White Wednesday in France!

I am at our friends' house again, using their internet. I am sitting in the garden, enjoying beautiful views. As it is Wednesday, I am posting some photos of lacy finds from the vide greniers today for White Wednesday over at FadedCharm -


They have come from various vide greniers and called for a LOT of haggling, lol. But thats half the fun of course, and if the price is reasonable in the end, thats great.


I also found some really exquisite antique handmade lace, but I will leave that for another post.

Gosh, my friends are saints, they let me sit here doing TWO posts in one day, woohoo!

Big hugs to you all, toodlepip xxx

France calling again!

The weather has been lovely lately, good for vide greniers, so I thought I'd show you a few pics from a vide greniers/brocante in Digoin, bigger than the usual country ones we go to.


Mt friend Christine, who often goes to the vide greniers as well. She told me about the Digoin one and we went together -


It starting raining after a lovely sunny start, but thankfully, we had almost finished. We took shelter under a bridge by the river for a little while and watched to boats go by before heading back.

Wanna see a couple of fab finds?

What would I do without my wonderful friends Frank and Christine, who live in the valley and can get broadband internet? We just had the most delicious dinner with them and now I am sitting here with my laptop, chatting with them and doing a quick post at the same time.

I thought I'd show you just a few recent finds. Guess what? LACE, of course, lol. I was thrilled to bits to find these beautiful laces, they are the most gorgeous colours, greens, blues, purple, and made with really fine thread as well.

OK, here goes............



In the same batch I also found the same sort of lace in different shades of cream and brown-


I found some really beautiful antique lace a couple of days ago at an evening vide greniers but I haven't edited the pics yet,, I'll leave that for another day.

Here are just a couple of other things -

Gorgeous old cast iron table bases -

Turn of the century floral ashtray-

Number plate of an old little French motorised bicycle

Thats all for today, have to get home before I drink too much of this very nice red wine. I hope to be able to do another post soon. Until then, toodlepip, miss you gals,

Liz xxx

I am using my craftavan!!!

Hello my dear friends! I am sitting in the garden of my friends' home, using their wireless internet to pop in and say hello again. And...................... to post some pictures of some tags I have made. In my craftavan. You all know how much I love making tags, and how much I love the weekly challenges. I do miss them I wish I could do more. But I have managed to catch up with the weekly tag challenge over at the Blog Challenge Garden!

Here is the first one I missed, the theme was BLACK AND ORANGE -


The week after that, the theme was BUTTERFLY. I had this lovely butterfly brooch in my little supply case, which I used for this -


The next one was the TEN MINUTES TAG, and as I am in France at the mo, I chose to do a Paris themed tag -


No time to post the last tag, this week's FACE tag, it is made, but I need to get off the computer and on my way to an evening vide greniers! Can't risk missing out on some bargains, lol.

Big hugs to you all, toodlepip,

Liz xxx

A quick hello from France

Hello my sweet friends! I am at a friend's house in the valley at the moment and have hijacked their internet so that I can pop in and say hello to you all. Thank you so much for all your lovely comments and emails when I left for France. I have only been to a couple of little vide greniers so nothing much to report yet, but boy, we are loving being here in this beautifully peaceful bit of heaven on earth. I'll try and upload some photos in a week or so, if I can work out how to do it, lol, with all the gadgets I need, arrghh. Wish my DS Nick was here to do it for me. I wish you all a wonderful summer and I'll try and pop in again very soon.
big hugs to you all,

toodlepip xxx