French Farmhouse Finds, The Chateau Sonoma French Flea Market, and a Food Photography & Styling Workshop in Atlanta with Helene Dujardin, Mindi Shapiro, & Tami Hardeman

Hello!

I hope you are all enjoying your week.

A couple of weeks ago I listed some French Farmhouse Finds in my shop.....

I thought I would share a few images of the items I listed......

One of my favorite finds is this French Grape Harvest Basket.....

I love the patina.

I filled it with flowering dogwood branches, I only wished they had lasted longer.....

I also added to the shop a few of my favorite vintage French enamelware pitchers......

On a side note....

This is also an area I recently set up to use as a desk.....

I used to work on my computer in this little room where I felt isolated from everyone....

I now feel more connected with everyone while working on my computer : )

A European bread board.......

Vintage French Watering Cans....

Vintage French Harvest Baskets.....

I will also be bringing some French Farmhouse finds to the Chateau Sonoma French Flea Market this month.....

The French Flea Market is being held at the Chateau Sonoma in Sonoma, CA.....

May 18th- 10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

May 19th - 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

You can visit the Chateau Sonoma's website to read more about it.....

This is an image of my space at the show last year......

This is such a fun show.....

There are so many wonderful French importers that come to this show.....

Hope to see you there....

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I recently attended a food photography & styling workshop in Atlanta.

Helene Dujardin, Mindi Shapiro, and Tami Hardeman were our instructors.

This is an image I shot with my cell phone of my salad I styled at the workshop......

 This image was shot with my camera.....

The salad was my favorite food that we styled and photographed at the workshop.....

Food Stylist Tami Hardeman demonstrating how to make pretty ruffles with your

turkey lunch meat.....

Prop stylist Mindi Shapiro working her magic by adding a few props to the scene....

Food Photographer Helene Dujardin setting up her camera to get the perfect shot of the sandwich...

I found out about the workshop through Helene's blog, Tartlette, which is one of my favorite food blogs.....

Helene is also the author of the book Plate to Pixel, a book about digital food photography.....

My sister also lives in Atlanta and my other sister lives in LA, after the workshop was over we

all went to Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA for three days.....

I have lots of pictures to share with you of our trip.....

So much fun!

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On a final note.....

I wanted to share with you some information about a local barn sale that is taking place this week.....

My friend, Marina Gheist is having a sale at Sue's Barn......

Marina imports beautiful vintage items from France, Holland, & Belgium.....

The sale starts May 9th....and ends May 12th.....

May 9th 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Friday 10th 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Saturday 11th 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sunday 12th 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The address is~

12607 E. Hwy 120 

Manteca, CA 

The above image I shot at Sue's spring sale.....

Hope you all have a great week!

Take Care,

Maria