Yes, it's true....an amazing 400 posts!
I want to say thank you to all my friends here in bloglandia!
Gee whiz, this is fun!
What would you like to win?
As you know, I'm a collector and a flea marketing fanatic...
I have a lot of cool stuff. :)
...and I want to share it with YOU!
...as a way to say Thank You for all the fun we have together!
...a little of this....a little of that....
How about we build a give - away that suits YOU!
Do you collect costume jewelry? sewing items? linens? tarnished silver? vintage lingerie? woodenware? vintage purses? handkerchiefs? books? ephemera? aprons? dolls? vintage toys? old games? white ironstone? teacups? silverware? yellow ware? transferware? wireware? baking items? keys and tags? baskets? glassware? French items? Found treasures to create your special brand of art with?
What makes your heart beat fast?
Tell me!
These are a few recent finds from my flea marketing adventures...
...I could fill a cigar box for you of all sorts of little treasures...
...or not! It's up to you!
Tell me what you like to hunt for...
AND...
This is just a sampling of what has been found at the French brocante and the type of thing that SHE is contributing to my 400th post Give Back!
Now, here comes the fun part!
If you would like a chance to win my 400th post Give Back...
...please leave a comment and tell me what your favorite collectible is!
Tell me what makes your heart beat fast when you are out hunting treasure!
That's all you have to do....just leave a comment and tell me what you like to collect!
A winner will be chosen at random on Monday, April 19th....
This give-back is open to all...
Once the winner is selected...
... I will select a prize just for her...according to her interests!
And that prize will be sure to include something from the French Brocante too!
Now....About that Big Event!
WHO is SHE?
WHO is SHE?
Did you guess correctly?
Unfortunately, the answer to that and the details about the upcoming sale have to wait...
...sorry...don't hate me!
There is a 6 hour time difference and I don't want to get our signals crossed! :(
Thank you for your patience!
Meanwhile...
Remember to have a chance to win the 400th post Give Back leave a comment on this post by noon on Monday, April 19th.
Don't forget to tell me what you love to collect!
If you decide to post about this Give Back or put it on your sidebar please leave an additional comment for a second chance to win!
Thanks for helping to spread the word!
Thanks for helping to spread the word!
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269 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 269 of 269Congratulations for 400th!
My number one collectives at the moment are old clock faces!
wow 400 thats a lot, i am not so long but i love your blog!
what make my hart go faster, stamps letters!
only if i thing what i love the most ...is suprises! just suprises in my mail
Hoe dom is dit .... Ik kan niet meer herinneren of ik al ingevuld ....* grin *..... dus zo niet ..... dan nu, maar zo ja ..... dan is dit alleen mijn boodschap aan u dat ik een link op mijn blog over uw rug Give it !!!:)
Heeft u een zonnig weekend!
Lynda
Congratulation for your blog, it's really lovely!
I go crazy for any object made of glass.
Have a nice week-end
Giulia
Hi Laura, congratulations on your 400th post, and a wonderful giveaway. I must admit that although I like the neutral trend I love colour and especially the pink lustre and gold of the old Victorian motto ware cups, eg the forget-me-not and a present mugs, they are my favourite. I also love ephemera, anything old and worn, old patchwork quilts/pieces, old childrens books, vintage floral fabric, victorian scraps, vintage garden items, old jewellery and millinery pieces etc. I collect anything old and with a past life. Wishing you another 400 blogs and more! Tamara, Australia. (tamarabuckler@internode.on.net)
Felicitations on 400 fabulous posts, here's to the next 400.
I collect anything but at present I am collecting old French post cards and vintage French linen.
Bon weekend a toi,
Leeann x
400 posts, that is amazing, I love old jewlery,watches,bottles,lace,miorrs,crystals,unusal items, keys, cards, any thing with numbers,dress forms, sheet music, game pieces, childrens chairs, furniture, doll heads, buttons, timbles, silver, shoes, gloves, silverware, i guess i better stop, i love it all!!!
C
love linens, transferware, flowers on anything...sweet vintage cards,hankies,aqua anything... and your blog! congratulations on a job well done@ beth goodvariety@yahoo.com
Laura,
I love anything 'art' including art boxes and old brushes etc. Someday I'd like to do a collage on my wall of used palettes.
Tami E.
Thank you for the opportunity to win your giveaway. Okay, let's see...I love love transferware, olden keys, olden linens.
You have a wonderful blog.
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
Very cool and clever give-away! I run, not walk to white ironstone, old keys, anything from France, old white bibles, roseries, old tarnished silver, old glass (clear or torquise). Is that enough? I could probrably go on....
