vintage french ephemera feast

I'm a sucker for vintage ephemera... especially if it's French! I have found the most incredibly stream on Flickr belonging to Agence Eureka. A vast collection of quality labels, vintage children's books, ephemera and so on. These labels first caught my eye, but then I started to pour over the collections (and I shall be for weeks it seems) and turned up some real gems like these book covers.

Aren't they beautiful! Some of the images are creative commons so do take some time out to pay a visit.

sunday morning

Grmphh... haven't slept for two nights! Nothing to do with the little one... he's been sleeping, well, like a baby. But it's getting wintry here and very windy and the sweet lady upstairs (and she is sweet really) torments us constantly by leaving something out on the balcony that makes a noise when the weather's bad... a really irritating 'chinese water torture' type noise. For two years it was her chairs - metal legs without any rubber feet - that made a rhythmic tapping noise that just could not be blocked out with earplugs and pillow over your head. It took us a year to establish just what the noise was and then when we discovered it she didn't believe us, so just kept leaving the chairs out. In the end we had to go and buy rubber feet and put them on all her chairs. Bliss... the noise stopped. And then suddenly a new noise - a metallic clanking noise. I swear she does it on purpose! Anyway, that's my little moan over... here's a nice cheery quilt mosaic from one of my lovely contacts on Flickr. Thank you Melissa!

Friday Faves

Ice cream colours and watermelon (probably my favourite colour of all)... a taste of summer. I'm off to the mountains now. Have a great weekend whatever you may be doing!


1. Untitled, 2. Untitled, 3. stripes, 4. Day Six, 5. Feliz Natal, 6. Day Fifty Four, 7. flowerbeds, 8. Freshly washed clothes..., 9. Untitled

Friday Faves.... on, er, Tuesday

OK it's not Friday I know. I'm loving vintage packaging and tickets lately. Here's some of the best from my Flickr faves...
(Click on the image to see lovely big size)


1. lovely buttons, nice type, 2. Metra monthly ticket: January 1999, 3. Free Wheel Clutch, 4. Glasgow Corporation Transport Bus Tickets, 5. haberdashery – good word, 6. Hello Friend, 7. Singapore Traction Company - pre-1964 10c ticket, 8. THE JUBILEE BIBLICAL CLOCK, 9. tins, 10. package, 11. collection5, 12. boxes :: red, 13. Miller Line Typewriter Ribbon Boxes, 14. Vintage Tickets, 15. Day Twenty Six, 16. A Small Portion of my Vintage Ticket Collection