ETAPE/STEP 1/4

Département : 78      (old vinyl records)  - Seine valley, vallée de la Seine,  1/1
fencing, three swords, "j'aime qui m'aime", "I love who loves me" la devise écrite sur le château, the motto writen on the castle,  mars/March 1844, 1/2,
Alexandre Dumas portrait, the names of the three Musketeers, 1/3.




The famous writer Alexandre Dumas who wrote "The Three Musketeers" chose this place to build his new home.

The home and park is located on Port Marly hill,
The Three Musketeers were published first as serial novel in newpapers (as The Count of Monte-Christo) in 1844.

http://www.chateau-monte-cristo.com/main/en/


http://www.dumaspere.com/pages/vie/lieux/rues.html

"Alexandre Dumas" station, métro de Paris. Ligne 2 -  (11e & 20 e arrondissement).
L'accès à son entrée  "style art nouveau"   est un édicule Hector Guimard.


Tant de versions des trois mousquetaires...  So many movies, cartoons, musicals,

en ce moment à Paris, la comédie musicale

 Angela Lansbury vous a accueilli pour cette toute première étape, mais vous retrouvez son nom  sur cette affiche d'un film américain de 1948 dans lequel elle jouait le rôle d'Anne d'Autriche

Angela Lansbury who welcomed you on this first step had her name on this poster, she played Anne d'Autriche in an American movie - 1948

Affiche japonaise pour une version cinématographique sortie en 2011.
The Japanese version for the poster of  "The Three Musketeers"   in 2011.

Film d'animation danois, danish cartoon  in 2006

Un pour tous, tous pour un,
                                  One for all, All for one!

Que glissez-vous entre les pages de votre livre ?
Un marque-page, simple morceau de carton, broderie dédiée à la lecture, amusant repère figuratif posé juste avant l'endormissement,
Voici quelques idées !

What do you put between the pages of your book?
A bookmark, piece of cardboard, stitching dedicated to reading, funny mark just before felt asleep.
Here are some ideas!

Quelques tutos sur le web

ici vous trouverez des marque-pages à colorier

some free bookmarks to be colored

http://www.creamalice.com/printable-marque-pages-a-colorier/

the one I stitched for DD3 on Halloween theme.


See you on next Wednesday, March 1st

WIPOCALYPSE 02/17

This year you'll find the WIPOCALYPSE
hosted by Melissa at Measi's Musings
on the last Sunday of the month,

http://measi.net/measiblog/

My goals for 2017 are to work on : keys/poppies themes/goose game/
and some old works : cube/buttons/autumn/


Only progress on goose game since last month,

Quelques points sur les cases du jeu de l'oie
pour y ajouter un cerf-volant par ici,
un chevalet par là,
une montgolfière pour prendre de la hauteur...

Melissa gives us a topic : What is your favorite stitch other than the standard cross stitch?

In my WIP, I actually stitch "Quand Noël s'en mêle" from Un chat dans l'aiguille
there is a lot of different stitches

and I have loved a lot doing the very particular stitch used for the Bayeux Tapestry,

I have stitched Harold in 2014,    

and visited the Tapestry Museum in Bayeux in last November,

I have been wise and not buy one of those tempting kit, but I'd love to do (in my dreams) one with boats :

La discussion du mois a pour sujet les
points de broderie que vous affectionnez
hors point de croix bien sûr,

le kit d'un chat dans l'aiguille me donne
l'opportunité de m'essayer à nouveau aux
points de tige, de feston, de sable, de bouclettes etc...

Quant au point qu'il m'a été donné de découvrir et d'apprécier tout particulièrement il s'agit du point de Bayeux, association de point de tige pour cerner les motifs, de points lancés pour le remplissage et de barrettes et points de fixation,
voici le tuto de Chantal James,  en français

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNXZ0x1-Sxc

et en anglais (in english)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWOpkKydyRk

ETAPE/STEP 1/3

No doubt about it now!

Many good answers, you're very clever.
This is the last chance for some late readers...

See you tomorrow for the Wipocalypse post and then I will confirm the name of the mysterious town.

ETAPE/STEP 1/2

My ladies, we're looking for an author house.



I'm waiting for your comments
Good answers will "stay hidden"
until the next step when the author
himself will introduce you his characters.









Some news about my quaker,
I made some progress during my lunch time

I wish I could keep this goal... one step in the travel one step in the stitching...

ETAPE/STEP 1/1

Here we are, remember we are travelling from Paris (1) on the map, not too far and there is always the number of the department given in the first drawing.
More clues at the end of the week, it's only in 2 days.

Back to stitching, I have been working on the stitched towel I begun for Jo's Tenuous Shoe-Horn, the goal was to coordonate the stitching with the small pictures in the bathroom.

I added the two wooden fences and I know I wanted to place some boats and now I have some troubles with perspective which was not so clear on the paper.

See you soon, maybe on Friday evening...

NEW EVENT COMING SOON

Dear Stitcher, Blogger, Reader, Friend,

Hi it's Jocondine,

I want to propose you a new trip and invite you on a journey through the country of France.

It will take the same way that on my first "game" (March/June 2015).

