Decided to go ahead and post some of my photos and finds from the recent Miss Frenchie's Holiday Market ~ even though the images are going to suffer due to bad lighting ~ guess they will match the photos I took at the show!
At any rate, below are a few shots from Gwen and Teri's French By Design booth. They had oodles of great things to sift through: tons of gorgeous French ephemera, old postcards and magazines, silk spools of threads in sumptuous colors, and vintage thread cards. All of this was interspersed with great antiques wonderfully displayed ~ I really had to hold myself back so I wouldn't get into trouble! I did walk away with some absolutely gorgeous French love letters postmarked 1887 and 1888.
Sisters Gwen and Teri have a booth at the Mission Road Antique Mall, so if you missed the show, you can catch up with them there.
At any rate, below are a few shots from Gwen and Teri's French By Design booth. They had oodles of great things to sift through: tons of gorgeous French ephemera, old postcards and magazines, silk spools of threads in sumptuous colors, and vintage thread cards. All of this was interspersed with great antiques wonderfully displayed ~ I really had to hold myself back so I wouldn't get into trouble! I did walk away with some absolutely gorgeous French love letters postmarked 1887 and 1888.
Sisters Gwen and Teri have a booth at the Mission Road Antique Mall, so if you missed the show, you can catch up with them there.
{look at that cool postcard display ~ good thing it was NFS!}
{loved these little spools of lace decorated with paper flowers}
{great way to utilize a bottle drying rack ~ another item I was lusting after}
{french love letters postmarked 1887-88 ~ beautiful and romantic}More tomorrow.....
6 comments:
Great pictures of Miss Frenchie's!
About the french love letters, they look like mourning letters to me.
I'm pretty sure these are love letters as I picked these out of a whole stack ~ there were about 4 with the black border ~ the rest on a plain paper. Also, that is what the dealer told me ~ she said she had read quite a few of them. Not to rule out the possibility that they might be mourning letters ~ now I am curious ~ perhaps I should take up French and find out for sure!
It sure was fun- you got some great pictures! I hope you've been able to catch up on your sleep.
Hi Julie, It (still) is a European custom to write mourning letters on paper with black or dark purple or grey borders, hence my thoughts. Too bad my bionic lenses are worn; of course I cannot read it's comtents. But I do read french though. But it's a great find anyway! Congrats on that!
I had trouble with the lighting for pictures too. But you still got interesting photos, lighting problems or not! There was just so much of interest there, all great subject matter for pictures.
Julie, love your pictures of our booth, thanks so much. Just to help the discussion on the letters, the ones you bought were part of a larger group of letters that went on about 40 years. He starts out saying cherie and ends up in the 1920s talking about her as a friend. I think he just used the stationery as a "fashion statement". They are much nicer paper and much more elegant and expensive than most of the letters we see. It was great meeting you and I'm looking forward to the next Miss Frenchie's. Gwen
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