La Belle Brocante

Bonne Année

Wherever your journey takes you.

Wherever the crow flies.

Be well, fair heart.

Be well.

Diligence

diligence 1 |ˈdiləjəns|noun

careful and persistent work or effort.

ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense [close attention, caution] ): via Old French from Latin diligentia, fromdiligent- ‘assiduous’ (see diligent ).

Therese Laviale was a diligent student. Tongue clamped between teeth, brow furrowed, she laboured over her maps.

Mer Caspienne. Mer Ioniene. Mer Egée. Golfe de Corinthe.

Maman was making herring again for lunch.

When would her prince come?

Guidance

A chance encounter.

Seeming insignificance.

Something said in passing.

And the world shifts slightly on its axis.

Guess Who's Coming To Stay?

Vintage Anatomical Chart. Perfect for the spare room, non?

Instead of a Princess test with peas and dozens of down mattresses, I shall have a True Friend test, with life-size anatomical wall charts and toothy grins. 

Would you like to wake up to this smile?

Impermanence

Studio Collage. 23" x 47". Antique French botanicals. Ooooold French script. Cabinet card. Wooden Loto markers. Clock faces.

A few of our favourite things. 

Tiny Toys

Molded composite doggy. Well loved. Missing most of his extremities.

Hand-made clay dice. Four sides pips. One side a letter. One side a thumb indent. Hand-carved chess piece.

Cast lead elephant. Doesn't he look like he could benefit from some camphor. forte?

Teeny Tiny die cast car. Similar to the one that a three year old Brocante Girl got jammed bumper-to-bumper in her mouth, scaring her poor Maman and Papa.

German babies. Well preserved. Sweet expressions. Rather chilly.

Painted cast metal horse and rider. In a hurry.

Antique Specimen Bottles

 

Only...

...four more sleeps!

Have you been naughty or nice?

Antique Botanicals

Antique Botanicals. France. 1860s.

Alleluia! Amen!

It is the last week of school and they are utterly amazing. Cutting, pasting, quietly chatting and humming to themselves. Making cards for one another and painting pictures for their families. Excited to know that they can wrap their gifts themselves. Appreciative of the day to day. Proud about being the best they can be. Truly blessed little souls.