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Bringing the Market Home

Those in the know in the vintage market scene in Provence rate Villeneuve-les-Avignon as one of the top markets in the region.  Every Saturday morning, the market across the Rhone river from magnificent Avignon draws the vintage faithful and some of the best area dealers to this gorgeous sleepy village.  Whenever Ive gone there I've scored [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:46-08:00July 9th, 2013|Le Trip Tours, Markets, Vintage, Vintage Buying Tours|10 Comments

Celebrity Yard Sale Update

Last weekend was the big celebrity yard sale in L.A.   Teri Hatcher of the Desperate Housewives series was the woman behind the charity event that brings awareness and flows funds to Juvenile Arthritis research.   The sale took place on the lawn of a high end shopping center.  Here's the line in front of a Tiffany's boutique. [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:46-08:00May 4th, 2013|Uncategorized|1 Comment

Desperate Celebrity Sale

This Saturday yours truly will be rubbing elbows with people who have rubbed elbows with celebrities. If you're in L.A. this weekend, come see me and my French vintage school posters at the toney Americana At Brand in Glendale. Teri Hatcher, a garage sale enthusiast, will be hosting her third celebrity garage sale at this [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:46-08:00April 25th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments

A Valentine’s Cliché

For your speakers of the language of love, did you know that cliché can mean a photo?  The origin of the term meaning a banality, originally comes from the word for a printer's plate.  Before there was movable type printers would make up a cliché, a plate for commonly used phrases as a time-saver.  Thus these [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:46-08:00February 14th, 2013|Paris, Uncategorized|0 Comments

See You at Alameda Sunday?

Alameda antique market will happen the same Sunday as the 49ers play the Superbowl. I don't know what kind of impact that is going to have on the market, but I'll be there and find out!  If you're around come see me at booth W14.  I will have the choicest items from last Fall's French [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:46-08:00February 1st, 2013|California, Markets|0 Comments

Green Christmas

Hi All! Get some inspiration from DIY Natural and save some dough, gas, and the planet this Christmas.  And here's my old post from four years ago with some upcycled elements. Cheers, Jill ===== I am so excited to have found something to do with my large collection of plastic shopping bags.  Thank you so much,Ez, at Creature [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:46-08:00December 20th, 2012|Christmas, Uncategorized|4 Comments

Rosebowl! …. whoops : /

  Hi!  I wanted to let you know I'll be selling at the Rosebowl this Sunday.  If you're around come say hi at booth C6, antiques section!   The "whoops" part of the blog post title - well, this is interesting.  I am getting a boutique set up right in the leTrip website here.  So [...]

By |2016-11-12T09:49:46-08:00December 5th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments

The Barge Trip of 2 years ago and a Little Fastforward

Beaucoup has changed since I wrote this post two years ago, almost to the day.  Im now living most of the year in a little Gold Rush town in Northern California near my father's wineries.  Pascal and I have broken up.  I am still doing my beloved vintage shopping tours in the best sesons to [...]