SMALLS SAL 02/25

 

Rachel is hosting the Smalls SAL, on the last Friday of the month everyone is encourage to post about small stitchings and I'd love to join this SAL regularly adding sometimes my small DIY.

Smalls SAL est organisé par Rachel et nous propose de montrer nos petites broderies. J'aimerai bien y participer régulièrement et ainsi avoir un nouveau rendez-vous sur le blog le dernier vendredi du mois en y ajoutant quelquefois mes petits bricolages.

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Some small knittings and crochet for Soline wool shop her grandfather made for her in a wood box.

I have crocheted some small scarves, tiny knittings on bun pins and cut some small magazines where she'll be able to glue pictures from a catalog.

Quelques mini bricoles : tricot, pelotes, magazines, écharpes en laine pour le magasin de Soline.

J'en profite pour partager deux bonnes nouvelles : le retour des ciseaux de couture retrouvés sous le papier sol du village de Noël en remballant et les mini pulls pas si moches manquants. Les homard, cactus, boule de Noël ont maintenant rejoint ma collection que j'ai le plaisir de vous montrer dans son ensemble soit 41 pièces !

About Smalls, two good news to share...

I have found back my lost Christmas not so ugly small sweaters  (in a box under my bed). I was so sorry to have lost my losbster, snow globe, cactus... They are all together now, great occasion to take a memory picture!    41 small sweaters!

and packing back the Christmas village I found my sewing cissors under the "ground" paper!

JJJ 16 LE JEUDI DU JUNK JOURNAL

 Junk Journaling is back, first I have found an idea to show my button book!

I thought a buttons jar would be nice, I have cut a shape and sewn it, make a small pocket to welcome the story and attach it to a top.

I have glued a ribbon for a nice lid and put small real buttons in the bottom.

J'ai trouvé comment "exposer" mon livre bouton !

Un "bocal" découpé dans une feuille plastique cousue remplie de quelques petits boutons colorés et disposant d'un couvercle muni d'une mini pochette dans laquelle est glissée mon histoire.

Restons dans le thème des boutons, mon prochain projet s'inspirera des présentation de boutons avec des coutures originales comme celles-ci vu sur la toile.

A défaut d'utiliser des vrais, trop épais pour mon journal, j'ai coupé des formes rondes dans une barquette en bois, percé des trous et je dois maintenant trouver une toile probablement une Aîda blanche ou beige sur laquelle les coudre.

Speaking of buttons, I have seen a lot of nice DIY made with them and wanted to add a special page in my JJ. Probably for the 2nd tome as it will be a little too thick for my first project already a belly one.

The idea was to sew some buttons with perlé cotton making some patterns in the way of those pictures

Of course I could use real flat buttons but the goal isn't to buy something so I cut button shapes in a kind of wood food tray and made holes. I will probably shade the edges and look for a white or beige Aïda fabric to sew them on.

There is a lot of pockets examples on JJ tutos, most often it's your stash which decides of your project. I have found those four pockets from a stamp magazine and that will be perfect for a clockwise direction pocket page.

I have covered them with 4 flowered papers I got as Christmas present.

I have decided that will be a Tilda dedicated page so I have cut four cards in an old paper book I have bought years ago.

Beaucoup de modèle de pochettes dans les tutos de JJ, le plus souvent c'est votre stock qui décide de vos projets. J'ai retrouvé quatre pochettes de même format reçues avec un magazine de timbres, je les ai recouvertes avec des feuillets fleuris reçus à Noël.

Collées sur un support dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre, elles vont recevoir quatre cartonnettes découpées dans mon bloc Tilda.

In the box where I put junk papers, envelops, ads... I have kept an advertising we received with our coffee maker kind of paper flower with shaped petals you can open like a fan.

Such nice colors and I'll cover the back with colored papers and add sewings pictures cut in magazines.

Recyclage de publicités, notamment de cette jolie fleur reçue avec une machine à café. Le verso des pages pétales sera recouvert de papiers colorés pour recevoir des dessins thème couture découpés dans des magazines.

A NEW BABY ALBUM 2

Baby boy or baby girl?

We'll know next April...  but for the moment I'm making a birth album.

Ten pages to prepare with old ideas as a link to the first one I made two years ago for the big brother and adding some new ones + maybe some JJ ideas.

Fille ou garçon ?

Nous le saurons en avril prochain... en attendant je prépare un album de naissance, dix pages à décorer en lien avec celui réalisé pour le grand frère, de nouvelles idées y compris peut-être un peu de techniques utilisées en JJ.

I'm keeping the kite page...

Nouvelle version du cerf volant.

The first album had a fork nest and I have chosen this times a swallow Mum and her two kids.

