COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS 2

Je rouvre officiellement mon JJ de Noël commencé l'an passé !

I won't go back to what I made last year for my Christmas Junk Journal

only to finish my Christmas movies calendar

the 24 little booklets are ready

I'll have to put inside some small sheets

with my favorite movies!

Retour sur mon calendrier de films, et ajout des feuillets

dans les 24 petits carnets

pour y écrire le titre de mes téléfilms de Noël favoris.

Some new ideas for the Christmas Junk Journal but first I have to finish the "HO HO HO" page cutting the missing letters.

Can't miss poinsettia in my JJ, I have used old fabric flowers

from a broken garland 

I have good memories playing with my Viewmaster when I was a kid and I'd like to use this special shape to decorate my JJ. I'll need to cut a round paper and small "windows" before adding tiny sitckers.

En souvenir des bons moments passés à jouer avec le Viewmaster de mon enfance j'avais envie d'utiliser cette forme pour fabriquer un décor avec de petits autocollants un peu brillants.

New additions on the pages ;             with...    a maze, looks like Santa got some troubles following his reindeer

Christmas chromos

Next ideas in progress :

- Cooking must find its place in the JJ, special recipes to keep in.

I'm listing ideas like : Christmas cookies in felt/cardboard, chocolate box, using family cards to glue recipes on the back, 

- Christmas songs too, so I'll have to print lyrics of my favorite songs.

- I have seen somewhere on the net a very clever tuto to make a pop up opening door I want to test before making some more as Christmas cards.

Avant d'aborder de nouvelles idées, finition de ma page HO HO HO, ajout de chromos vintage et d'un labyrinthe thème Noël.

Les recettes et les chansons doivent participer également, reste à trouver sous quelle forme.

Je partagerai bientôt un tuto vu sur le net pour une carte pop up avec une porte qui s'ouvre, l'idée sera certainement également mise en oeuvre pour quelques cartes de fin d'année.

SMALL SAL 10/26

 

 

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

Smalls SAL était 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 quelque fois mes petits bricolages.

https://tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com/

It didn't post about it this summer only as a secret paper work during the FIFA challenge as it was small gifts.

I have already made some "buttons books" - the last one was for my sewing JJ. This time I wanted to send some to my bloggers friends who participate to the TdF 7 from May to September. 

Making "series" is a different way to do but it can be fun too.

I didn't found enough cork buttons for my five books

so I chose clear plastic buttons which fit the right size

Looking for an idea for a small box to protect them

I remembered the smatchboxes that were common a few years ago

the shape is perfect, the size can be "made-to-measure"

adjusted to what you want

I only sent three at this time but the other envelopes will soon

be ready to go

Mon premier livre bouton date de l'été 2024

et j'en ai refait un pour mon JJ couture,

cette fois je voulais en confectionner pour les

voyageuses du TdF7.

Pour ces nouveaux modèles j'ai utilisé quelques boutons en

liège restant à désépaissir et d'autres en plastique transparent

dont la taille correspondait au format.

Je cherchais une idée pour une petite pochette de protection

et je me suis souvenue des pochettes d'allumettes très courantes

il y a quelques années et faciles à adapter à mes besoins.

Du "sur-mesure" avec une fermeture pratique.

WIPOCALYPSE 10/26

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/

+++  2026 is the year of  "more of" +++

Sewing / Cooking / Junk Journaling / Beads / Wool / Felt / Gardening / Writing / Scrapbooking / Cross stitching / Watercolor

More gardening

the garden is kind of recovering from the heatwaves with

unexpected flowering : clematis and bindwind

but mosquitos still keep me far from my schedule in the flower beds

so only some cuttings in a plant terrarium

More cooking

As shown in the Bon Appétit post before autumn menus some last summer meals with vegetables marined and grilled with olive oil.

Served with pork and black Camargue rice.

More junk journaling and paper crafting

November birthdays cards and a special mysterious theatre book you'll see soon with a lot of paper crafts.

and another special project with one branch of the family tree

for Timothé, from 1633 to the present day, a great deal of research.