Michelle
WOW...congratulations on 400+ posts! I love rosaries and smalls like keys and ephemera that I have not been able to find in my neck of the woods! You have such a kind and generous spirit, thank you for making us smile with each post! Happy Weekend Laura xOxO Nerina
what an awesome giveaway!
Dear,
So glad I popped by today! I WAS coming over to invite you to "vacation" with us, as we beach blog cruise around the world! You simply must come--it wouldn't be the same without you! Now onto your fantastico giveaway (I'm practicing for Tuscany on Tuesday) I just adore the chippy stuff. Old iron, wood, anything painted and USED. Sigh.
Grabbing a button of this to post at ddna! Congratulations!
I posted it on my sidebar too!!
I love you blog!
French brocante makes my heart dance and sing;)
Okay, when you say favorite surely you don't mean one single thing? That would be too hard. I love ironstone and cake pedestals, ephemera, silver, french stuff, those clock faces are amazing. I just recently bought my first one and love it. I love those enamel numbers too. De-lish!
I love lace, braiding, embroidery anything,vintage keys,sewings stuff.I love your blog.
My name is Cecilia, I'm from Brazil, but I live in Idaho with my husbanda, pets, birds, etc...
Thanks...ceves2001@yahoo.com.br
Congratulations on your 400th post!
What a great giveaway. I collect vintage silver, green pottery, old aprons, ironstone, restaurant ware, anything with white chippy paint, anything thats been obviously used and loved, french linens...it might be easier to tell you what I dont collect. Ha! Thanks for the fun.
Congratulations on 400 posts and wow, look at all of these wonderful comments! How exciting!
Now, if I was the lucky winner I would just love to win some linen. I have just started collecting linens and just last week I posted about some embroidered napkins I found.
Thank you so much for opening this to your friends from Down Under too!
Best wishes,
Natasha.
I guess since downsizing I have to reign in my collections...but I'll always have room for vintage linens, lace and anything paper :D
Congrats on you 400th post :D
What a wonderful giveaway! I love ANYthing vintage! i love trims, chippy painted, buttons, roses, violets, teacups, birds/eggs/nests, bling, alphas & numbers, thimbles, pinks/whites/greens, clockfaces, telephones, keys, dishes, embroidery.........!weeee! You can't go wrong with this one!
Thanks for such a gracious giveaway. Congratulations on the 400th post. I collect millinery flowers, buttons, laces, ledger papers, rhinestones so many things! Whatever you think is lovely I'm sure I would like too.
karen
I love globes and old keys. What a great giveaway, so sweet!!
Wow!!! 400 posts, and i have read them all! I love your blog. Congratulations Laura, can't wait to read the next 400! Oh and what I love...French Vintage Religious! Warmest Regards, Patricia
Hi Laura..
Congrats!!!
400 posts..WOW!
Awesomeness!
what do I collect?
Teapots!
blue and white plates etc..
love porclain figurines..
(LLADROS,,and have found NAO at Goodwill for .99cents!!! what a score..)
am an avid photographer..so frames and photo albums are always on my list..waiting to be filled!. on the other hand, I adore beachy items/ related stuff!
but coming from you would be gift enough!
warmest hugs..laughing smiles..
Loui♥
Hello, hello, OMG!!! You are having another give away!!! Please add me to the list. It appears I have the same taste as you, it all makes me excited. I really do not have just one like. I have been collecting for over 30 years of this and that.....I would love to win and have you give me if I was the winner what ever you wanted to share, it would be a honor for me to have something that made you happy when you purchased it. XO MARY
What a great idea to build a giveaway. It's probably easier to say what I don't collect. If I were to narrow down, I would say I collect teacups first and foremost. I also like skeleton keys, lace, and clock faces.
Congratulations on your 400th post. I've enjoyed reading them.
Your blog is lovely. Please enter me! Would love to have you stop by my blog, giving away a great piece of jewelry this month. Barbara
http://barbsbotanicalgarden.blogspot.com/
Oh my this is a long list of people that love your Blog Congratulations!
Hugs, Diane
I l-o-v-e your blog!! Congrats on reaching your 400th post!! I love to collect vintage religious items rosaries, medals, holy cards etc, linen, knitting or sewing items, metal numbers, keys, old books too many to list. I will be a frequent visitor in future. Best wishes and thanks for letting me enter for the give-a-way:)
Hi. Oh my god I julst love everything on your photos in yóur late post. I love all sort of old tools for the kithen, kar´kery, stamples, beautiful laces, old clocks like you have and so on... Right now I´m searching for an old garment wiht capital on like the one you have on your blog in the bottom-left. LOVE them but cannot find them at a fadorable price.. Coss my finger for your give away... Conny
I´m leaving a link for you on my blog as well of course...
Wow this is a great giveaway! I love your blog so much and really want to go to your sale. We live in upstate NY so I am hopeing that it won't be to far and I can come. As to what I collect a better question would be what don't I collect. some of my favorite stuff is red transferware, silver items and I really am on the lookout for silverware, millinary, sewing notions, most anything red, grain sacks the plain kind with just the words or numbers, anything made of paper, watch faces or clock faces. You always have the most amazing photos and everything that you show always looks incredable you have the very best tast and I would love anything you would give me. Well if I can't come to your sale maybe we will get to meet in August at the Maddisom Bouckville antique fest. I can't wait for that. I was so sad last year, I was way over due with my son( almost 3 weeks) and got special clearence from my doctor, only to have my car breakdown! We are only 30 minutes away and I couldn't go. I was really miserable all weekend and pretty much have not gotten over it!
:) Michelle
Love your blog, so many inspiring pictures.
I collect miniature chairs, bird anything, keys,
wool.
Oh my congratulations on your 400th! I just love your blog(not just saying that either).
I love French things, old rooms keys or anything for making jewerly, grane sacks! Just about whatever you like!
I trust you to choose for me.
Pleeeeeze pick me!
Happy Sunday to you. I don't know how I missed this earlier.
Posted on my side panel!
what an accomplishment, congratulations on your 400th post! Please count me in on your very generous giveaway, it is all quite lovely!
congrats on 400! what a great giveaway. i have to say, i love everything you collect (reading your blog has inspired some new collections for me), but my very favorite collection is old tarnished silver - flatware, serving pieces - whatever! i love it!
~how sweet you are to offer such a fun filled giveaway...may you always be filled with such inspiration to write and share your days through the lense of your camara...l♥ve seeing your photos each day...for me...i adore...anything wire...metal...bubble glass...words written in any shape or form...true soulfood to me...so so many wonderful treasures in this world to be found...happy 400 to you and may there be another 400 more...warm wishes and brightest blessings~
you'd think we should be giving something to you-- you give us stuff all the time...... inspiration, laughter, beauty, and, well, sometimes envy... so- that being said, i can't wait to hear where you're sale will be! i'm definately going to try to make it!! if i can't though...... i love anything sparkly, anything with roses, anything lace. what an amazing gift!
Love your blog...have spent hours reading old posts! I collect miniature china teacups and stack them like leaning towers. Also antique garden tools and vintage art supplies. I guess to summarize - it would be anything that reminds me of my grandma who was my best friend.
Big Congratulations to the 400 : ) I just love looking at the pictures you post. I have a few things that really makes my heart go to still first and then I get the rush... when I see antique and vintage numbers, old office rubber stamps, books and linen & lace... One time I bought an antique book (in my blog) and I loved the cover, hours later got home and I sat down with a tea and started to look thought the book, and it was the most amazing moment ever. The lady who had the book so many years ago, had left many sweet things with in it (old silk lace, ribbons, news paper clips and pressed flowers)... That made my heart sing.
Im going to try to post the link to your post on my side bar...
Thanks for the beautiful pisctures, they are a huge treat.
Mari
Your blog is delightful. The photos intriguing and insightful.
Brenda
Oh, I forgot about the lady statue, I believe its Queen Victoria (from her coronation)... I cant wait to see the movie "young Victoria"
Oh Laura, you have such a dreamy blog. I started out the other day on it, wanting to post a comment here, but got carried away browsing through it. I would love being entered in your give back. I have a particular affinity for purple or white violets. Other things that tickle me to pieces are rusty cast iron, seed pearls, tiny frozen Charlotte dolls, cloches of any size, tarnished silver, cookie cutters, lilies of the valley, weathered wood, faded millinery flowers, vintage ephemera, birds & nests, bits and bobs of old sewing notions (tattered lace, needle books, bobbins, threadbare linens & the like), floral frogs from bygone eras, mercury glass, vintage holiday postcards, baby shoes (the older the better!), variations of whites (especially buttons), and bits of red to throw into my kitchen! I guess I pretty much enjoy the same kinds of things you do. And I like how Eileen of Star's Fault said it, "...our love for old things has a lot to do with the longing for a safe haven away from the hustle of modern life..." I thoroughly agree.
Thank you for the opportunity to win this wonderful give back! It feels like we should be giving back to you for sharing a lovely part of yourself with us!
I love your blog! I visit almost daily, you are such an inspiration. I don't think I have a favorite collection - they are all so beautiful. Thanks for being there everyday. Congrats on #400!!!
