters....That makes 10 prizes for 10 angles.The Cire trudon candles are dressed in  antique documents,old hemp and medailles ready to meet there new owners...............

.......and the sheet musique is really singing now with a sweet little Aimee Vibert french rose and some old hemp to make there journey.Please allow me to pick from this and the other Laduree and Astier items to send to you.All I need is some addresses and your surprises that flew over from France will make a final stop with you.Thank you allowing me to celebrate this fun French Brocante thing I get to do....just because.

Greetings from Versaille and Charlottes Brocante giveaway

Just a metro ride away from Paris and you will find yourself in the land of Versailles.The beauty of it is unimaginable even when you are standing there.The details just pour out from every place you can look.You cannot take a step without taking a photo.It is the pictures in your mind that are the most precious.They travel with you everywhere you go .Whenever you hear someone say the word Versailles you are taken back to all the little images your mind captured on that day.

This is just one of the statues that stands around the pool in front admiring her beauty.

Or was she thinking with amour for King Triton across the way?...........................

And this is looking straight back towards Versailles with fountains going and music sweetly floating through the air. Now if you will excuse me I need to go to Costco (grocery shopping).A girl can have her memories and they are going with me.


Do not forget to enter the drawing from the post below.I will be choosing winners on Monday.I forgot to say over the pond people are welcome.Astier,Cire Trudon and Laduree cadeauxs (gifts) await you!

Charlottes Brocante 10 times to France give away(and some cute kids too)

 Things have been  utterly and beautifully busy here.On the way home from France I stopped in Washington d.c and met my daughter Charlotte for her 8 th grade graduation trip.It was a beautiful week and she now is officially in high school.

 I also have a newly minted college graduate by the name of Gabriel.This picture makes me laugh as we both look like we got into the brown hair dye.....The bow tie I adore and ,of course it has a little pink in it.




And now to the give away ,the give away hooray, hooray, hooray!!!!Hurry ,hurry and enter today!!!!


I brought things back from my favorite places that I frequent every time I am in Paris. I asked my husband if I was out of control as I feel the need to "run errands"while I am in Paris.I am sure you could figure out how he answered.If you cannot I will leave it to your imagination.

                                                                          Laduree

What can I say.Laduree soft seafoam green notepad.

                                                 Of course a little ooh la la from the flea markets of France.Sheet music.Not just sheet music.FRENCH HANDWRITTEN SHEET MUSIC!!!!!

                                                 

                                                                    Cire Trudon

                                  The oldest candle company in Paris. Black tapers wrapper in old documents.Mmmmmmm.


                                                               Astier de Villatte

Mechanical pencil with a Rue St Honore eraser that smells that of there candle from one of the most famous streets in Paris.





I will keep this drawing open until Monday July 16th.I have 10 things to give away so there may be enough for everyone.Thank you for playing along with me.

 p.sMark your calendars for Septemper 7th at 6 in the evening for the next Brocante.See you then.

France again.......this time makes it 10

I am off to the land of  frothy pink things to eat...

 .....faded things to feast on with my eyes

and believe me it has taken alot of steps.

A single trip to Paris ignited a fire inside of me.A dream then became a reality called Charlottes Brocante.I run a tiny charming store out of my 120 year old house outbuilding.The people who come are as beautiful as the things I bring back.......I am off next wednesday to go antiquing or as the french say to chiner.I will be with my Shirley, Kate and Mark.Throw in a three legged cat and one spoiled dog and there you have it.Ten times to France 10 times of magic. Sleeping in the attic of a chateau under white washed beams laughing and loving.Attic clearance and 5000 dealer fair.If I have been dreaming don't wake me up.

I WILL BE GIVING AWAY 10 PRIZES TO CELEBRATE MY 10 TIMES TO PARIS.I AM LEAVING IN 9 DAYS SO IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR THE GIVE AWAYS I AM HAPPY TO HEAR.FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART I THANK YOU FOR COMING TO THE BROCANTE.

Greetings from Marie Antoinettes Petite Trianon near Versailles

This is Marie Antoinettes hamlet at her playground she made for her and her children.The thatched roof was very typical of those in Austria of her childhood.Can you even imagine that little water wheeling spinning....................................
moving the water through the canal and out to the main waters...........................
that land right in front of her very chic tiled music conservatory? Can you imagine the doors thrown open with music spilling out with childrens laughter as the crescendo? I am imagining that today and it makes the grey day after the 80 degree weather a little more bearable. I AM OFF TO THE LAND OF MARIE ANTOINETTE IN 15 DAYS!!!

Happy Monday to you all

I hope all is well in blog land for everyone.I know for me it is busy and sometimes instead of only trying to see the big picture I am genuinely trying to learn to focus in on just living.Not for any one thing just day to day beauty.
Focusing in on Seattle for spring break.........it was wonderful.No phones allowed.
Then to Sunriver to finish it off.Praying, loving and relaxing. Just being with the people I love.
After all it is the little things in life that add up to the big ,non? I am going to Paris in 34 days. That is a little thing I get to do.In between my son and extra son will graduate from bible college and my daughter Charlotte will go to washington dc for her 8th grade graduation trip.And in between all of these things that make up the big picture I will endeavor to live intentionally with a purpose.....to honor God with all of the little things he has done for me.Even giving me my very life and breathe.He is so good.Thanks for the Sun break today God.I have been missing that little thing.