This year, the theme is "book",  it can be a town welcoming an author house, a museum, a famous library, a publisher, something linked (maybe with a shoehorn!) with writing universe. Most were chosen because I visited them on holidays.

We'll start from Paris and travel from west to east.

Some characters, chosen in the writing univers (movie/TV) will accompany you, in 2 or 3 steps you'll find some clues to help you to find our destination.

Hidden in the drawings, in dialogues ; they might be geographic, historical clues, sometimes little enigma, kind of riddles,

Each first step will give you the department number with a regional map.

I want to post on Wednesday and week-end as it's my free days.

You'll be welcome to propose names of the town or simply post comments.
Correct answers will be withheld until the last reveal post.

I will add some links to give you more informations, feel free to visit those places.

I hope that you'll be many to join me and entertain yourself following me on this modest journey.

See you on Wednesday for the official departure with Jessica Fletcher (The murder she wrote).

Have a nice trip!

Chère brodeuse, cher brodeur, lectrice, lecteur, amie, ami,

Je viens vous proposer un petit voyage autour de la France, sur le même principe que le jeu organisé en mars/juin 2015.

Cette année, j'ai choisi le thème des livres, nous chercherons des villes accueillant des musées, des bibliothèques connues, des maisons d'auteur, etc...   liées à l'univers de l'écriture. Ces choix sont souvent liés à des visites pendant nos vacances.

Nous partirons de Paris et voyagerons d'ouest en est.

Des personnages choisis dans le monde des livres dans le cinéma, la télévision vous guideront au travers d'énigmes en deux ou trois étapes, la première étape vous donnera le numéro du département ainsi qu'une carte régionale.

Dissimulés dans les dessins, les dialogues, ces indices pourront être géographiques, historiques, de petites énigmes ou devinettes.

Je souhaite poster les mercredi et les samedi/dimanche, puisque ce sont mes jours de congés.

Vos propositions ou commentaires seront les bienvenus. Les bonnes réponses ne seront pas publiées jusqu'à la solution.

Libre à vous de visiter les liens vers les sites présentés pour y trouver encore plus d'informations.

J'espère que vous serez nombreux(ses) à vous joindre à cette promenade et que vous vous amuserez lors de ce périple.

Rendez-vous mercredi avec Jessica Fletcher (Arabesque), un peu de curiosité pour partager cette petite ballade sans prétention.

Bon voyage !

Jocondine

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 02/17

This week has been an apocalyptic one, no details on blog but believe me when I sum up what happened I can't believe it myself!

But in any case this blog will be for a few minutes a space of freedom and happiness...



A real joy to join the SAL Jo organized on the 15th every month,

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.fr/2017/02/gifted-gorgeousness-february-link-up.html

I haven't be wise, can't wait to begin all the gifts to myself of January.

First : Village Quaker from Jardin Privé, it's my first quaker and it's a real pleasure to stitch, I brought it during my holiday week, today the center pattern is done,
Derniers progrès sur Jardin Privé

before

Second : Cuore et Batticuore  pattini d'argenti










for my skating theme
I'm stitching the iced ground
Je brode le sol glacé sur patins d'argent





about skating, I found the charms
I needed for the final touch of skating Kitty
at the end of last month
and added them

so it's a huge GG work!


Très grosse participation au GG
l'ajout d'une paire de patins à glace
superbes breloques acquises au
salon C&SF fin janvier.







Third ; Those six  characters also from Cuore e Batticuore

offered me the perfect chart for Jo's Secret Stitching Sweetheart, I have to hurry to finish this lovely girl
received  by  Stitch Niche



Love the sparking fabric I used for the first time;


Cette petite demoiselle a apporté tout son coeur
à l'occasion de la St Valentin à Stitch Niche

I took back my Tableautin d'hiver from Tralala and worked on the deer, some mushrooms and discovered that I missed an heart in the ground, so I have now to unstitch the white color.

Retour sur Tableautin d'hiver, j'ai terminé de broder la biche, bien avancé les champignons, mais je me suis rendue compte que j'ai oublié un coeur dans le sol donc il me faudra démonter toute une partie.

Quelques points sur ma serviette brodée qui attendait depuis novembre, photos à venir.
Some stitches on the towel I begun for the Tenuous shoehorn, more pics to come.


Of course, I enjoy getting presents too...
                                          how lovely stitching I received from Debbie.

SECRET STITCHING SWEETHEART BLOG HOP

It's Valentine Day Blog Hop
   organized by Jo from Serendipitous Stitching

It's 7am and I'm ready for my first cup of tea and then leave to go to work,
but it's a nice cup of coffee I can offer you this morning

This is the pic I received,

Who is my Secret Stitching Sweetheart?
The Secret Stitcher of this lovely pattern?

Don't forget to visit Jo's blog
http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.fr/

Love those kind of kisses, excellent choice as I visited Hershey during my holidays in Pennsylvania, where I got friends!
It was in 1985, waouh, wonderful memories.

Happy Valentine Day!

Coming soon a new trip around France

new theme :  BOOKS

towns to guess with the help of
authors, shopgirl, librarian, publisher.


Next saturday everything will be explained.