Red Shed Satuday Sale Feb 25th 8am

Put your Winter blues behind you and get those creative juices flowing! Put on your best wig and come to the Red Shed to revitalize, reorganize and accessorize, with lots of fun, vintage cubbies, cabinets and containers. We hope to tickle your fancy as we dress up your French inspired home and gardens for Spring. Lots of new inventory!

French Communion Card & Vintage Milllinery Find New Home

Some things are just meant to be. I found this beautiful, swoon worthy, French Communion Card in Paris at the Marche Vernaison. Cards this gorgeous and delicate are a little hard to find because the dealers keep them in books, hidden behind the counter.

 It opened up to two pages and hand wonderful French prayers on the inside, and on the back, a hand written signature and a date of 1880.

Six months later I was at an antique dealer's house in Provence and found this beautiful vintage waxed millinery bouquet. The buds and flowers are called waxed orange blossom, and each stem was wound from top to bottom with silver wire. I kept it in our glass jewelry case at the shop, but few took notice of it.

I had the Communion card listed in our ETSY Shop, and one day, when someone had a question about it,  I happen to take a closer look. I noticed that one of the angels, Humilite, was pinning a bouquet on the "bride", and it was the exact bouquet I had!

Less than two days later, the card sold on ETSY to a sweet lady name Susan from Virginia. I immediately sent her an email to see if she would like to purchase the communion bouquet and she said "Yes!".
A week or two later she sent an email showing me the unique frame that she had been saving, exactly for a display such as this...

 The frame actually has 1 1/2 inches of space between the glass and the back.The exact amount needed to display not only the card, but also the flowers, under glass.

What do you think? I love it when fate takes over and brings things back together that could have stayed miles apart. Susan just sent me these final photos of the project with the background changed to a blue-grey. Love the whole display!

Daydreaming of Paris & Provence

This is my screen saver....

 I snapped it with my i-phone in the Montmartre district in Paris. Didn't add or mute the colors. I love the graininess of the photo. This is what I love about France. I can take or leave the ornate palaces and gold gilt of Paris, and even the blues, mustards, and bright reds of Provecal fabrics.

Give me beautiful weathered stone, windblown milk paint colors, and creamy linens blowing in the wind.  Luckily those are all also found in France. That's why people interpret "French Style", "French Farmhouse" and even "Paris Apartment" in wildly different manners. You can find it all in France. 

We have been working hard all week to make sure all of our 34 ladies who are traveling to Paris and Provence with us in April have proper airline flights. So my mind has been on France, and as I went through some of my pictures from last year, I thought I would share.....

Doesn't the lady in this photo look happy? So I am going to close my eyes and pretend like I am her....just for today.

Can you ever say Thank You enough?

2012 is already off to a lightning fast pace! Ready....Set.... Wait! Please let us take a moment to say Thank You! Thank you for your kindness, your help and your support. Without YOU there simply would be no US! We truly appreciate YOU.

and Go!....

I'm dreaming of a White Vintage Christmas

Yes, and we are Still dreaming! Once in a blue moon we might have a White Christmas in Texas, but usually it is 50 degrees or higher. Unfortunately when we set up for our December sale, thunderstorms were looming. With our expansive grounds unusable for presentation or cuteness, we crammed merchandised all of the extra inventory in the Shed, and tried to think of a wind and rain worthy Christmas display for the front yard. 

Val had a crazy idea to use tomato cages (and a wire dress form) and by the Grace of God, Gigi just happen to have some in her yard. We turned the tomato cages upside down and wired the stakes together,covered them with twinkle lights and yards of tulle to create the illusion of flowing white trees. Added a few interesting weather tolerable objects and Viola!.....

 A weather worthy montage that looked as great at night as during the day!

Here are more pictures from the rest of the sale..

 

                           

We still have lots of great, unique Christmas Gifts at the Red Shed. Visit HERE to see just a few!

Merry Christmas and Thank You from the bottom of our Hearts! Michele, Valarie & Gigi, The Red Shed Girls.