More crochet and knitting

I'd managed to knit the scarf in a few days but didn't get the chance to give it to DSiL1 before his London trip. He will receive it before the first really cold days anyway.

More Christmas

The Christmas countdown has officially started on October the 17th.

I'll post CC articles as I make progress. As every year, it's a long list.

I have lost track of topics as Measi.net doesn't work since August check-in.

Pas de petites croix ce mois-ci, beaucoup de cartonnage avec divers projets autour des cartes d'anniversaire et d'un livre enquête théâtre. De longues heures de recherche pour finaliser une branche de mon arbre généalogique pour Timothé.

Une écharpe de sorcier, quelques plantations de bouture et une dernière tournée de délicieux légumes grillés avant les menus d'automne.

Bien sûr, le compte à rebours de Noël a démarré avec une liste aussi fournie que les années précédentes et autant de plaisir à retrouver tous mes petits bricolages.

COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS 1

 

Well the big question will be what to start with!

First I can't wait to make cards, those past weeks, months I had a lot of fun with cutting, gluing papers, with my JJ hobby and kind of scrapbooking.

Then as we have some holidays next weeks I can prepare some small works I could take with me and do during the travel in the car as knitting, sewing, easy embroidery.

So I'm filling a bag with white and red wool for knitted baubles, felt sweats to assemble and my Vichy fabric for stars cross stitches (if I find it).

The first pattern I want to try is a card with 4 folded snowmen shown as a garland what we call a "ribambelle".

I was planning to add top and woolen hats, scarves and cut tiny carrotts for the nose, maybe some twigs (paper or real wood?).

Top hats will be cut in a shiny black cardboard and I found a nice pink paper perfect for the woolen caps.

Noses will be made in felt, eyes maybe made with sequins.

I have already cut some felt for tiny not so ugly pullovers. I might sew them with pearl cotton during my holidays and work on the new designs too.

I'm making Xmas balls again

some in wool, knitted following the pattern I use last year

I wanted smaller ones so I increased the number of stitches from 25 to 20 and the ranks from 31 to 26.

I'm afraid it won't look so good as I used a "second use" white wool I got unravelling a small unfinished pullover. I washed it but the wool is still curly... recycling has its limits!

Trop impatiente de commencer à bricoler des cartes de Noël avec un nouveau modèle : une ribambelle de bonhommes de neige.

Quatre personnages à découper dans du Canson blanc et à habiller, chapeau claque, bonnet, écharpe et bras en branchages de carton.

J'ai préparé quelques découpes de pulls pour les assembler avec du coton perlé et de la laine pour continuer de tricoter des boules rayées selon le modèle de l'an passé. Petit sac à remplir pour activités de voyage.

Je souhaite une taille plus petite et mes premiers essais en réduisant les chiffres donnés dans les instructions sont ok malgré un souci avec la laine blanche récupérée en détricotant un pull mais qui après avoir été lavée a conservé son aspect bouclé et donne un aspect trop mou, j'ai bien peur que le recyclage ait atteint ses limites !

BON APPETIT 8

 As autumn is coming some last summer meals with vegetables marined and grilled with olive oil.

Served with pork and black Camargue rice.

Some ready to make with milk pistachio flan.

Our big supermarket is underdoing renovation for weeks, and shopping is kind of an adventure each week as the shelves move each time and we don't always find what we are looking for.

But the big conciglioni are back and I was looking for some to make stuffed one. I usually use an already frozen egg plants dish and add fish or meat. I have some duck breast for half of the dish and the other half will be stuffed with tuna and capers.

I have used capers for one of my favorite dish : skate with butter and capers

the leftovers have joined cuncumber, lemon, eggs, parsley, tuna for a fresh starter recipe seen on the net.

I was a bit disappointed with the taste

maybe too much lemon!

DH often cooks at home and I never mentionned it so this month I'll share his chicken in cider

Now a funny thing to share, never see that before...

seasoning sticks to be sharpened!