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Brocanteries magazine
4th issue 2017 US $13.95 €9.95
• Visit the children’s bedroom in our
Sleepin g Beauty
• Invite Easter into your home with lots of delicious food and wonderful eggs for you to make. • T H I S T I M E, W E’R E V I S I T I N G ”A N T I Q U E S & O B J E C T S” A N D T H E M O S T A M A Z I N G H O M E S.
• F in d th e b e s t E u r o p ean m a r k e t s in th i s m on th ’ s b r o can te g u i d e .
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APRIL Whom will you meet, and who will enter ? When you open your eye, and a door to your mind, what will happen, will your soul feel free? Will the wor ld seem a lit tle bigger, c an you feel magic? We’ll star t with Easter in the c alendar of Caesar until it tur ns Pope Gregor y upside down. When you dare to listen, risk a smile, it ’s hard to f igure out who’s the Apr il jester ?
René Daugaard Thiel
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Dear Reader
This year, April is devoted to Easter and in this edition, we’re offering you lots of news ideas for exciting Easter decoration items that you can make yourself. We’ve included something for everyone and it’s all something you can make no matter how extensive your creative talents are. If you’re not used to making your own Easter decoration items, we definitely recommend that you try it out. Being creative is very cozy and relaxing, and anybody can join in. You can even ask family and friends to join you at the table and make a cozy Easter get-together out of it, decorating and dyeing your Easter eggs. Perhaps you’d like to go for a walk in the forest first to collect some natural materials that can turn into some nice, decorative things. Prepare some nice food and consider reintroducing one of the old Easter games to set up a cozy tradition. Everybody will love it and look forward to the Easter get-together next year. No doubt about it. If you’re not really into Easter, you’ll still find lots of inspiration in this edition for home interior design and other creative DIY items. Amongst other things, Rikke and Rikke have been painting stencils onto fabric, and they’ve created some really nice things. And Lonnie has found some wonderful motifs in true brocante style with lots of beautiful spring colors.
Lonnie & Vivian
We wish you Happy Easter, and enjoy reading!
magazine No. 4 · 2017 Published by Jeanne d’Arc Living
Lonnie Würtz Jensen
Cover photo: Lonnie Würtz Jensen.
Vivian Christensen
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Rikke Daugaard Thiel
Dorthe Hviid
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Lonnie Würtz Jensen & Helle Routhe Lonnie Würtz Jensen & Dorthe Hviid Lonnie Würtz Jensen & Rikke Daugaard Thiel Vivian Christensen, Rikke Vinter, Dorthe Hviid & Rikke Daugaard Thiel Rikke Vinter Betina Thorsager Jensen Vera Jensen Ole Sørensen Michael Lundgaard Madsen
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Betina Thorsager Jensen
Helle Routhe
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Ole Sørensen
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Michael Lundgaard Madsen
CONTENTS Page
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French passions
Page 20.
French treasures – create the style
Page 22.
Delicious Danish omelets
Page 30.
Paint personality into your home
Page 36.
Vintage Paint
Page 38.
French simplicity
Page 48.
Brocante ON A BUDGET
Page 54.
Easter 2017
Page 55.
NATURAL with a feminine touch
Page 62.
Violets – for this and that
Page 71.
Make your own Easter lambs
Page 74.
Eggs with beautiful motifs
Page 78.
Easter brocante
Page 82.
Treasures with Charme
Page 84.
Dye your eggs with natural colors
Page 88.
The most beautiful Easter nests
Page 94.
Decorate with pressed pancies & fine violets
Page 98.
JDL clothing
Page 100.
Antiques & Objects
Page 110.
Make your own raw and unique blackboard
Page 112.
Bohemian soul
Page 124.
The monthly brocante guide
Page 126.
Brocanteries – in the name of spring
Page 134
Delicate life – create the style
Page 136
PROJECT: Sleeping Beauty 5
Frenc h p a s sion s
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P h o t o s : An n e k e G a mb o n . St y l i n g & t e x t : J e a n e t t e Ph i l i p s e . E d i t e d b y : R i k k e V. & L o n n i e .
We’re visiting Michèle and Imanuel in Switzerland. Their home is furnished with robust things and most of them have their original patina. Still, there’s also enough space for several nice arrangements with lots of marvelous French treasures.
Idea:
If you make arrangements with lots of items – just like this couple has done it – it ’s important that the items either have a shared expression or that there’s a red thread in the color combination. If not, you’re running the risk of your beauties just looking a mess. In the picture above, the shelf is home to many different things – no collections of any one item, just different things – so Michèle has chosen to use one specific color to create coherence. The beautiful, blue-gray color of the shelf is the starting point and this color is also found in the dried hydrangea, in the framed butterflies, on the molding, on the box and on the siphon bottle. The arrangement looks beautiful and calm. The couple loves old things – preferably with a twist. The old bird has been given pride of place and is nicely decorated with collar and crown. 7
Ideas:
Don’t get rid of your hydrangea heads once they’ve withered in autumn because they look fantastic round your home. Hang them to dry or tie a few wreaths with them, just like Michèle has done. Most of them will lose their color over time but that doesn’t matter because they’ll end up with the most amazing shades of light-brown, beige and cream. Fading beauty at its best. If you’ve got a big display cabinet like this one or a different cupboard with glass doors, you already know that it looks best if everything inside the cupboard is nice and tidy. You can also place some fabric or paper on the glass doors. This looks nice and whereas you can still see that the cupboard is full of treasures, you don’t have to keep everything in meticulous order in the cupboard. The pattern on these doors is original but you can also buy fabric and foils that ’ll add a similar effect.
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