A fitting holder for our business cards for the Tumbleweed Cotillion, yes?!

The sign above our booth...Rue de retreat. I can't even tell you how many times I was asked if it was for sale!!!!

Miss Foofy la Rue, all dressed up (or down, depending on how you look at it!) in her tattered French frippery, welcoming guests to our booth.

Oh yeah, our booth!
Even though it's not a style I have in my own home, I really had a fun time putting this French Flea Market 'story' together. The booth was loaded, packed, layered, and filled with tons of furniture, lamps, decorative accessories and...well, here, take a peek!

The right side and back....

The center back and left side back...


...and the left front side...

There was more, too! Outside, we had two displays of garden-style furniture to help Tracey foof the whole place up.

Okay, so now to the really important stuff:

THANK YOU to everyone who came to the Tumbleweed Cotillion!
Your attendance made the event a total success, and it was such a pleasure meeting you all. Several women said they'd been reading our blog for quite a while, so thank you! To the lovely girl who told me they came to the show all the way from Puyallup, Washington (which is about 30 miles South of Seattle), a very special thank you for your 'above and beyond' support. And Tracey had a gal tell her that she came from Los Angeles! WOW is all I can say.... and to our new blog readers, welcome!

To the lovely gals who were vendors at the show, (the Caroles, the Traceys, Marcia, Rebecca, Denise, and Chelise), it was such a treat meeting you and getting to know you. This was the very first show for some - and I saw so many beautiful creations made by women with beautiful spirits! What an uplifting experience to see women pursuing their passion this way. I wish you all the greatest success as you continue.

Ok, I'm off to keep working on the new booth, which will be installed at Faded Elegance's new building 'tomorrow morning. I'll share photos of that as soon as I can...

Things are really hoppin' around here in preparation for the Tumbleweed Cotillion in Reno...Wanna' see what we are up to?

Mr. Deb has been busy busy busy - he located two old Victrola cabinets, and has totally repurposed them. The one above is the smaller of the two, and he has set it up to be our cash wrap station in the booth. It has a plethora of storage so it's perfect for that: The center lid lifts up to conceal an area that used to hold the turntable - now it will hold sales books and the charge card machine. The side doors open to reveal slots for Victrola records - but we'll put bags and tissue in there, plus it sits up high enough that our picnic basket with munchies and my tote bag of necessaries will fit beneath.

Oh, and the pi'ece de resistance: Mr. Details hooked up a tiny speaker to his MP3 player and put it inside the old grammaphone cone - that's the ivory area behind the black grille above. When he turned it on and chose some Gershwin tunes, I swear it sounds exactly like what music coming out of there sounded like in ought-six. AMAZING guy!!!!!

He also took some legs from one table, a leaf from another, and edge banding from another, and created this stunnning sofa/entry table.... ok so it's not stunning yet....look below.....

NOW it's stunning! Behind it is the second Victrola cabinet, retrofitted to be...wait for it...a mini bar! The top lifts to reveal a serving area and a sunken ice bucket. Inside all of the doors are wine, libation, and glass storage and even space for a small refrigerated wine storage unit. The man is brilliant!


Chairs waiting for their upholstered seats... and they have tables to match but for some reason Deb forgot to get 'after' photos of the tables...sheesh... plus there's a dresser and more tables and more chairs and.....

... And a Bit of the Little Stuff....

I found this old book of organ music from 1889 at a thrift store. I just love the tattered page edges.... and these are cotton paper, so they are soft and flexible - not crispy and crumbly.


They are going into vintage paper packs along with all this good stuff... plus I found some old player piano rolls. I was going to cut them up and add the paper to these packs, but decided to keep them intact. They could be cut up and used for crafting or scrappin', or let whole and used as a window shade or a table runner or wall art... very cool.

OK, I need to get movin'! This morning we go over to Faded Elegance and empty out our two booths for 'the big move' - which we'll miss while we are in Reno. When we return, we'll hustle to get our stuff into the new store before it opens. Later today, it's pack & load the trailer. And bless His heart, it's lookin' like God sent some sunny blue DRY skies our way... ahhhh. Thanks, Dad! ;0)

I am having so much fun putting this booth together for the Tumbleweed Cotillion, I just had to share a sneak peek or two with you. (Filtered and sepia'ed and a bit blurred, of course...we don't want to give away all of our secrets!)

Just imagine Madeline Peyroux crooning 'La Vie en Rose' while you take in the (hidden) wonders of Frenchified Foofiness that we'll unveil in Reno in just over a week.... yikes, I'd better get back to work......

le demoiselle 'Foofy la Rue'... she's looking tres shabbique (is that a word?!), isn't she?! Like, perhaps, a French courtesan who has travelled across the wild frontier to Nevada?

PS: The new July/August issue of Victoria magazine is in at Faded Elegance! I am so busy, I didn't even sneak a peek inside the cover or remember to take a photo of it!

Early on Sunday morning, we revamped the booth and brought in the last of the items still in our trailer. The small dresser/bedside chest and desk, as well as the blue chair with vintage fabric seat worked nicely together. (Note: the chair & small chest didn't sell, so they will be heading over to Faded Elegance this week!)

The red enamel table in the shot above was in the center corner on Saturday - we moved it over, and put this setup in the corner:

An old flaky wood picnic table and four benches (sold in the first half hour!) and two FABulous 30's iron garden chairs. Lots of garden accents, too.

On top of the newly-relocated red enamel table, we featured the handpainted chairs and FooFoo Faux Food cakes. (They went like...well, ...hot cakes!) Strangely enough, the red table did not sell. I am still stunned! So, I am hard at work trying to find a way to make it fit into the new display at the new location of Faded Elegance for the fourth of July... I may not figure it out! We'll see.

Serena emailed me to let me know there are photos of our booth up on their Farm Chicks blog!

Coming in two weeks for Reno's Tumbleweed Cotillion : Two antique Victrola cabinets made into mini bars! Bistro tables of several sizes, with elegant chairs, a round dining table & 'loopy'-back chairs, vintage outdoor folding chairs, birdcages, Domelets, NeSts, lamps & beribboned lampshades, frames & mirrors galore, and many more accessories for your home. Paper packs with vintage French book pages, ribbon, and notions. (And you should SEE how 'Miss Foofy La Rue' is shaping up - ooooh la la!)

All foof, all finery, all French - we won't look anything at ALL like we did at Farm Chicks!