3rd TOUR DE FRANCE

Ready for a new travel around France...

We'll start from Paris and travel from West to East

Prêts pour un nouveau voyage en France...

Nous démarrons de Paris et voyageons d'ouest en est

This year the theme is :    TOYS / GAMES

Chosen among my personal memories, maybe a little "vintage".
You'll have to find the toy or the name of the town. The characters from Disney movies will guide you and give you some clues to help you find our destination.


Nouveau jeu nouveau thème, pour cette édition ce sera les jouets.
Une pointe de nostalgie peut être dans le choix des jeux, un choix très personnel !

Il vous faut trouver le nom du jouet ou celui de la ville. Vos guides seront des personnages des films de Disney et ils vous donneront quelques indices pour vous aider dans vos recherches.

Hidden in the drawings, in dialogues they might be geographic, historical clues, sometimes little enigma,kind of riddles. I plan to post on Wednesday and Thursday, steps 1 and 2, last chance to discover on Saturday with the step 3 then on Sunday afternoon step 4/4 you'll get the solution.


Une nouvelle ville chaque semaine, étapes 1 et 2 le mercredi puis le jeudi, le samedi une dernière chance de trouver et enfin la solution le dimanche soir.

Pour compléter cette arrivée, quelques explications, photos et compléments d'informations sur les sites que nous visiterons.

Le numéro du département vous sera donné dès le premier article, n'hésitez à proposer des jouets ou le nom de villes. Les bonnes réponses resteront masquées jusqu'au dimanche.

I will give you the department number in the first step with a map and clues during two more posts. A new town each week.

You'll be welcome to propose games or name ot the town or simply post comments;
Correct answers will be withheld until the Sunday when the fourth post will show you the arrival town;

I will add some internet links to those famous places and pictures to complete the topic of the post.



I hope that you'll find it amusing to join me on this journey.


J'espère que vous apprécierez de vous joindre à moi pour cette petite ballade dans l'hexagone.
A mercredi pour le départ officiel avec Merlin l'enchanteur et ses héros. Arthur, Archimède et Madame Mim sont prêts à vous montrer la route pour cette première ville. Bon voyage !


See you on Wednesday for the official departure with "The sword in the stone", Arthur, Merlin, Archimedes and of course Madam Mim are ready to show you the way to the first town.

 No luggage needed only curiosity for this modest entertainment.

                     Have a nice trip!

Back to 2015 and 2017, the two travels you can find on the blog as "jeu" and "jeu2"

 if you want to see how were the past games.

Petit retour en arrière vers nos deux derniers voyages en 2015 et 2017

que vous retrouverez sur le blog sous les libellés "jeu" et "jeu2"

YOU CHOOSE 06/19

The people choose is a SAL from Jo - Serendipitous Stitching : each month a new theme.

Here are all the details and links to the stitchers participating :

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

Ariel will be part of my next "travel" soon on the blog. She will introduce the fifth step and give clues to discover a town on the coast...

First, I asked myself if I ever met a mermaid, none in the Channel, the only sea I ever crossed. Then I remembered the beautiful Cutty Sark I visited in 1979 in Greenwich with a wonderful figureheads collection!

Last year, I have made a mermaid for my fishing game, I got an old Barbie fish tail, so I only had to make a body, a gift cord became lovely curly hair, I added some gold threads with tiny sea shell.

A lot of free charts in "Passion créative"  Isabelle's blog like this one : the mermaid danse

I already told you about Danielle Donaldson watercolors, mermaids of course

Let me introduce you Claire, the mermaid of Paris aquarium

Before leaving you...  soon on the blog ...

WIPOCALYPSE 05/19

Le Wipocalypse SAL donne leur chance à quelques ouvrages d'être terminés avant la fin du monde...
Mon projet pour 2019 a été, suivant l'exemple d'amies brodeuses, de choisir 19 travaux en cours (selon la liste ci-après) et de leur offrir une éventuelle bonne fortune cette année.

http://measi.net/measiblog/2019/05/26/may-2019-wipocalypse-check-in/


Participating again in this SAL since the beginning of 2019, I took as an example some stitching friends who planned a "19 in 19" projects.

