Christine Animal Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 After Shabby Chichttp://interiordec.about.com/cs/stylesofdecor/a/shabbychic.htmand now Vintagehttp://www.vintagefashionguild.org/we'd better get up and see what we've got in our greniers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furry Knickers Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 How's it hanging Mrs Animal?I noticed on Ebay, that they get an old light fiiting or mirror, and paint it white or cream and pass it off as "French Shabby Chick" I am fed up seeing loads of old trash being labeled as this stuff and pawned off on some poor old ejit for a stupid price. Some people have no mortals at all in this day and age! It's a good job they never had Ebay when I was a lad back in County Kildare, or the stupid person that painted me poor old dog with emulsion might have sold him on it as a Shabby Chick dog! I tried painting meself once! I love that burnt orange colour in a kitchen. I burnt an orange a few years ago in Manchester, but it never looked like the colour of the tiles in B&Q.I have sold me house in Wyre Piddle (stc) and am looking for a house in Prick Willow or Brown Willy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted October 21, 2005 Author Share Posted October 21, 2005 Hello FK,I like shabby shick, I have to, everything we have is shabby shick, the dogs and everything they have decorated, at no cost at all..What is the (stc) after Wyre Piddle? I can understand you leaving such a place, but why don't you leave the willows and willies and come to your colombage house with all the other cinglés over here where you belong. We could have shabby chic painting classes, the worse you paint the better, as long as it is off white, very relaxing. We could even open up a shabby chic gite where the stressed out Brits could come and paint everything shabby in the peace and quiet of the bucolique countryside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 << I have sold me house in Wyre Piddle (stc) and am looking for a house in Prick Willow or Brown Willy. >Should that not be 'sic' as in 'Sic Transit Gloria Mundi' ( Them's Ford Bus) why not move south and try 'Pratts Bottum' and 'Badgers Mount' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 When you've vided that grenier, take a look at the prices you might get in the UK for your "treasures":http://www.frenchcollectables.com/(3eukqb3ovnv4pj45eqsgaurx)/default.aspxReminder: the prices are £ sterling!A few years ago I saw a book called The Well Worn Interior - I think it gave help and advice as to how to achieve this state of living.Huh? People need *help* and *guidance* ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted October 22, 2005 Author Share Posted October 22, 2005 Mon Dieu Catalpa, you've put us on to something there!Boite à outils à plombier £75 I'm going to contact all the plombiers in France. FK, Jacqueline Merritt has a colombage house in Normandy. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furry Knickers Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 I think you should do it Mrs Animal! You never know untill you try, and if you never try, you will never know! (as they say in County Kildare)I went to borrow a cup of grapes from that Mrs Merritt 3 years ago, and she said only if I lent her me favourite goat (Michael) for a couple of days! A bit of a strange one I thought to meself.You know what they say in County Kildare about women that live in wooden houses that borrow mens goats!I love Brown Willy too much to just go off and live in France and forget about it! I wonder if I painted me computer off white and sold it on Ebay as the worlds first shabby chick computer, would I get much for it? I just don't know! I am painting a few stones and a fax machine right now, look out for them and have a bid if you like.I loved your pic of the Husky dogs in the deckchairs, I love spotty pigs too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted October 22, 2005 Author Share Posted October 22, 2005 Yes, they all seem to want to be in deckchairs these days, I can't get them to do anything.Look at this one in his shabby chic deckchair with his glass of vintage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furry Knickers Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 He looks like Kojak!Here is a picture of me second pig Matthew, taken when he was only a young lad. We eat him on his 2nd birthday. STC means "subject to contract" by the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted October 23, 2005 Author Share Posted October 23, 2005 It must be his shoes remind you of Kojak, they are his birdwatching shoes. He never wants to take them off even when he goes to bed.Subject to contract, isn't that when they start messing you about with their searches and things, I hope they don't find anything.I liked your Matthew so much, that I have copied him. I am going to blow him up and put him on the wall. (By his markings, isn't he crossed with a giraffe?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furry Knickers Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 Matthew was a Kildare Old Spotted, and I loved him dearly, I am pleased he will be immortalised on your wall! Back in them days it was acceptable to eat your kids pets because everyone was so poor. He was a change from the Crows and Magpies and Squirells (very rubbery them Squirells) We never eat the Guinea Pigs but we did eat a few Mice during the winter of 1963 (there is a song about late december back in 63) We were lucky though, as some very poor people even eat Earwigs and flies! Look at them now in Ireland! They are all capitalists and property magnets. I bet they don't eat Magpies and Squirells now!What has happened to the lovely Mrs Tresco? Where Has she gone? will she be back? will she still be a woman when she does come back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 I think I saw Mrs T elsewhere in the Post Bag just this afternoon. Maybe she'll call in here for a comfy sit on a saggy chic sofa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 She's welcome, as long as she wears her vintage charentaises... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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