Brocante hunting in France: see my haul!

bour everyone welcome back to the channel I am excited for this video because I'm going to take you with me on a couple of trips I took in the past few weeks to find gorgeous Volant items now you may know if you've been following me for a while that I like to find my Brant items at other places than a Brant I don't know it's just the pleasure of treasure hunting and Finding the Treasure myself so I'm going to take you with me on a couple of trips the first one is actually not Brant but we have a really cool addition to our rental spaces so we're going to pick that up first and then I'm going to drive to a couple of places that's not all filmed in one day it's over the past few weeks and at the end of the video I'm going to sit back here with you and share all the things that are on this table that you maybe can't see or maybe see details of but can't see what exactly it is so I'm excited to share all of that with you let's jump into the video we're on our way to a tiny village just outside of Dion to Kami godar who has Linette Delbert which is a pottery she makes Pottery all handmade with materials sourced from burgundy and we're going to get really gorgeous personalized coffee mugs here for the cabin and the cottage [Music] in this super cute little cabin in her garden she has her little aier and she explained to me how she makes her [Music] pottery the clay she uses as you can see is black she shaves the mug or the bowl and then it's cooked for 24 hours at a little over 1,000° C and it's incredible to see how much the color changes to this really gorgeous pale pink salmony color but it's not safe to use for food so she dips the items into an enamel bath she stamps on the text that you've ordered and then she cooks it again for another another 24 hours at 130° C and this is the result a super beautiful shiny personalized mug I was so happy with these and as you can imagine I'm thinking of getting bulls and all that kind of [Music] stuff so I'm so happy I have picked up these mugs now let's continue to the first address in Dion or close to Dion where I actually picked up a really nice oil painting very tiny painting and I realized while editing this video that I forgot to show it to you it's tucked somewhere in our storage but I'm probably going to hang this in our new kitchen so stay tuned that's going to be a couple of months but then I can share it with you when we have finished the kitchen so let me now take you to the second address where I went and I find these items online on a website called leang and it's a website where individuals can sell items that they no longer need and it's really nice I have some of my best finds actually I found them on [Music] Le I'm in the entry way of an apartment building because I'm picking up these that I found online from a private seller they are so gorgeous I saw these two and I just love them so much and then I don't know how we came to talk about this I said to the lady if you have more if you're interested and she tells me she has eight more so I'll have 10 of these this is one of those lucky days people they are so gorgeous and a couple of days later I found something I've been looking for for a long time on Le again so I drove to the natural park L to a really tiny village where I picked up this thing at a vid Meson and there are actually many more Treasures that I found at that VI mesel and it was also pretty close to an that I go to occasionally let me take you there hey I used to have this photograph in a frame in our house in the Netherlands it's by Elliot irit I was a little confused because they had changed the layout of this store since I last came here and I was looking to find where the vessel is which is my favorite of course as many of you know and I have to say I don't often come to this store anymore because I feel they are a little ridiculous with their prices recently now you should know that miuse is a charity so their main goal is to help people get back on their feet when they can't for whatever reason support themselves temporarily so they offer housing a community for them to live in and to get back to work and back on their feet so the way that they make money for the community is by recycling products emptying houses for people and they sell the items that either they get from cleaning up and clearing homes or that they get donated and the other um objective that they have is to be a place for people to buy secondhand items at very reasonable prices now I have found lately that the prices in this particular one are really getting close to Brant shops prices which to me makes no sense people that will shop here because it's more affordable that definitely isn't true anymore but I also understand why they're doing it because they have a lot of broter that come so maybe Dutch Brant shop owners that come to M and they pick the items that are suitable for bant shops and they are usually not the items that the people that shop there for themselves buy which is also true for me when I go to OS for something I need for myself that is not the same items that I buy for my interior decoration projects or for you know for the bant stuff but it does mean that the items that I like tend to be more expensive at this particular OS than they are at a really good brokan shop and that for some reason just doesn't really make a lot of sense to me where e I was looking at this and trying to determine what it was for so if any of you know how this is used do let me know in the comment spe I believe this style of pottery is from the alas region in the northeas of France honey told me this when she showed me a really beautiful item in her shop maybe you've seen I've done two videos in her Brant shop and what I've learned is that it's very nicely decorated and very colorful very different from the style that I would choose but very beautiful as well I'll link all the videos in the description if you want to have a look at those videos speech spe spee speech [Music] spe so let's go back to the table where I have all the gorgeous items laid out for you so I can show you everything that we got on these various trips all right so we're back and let's look at all the