Flea Market Nativity

While in Paris for the weekend a year or so ago, we were determined to go and explore a real French flea market. After wandering through many disappointing rails of rip off designer clothes and bags, we eventually came to the scrappy part with sheets spread out on the ground, collectors' stalls and shops and yards full of gigantic stone statuary from Chateaus.

Everyone is attracted by something different (like at car boot sales when you see a crowd, join it to find out what is so fascinating and then see nothing that interests you) and I bought a plastic tub containing loads of little china figures. They were a real mixed lot, fascinating more than beautiful, but many of them were or could be made to be nativity sets. 

Here are the three I made up from them...

1. The full set

2. The Holy family with a suspicious Joseph who may actually be a monk but is playing the part and a seriously eye-browed Mary!

3. And a rather exotic Holy couple with a tiny naked infant King.

All I did this time was set them up against scrap book papers for best photo effect, but I think I shall make them each a proper stable setting for next year.