Here is my list :

1 - Avvolgente - l'arbre de Noël - Christmas tree
2 - les patins d'argent - skating / 3/4/5/6/7 - personnages de Noël -
8 - AAC oiseau - colin cardinal / 9 - la clef du mystère / keys /10 - la clef des champs / keys
11 - Halloween sous la pluie / 12 - dansons la Capucine / dansing childs
13 - le jeu de l'oie / Goose game
14 - Cda  traineau / 15 - CdA  St Nicolas / 16 - CdA  crèche
17 - loto feutrine / 18 - cuisine pour dinette - feutrine / felt / 19 - dinette Zazobouzi /

This month, I already worked on 17 and 18 (part of GG post),

For 14/15/16, I had some French knots to do, so more than 130 knots later...
(sorry I took pictures but not enough close to see them)

11 - Halloween sous la pluie fait également partie des ouvrages complétés
       Back to Halloween in the rain, with some finishes on the hat, the handbag, the tag
       and the  backstich made by error with two threads is ok now.

The month topic is where do you buy your stash :  my last threads purchase was in the garden center (!) on my way back from work;
My favorite place is the local DIY fair in January where I usually find some new fabric, charts, charms and kits. During holidays never miss to visit stitching/sewing shops as well as museums.


Those past years, Measi's Wipocalypse planning used to follow the full moon calendar, that's why this year I add some pictures of our satellite to my post.

Le calendrier lunaire inspirait Measi pour le programme du Wipocalypse, c'est pourquoi cette année j'aime ajouter quelques illustrations autour de notre satellite.

Marc Chagall - Le paysage bleu - 1949

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 05/19

Gifted Gorgeousness is about gifts, gifts you received, gifts you sent, gifts you made.
All you want to know about this event is here, on Jo's blog, every month on the 15th

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2019/05/may-gifted-gorgeousness-link-up-post.html

Two gifts finished this month and ready to join a young 3 years old girl, the daughter of my goddaughter

Just out of the oven...

The second is the first set of my lotto game, four series ready : flowers, fruits/vegetables, writing and animals.

I made two of this game, the second one is for my granddaughter who will be 3 at the end of June.
It means 4 bags, 8 rectangles and 96 squares and a lot of threads to cut and stop.

One of my big plan for this year was to organize a third "Tour de France" game
 and invite you on a new journey through the country.

It will take the same way that on the previous games
in 2015 (March to June) and in 2017 (February to June)

This year the theme is "toy - games",
maybe I chose it on a GG day or in Christmas spirit

The trip will lead to different towns,
you'll have to find the name of the town or the name of the toy
the link can be in the name of the town, what the town is famous for
(an event, an activity, a museum)

I chose the game or the toy in my own favorite memories (they may be a little vintage).




Some guests will help
with clues,
this time I have chosen
Disney movies
and their characters to guide you. Hidden in the drawings,
in dialogues they might be
geographic, historical clues, sometimes little enigma,
kind of riddles.



Ready to travel with a rocket or a flying carpet
Need a minibus or a horse
All your guids can't wait



Departure planned
on June the 5th,
.



Hope that you'll be many
to join me on this modest journey

THE PEOPLE CHOOSE 05/19

The people choose is a SAL from Jo - Serendipitous Stitching : each month a new theme.

Here are all the details and links to the stitchers participating :


http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-people-chose-flowers.html

This month, the theme is : flowers


A bunch of flowers in my last works :

On the left, the lily of the valley on my goose game, on the right the same flower (fabric and chocolate pot) gift from DD3.

Some poppies waiting for a finish as a pillow.

"An herbarium" 

The village quaker had a lot of lovely stylised flowers.

Some roses stitched on tags,

 ma demoiselle Fuschia                         

a nasturtium for my granddaughter baby bib

I'd like to show the work of an artist I recently discovered on TV : Laurence Aguerre

www.laurenceaguerre.paris

http://laurenceaguerre.blogspot.com/

Some flowers made with fabric, coton, threads, beads.

1ER MAI !

En ce 1er mai, quelques brins de muguet pour vous porter bonheur.

Lovely tradition here, to offer a few sprigs of lily of the valley as good luck on the first day of May.


It's my favorite flower, certainly because my birthday is tomorrow...

Un clin d'oeil à l'équipe de rugby de Toulon dont l'écusson est très floral et printanier

Lovely rugby badge very floral and spring time from Toulon Club

A lovely DMC chart, perfect for me

An old stitching, used as earrings keeper...

I offer lily of the valley to everyone I love, this one is for you! Kisses