beautiful things that I found I have to say the vidm that I went to which is an estate sale what you would call that in the US I guess that was amazing I found out about the vimes on Le the reason that I found this woman is because I was looking for silverware like uh knives Forks stuff like that and I found this one and it looks like it's old because it has the pattern on it that you find on silverplated silverware traditionally and I have that as well but it's a little harder to keep clean and this can go in a dishwasher and it has the same aesthetic it also has this gorgeous uh Louch what's that in English for soup soups and these little Forks that I really liked so I got the miner is what the french will call that so that's a set with SP uh spoons forks knives often in a miner you don't find the knives so it's difficult especially when you find you will find them with modern ones of course but when you get the older ones the silver or the the solid silver or the silverplated ones they often don't have knives so I have been told by honey that maybe you've seen we've done two videos in her shop and she said it's because people had their own like knife like their Swiss knives and they used that I don't know if that's true but sounds like that could be a reason so the minute I walk in the first thing that caught my eye was this this is what you would call a set the toilet so it had a large pitcher and a little soap dish and then this big bowl so of course traditionally people use this when they didn't have bathrooms to wash themselves and I really really loved the design of this one and it was in perfect condition the print has faded on some areas but other than that it looks absolutely gorgeous I have no clue what I'm going to use it for this can also serve as a vase and the big bowl I use these in my garden as well I put a Rock in so that birds can sit on the Rock and then drink from the water they also had these gorgeous plates now these are also badon VI the model is Monique from France of course and I absolutely loved this style so some of the plates are a little damaged which is okay I mean it just tells me they've been used I've done a video about how I feel about using old used uh table wear and kitchen wears um if they have cracks I will not use them because they might that might be dangerous for your health but if they have a little like chip on the side where your food isn't going to be it is okay and there were many that were still in very good condition and it also had these Hollow plates that she said the family didn't use as much and that you can tell because there are so much more they're almost like some of them look like they have never been used so I think have about 10 or 12 maybe of those this Terin which you wouldn't call a suier in French I think we called it a suier when we were talking about it but it's actually I think to put legum so to put vegetables in and her mom use this with the plates but I immediately recognized the design this is the guarumin uh it's called K because I have several plates from this uh particular design and I know what at some point damin made a whole series with these blue and red with the decorated rims and they have different styles that look a lot like the other one I immediately recognized that it's from the same series it's not the same model and there are these I just showed you them when I was in that um apartment building and this is the model Marinette by damin and as you can see it looks a lot like the K uh model but what I like about it is that that you can make a big table for lots of people and as long as you stay in the same color scheme I think it is wonderful because it gives this de as they say in French so this um non-matching uh style but because you're in the same colors it is it still looks beautiful on your table so these are actually paid €5 per plate which is a lot honestly uh it's almost Brant like at a Brant you maybe pay eight or 10 I bought them because I know the the aset plat so the normal plates are more difficult for me to find than Hollow plates so I just jumped on that opportunity these uh on the other hand so all these these with this she sold me for 15 which is well some of them these are perfect condition some of them are broken so I think that price was very reasonable especially since it is a v mle i find them at M and they'll be more expensive a lot of online pocon stores like Etsy will sell it at higher prices which makes sense because it's just more work even if they have you pay for shipping the shipping is ridiculous but it's also all the time that you put in as a pokon seller to carefully pack things and wrap things and bring it somewhere to be shipped so those prices generally are much much higher so let's go back to the house where I found these gorgeous plates this gorgeous set the tolet and the silverware because she also gifted me these two vases that I was looking at she meant she saw me looking at them and so she was like okay uh if you want to take those just just take those they're a gift I just want to get rid of everything I usually don't like it when they have painted flowers on them but somehow these spoke to me and I was happy she gifted them to me I use them everywhere around the house to put little flowers in everywhere during the summer season when we have plenty of fresh flowers from our garden and I also bought this p in uh what is that a skillet a Copper Skillet I don't have the habit of using copper in my kitchen I use cast iron but I thought it would look really nice in my new kitchen to hang where my wood fired stove will go and as you can see it was in quite good condition I just need to give it a really good clean she actually gave me the the product to clean it because she said I'm getting rid of all the copper items so you can have that if you want and the last thing that I saw and we were just laughing the woman and I because I said I told my husband I would come pick up the mener so he's going to be very surprised when he sees me come back home with so many more items than I was actually coming for because she had a whole collection of books these little books caught my eye um because it said so that means love stories from