Chellie
Your photography inspires me at least once a week, sometimes more often. Thanks for all the ideas! I too adore numbers and letters. Thanks for the opportunity to win a prize!
Sandra
I love your blog. When i grow up I want to be just like you. Wonderful giveaways. Nancy P.
Love to start the day with your blog. Makes me want to hit the road and the flea markets. I love nearly all things old. buttons, ephemera, photos, lace and linens, jewelry, spoons, monogramed items, clock and watch faces, keys, locks, You get the picture, just whatever strikes my fancy at the moment. I hope I am around to read your 500 post plus some.
Laura.....your at it again,you and that big heart of yours!!!!Love those saint tags??You and i like the same things thats for sure! xoxo
What a TREAT and congratulations! Anything at all to do with flowers makes my heart smile.
fabric, ribbons, dishes...oh my!! wonderful milestone and give~away...pick me!!
I love to visit your blog. Congratulations on your 400th post! I love to collect vintage silver, transferware, grain sacks, white linens, garden items and architectural salvage. Thanks for hosting such a fun and generous giveaway!!
Blessings,
Beth
Oooh, favorite collectible has to be brown transferware - can't get enough of it. Thanks for the chance - texmvp03@att.net
i love green american pottery...roseville, mccoy, fiestaware, ect! i also love vintage bevel edged mirrors, mop buttons, vintage crystal necklaces....too much. there is that wonderful feel of excitement searching a thrift store or estate sale!
happy hunting!
Oh gosh, I just found your blog, and I love it!!!!, although I'm sure I'm not going to have any luck with the giveaway, oh well, I'm going to share, I love to collect alot of stuff, magazines, phone cards, coins and banknotes, stamps, I adore antique stuff, I own a drawer from my great granpa, it's more than 100 years old, I have an old camera, and type writer machine, LOVE the pics you have posted for your giveaway!
Your finds are all wonderful; for me it's all letters & numbers of any kind, bolts of vintage ribbon, ephemera, toilet pins................
Hi Laura,
More lucsious photos from you, yum.
I have loved to collect paper weights since I was in my teens...that would be the 3 decades now! And I also collect the little bits of broken pottery, mainly blue and white, can be found in many an English garden's soil. I wonder, "where has this come from, who used it, and how did it come to be here?"
I am so glad I discovered your blog a few months ago! I have recently started collecting yardsticks, but also have a heart for old sewing items; thimbles, pincushions,spools, anything sewing.
Gosh what doesn't make my heart beat faster when I'm thrifting? :) I love anything with numbers on it, rusty, and linens! Love your blog, thanks for the chance, geez I don't know how I missed this until now but am glad it's not noon yet! Theresa
Dust should be listed as most abundant collection around this old cottage :-) I would much rather be out rummaging for goodies, as cleaning what already resides here!! Favorites include old ironstone, vintage french books, old silverware, cloches, clock faces, old photographs of babies, children and dogs...the list goes on!!
Your blog delivers such a healthy dose of daily sunshine into my world--I will be forever grateful to you for that!!
Congratulations on your 400th Post! What an accomplishment. I just recently found your blog (thanks to Artful Blogging magazine) and have become completely hooked! Your taste seems to be right up my alley. I seriously have the collecting bug for all sorts of things, but if I had to pick my favorites they would be old photos, lace, paper ephemera, ribbon/trim, white ironstone, buttons, wooden boxes and old silver. (I guess that's not narrowing it down much, is it . . .) Well thanks for the giveaway and for your lovely blog. Here's to 400 more! -K
Fabulous giveaway! Things I love to collect....vintage paint by numbers, old faded floral prints, vintage sheets & pillowcases, white ironstone, galvanized stuff...buckets etc..., silver of all kinds, lace, chandys...old baskets....:)
xo,
Shellagh
I tried to reply but it looks like I was not successful. Your photographs continue to inspire and delight. Well done on your 400th post!
I collect paper weights, have done since I was a teenager, and that was many years ago. I also collect green Winton Rosebud items, and the broken bits of blue pottery that live in many a British garden's soil. I've never undersood if the French or Germans or any other nation has the same..
Best wishes, Mariellen
oh yes - and "she" is the Young Queen Victoria...
Happy 400th! How wonderful! I enjoy vintage laces, old photos, old silverware, hand painted china, old keys, vintage religious medals, vintage pearls,old custume jewelry, vintage perfum bottles,vintage gardening tools. The list goes on forever. If its vintage, I love it!
My latest finds are vintage Kodak brownies and white teapots. I'm also on the lookout for a round flat grater!
Hello,###i love very,very match your givaway.i hope to win.greatings send you Conny
sorry i wil read moor,bad my engeks is very smal
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