BONNE ANNEE 2026

 

Bonne et heureuse année !      Happy New Year !

A cette jolie liste de souhaits j'ajouterai ...

de broder, de lire, de faire chauffer vos aiguilles à tricoter et vos crochets, de déposer de la couleur avec vos pinceaux sur de beaux dessins, de découper toute sorte de papiers pour fabriquer des décorations et cartes plus personnelles, de vous amuser avec vos coupons de tissus et surtout de bloguer pour partager vos projets avec vos amies !

I wish you lots of laughter, to treat yourself, to be happy, chocolate, to love yourself, to listen to yourself, to be respected, to dream big, to flourish, to travel

To this lovely wish list, I would add...

embroidering, reading, getting your knitting needles and crochet hooks out, adding colour to beautiful drawings with your paintbrushes, cutting out all kinds of paper to make more personal decorations and cards, having fun with all your pieces of fabric  and, above all, blogging to share your projects with your friends!

MARATHON STITCHING DAY

This is a fun/serious project inspired by Jo from Serendipitous Stitching.

Summer solstice day is near to June 21th but I have to adjust my own schedule with DH visiting his Mum...

On the program : cross stitching, crochet, scrapbooking...

Le solstice d'été approchant est toujours l'annonce d'une journée de broderie marathon quand le planning familial s'accorde avec cet événement bienvenu.

Le jeudi 19 juin va me donner la possibilité de m'offrir ce concentré d'activités manuelles non stop !

Au programme : point de croix, crochet, cartonnage...

Top, partez !

Let's go!

Première étape du matin depuis notre retour de vacances, ramassage des framboises dans le potager et congélation.

Since we're back from holidays, first thing to do early morning is to go in the garden and pick raspberries for freezing.

Good start at 10 am with cross stitching until lunch with progress on my two WIP.

Quelque progrès sur mes deux encours au point de croix jusqu'à l'heure du déjeuner.

Les 32 °C n'ont pas dopé ma productivité en début d'après-midi, petite baisse de régime... néanmoins tous les fils centraux de mes mini carrés sont rentrés. Il y en avait quand même 61 !

32° C didn't help me being efficient in the afternoon... nevertheless I have worked on my mini crocheted squares and even it's not spectacular all the threads in the middle are hidden and it's a total of 61!

Last project out of the basket was my gnome, I have finished the sewing of the beret.

Le dernier projet sorti du sac pour ce marathon fût mon gnome pour la couture du ruban vert du béret. 

Rien de spectaculaire cette année mais quatre ouvrages qui avancent doucement. Les chaleurs vont continuer et la confection de robes d'été devenir urgente !

That was the end of my marathon stitching day, only four projects, next days will still be hot days so sewing summer dresses will become urgent!

HALLOWEEN SPOOKY LINK UP 2024

 

Ready for a spooky party? Jo is hosting one this week for Halloween!

You'll love to visit her and use links to see more creepy stitchings...

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2024/10/halloween-spooky-link-up-2024.html

Nothing haunted today except on the road back from our trip in Ardennes, on the highway this message :

The right lane isn't haunted, turn around

We decorated paper pumpkins with Soline

But I'm sure you are a little hungry, so what about a slice of pizza?

DD1 have made these ones...    Bon appétit !

EASTER TREASURE HUNT 2024

 Welcome to the   Easter  Treasure  Hunt!

Bonjour et bienvenue à la chasse au trésor de Pâques.

Ready to collect letters, hopping from blog to blog...

Jo, who organizes this famous and funny blog hop, explains all the adventure here :

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

You'll find the list of all the bloggers participating, don't miss a letter!
When you'll be ready with an Easter themed phrase go back to her with your answer.

Etes-vous tentés par une chasse au trésor, certainement par celle que Jo organise chaque année et où elle convie ses amis blogueuses à collecter des lettres de blog en blog ?

Oui, alors vous allez devoir reconstituer une phrase (en anglais) puis retourner vers son blog avec votre proposition, si vous vous perdez en chemin vous trouverez la liste des brodeuses participant à cette amusante ballade sur Serendipitous Stitching.

Bells have left for Rome on Thursday

and will be back on Sunday

delivering Easter eggs in our gardens.

I love to participate to this blog hop and make something special on Easter theme. I had this quilling kit in my drawers for a long time, why not trying to build a bell!