Here is the woven nest

and the two babies

Au lieu du nid de cigognes
cette fois l'album va accueillir
une maman hirondelle et ses petits oisillons

Après avoir tissé ce nid d'angle

ajout de plumes de faisan de mon stock

d'une époque révolue.

I have a full bag of different feathers from a pheasant and I'm not sure I already told you the pheasant story.

I have glued some small feathers

Years ago I worked in an electrical    society and we used to invite some clients to participate to a hunt in Sologne. Usually it was the job of the boss secretary to organise every thing but one year I had to take her place and her boss used to bring her a wild bird.

That's how I found myself with a pheasant on my desk! What do you do in this unexpected situation? I called my Mum! But she wasn't a great cook and finally a collegue told me that I could give it to a charcutier who would make pâtés with it.

So proud to have found one in my one town, I called back my Mum and she asked me : "does the bird have to be plucked". I didn't thought of that! No time to loose, I had to deliver the bird after my work day and before going to the Nanny get my daughters.

Only a lunch break...  so you could have seen a crazy girl in her small car on the supermarket parking plucking a pheasant with energy and a lot of down fluttering around me.

Of course the shopkeeper told me later that it was not needed, I don't regret because every times I need feathers it gave me a good occasion to laugh about that day.

Instead of the baby bed I had the idea of a baby bath.

Again the memory of a birth card, but sometimes between the idea and find the way to do it there could be some distance.

I'm glad with the result : a vintage bath tube shape, a bath foam made with protection  , a faucet made with a handle of a chocolate umbrella.

I have cut a small bath towel with fringes (not very realistic) but I love it.

C'est l'heure du bain,

découpage d'une baignoire

vintage, fabrication de la mousse

de bain à base d'une feuille de 

protection de colis, le robinet

vient d'un manche de parapluie

en chocolat de Pâques !

I had a train on the big brother album and for this one I chose sailing boats. You can take them off and I have add some plush sailors cut in the same serie.

A la place du train, cette fois de petits

voiliers se glissent dans les vagues.

Les mâts et les voiles sont fixes

mais les coques sont mobiles et peuvent ainsi recevoir de petits messages ou photos.

Have you ever seen baby elephants flying, here they are.

Avez-vous déjà vu des éléphanteaux volants (à part Dumbo), voici une bande de quatre suspendus à leur mobile.

Made with the same pattern that my JJ's one, a kind of pocket with a bear head button

Pochette façon JJ, avec un joli bouton bleu nounours

et un autre ourson qui vous accueille dans son  coin sieste

A welcoming Teddy bear going to bed

WIPOCALYPSE 02/25

 

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" +++

Plus de point de croix / More cross stitching!

A few more stitches on my two WIP, more brown on the left side of the dress and more flowers on the left side of the Lady

and a new project for an April baby

Quelques points en plus... sur mes deux encours

et un nouveau projet de bavoir brodé pour le futur bébé

More scrapbooking/JJ / Plus de cartonnage

I'll still have my homemade birthdays cards, previously shown for the GG post but a new project had joined the top of my list with the Junk Journaling it's a new baby album I'll have to prepare for a new baby coming in a friend's family.

It will be for Pierre little brother or sister so I'll make the same kind of album. 

Instead of a train this time I thought of boats, then I needed a sea and thought it could be fun to be able to take off the boats from the waves to put or write something on them.

so the masts and sails will be glued and the folded rounds will be slid in.

Le second cadeau sera un album de naissance, voici les pages sur lesquelles je bosse : de petits voiliers glissés dans les vagues, des éléphanteaux volants, un nid d'hirondelles et un nounours dans son lit.

Bientôt un article dédié avec plus de détails.

I have a page with a baby mobil, four young elephants ready to receive pictures or informations on their backs.

There will be a nest with two babies and a swallow Mum

and a Teddy bear in his bed

More details in a future special album post with a special feathers story!

More sewing / Plus de couture

The sewing WIP is about fabric dominoes for the big brother

Préparation des bandes de dominos à découper ainsi que leurs dos dans le tissu au motif de coccinelles.

J'oublie souvent la question du mois de Measi, voici les quatre évènements auxquels je souhaite participer : 

Question of the Month:  What stitch-a-longs (SALs) are you participating in this year?

on the 10th :  the Full Finish Gallery     chez  Ten hour stitcher

on the 15th :  the Gifted Gorgeousness    chez Jo  Serendipitous Stitching

on the last Friday of the month :  the Smalls SAL chez   Ten hour stitcher

on the last Sunday of the month :   Wipocalypse  chez Measi's Musings

sur mon blog j'espère pouvoir régulièrement alimenter ma chronique "Les Jeudis du Junk Journal" et commencer à préparer un futur Tour de France.

Four events I'd like to post about every month and I hope to be able to have regular updates on the JJJ  "the Thursdays of Junk Journaling" and start to prepare a new Tour de France.