GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 07/25

 

It's always nice to make gifts, nice too to receive some

                        and use them in our stitching projects.

It's great and fun to show all this and the perfect place is

on Jo's blog Serendipitous Stitching on the 15th of each month

for the Gifted Gorgeousness post.

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Cadeaux donnés ou reçus, toutes les occasions sont bonnes

pour partager nos coups de coeur et participer au "Gifted Gorgeousness"

de Jo - Serendipitous Stitching.

Opening the post with my birthday cards as often

Timothé's card was fun to make,"hamburger and French fries"

My fourteen ways to wish him an Happy Birthday

Capucine found all the 9 hidden candles and put them on her cake!

One more vintage record player and a wardrobe have been also sent

this month.

Avec un tourne-disque et une armoire ce sont les cartes des petits enfants qui avec le modèle personnalisé "hamburger sachet de frites" pour Timothé et le "découvre où sont tes bougies !" pour Capucine qui ont été les plus amusante à réaliser.

Progress on my WIP cross stitch   (gifts from DD3)

Quelques progrès sur mes en-cours au point de croix

FULL FINISHED GALLERY 07/25

 

It's the 10th of this month and Rachel from "Ten Hour Stitcher"

welcomes us and our Fully Finished achievements.

Please visit her blog and see all the finished projects of our stitching friends.

https://tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com/

Looking for some fabric for a summer dress, I haven't found yet, I discovered a colorful piece of fabric I bought years ago to make a top. I have forgotten it for too long and instead of the dress I intend to cut I decided to make a kind of poncho top easy to do.

As the size of the fabric coupon is the same but not my waistline I have made two big bows to close the sides that give me the few centimeters missing!

A défaut du tissu robe d'été, en fouillant dans mes cartons j'ai retrouvé un coupon de tissu coloré acheté il y a bien longtemps et mon projet s'est transformé en un haut façon poncho simple à réaliser.

Les année passent, le tissu ne grandit pas mais mon tour de taille si, j'ai donc triché en ajoutant sur les côtés de long noeuds qui ajoutent quelques centimètres bienvenus.

Mon deuxième ouvrages fini du mois, en situation... mon sautoir tressé objet de mon précédent article.

Perfect place to show you mon second Fully Finish this month, my necklace I have described in the last post.

COLLIERS / BEADING

 I'm back to play with beads and threads!

For a long long time I missed making necklaces and with all that you can see on the net it's painful to think that I have boxes full of beads, threads and don't use them. Shame on me!

I must say that since I'm retired I'm more relax on my look... outfits, hair, make up and jewels.

But I love all sorts of beads and I have bought some nice one some years ago in a shop in Dieppe and some bags of beads and sequins visiting Lunéville. it's on my todo list for too many years and it's time for action.

First I love long necklaces like "sautoir" or "opéra", I don't know why but I am not longer at ease with something close to my neck!

My first project is to make a small rope "cordelière" with DMC metallic pink 5852 associated with coton perlé n° 5 beige 738.

First I had those two lovely buttons with Paris views I bought in Toulon!

I have selected some tiny flowers, charms, buttons to sew on the rope

in an harmony of colors from white to green.

I want to attach a tassel at the bottom of the rope made with the same DMC threads.

Then I wanted to have a link to embroidery with a tiny hoop with scissors and spool, all made with real gold DMC thread (given it a jewel look).

I don't need a clasp so I'm attaching the two ends and making a blanket stitch with the metallic thread (not the best one I have made but metallic isn't my favourite thread).

Me voici enfin décidée à ressortir mes boîtes de perles pour confectionner quelques jolis colliers et sautoirs. 

Premier projet : une longue cordelière réalisée en coton perlé DMC beige 738 associé à un fil métallique 5852.

Sur cette cordelière je voulais attacher quelques miniatures : deux boutons avec de jolie vues de Paris en couple avec des boutons décorés, des fleurs, une perle larme, un bouton bois parfum, un tout petit flacon rempli de micro billes. Puis j'ai fabriqué une broderie au fil d'or DMC dans un tambour de 23 mm groupée avec son charm ciseaux oiseaux et sa bobine d'1 cm.

En finition, confection d'un gland qui pendra sous un bouton "Paris - couture", le tout avec une harmonie de couleur du blanc au vert.

WIPOCALYPSE 06/25

 

Time to share with Melissa and the Wipocalypse family the projects we want to complete before the end of the world.

On FB or  https://measi.net/

+++  2025 is the year of  "more of" +++

+++ Point de croix / More cross stitching!

My two projects : Lady and the unicorn and the Spirit of Christmas Carols  on perforated paper.

+++ Crochet / More crochet

I have started to put together some of my crocheted squares.

I have to find back some fabric I thought I could cut a dress in, have already look in a lot of boxes but no success yet. Keep trying!

J'ai commencé à assembler mes carrés crochetés en bande. Ils devraient être la partie supérieure d'une robe d'été... quand j'aurais retrouvé les tissus auxquels je pense les associer. Déjà pas mal de boîtes visitées sans succès à ce jour, mais on ne désespère pas !

+++ Jardinage / More gardening

En juin beaucoup de nettoyage et d'entretien, quelques nouvelles amies à replanter également suite à notre séjour provençal. Près de notre location, nous avons découvert chez "Escoffier" un pépiniériste dont les serres regorgeaient de fleurs, plantes et arbres. 

Je recherchais une plante grimpante pour mon projet "habillage"  au fond du jardin. Terre médiocre, pas mal d'ombre sous le pin et le prunus.

J'avais repéré lors de vacances en Bretagne une magnifique espèce dotée de clochettes rouge et jaune : un Abitulon. Elle a besoin de soleil donc le jardinier m'a conseillé de la laisser en pot quelques semaines pour voir si elle se plait à l'endroit prévu.

En attendant mes plantations de l'an passé me donne de belles fleurs et entourent les branches comme espéré !

In June, there was a lot of cleaning and maintenance to do, and a few new friends to replant following our stay in Provence. 

Near our rental, we discovered “Escoffier”, a nursery whose greenhouses were overflowing with flowers, plants and trees.

I was looking for a climbing plant to grow on a dead shrub for my project at the bottom of the garden. Poor soil, lot of shade under the pine and prunus.

In the meantime, my plantations from last year are giving me beautiful flowers and surrounding the branches as I'd hoped!

On vacation in Brittany years ago, I spotted a magnificent species with red and yellow bells : an Abitulon. Never find one in a garden center but lucky me, I spotted a plant at Escoffier. It has travelled back (700 km) in the car.

It needs sun, so the gardener advised me to leave it in a pot for a few weeks to see if it likes the place where I want to plant it. It seems to like it so I have replanted it (early in the morning before the heatwave)

+++  Couture / More sewing

You have already seen my small whale bag.

+++ Bricolage / DIY

Some news from my gnome, I got more orange cordonet, "untwisted" it and added it in the hair. I made two braids. I'm sewing the beret.

I'm working too on the bagpipe, I have made the wood sticks brown with coffee and found some nice wooden bead I can cut to use on the chanter.

++++  More cooking / Cuisine

Clafoutis aux cerises / Cherries clafoutis

++++ Colliers / necklaces

Confection d'un gland en coton perlé pour mon collier torsade.

Making a tassel with coton perlé for a necklace.

++++ Cartonnage / Scrapbooking

Allways working on birthday cards.

Question of the Month:  Half-year recap:  How are you doing with your goals so far this year?

Well, not too bad, I try to follow my todo list and even though I'm not so productive during those (too) hot days, I'm glad to have some nice finishes.