Other fun finds for the Clocktower Cottage

On my last couple of days in France, Linda and I poked around a few antiques and brocante shops in Eymet to see if there was anything that wanted to come home with me.

Well, there were these 1930s-era cross stitch on linen framed pieces that just had a certain magique about them. They ended up on the dining room wall. I liked that they were completely worked in black-- they remind me of cut-paper silhouettes.

Then, after realizing that a new shop called the Shabby Chic Boutique had recently opened in Duras, we headed in there and I was immediately smitten with a small buffet and hutch that had everything going for it: size, price and certainly the mustard-colored painted finish with a blue interior. As Goldilocks once said: it was "just right."