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That is the sound of packing, sorting and organizing. Making phone calls and ferry reservations. A flurry of conversation snippets. Shall we take sushi for the boat? Or Noodle Box? Assembling lists, scribbles and scrawls of ideas and items that dear friends are hoping for. The rolling shopping cart has a new linen liner. A loving heart has offered to care for Mr. B. We've got our walking shoes on. The Brocante Girls are going on a road trip!
Gesso frame, antique French ledger pages, antique shell buttons, antique straw-stuffed wax over dolls, with glass eyes and original jewelry.
Small paperclay hearts. Handmade, showing the lumps and bumps of a life well lived. Acrylic paint. Vintage text sentiments. Hearts vary in length from 1" to 2¼". $5.00 each.
♥ remembrance ♥ tranquility ♥ billet doux ♥ poem ♥ truth SOLD ♥ trust SOLD ♥ secret ♥ love ♥ me SOLD ♥ this life SOLD ♥ con amore SOLD ♥ memento ♥ wisely ♥ dream ♥ wish ♥ you SOLD ♥ broken ♥
Brocante girl has a life. A life outside the brocante. Outside the traveling, the foraging, the ebb and flow of the markets, the dusty streets, the tracery of long ago. Outside, too, the gesso and charcoal of the studio, the adhesives and tools, the stacks and jars and building blocks of stories.
Brocante girl is a teacher, whose real life revolves around clamouring little monsters, with wide eyes and big hearts. The little monsters are busy and needy, rambunctious and tender. Emotional.Wise. Silly. Often muddy. But most of all, the little monsters are artists. Fearless artists.
Which makes them even better than the brocante.
10" x 20" stretched canvas. Vintage photographs and paper ephemera. Embellishments: brass finials, dip pen, monopoly car, shell buttons, optometrist lens, clock hand, charlotta doll, French box lid, fossil, human tooth, enamel pocket watch face. A mosaic of thoughts and stories.
Musée de Préhistoire et d'Histoire Naturelle
13 bis Boulevard Amiral Courbet, 30000 – Nimes
Opened in 1892 and housed in the same building as the Musee Archeologique, the Nimes Museum is arranged around a convent chapel from the seventeenth century. The prehistory, exotic ethnography and zoology of mammals and reptiles are on display here.
The display cabinets lining the chapel hall are original. Hand lettered signs and plaques. Sagging bubbly glass. Shelf after shelf of antique bottles and carefully labeled specimens. But the highlight of anyone's visit must be the taxidermy, also original to the 1800s. Jagged seams and garishly painted nostrils. Wandering eyes and toothy grins...
Vintage Italian painted wood, brass tacks, paper decals depicting the twelve signs of the zodiac.
What is written in the stars?
ICI REPOSENT
Lilette Seguin
NEE ET DÉCÉDÉE LE 2 AVRIL 1928
Cimetière neuf. Beaded mourning wreaths in glass boules. Enamel plaques with family names. Regrets. The maiden, looking skyward, holding her own wreath, hand over her heart. Famille Dethel. It's almost 8 pm. The breeze is warm. Cigales still chattering in the trees. It has flooded here - how many years ago? Silty layers, cracked by the sun. No footprints to smooth the reminders of the winter rains.
Antique French roulette wheel, in miniature. Wooden case is 4½" in diameter and 2½" high, on three small ball feet. Wheel is also wooden, with a central mechanism in brass, and spins beautifully. Ball is not original.