the French history it's I think a collection of stories or historical facts about who was dating who and who was married to whom and I think it's just interesting because when you think back about marriage and love how it was like in the day back in the day um it had a lot of impact who you married and people had had a lot of opinions about what you did and I think it was this collect little cards that you then had to glue into the book because every so many pages there seems to be like a card that was glued in so so it looks like it was some kind of some kind of like collector's item things it just I was just so intrigued by it and the woman saw that and she said you can get them for €1 all of them so I was talking about how I went to uh the in that's in so that was really close to where the vi was I saw a couple of M Cafe and this one actually the bottom came off when I put it in my car car so but Olaf can easily fix it it is complete this is all still complete the little um opening here is still sometimes that's missing uh the drawer was in really good condition and clean and it is a p one so it still has the P brand on it um and I thought oh they probably sell this at 30 or something so I went up to the guy anyway cuz I was just curious it didn't have a price they sold this to me for €5 which is an absolute steal so that's all I got at that am and then I went to my local M which is only 10 minutes away I did not film there but I am really happy to share the finds with you let's start with these glasses because I have a couple of these we these are just glasses is in Crystal so this is completely safe to drink from as well and I had many of these and a lot broke and and some were smaller so every time I see them because we use them all the time I buy them so I got four of these and I was also really happy to find this now I need to get this the price tag off it's been on there for very long by the look of it um I often make cookies or a little snack for our guests and I actually wanted to have one of those um clush I don't know what that is uh and it's akok which is a very well-known brand you may have seen the pink swirl Depression Glass glasses that I have I have a whole collection of them uh which is called Rosaline it's by arok as well it's the glass manufacturer I would say in France but I just thought this was really nice when I like just want to have two pieces of cake and put that in the cabin or the cottage also found a whole set of these uh deang I have have many of these and we use them all the time for coffee or for water uh at our dinner table cuz I really like combining glass with Earth wear in these brown colors and I even think they go very nice with with these colors I like mixing everything up and I also found and they are not very easy to find these Mir the Barb so that's Barber's mirrors the back is usually leather this one was very damaged I have a nicer one but I will be hanging this in our future toilet that we're going to create for our family's home and what I liked about this smaller one is that you can sit it somewhere when maybe when you do your makeup so I was getting all kinds of ideas for my uh what is that called my vanity that I'm going to have in our new bedroom uh I don't use a lot of makeup but when I do I need a good mirror cuz I'm 46 I also found these doer ver doer what do you call them um they were a little damaged they weren't in perfect condition but I'm going to use them as Decor I think and I just really like to be able to put them on my kitchen cuz since I was thinking of having some copper for Decor um I also have a really nice set of copper kitchen utensils I just wanted to bring them in I can always donate them back to M or sell them I don't really sell anything anymore but occasionally when I think oh uh I'm not going to use this in my home they I'm put I put them up for adoption as I say somebody else can adopt them for their home so that was my little or big haul that I was really excited about I know some people think that every time I go to m I end up finding all of this that's definitely c not the case there are many many times that I go when I don't find anything at all I always like to say that so that you're realistic about when you travel to France how well you're going to be able to find things what I always say to our guests is if you really have specific items in mind for example I did this when I wanted to buy plated silverplated knives I know where to go and I'll know that I'll find them if I go to em I need to go maybe 20 times and I still haven't found them specific item you need the best way to do it for me to find it is to go to L and search it on that website why because a lot of the sellers there are individuals so for example this woman cleaning up the house she does not necessarily want the best price for it she just wants it to go professional sellers on leang you'll you'll recognize them because prices will be much higher but again they have done all the sourcing they have been doing the 50 drives or what cleaning somebody's house and in between the mess found the treasures so they deserve to get a profit um that's how I look at it so a br or um a search online either in an Etsy shop or on Le is the easiest and fastest way to find something you're particularly looking for to find the treasures like these aren't items that I was looking for it's like you just run into them you love them you fall in love with them you buy them same for the Set uh set the toilet same for these books that for me is the pleasure of going into a Brant store going to mius or going to a v it would also be the same thrill you find in a VI which is where everybody just it's like a big market and everybody can just you just pay to get a meter you just empty your attic and you take a little blanket and that's how you try to sell your stuff that is a v g I don't really like them because they're just too overwhelming for me too many people too many stalls it just doesn't work for me but you do have that thrill of like there's a box underneath the stall and you're opening it and then there's this gorgeous thing in there thanks for watching as always and I will be back next week with a new video bye for now