LE PETIT CABINET DE CURIOSITES

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Happy halloween to everybody

Guess who I am

I'm very busy but I'm dressed up and I have some girlie candies for you

week end's finds

This week end was prolific

I  found some beautiful treasures I wanted to share

a big victorian globe with a wonderful iron leg

a pair of XVII th century Louis XVI cabriolet with a beautiful tapestry

a provencal teaset with our famous cigala

 

very nice majolica saltcellar in Aubagne's ceramic ...isn't it cute ?

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100 th post

Thank you , friends to read blog

thank you for leaving comments and being indulgent when I don't answer to them

Thank you to follow me

Thank you for being a source of inspiration

Thank you C....To, one day , have told me to create my blog . You are its godmother

                                     MERCI A TOUS

orchids standing in front of one of my favorite painting in my living room

Quiet et peaceful

After so many wonderful diner with fabulous friends.

I have to seat down in a room I like and to rest

a corner in the peaceful and sublime Corey's home

Scene galante

Look at my today's find ...

Isn't it lovely ...women and men playing the game of seduction

little miniature : XIX th centruy scene galante

Teaching French thanks to Marie Antoinette

isI spent my last days with Corey , Her friend Cynthia , and her friend and blogger Lea .

As always , when somebody from the country is talking to poeple from others . You try to teach worlds ...well funny worlds , expressions ..

Actually this time , I didn't have to .Corey and her (my)friends have reminded me some of them .

Thanks to Marie Antoinette's Behavior and Cynthia we " reminded " a wonderful expression :

La cuisse légère

Well I'm going to show you what is  " avoir la cuisse légère " means

French XIX th century watercolor , illustrating a french woman ...

This one illustrates also pretty well

Old picture from my own collection ..

Last night , for the diner , as a fabulous match maker , Corey wanted me to " avoir  la cuisse légère"

Well have you got what it means ???

It means to be an easy woman ...

Is corey trying to mime what is the " cuisse légère " or Mistinguette singing :

On dit qu' elle a de belles gambettes ...c'est vrai ...

Others french worlds :

Grignoter

and gambette

A cup of tea?

Découverte du jour : a teaset from Vallauris .

I love the teapot and the drawing of the flowers ..so impressionist

Does anyone want to share a cup of The des amants or may be fleur du désir from mariage ?

The teaset will be on auction tomorrow on ebay , check this out

COINCIDENCE

life is a series of coincidence

on the 13th of september , Merisi's Vienna for beginners sent pictures of a cushion and a dessert that MATCH perfectly with this fabric .

So if anyone wants to have this fabric in her home , she will have to go to Vienna to buy the perfect cushion and the wonderful dessert .

I would dream about curtains in this fabric , seated ia a wonderful orange sofa with petits pois cushions in my back , eating this wonderful dessert ...

What do you think ??

the cushion ( look in the back ..a designer guild's fabric)

and the wonderful patisserie ...

P.S : For the bloggers who are wondering if I'm addicted to this fabric ...no , no, no I'm not I just in love it

Work of the week

Here is the work of my dad

How we can change a beautiful victorian armchair into a wonderful modern armchair

look at the folds , I love the details

It can match perfectly with a timeless and classic decoration or a modern one with black and white for example

More orange ideas

For mads I found today , some new orange ideas , even in my show room

Orange and modern , orange and 70's ...and I love the coordinates

Wonderful art deco style Osborne and little's fabric

My curtains in my show room , can be an ideas also ..sorry for the picture ..

Detail , there are 2 fabrics , both are designer guild .

I think the choice of the stipes of Lelievre of my next post is a good one

To answer to Merisi , yes these stripes are horizontal ...That 's why I like in this fabric and the colors are fantastic. It exists also with others colors price :65 euro / m