ETAPE / STAGE 5/2

 

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We are leaving home for a few days, I hope I'll be able to post on Thursday morning stage 5/2, if not thank you to wait until Friday when we'll be back home. 

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 06/26

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.

Jo gave a new turn to her blog those past months

but I'd like to keep posting about GG on the half-month day

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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.

Jo a donné un nouveau tournant à son blog mais j'aimerais

continuer à parler cadeaux faits maison chaque mi-mois.

Five cards in June/July

For a July birthday card I'm back on my american letter box

for my friend Régis

DD1 will receive her honey pot... I had one waiting for a finish

two bees to sew (not the easiest part) and color/stick the honey

and wax.     For Marylène some tea cups full of love...

For Timothé, I have made a movie clap

I have started at the end of April the Angora blue scarf gift for DD1

Here is my update about 75 cm long.

Fifa challenge will give a boost as 

the warm temperatures doesn't motivate me

to knit wool.

Felt scallops and radishes for Soline as cooking toys

My  birthday gift : Lady and the unicorn "the touch"  update

Dans le GG de juin, mes cartes d'anniversaire maison : une boîte aux lettres pour Régis, les tasses de thé pour Marylène, une nouveauté le clap de cinéma pour Timothé. 

Côté feutrine, coquilles st Jacques et radis pour la cuisine de Soline.

Une pelote de terminée pour l'écharpe de LE et quelques avancées sur la licorne du Toucher dans la série la Dame à la Licorne.

STAGE / ETAPE 4/3

 

Département  53   Mayenne

New department visited!

The town name is :       Château-Gontier sur Mayenne

Rappel des indices / Some explanations about the clues

1/ Joan of Arc was welcoming you on the first post on June the 8th and told you we'll meet again on July the 31 th,  53 days later!

You can also see the two silver keys from the town coat of arms on her flag.

2/ After founding the palindrome name of the town of LAVAL  you'll have to take the road D962 to join the city of Château-Gontier about 30 km south.

The chapel of Géneteil in this city is now used to welcome modern art exhibitions.

1/ Jeanne d'Arc en vous accueillant le 8 juin vous donnait rendez-vous le 31 juillet pour une prochaine rencontre, soit 53 jours plus tard.

Vous pouviez aussi repérer les deux clefs d'argent sur son drapeau.

2/ Après avoir trouvé la ville de LAVAL  (dont le nom est un palindrome) vous deviez emprunter la route D962 et rejoindre une trentaine de kms au sud la cité de Château-Gontier. Dans la chapelle du Géneteil sont désormais présentées des expositions d'art moderne.

     

Our guide was Joanne of Arc...   do you know how many schools are named from her in our country?

Notre guide fût Jeanne d'Arc...   savez-vous combien d'écoles portent son nom en France ?

423 écoles, collèges et lycées.

Elle fit couronner Charles VII à Reims en 1429

Nous le retrouvons sur cette chronologie des rois de France brodée en 1835 vue sur le blog de Couleur Tourterelle.

On her blog, Couleur Tourterelle shows us this amazing Kings of France timeline embroidery made in 1835.

As a little nod to our guide, some stitchings and crafts about Joan

Petit clin d'oeil à notre guide avec quelques ouvrages sur Jeanne

Ray Materson

Other portrayals...  ;)

Puppet

About puppets, as a BIG fan since I'm a kid, I made some researchs for this post and found some YT movies of "the Legend of Joan of Arc" by Steven Ritz-Barr. Among them "The legend of making Joan of Arc" showing scenes and characters with their marionettists are really interesting. I encourage you to take a look.

2017 - Classics in miniature - Topanga - California

trailer :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OJ4mgktQLc

making off :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pz6EI2sRTQ

Let's discover an embroiderer from Benedictine Sisters Annunication Monastery - Bismarck  North Dakota

Découvrons une brodeuse du Monastère des Soeurs Bénédictines de l'Annonciation à Bismarck  Dakota du Nord

Sis Nancy Gunderson   who makes lovely quilts

One of her most notable works of art was a 63" x 63" Joan of Arc art quilt. The quilt was juried into the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX, in 2024. 

I have linked this stage with the    unicorn

J'ai choisi d'associer cette étape à la   licorne

I finished this cross stitch last February

and I made this one for Capucine some years ago

The special shoe horn today is ...      kites

Petit lien inattendu avec ...   les cerfs volants

Seen during the International Festival of Dieppe

I live near Orléans and every year there is a big feast on May the 8th

to celebrate the liberation of the city by Jeanne d'Arc in 1429

See you tomorrow with Merlin the Magician.

Rendez-vous demain avec Merlin l'Enchanteur.