The brocante season is under way. (A brocante being a street market for junk, antiques or bric-a-brac.) At the one I visited most recently, on an unusually warm and sunny day, I came away with a nice little haul. Total spend 4.50€.
The little terracotta plant holders were 50 cents each. (Useful for growing on my collection of spider plant babies, the mother of them being a brocante purchase a few years ago.) They are actually quite new and two of them still had price labels of 3.99€ on the bottom.
The tall glass jug will come in handy as a vase for tall flowers and foliage and was 1€.
The enamel bowl was the most expensive item, 2€. I suppose that word has got round that tatty old enamel items are much sought after by the fans of "shabby chic".
I bought the bowl because it makes a perfect liner for our bird bath which is otherwise difficult to keep clean. The bath part is very heavy and not easily lifted for cleaning out. In the summer it becomes unpleasant with algae, dead insects and bird poo very rapidly.
I can now lift out the basin, clean it and refill it very quickly and easily. Daily if necessary. The little birds already seem to love it.
