A GIVEAWAY (always be sure to make that very clear), a freebie, and some random yada yada (which you can skip of course if you wish)

*** UPDATE: GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED ***

What you say to a small giveaway and a freebie, hey?

But let's begin with some yummy finds...

Tee hee, my thrifty nose has done a good job again. First she leads me to an antique typewriter, today towards a box full of antique French postcards!!

Sniff sniff...

yes, there they are!

Huray!!

Imagine...

a whole box full...

My prudent frugal brains got in the way though and I ended up with a mere handful of those yummy cards instead of the whole box. And a vintage silver spoon (for 1 euro!) and a silver tray (only 2 euros, big yay!) and a silver thingie (ashtray perhaps?) for almost nothing.

FREEBIE

If you wish to see more freebie antique French cards, mais oui,
may I recommend you to go this way, if you please.

I will put the remaining postcards (they're about a 100 years old, so yummy) and their beautiful handwritten backgrounds on the blog by and by.

GIVEAWAY

It's the current winter edition of my favourite Dutch brocante living magazine.

I know it's written in Dutch, but if you love vintage goodies for your home and French inspired brocante style then I just know you're going to love this one!

HOW TO WIN...

What you need to do in order to win this magazine is tell me you'd love to win it in the comment section below this post and leave me either a blog or email address so I can contact you. Easy peasy right?

Winner will be announced in my blogpost for Our Beautiful World coming Sunday.

Phew, this is going to be a looooong post and I'm not even halfway yet... (kidding)

GROW YOUR BLOG

If you're interested in a happy social event (hosted by dear Vicki) which might help you find other inspiring and beautiful blogs plus new blogfriends plus new followers for your own blog, then be sure to participate in:

Deadline for new entries is 15th January 2014. So you basically have only a few days left to decide. I joined last year and it was great fun. Joining again this year too, yay!

Dreams of bygone eras

The local thrift store was whispering to me

"Come dear, come...

I have a dream find for you..."

I hushed the still small voice the day before.

But this day I knew it was now or never.

So I obeyed and went.

Oh my oh my, what a magnificent find...

An antique typewriter!!

I'd wished for it for long

but never dared dream one would actually find its way to me!

What stories, letters, or documents have been typed on it...

I would love to know.

To have a sneaky peek in its past.

I dream of bygone eras.

I've always had a passion for the old and vintage.

It started with the stored treasures and stories of old by my grandma.

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt...
A vintage novel in pictures by Caroline Preston.

This book plus trailer video (below)
is how my adventure in arts and crafts took off.

Combined with my love for old stuff.

My new antique typewriter awakens in me a renewed passion

for the vintage arts and crafts.

It inspires me to go on along this winding road

with exciting new adventures ahead.

Now this altered matchbox / little shadow box

was made after seeing the inspiring Christmas tutorials by

Nancy at Sugar Lump Studios.

She's having a most wonderful

vintage Christmas event.

Every day a new tutorial, a week long.

A petit keepsake box
(recycled empty matchbox)

with an adorable shadow box inside...

I used some silver and sparkling.

And some grey and greige goodies love.

Linking my silver greige love to Grey Dey Thursdey :)

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Last but not least...

HELP NEEDED...

Dear Karen of the blog Todolwen
needs our help!

If you have been a follower of her beautiful blog
then please be sure to read on!

Karen had the shock of her life when she wanted to change some settings on her blog like the url of the blog and saw that by doing so her dear blog friends had lost access to her blog....

So...
1) please go to her blog by clicking on the image below

2) become a follower again

3) don't you ever try this url-changing stuff at home!!!

And if you happened to follow her on Bloglovin then please go to her blog and hit the Bloglovin button. If you happen to know that some of your followers are following Todolwen too, then please spread the word!

Thank you...


Wishing you a sweet day!

xx Wen