Collage & Assemblage
08/14/2015
08/09/2015
04/15/2015
Pensive
If a girl has Napoleon III frames, minus their glass ... and antique documents galore ... and 1800s plant specimens that have come loose from their moorings ... not to mention 1800s sealing wax ... the next logical step must be to start putting them all together - would you like one?
xoxo
03/31/2015
Scene & Société
xoxo
01/18/2015
Étude Fricaudet
Ephemera Giveaway winner announced on Tuesday, if that suits everyone?
In the meantime cutting, pasting, and painting continues ...
xoxo
01/05/2015
Lune
Fortune and Folly are close companions...
01/04/2015
08/31/2014
Wild Roses
Playing with 19th century engravings and sheet music.
Wild roses, des églantines.
Last days of summer.
xoxo
05/31/2014
Préfecture de Police
Perhaps we start a Mannequin Lovers Support Group?
Mademoiselle and P. Poisson will not be for sale in July, so do not make plans to hop a ship to the Island just yet.
July will be the annual sale of documents, maps, antique books, keys, apothecary bottles, small enamel numbers, jewelry, collage pieces, and other sundries. This takes place at a local art event that attracts 35,000 visitors each year.
But soon I will travel to France, with my miles-long wish list.
There is no guarantee that I will find mannequins, just as there is no guarantee that I will find any sought after treasure on a given day. That's what makes the finding all the more special.
But I will look.
And look and look and look.
And if I find a mannequin or two, I will put them on the first flight back home, seatbelts securely fastened.
Finds from the latest buying trip will be available at the sale in August, a small affair for serious devotees of the brocante.
Etsy sales will follow in the fall.
Questions? Do ask. I would love to hear from you.
xoxo
02/16/2014
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