Vide Grenier et Marché aux Fleurs

One of the main reasons we scheduled our trip to France this week is that we wanted to catch the annual flower market and antiques fair in Duras today.  It's such fun to wander the streets picking up treasures, bringing them home then doing it all over again to be sure we didn't miss anything. Of course there was a lot of junk to be sorted through on the antiques side, but I was able to augment my collection of pichets as well as pick up a few new treasures.

Here's what we scored today: 

Two large blue pichets taking up the whole sink, ready to be spiffed up:

A new collection of hand-painted country pottery from various areas of France:

The green bowl in the center is a berry colander and the gold vessel on the left is an old flask. The loops on the sides are designed so a rope can be attatched and then you'd carry the vessel cross-body style while on a hike (though it's a little heavy for that). The big chunky pitcher on the right was the bargain of the day at just 3€.

A set of heavy copper sauce pans:

Two exquisite majolica plates: 

I wanted to hang the copper pots on the iron hooks in the kitchen and was ready to get the rickety stepladder out of the attic when Joe came up with a great idea--the old broom handle method:

Here they are all clean and perfect in their new spot: