Tuesday, May 15, 2012

A French Flea Market this weekend May 19th & 20th at the Chateau Sonoma in Sonoma, California


Hello!
This weekend I will be a vendor at the Chateau Sonoma 9th Annual French Flea Market.
It is held in Sonoma, California at the Chateau Sonoma.
It is a beautiful show filled with one of a kind European finds.


I attended the show last year and took lots of pictures.
I wanted to share a few pictures with you of last year's show!


This is an image of Michel Saga (Paris Musique)
Sarah has a beautiful shop filled with beautiful antiques.


My daughters had to get their picture taken with Michael Saga once they found out
he had a part in the movie Cars.






Marina Geest, from Over the Ocean Antiques, had a beautiful
space.





I loved Fred and Coco's space.








As you can see it was filled with French finds.



This is an image of Chateau Sonoma's space, I loved how they hung an old French swing in a tree and filled it with vintage French watering cans.


 


Eric and Daniela's space was filled with vintage French linens.






Hope to see you at the show this weekend!
You can visit the Chateau Sonoma Website for more details!

I promise to share my husband's guest post soon.
Enjoy your day!
Take Care,
Maria

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Over the Ocean Antiques Container Sale at Sue's Barn in Manteca, CA this Weekend



I wanted to share a few images from Marina Gheist's (Over the Ocean Antiques) container sale. The sale began yesterday and will continue until Sunday.
It is being held at Sue's Barn in Manteca, CA.


Marina is so kind and works so very hard.
Importing antiques from Europe is not an easy job, they work so hard to bring these one of the kind items over from Europe for us to enjoy.





The sale will continue through today until May 13th, from
10:00 A.M. Until 5:00 P.M. The address is 12607 E. Hwy 120 Manteca, CA. You can contact Marina at 209-327-9440 or by email, geest32@live.nl Marina imports beautiful one of a kind items from Europe. 
Enjoy your weekend!
I will be back with some information on the Chateau Sonoma Show, and I am going to try and get my husband to sit down and write a post on how to make a trundle bed.....
Take Care,
Maria

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Vintage Crystal Chandeliers and the Shop



Hello!
I have decided I will be bringing a few crystal chandeliers to the Chateau Sonoma French Flea Market


I am considering taking these two, I just haven't decided yet for sure which ones
I want to sell.....


Also I wanted to answer a few questions about the grain sack totes....
My sister is now making grain sack totes to take to the shows.


I won't be listing our grain sack totes or very many other new items in my shop until after the Remnants of the Past Antique Show. 
I will be offering custom orders for the totes sometime in the near future.
If by chance you have a favorite purse you would like to repurpose 
the handles, we will attach the handles to our totes for you.

I will be bringing all of my new inventory to the shows, and then I will get back to listing new items in my online shop after the first of June.


I just had to share a cute picture of Austin and Lili before signing off....


May 19-20

June 2-3

Enjoy your week!
Take Care,
Maria 

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Christmas in April Better Homes and Gardens Style and Getting Ready for the Antique Fairs


Hello,
I hope you are all enjoying your week.
I have had to take a break from being on the computer these past few weeks. One of the reasons was Better Homes and Gardens was here for five days
shooting a story for their Christmas issue.
The best part about the shoot was my kids were included in the shoot.
Jessica Thomas was the art director, Leigh Noe was the stylist, and Ray Kachatorian was
the photographer.  My kids loved Ray, and I discovered I had a cookbook that he shot.
It was exciting to see our home professionally decorated for Christmas. It was really neat to watch the stylist, art director, and photographer all work together to produce the story. 
The issue will be out November 15th.
A special thank you to Janna Lufkin , who is the reason any of this happened.

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I have also been busy trying to get ready for the antique shows that are coming up.
I love these blue shutters, they are from the south of France.  At Christmas time I hung a branch across the shutters to hang my petite stockings from.


Thad is going to
make two pieces of furniture using the shutters.  I am hoping to have them


For right now they sit beside my linen closet.....

I will also be a vendor at the Chateau Sonoma French Flea Market, which is May 19th & 20th.
I will be sharing more details with you about the French Flea Market in my next post, it is 
 a quaint  flea market held in Sonoma, I am honored to be apart of Sarah Anderson's show this year.


Most of these french linens and grain sacks are now being made into pillows slips and or totes,  I will be bringing 
a lot of our handmade items to both shows!
  

This is an image of our french linen totes we sell in our shop, we will be bringing a few of these to the show, I shot this image a year ago, I might have to update it soon.
  


We will also be bringing some of our grain sack totes!  

I hope to see you at one of the shows. 
I was lucky enough to run into a blog friend this weekend at the Alameda flea market,
Lorraine Lewis of the Paper Bird blog.
Lorraine is the sweetest person, and I felt lucky to have been able to meet her in person.

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On another note....
There is a container sale that is being held this week at 12607 E. hwy 120 Manteca, CA at Sue's Barn.
Marina Gheist of Over the Ocean Antiques, will be holding a container 
sale this week....
May 10th 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
May 11th -13th 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Marina imports so many beautiful antiques from Europe.
I didn't buy this green cupboard directly from Marina, but I later discovered Marina
imported it from the South of France....


If you are in Manteca, CA area be sure and stop by, I know you won't be disappointed.
You can contact Marina by phone or email.
209-327-9440
geest32@live.nl


On a final note....
I wanted to share where I purchased this duvet...
I bought it at Maison Reve about a year ago, this particular style had been discontinued and
was on sale.
I know Yasmine has other great styles available.
It is made from linen and is one of my favorite 
duvets.

I hope you all enjoy your week!
A special thank you to Stephanie of the blog Stephmodo, for featuring my home and blog last week.
Stephanie has a beautiful blog, I hope you get a chance to check it out.
Take Care,
Maria

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