GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 11/25

 

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.

(She doesn't post as often on her blog but I like to keep this link with her as every event she hosted as allways been important in my blog)

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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.

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

I made those tiny crocheted bags for Soline

to play with her dolls

We also spend some time playing "at the restaurant"

and we made a list of the felt food she could use for her dishes

green peas came on our list and as she got some air dry clay

we made some tiny peas I brought back to glue in a felt pea pod

less than 3 cm long

Pour Soline, j'ai confectionné ces petits sacs de poupée au crochet

pendant notre visite nous avons joué "au restaurant"

et ainsi j'ai pu voir avec elle ce que je pourrais lui fabriquer en

feutrine, sur notre petite liste venaient les petits pois

comme elle avait de la pâte autodurcissante nous avons préparé

des pois miniatures que j'ai rapporté pour les coller dans des gousses cousues sur mesure.

I have finally found a shop to buy my missing 3364 DMC green thread and been able to finish the bottom of the dress

also adding the last metallic gold thread stitches

Some progress to on the hair and face too

J'ai enfin pu acheter le DMC 3364 manquant et terminer le bas de la robe puis ajouter les dernières croix dans la chevelure et le visage.

Among my homemade Chritsmas cards there is a special one

as Soline's birthday is on 12/30 I like to make her a three parts

carousel card. I have chosen the fair theme for this year.

So a roller coaster for Christmas, a unicorns carousel for her birthday and a Ferris wheel for the New Year

Nouveau modèle de carte carrousel pour les dix ans de Soline

et cette année j'ai choisi le thème de la fête foraine

un grand huit pour le traineau du Père Noël le 25

un manège de licornes pour son anniversaire

une grande roue qui, bien sûr, peut tourner ainsi que chaque petite nacelle

The wheel can turn around of cause as well as the small gondolas

I'm also designing two patterns for Christmas ornaments for two little boys. I made a 1st Christmas stitching for Pierre first Christmas with a Santa and last year I chose a musical tree for his second Christmas.

In 2025, he'll receive his third Christmas ornie and his little 7 months old brother Hector his first one.

Here are the two WIP.

PAS DE TRAVERSEE DU DESERT

La conception et la réalisation de mon petit désert en feutrine s'étant étalées sur plusieurs semaines et étant dispersées dans différents articles, voici un petit récap pour mémoire.

Capucine ayant trouvé mes fabrications pour Soline à son goût et après une petite réaction envieuse, il fût convenu que je lui fabriquerai un décor pour son anniversaire. Libre à elle d'en définir le thème, sa mère et moi fûmes interloquées quand elle nous annonça qu'elle voulait : "un désert" !

Voici donc le dernier défi à relever !

Une étendue de sable (plate car les dunes s'avérèrent rapidement trop compliquées), une oasis, des plantes, palmier et cactus. Des animaux sauvages et exotiques formaient le plan de base. Auquel s'est rapidement ajouté, suite à des pensées vagabondes, un bonus "Ancienne Egypte" d'où la confection d'une pyramide, d'un sarcophage et de sa momie puis de deux égyptiens d'époque.

A little come back to my felt desert set for Capucine

The story begun two months ago showing my work for Soline to DD1 (a vegetable garden, a pond and a beach) and Capucine reacting with a touch of jealousy. Her Mum wisely advised her to ask for some felt toys for her birthday. 

And to put a notion of "you got the first place" I asked her to chose the kind of set she wanted.

No more than a few seconds after we heard an unexpected "I want a desert".

Well, that's a challenge Gran can't refuse. So desert it will be!

It appears soon that dunes will be too hard to do, so a simple flat desert with a pond for an oasis.

Vegetation : palmtree, cactus, plants.

Animals : camel, dromadary, birds, desert fox then came other species : ostrich, sloth, porcupine, anteater, armadillo.

As my thoughts wandered, I found myself on the Egyptian trail and came up with the idea for a little project featuring an Egyptian couple from the Pharaonic era around a pyramid, with the addition of a sarcophagus and its mummy.

 

It was very fun to do (as for the previous projects for Soline) and Capucine will be inventing new adventures soon.

Le temps m'a manqué pour leur fabriquer une tente de touaregs mais cela me donnera l'occasion d'enrichir mes prochains articles GG ! En commande également : un petit singe, un plant d'ananas, une loutre et un crocodile.

Not enough time to make them a Tuareg tent, but this will give me the opportunity to add it in my next GG posts! Also on order: a little monkey, a pineapple plant, an otter and a crocodile.

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 11/22

 

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.

*

Cadeaux donnés ou reçus, toutes les occasions sont bonnes

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

de Jo - Serendipitous Stitching.

We are looking forward to visit my cousine soon

so I want to have some gifts ready for Soline

More small accessories for her doll

like this cleaning set

more grocery with chocolate bars, green beans, appetizers

meat skewers, rusks and pizza

and a box of tiny chocolate Christmas box

I made it with black/gold cardboard from a smoked salmon package

and red nail polish

After the cataract surgery I had eye drops to put three times a day what's better than a "what can I do with those empty pods" challenge

tubes of cream, toothpaste, soap and frying pans for a cheese raclette machine (still under study - made with two metal lids)

 I have started my countdown DIY ornaments

Some felt Christmas gifts :

some cappuccino cups, I can only show you the cream tops...

On the drawing board, I'm not on my watercolor TdF5 paintings because I have a new project about Advent period after a few months of "birthday cards fever".

I love Advent calendars, opening those small doors to find some surprises behind them or only to start the day is a big fun.

J'ai un peu posé mes pinceaux pour le TdF5 pour un nouveau projet de calendrier de l'avent dessiné inspiré par une carte vue sur le net.

I have seen this card on the web and have felt immediatly the "want to do something like this" feeling.

Can't wait to get started, no idea of what would be the final look, I knew that selecting 25 different doors and drawing them will be fun, but it will be too hard to open them all, maybe only a few of them.

After some measurements, I decided it will need two sheets of 24x32 cm to draw 24 doors and the Christmas day big one.

Different materials, different styles or uses: glass door, armoured, tagged, art nouveau, shop, barn, French window...

Sans idée arrêtée sur la présentation finale, me voici choisissant 24 modèles de petites portes plus une grande pour le jour de Noël à arranger et dessiner sur deux feuilles 24x32 cm.

Différents matériaux, différents styles ou usages : porte vitrée, blindée, taguée, art nouveau, magasin, étable, porte-fenêtre...

That's all I can share today with you because after this first step of looking for different shapes of doors and having fun adapting them to my taste...

Then came new ideas :

Can I cut some and what to find after opening them, can I link it to something more personal, should I put watercolor and maybe some tiny ornaments for a small 3D effect more Christmassy, how to finish it and make it stand up?

and it's always there that things get complex!

Let's just say that I thought it would be fun to made one for a friend I think of when I think about Advent calendar!

Après les brouillons et le traçage à l'encre, vinrent de nouveaux questionnements : dois-je les colorer, ajouter des minis décos, en ouvrir certaines et donc que mettre derrière, quelle finition choisir et comment faire tenir tout cela debout. C'est alors qu'il me parut enfin évident qu'il serait sympa d'en fabriquer un pour une amie à laquelle je pense quand je pense calendrier de l'Avent !

A suivre

To be continued