The paper strips are barely 3 mm wide and I want to be able to hang it so I couldn't glue it on a paper shape so the ornament is very fragile and as a first try it looks more like a dress than a bell! Whatever it's my Easter decoration.

My letter is an

and the next blog to visit is :

 

https://needlepensword.blogspot.com

Let's see what Leonore is sharing with us...

Joyeuses fêtes de Pâques à tous et toutes !

SECRET STITCHING SWEETHEART 2024

 

Joyeuse Saint Valentin !

It's time to share love with the first Blog Hop hosted by

Jo from Serendipitous Stitching! 

She has sent everyone participating a photo to show on the blog and we are all visiting stitchers to find who get our Valentine picture.

She is sharing the list of all the stitchers here :

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

Ce lien vous donnera la liste complète des blogs qui vous accueillent.

C'est grâce à Joanne qui propose ce Blog Hop que vous pourrez visiter les brodeuses participant à cet échange.

Qui a reçu la photo que je partage pour cette Saint Valentin et qui m'a envoyé secrètement ce très joli coeur brodé pour l'être aimé ?

Maintenant, partons faire le tour des blogs des copines...

Who is my Secret Stitching Sweetheart?

This is the stitching I received...

What a lovely heart offered to your loved one!

But who is behind this secret stitcher?

It was Shelly from "An Arizona Stitcher" who sent me this lovely stitching this year!

I love participating in Jo's Blog Hop but this one is special to me as it was how I found an all community of stitching friends ten years ago!

ADVENT CALENDAR "13th"

 Ho, Ho, Ho...

Here you are, on December the 13 th,

visiting me for the Advent Calendar Blog Hop from Jo

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com

As in previous years, each day in December a blogger has be assigned a date and will invite you to come in her house and see some of the pretty embroideries or decorations she made this year.

Here are my 2023 ornaments, cups full of sequins and warm wishes for a great Christmas.

C'est à mon tour de vous accueillir à l'occasion du Calendrier de l'Avent organisé par Jo, voici mes nouvelles décorations de cette année. Des tasses remplies de sequins et de voeux sincères pour de joyeuses fêtes de Noël.

No big story about Santa in my youth, we were living far from the family so Christmas was very quiet.

With our three daughters it was more festive...

More than 25 years ago, we had a great Christmas at home with the visit of my cousin Christine family. We were all gathered when the phone rang and Santa himself asked to speak to DD2 Anne-Solène who was about 6 years old. I remember her look and how she answered a few questions about having be nice or not. Thanks to the new mobile phones, her dad was in our bedroom calling our home!

Knocking at the door of the blog "Tales of a stitching mouse" Mouse is welcoming us with a nice stitching about St Nick. It gave me the idea that it could be great to stitch Christmas smalls with all the names we give to the big guy...   Père Noël, Saint Nicolas, Père Chalande (dialect Savoie), Olentzero (pays Basque), Santa Claus, St Nick, Christkindel  etc.  Maybe one day...

HALLOWEEN "TRICK OR TREAT" BLOG HOP

Soyez les bienvenus dans le "Trick or Treat" Blog Hop qu'organise Jo à l'occasion de la fête d'Halloween.

Welcome to the "Trick or Treat" Halloween Blog Hop hosted by Jo from Serendipitious Stitching.

Familiar with this blog hop? You already know how to collect letters visiting stitching friends. Perfect, I'll give you one soon, if you need more details the link to Jo's blog is at the end of this post.

Nothing new stitched on Halloween theme, but I'm making a tunnel book and got the visit of some spiders...

The letter you have come for is an

Now that you've collect it, please visit my friend

http://apatchworkofcrafts.blogspot.com/

Yesterday we visited with the kids the "Château de Gien"  which was organizing a nice entertainment for young wisards.

It is also a hunt museum and see what I discovered...

Can you guess what it is?

Don't forget to get back to Jo with the mystery phrase and leave a comment.

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

It is a collection of buttons,

more than 800

from hunting crews

EASTER TREASURE HUNT BLOG HOP 2023

 Welcome to the   Easter  Treasure  Hunt!

Bonjour et bienvenue à la chasse au trésor de Pâques.

Ready to collect letters, hopping from blog to blog...

Jo, who organizes this famous and funny blog hop, explains all the adventure here :

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

You'll find the list of all the bloggers participating, don't miss a letter!
When you'll be ready with an Easter themed phrase go back to her with your answer.

