Show & Tell & ~CC's Antique Virtual $ale, $ale, $ale Shows, with much about France!

Ahhh...Another Show & Tell Friday, with Kelli from "Kelli's House"! Please be sure to meander on over to her place to catch all the other beauties that are being shared today!

Below my Show & Tell, you'll enjoy another fun featured Virtual $ale, $ale, $ale tour that I recently returned from the Northeast from. Many items reflect my love and passion for things very French!

My Show & Tell: As a young girl, I was totally enamored and in awe of my Grandmother. Everything about her I loved, and still do...even in my memories. These simple little rubber banded boxes below is how she stored much of her lovely pieces of jewelry, and I am blessed to have three of them. She kept them in this huge wood cedar lined chest she had in her bedroom and every so often, we'd sit there together while she showed me what lay beneath many of the rubber bands and under the lids.

As you'll see in the following pictures, I tried to capture what the items looked like as she lifted each lid. I never grew tired of the times we spent going through these little boxes, it was as if there were a huge treasure in each one.

The pearls I remember her wearing often, and many times I would play dress up and try them on.

The watch in the small box was so worn by her that it seems impossible that she could have ever worn it to bring it to this state. I'm wondering if it didn't belong to her mother.

I don't recall this rhinestone pin, but I'm so grateful that I now have it. The key represents to me that her memory will always be the "key" that opens my heart when I see my little rubber band boxes in my closet. When my little granddaughter, Cate, is old enough, I want to do the very same thing with her. Who has need of a fancy jewelry box, when I can pass down to her the mysteries that unfold under the lid of an unknown treasure like one of these my precious Grandma Odessa shared with me?

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Welcome to Lucketts Store & The Bee Cottage in Leesburg, VA

for our Virtual $ale Tour, with Much about France!!!

While visiting my dear friend, Kathleen Ellis, of "Kathleen Ellis Life Style Designs", she and her Prince Charming took us on an afternoon jaunt to visit a few of her favorite Antique Shops , Lucketts Store, and a lovely Vintage Boutique called "The Bee Cottage" where many chic items are to be found. Come along and sneak a peek with me...and you'll soon find out why this has now become my favorite place to go when I head up North too!

A treasure in "The Bee Cottage" was this hideaway, tucked in a corner...

I adore the look & feel of the imaginary world they enticed me into...

To the left of this I found this treasure of a display...

From memory now, I think this lovely French looking table lamp was in Lucketts...they had both new and antique items in this lovely shop. Three floors full of lovely items! Let's just say I was wading in things with a French influence...
Chic, love the pillow with the ruffle down the middle!
Totally French!
I would have loved to have brought this chair home with me...another French find!

And this Settee was gracefully upholstered in fabric with French writing...

I hated to say ~Au Revoir to her!

Loved this little chic lamp & sign found in The Bee Cottage...

My favorite I saved for last...found at "The Bee Cottage"...

I totally am in awe of this French Blue Silk covered chair... Tea anyone?

Now, all I need is $1,000 to go back and buy all these pretties! ;)

"Oui", a girl can dream~

Fortunate for me, my Mom taught me how to enjoy what we called Sear's "Wish Books" when I was a little girl!

Thanks so kindly for taking this little ride with me today to Lucketts Store & The Bee Cottage!

Stop by to check out the awards I've payed forward this week at: "This Place"

~Au Revoir!

~CC Catherine