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samedi 7 novembre 2026

LET THE SHOW BEGIN

 

At the end of the Tour de France 7th edition I told you that I would like to use some of my sketches in an escape game book to make something like a treasure hunt. I thought I could use this idea for a gift to Soline i'll visit soon.

Since that GG 09/26 post I have let my little grey cells work then rest then suggest ideas then gathered them.

And early October I had my project clear...

Soline is now in "classe de 6ème" in French college which seems to be the Year 7 in GB and 6th grade in US.

She has entered a special class with drama option for the next 4 years. 



I knew then I'll have to use this fact in my project, what about something with links to authors, playwriters. And I remembered the sentence we learned in school in the 60ies.

"Corneille  assis sur la   Racine   de  La Bruyère   Boileau  à  La Fontaine   Molière".

In French it means something like "A crow sat on the root of an heather drinks water from a fountain named Molière".

Because corneille means crow, racine : roots, la bruyère : heather, la fontaine : fountain and boileau sounds like boit l'eau meaning drink water, Molière is used for the fountain name. It's a clever way to remember sixth of the famous 17th century writers.

This will be my story, make guess each name with some clues.

I made researches to find birth towns, names of plays, stories of their lifes and collect illustrations and which TdF drawings I could use in it.








I decided each author will write a letter to Soline to make her guess + 2 more clues to help. 








Adresses, stamps, maps, banknote will give more clues.







Corneille banknote in franc


La Bruyère  street in Paris 


tortoise stamp and hare street for fable by La Fontaine


6 chapters with an introduction and a conclusion.


Minions (tdf 7) were chosen to introduce the game (as it sound like her name) and I found a drawing of the Muppets Show from (tdf 6) to close the book.

Cyrano's profile (tdf 2) for a page about authors and characters, the portrait of La Fontaine who has shared a stage with Harry Potter friends (tdf 2) and the embroiderers from Montaut les Créneaux (tdf 7) to illustrate a quotation of Nicolas Boileau.













I cut pages and a cover from Canson paper and coloured paper, used envelopes and coffee dyed paper, wax seals for the letters. I closed the book with a ribbon.





I made a theatre opening card





I added some details about special names of rehearsals and phrases used by actors for a good pronunciation.

There are papers for her to write on names of the characters she'll play,
links to some texts and adaptations, anything she wants to keep a record of.

Even this old Barbie writing paper set was useful to add a place for notes. 


We had a lot of fun together during a few days, me watching her making her enquiries and her doing researchs, writing clues and discovering the names of the authors.







"Que le spectacle commence !"


J'espérais trouver un projet dans lequel réutiliser un jour certains dessins réalisés pour mes Tours de France. Puis ayant vu une vidéo sur un genre d'escape book j'ai eu envie de fabriquer quelque chose dans ce style pour Soline. Sous quelle forme confectionner un livre d'enquêtes et surtout avec quel thème ? Elle vient de rentrer au collège en sixième avec option théâtre ! Voilà ma solution.

Donc confection d'un livret en six chapîtres pour faire deviner six grands dramaturges français du XVII ème siècle grace à la phrase mnémotechnique de mon enfance "Corneille assis sur la Racine de La Bruyère Boileau à La Fontaine Molière".

Couverture et pages découpées dans du Canson, pochettes contenant les indices décorées avec du washi tape, lettres de chaque auteur écrites sur du papier vieilli au café.

Présentation de l'ensemble par nos amis les Minions, puis chacun des six dossiers est composé d'une lettre, de deux cartonnettes avec des indices et de quelques aides supplémentaires à découvrir parfois sur les timbres, les adresses, sur des plan et cartes ou même un billet de banque.

Ajout d'autres dessins, d'une carte théâtre, de papiers pour prise de notes.

J'ai pris beaucoup de plaisir à la regarder enquêter, noter ses indices, avancer dans ses déductions et trouver les six noms.

J'espère qu'elle aura l'occasion de compléter son petit livret et d'y inscrire sa propre histoire.






samedi 15 août 2026

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 08/26

 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.




With my birthday cards for my grandchildren
I have started two projects
one "the layers of atmosphere" display for Capucine
(seen so many on the net thought it could be useful for her)


1 - Check for "sky like" papers 
2 - Cut half circle shapes


4 - Check for a nice cardboard for the display
5 - Attach them and find a small Earth
6 - Add names, distances, temperatures



I'll add the list of the planets on the top front of the cardboard.



and a timeline for Timothé
(the line of my father family)

I'm back visiting Archives to find the Birth, Marriage, Death registers





Reading, sometimes more "deciphering", taking photos,
making files, trying to connect familie's members
I have already found eight different ways to write my name!
found lovely old first names as :  Adonis, Ambroise and Marie Pacifique!


found that the revolutionnary calendar isn't helping me at all
weeks of 10 days, months with different names

and years starting in 1792 with Year 1 to 1811
before coming back to the usual calendar



List in progress





I won't forget some stitches on my current cross stitch
The Lady and the Unicorn - The touch


I found also some fun crochetting some outfits for dolls




Ce mois-ci retour sur deux en cours pour mes petits-enfants

une sorte de maquette "les couches de l'atmosphère"
pour permettre à Capucine de visualiser notre planète
dans son environnement (d'après des modèles vus sur le net)

et pour Timothé une lignée généalogique
pour laquelle je me suis replongée dans les registres de naissance,
mariage et décès pour retracer une des branches, celle de mon père.
Petit tableau récap avec une frise chronologique pour resituer
dans l'histoire du pays.


Je n'oublie pas ma licorne avec quelques points supplémentaires
et beaucoup d'amusement à confectionner quelques vêtements
de poupées au crochet.