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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

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 [...]

New York

Hola! So I seem to be having a little trouble with my Wordpress software and therefore can't really do blog psots as I'd like. So I'll just going to say that NY was an absolute blast, The Pier Show just wonderful. I'm posting the rest of my NY pix on the Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151423747608029.388222.43879088028&type=3

By |2016-11-12T09:49:47-08:00March 30th, 2012|Uncategorized, Vintage|0 Comments

Tomorrow New York

Tomorrow I leave for NY to get ready for the Pier Show this weekend.  Am nervous getting everything together - I guess because it's all new.  Really looking forward to this, too!  I'll take lots of pix and post them on Facebook while I'm there.   Hasta!

By |2016-11-12T09:49:47-08:00March 13th, 2012|Events, Markets, Uncategorized|2 Comments

The promise of spring & 1st design choice for trailer

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~ Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You Spring is my season. The plants give an exquisite show and the warmth and long days - what a sublime time of year. We're not officially in spring yet but the [...]