Posted in Brocante/Vide Grenier, Brocantes, tagged Brocantes on 22 July, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Not a lot of sewing. Weather is boiling hot - bottom 30’s (centigrade). Lots of swimming going on and, of course, it is brocante/vide grenier season.
This is the latest haul.
A beautiful sewing basket.
I’ve been after something like this for ages to keep all the paraphenalia in when the sewing moves downstairs. An absolute bargain, [...]
Posted in Brocantes, Jan Mullen on 1 May, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Oh bargains - lots of bargains (ok then, a few!).
This week’s haul!
The camera is not behaving itself. Goodness only knows why. Pictures are coming out grainy.
We have 4 balls of DMC Perle 8 at 0.50 centimes a ball found at the vide grenier at Léguillac last Sunday.
Then we have a lovely big pile [...]
Posted in Blah Blah Blah, Brocantes, Free Piecing, My Quilts on 21 March, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I don’t think so.
It’s blowing a gale out there, rain is lashing against the windows, the satellite dish is pixelating and snow is forecast for Easter Monday.
Look at this. Brrrrrr!
So ladies, I need your help to get me through what is going to be a weekend (and probably next week too) confined [...]
Posted in Brocantes, Fabric, Quilts and Quilting on 18 August, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Edit - heading has been altered. It wasn’t the 19th, but the 16th and, yet again, I got my French wrong! Think I’ll give up trying :-).
This is one day in the calendar that is kept clear.
The first year we were here we bought the huge armoire in the salon and a beautiful Art Deco [...]
Posted in Brantome, Brocantes, Fabric, Quilts4Leukaemia on 16 July, 2007 | 5 Comments »
No I haven’t been buying. Sticking firmly to the No Fabric regime.
Yesterday was a gorgeous, hot day. Makes a change after the foul weather we’ve been having since May. Pool was cleaned on Saturday and is now a glittering blue instead of mushy pea green.
We had the option of [...]
Posted in Brocantes, St Jean de Cole on 19 June, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday Jennifer, Sue, Alexandra and I had a field day!
11.30 am saw the Northern Dordogne subdivision of Expatcrafters on parade at a Vide Grenier (car boot or empty attic sale) at St Jean de Cole (the same place where the Foire de Floralies took place).
Jennifer and Sue found a stall selling silk threads in various [...]
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