Etes-vous tentés par une chasse au trésor, certainement par celle que Jo organise chaque année et où elle convie ses amis blogueuses à collecter des lettres de blog en blog ?

Oui, alors vous allez devoir reconstituer une phrase (en anglais) puis retourner vers son blog avec votre proposition, si vous vous perdez en chemin vous trouverez la liste des brodeuses participant à cette amusante ballade sur Serendipitous Stitching.

Bells have left for Rome on Thursday and will be back on Sunday delivering Easter eggs in our gardens.

Storks deliver babies too...      they will, soon in a friend home.

That's why I chose to make a nest for a baby birth book, spring scrapbooking!

The next blog to visit is our friend Clare

http://aimetu-clare.blogspot.com/

Have fun    and   Joyeuses Pâques

Bells coming back from Rome will bring eggs in our gardens

Big fan of Cuore e Batticuore, here are some free patterns you can find on their blog.

http://cuoreebatticuorericamoecucitocreativo.blogspot.com/2020/03/novita-free-una-piccola-pasqua.html




http://cuoreebatticuorericamoecucitocreativo.blogspot.com/2019/05/un-free-per-noimamma-chioccia.html

SECRET STITCHING SWEETHEART 2023

 It's Valentine's Day and Jo is hosting a great blog hop!

She has sent everyone participating a photo to show on the blog and we are all visiting stitchers to find who get our Valentine picture.

Who is my Secret Stitching Sweetheart?

This is the stitching I received...

That's a nice display!       from Gwen   Guava Gems

But who is behind this secret stitcher?

C'est grâce à Joanne que vous pourrez visiter les blogueuses participant à cet échange ; vous retrouverez la liste complète des blogs qui vous accueillent ici :

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2023/02/secret-stitching-sweetheart-blog-hop.html

Have a fun day hopping from blog to blog, good search!

ADVENT CALENDAR "20th"

 

Ho, Ho, Ho...

Here you are, on December the 20 th,

visiting me for the Advent Calendar Blog Hop from Jo

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2022/12/2022-advent-calendar-blog-hop.html

As in previous years, each day in December a blogger has be assigned a date and will invite you to come in her house and see some of the pretty embroideries or decorations she made this year.

Among some new DIY crafts I have shown since November the 6 th with my Countdown to Christmas posts, I'm coming back with my Advent Calendar, this one was for Jo!

Un choix évident cette année pour le Blog Hop de Jo, un calendrier de l'avent bien sûr !

La première porte ouvrant ce mois de décembre était elle aussi incontestable, la célèbre porte qui vous invite à visiter chaque jour de l'avent une amie brodeuse.

I know you're familiar to Jo's Blog Hop, so you have recognized that first door as the one she shows every year, it had to be the first to start December.

For my beloved visitors, I'll spoil a little the funniest door.

(but I know Jo will be ok)  

Choosing the different types of doors, I thought it would be fun to have a stable door opening not on an horse but on a reindeer! 

Comet was happy to be part of my Advent Calendars this year.

He is glad to welcome you here too !

Parmi tous ces modèles différents, j'ai eu envie de proposer une porte d'écuries mais pas de cheval dans le box, plutôt un coursier très occupé en cette fin de mois !

I love Christmas markets and a calendar is the perfect place to show one cookies chalet.

Quoi de plus festif qu'un chalet de marché de Noël, indispensable dans cette présentation.

Now, it's time for Dessert, Jo gave us the year topic : What's for Afters?

Here it's the  "bûche de Noël"  on French Christmas table.

The traditional one yet offers many varieties : chocolate or any flavour you prefer.

Génoise enduite de crème au beurre et roulée façon bûche, c'est la traditionnelle bûche de Noël !

I remember one of my favorite was a sleigh of nougatine with a lot of individual logs vanilla, chocolate, coffee and praline!

Often we chose ice cream bûche which is supposed to be lighter for the end of the meal, so any ice cream fruit flavour is ok.

In 2015, I decided to do the traditional Provencal (south East France) 13 desserts :

All details here :

https://jocondine.blogspot.com/2015/12/joyeux-noel.html

Here are the afters I have stitched and made.

Tomorrow, you'll visit DJ who has always amazing stitchings on her blog Tickled Pink in Stitches.

Demain une visite chez DJ qui nous montre toujours de magnifiques broderies.

Once again, this Blog Hop is amazing, thanks to Jo!

Merry Christmas for you all, warm wishes for your families.