Some shopping and some work

I bought some new mini's for my vintage and brocante house.
Two gorgeous rugs and a cushion for the livingrooms, a pretty skirt for the vintageshop and two paris streetsigns. One of them will go on the french house and the other one is for my future project. Which is still only in my head for the most :-)





Everything is from petit brocante. Susanne makes such beautifull brocante mini's. It's everytime a joy to open her package :-))

I also was lucky to find these beautiful jewelery parts at Christel's blog

I will use these in de french house but also in the future project.
For now they will lay in a pretty bowl for a while.



Last week I made this little box. I got that number as a present from my youngest daughter in the summer of 2010. I didn't want to put it outside for there are already two numbers on our house. It was just lying in the bookcase for a year and a half. ( I know!!! )
Waiting for me to come with an idea and suddenly I knew what I could make from it.
A little bit of South-French in the house. It reminds me of summer and that is always a good thing. I will make some more things but for now it will do.
Of course my daughter is happy that I finally made something with her present.

So Sandra....again, I love it and thank you for you thoughtfull present sweetie ;-)




Hugs, Monique

shadowbox for Laura

My daughter Laura is a big fan of Japan and Gothic Lolita. That's a special sort of fashion. Here is a link if you want to see it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_fashion

I wanted to make a little 'Lolita house' but it remained an idea. The things I've collected were in a shoebox and I thought it was time to do something with them.
So I made Laura a shadowbox. Small but everthing fits in nicely!! It's good that it is a small box......her room is already full enough as it is.







Well, that's one thing finished :-)

Hugs, Monique

Merry Christmas!!

And the best wishes for the new year.

I have a question....

Last weekend we finally became the owners of our french house.
In the kitchen is a cabinet and we wonder how old it is.
Does anybody know of what year this cabinet is. I love it!!! I'll try to make it in miniature. The lower draw in the middle is for baguettes :-)



No time for mini's at the moment. My head is filled with the french house LOL

Hugs, Monique

Weekend in Paris

Last weekend I visited Paris with my oldest daughter Laura. We had a weekend magnifique!! We stayed in a hotel 5 minutes from le Tour Eiffel. That was great....we have a lots of picture of the tower :-)
This is one in the mist. This doesn't mean that we had bad weather....I just like this picture ;-)



Of course we also had to visit the shop of lea Frisoni. I bought a few beautiful things there; a little dress and a nightstand. These will go in the brocante house.
The windows are for a future project.
Lea's shop: Dentelles et Ribambelles.




Do you like my new agenda??? I bought it in the louvre.


The cutest little dress!!




Sunday we went to the Louvre and that's so great. I got a lot of inspiration for lots of things. The rooms of Napoleon were the best!!! And now try and make something like this at home ;-) Mmmm for my new project maybe.



Hugs, Monique