French la Vie This Week

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The first of the season, French la Vie's latest group started out yesterday for a week, to be followed by a second group. Gloria, Barbara, Jennifer and I had such fun! Easter week is full of brocantes in villages throughout Provence, this first group wanted to focus on textiles as they are crafters and artists who teach classes on different techniques using textiles. Luck would have it that we have met the mother lode of textiles at every brocante we have encountered. So much so that my eyeballs are swimming in lace.

Lace, ribbons, notions, fabric, quilts… a bonaza of joy.

My longtime friend Jennifer from the Bay area has joined us and I am thrilled to spend these next two weeks together. She is a firecracker, a rock star a genuine teammate! 

 

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Today we went to Barjac that has a Bi-annual brocante throughout the village. 

 

 



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Baby bonnets everywhere I looked. Why is that?

 

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If you were to come on a French la Vie what would you like to see? What type of experience in Provence would you desire?

I love what Myrna said when she came to France and went to the brocantes with us, she said, "Everyone should see a country through going to brocantes because you are able to see the countryside as you travel to out of the way antique markets, mingle with the locals, have guidance as to what things are and the history reveals the country's past."

 

We also have the most fun getting to know one another, and sharing a part of our lives together which during the week is charged with dosages of beautiful inspiration.

 

 

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Each French la Vie is handcrafted to meet the dreams of each group that comes, no two French la Vie's are the same though each group meets my closest contacts and hopefully wants to explore the brocantes. In June my friend Francoise will lead a group in Bretagne as I cannot join them due to the arrival of a baby brocanteur that is due to come.

 

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I am so lucky to be able to show you Provence through the lens of the brocante.

Happy trails ahead.

 



Comments

2 responses to “French la Vie This Week”

  1. Diogenes

    “baby brocanteur”…that made my day!

  2. Kathie B

    Or at least a sherpa-in-training for Grandma Corey’s forays to brocantes in old age!

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