Near where we stay in France is a fantastic brocante (junk shop) which I always visit when we are in the area (which is about once a year) It has boxes and boxes of postcards that are fabulous. Here are some of the ones I bought from there and also a local collectors fair.
This isn't even all of them!
The guy in the bottom left looks a heck of a lot creepier in real life!
I love the shading on them - some is done with such care and others aren't.
As you can tell I like the ones of people best!
Does anyone else think this looks like
Ed Miliband? That last reference might allude those of you not interested in UK politics!
I buy these cards because they are very pretty and they make a nice collection. I am also planning on using some of them to make humorous greetings cards - I have a few catchphrases up my sleeve for some of them. I should say that my sister, her boyfriend and Matt all came up with humorous sayings too :)
I know that I have broken my nothing new pledge but I only get to go to the brocante once a year, if that, so I feel justified in buying them. The fact that I have also got phrases ready shows that they will be used soon too :)
I LOVE brocantes - going back to Brittany this year again and have been saving ;)
ReplyDeleteJustify, justify! :) Just kidding, it was a good purchase if you were going to make one! Like the idea of humorous cards, too.
ReplyDeleteOh, no! I was just about to say I quite liked the look of the dapper chap in the mustard jersey until I a) saw the close-up and b) had his Ed Miliband-ness pointed out. Eugh! Off to scrub myself repeatedly...
ReplyDeleteThese are fab! Happy card-making :D
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