YOU CHOOSE 12/22

  

First Saturday of December means that I'd like to post about a topic chosen by our stitching friends. This SAL is run by Jo from Serendipitous Stitching, it's about what you want to see on the blog. 

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

This month theme is :  Glitter

Always nice to add glitter to your DIY!

I put some on the Advent Calendar to make the snow shiny.

Some pink glitter on the felt flowers and green on the leaves for DD1 birthday pop up card.

Silver glitter on cardboard for some tiny cooking accessories

for a U shape card kitchen themed

Un dernier article pailleté pour cette fin d'année, que serait la vie sans paillettes ! Voilà 2022 se termine, merci à Jo pour ce rendez-vous mensuel si plaisant et à vous de nous offrir chaque mois des thèmes originaux. A l'année prochaine !

A treasure chest can't be without glitter.

Une dernière poussière dorée sur ce coffre au trésor.

Last post for 2022, bye bye You choose 2022, I hope our hands will still be busy next year and we will continue to choose all together great themes to see on the blogs.

Thanks to Jo, see you next year!

C2C5

 

N° 5

This post will be about the Advent Calendars

I have made this year

I chose to use two 24x32 cm sheets of white paper

to be able to draw doors about  4 cm/ 6 cm

It was fun to look for different doors : some in wood, some in glass,

tagged, armoured, with plants, bed and breakfast, shop...

Of course, soon I thought it was obvious that Jo's door

for her Advent Hop have to be one of them. 

I started a second one for her to celebrate her amazing

Online Advent Calendar I don't miss since 2014

Then the theme of skying seems perfect for the season

and a Christmas market chalet required

I added some watercolor and change the horse box for a reindeer one!

I opened some doors and put some tiny ornaments

Never tagged a door before! Merry Street Art! Toc, Toc c'est le Père Noël !

Some mirror paper glued in the back to attach tiny decorations.

Some glitter, gold and silver paint.

Here are the two pages glued on a cardboard folder

closed by ribbons

I didn't think to add the dates, no more space after the drawings were done! You'll have to wait to see what is hidden behind the five doors, it will come soon the first in on the December the 9th.

Cet article revient sur le détail de la confection des calendriers de l'avent 2022. Inspirés par une carte vue sur le net, dessinés sur des cansons blancs 24x32, 24 petites portes de styles et d'usage bien différents : en bois, en verre, blindée, taguée, de magasin et chalet de marché de Noël, d'étable, de maison de hobbit, chambre d'hôte ou hébergeant des skieurs. Plus la plus grande celle du 25 décembre.

Je n'ai pas pensé à ajouter des dates, après les dessins plus assez de place libre, ce sera donc un calendrier muet avec seulement cinq portes s'ouvrant qui cachent de petites décorations. Celles-là resteront secrètes en attendant leur ouverture dès le 9 décembre prochain.

C2C4

 

N° 4

For Christmas, inspired by some crafts I have seen on the net

an adorable dessert glass bell dish.

Here are the two models I made with a golden nail polish on the edges of the bell and a bow

Je viens de terminer "mes beignets sous cloche"

avec deux décors de cartons différents

qui seront expédiés avec des cartes de Noël

Maintenant une bonne nouvelle...

le retour des gnomes !

Je n'en croyais pas mes yeux quand j'ai vu que mes premiers clichés dataient de mai dernier !

Last May (that's what the pictures said...) I started some bodies for gnome to be... and put them aside for some other projects!

Il restait peu de finitions à terminer mais une petite couture par ci une natte à refaire par là, l'ajustement du bonnet, la pose d'un galon doré et d'un grelot, une barbe à tailler et voici mon premier invité de Noël.

Good news, the gnomes are back!

some finishing touches : braid to be redone, beard to be trimmed, addition of a braid and a bell, adjustment of the cap.

Here is our first guest (now I must find him a name)

WIPOCALYPSE 11/22

 

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/

October was busy with eyes surgery so I have only stitched on my one year of stitching and ended the month without WIPO post.

Seulement des progrès sur les mois de septembre/octobre de mon ouvrage "une année de broderies", puis chirurgie de la cataracte.

Finition des illustrations du festival de Dieppe, le vent attendait impatiemment que je brode le cerf-volant de JB.

The wind was waiting for DH kite and I added another one hexagonal

We met Mochi (DD3 cat) and set up a new water collector

I chose this Egyptian eye for my first surgery

The last play we saw was about Marie Curie (Ra and Po)

We often went to the cinema, I'll try to find some tiny patterns

to illustrate all the movies between the 2 lines as a roll of film

like for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes festival

(triangle of sadness - golden palm)

Nous sommes allés au théâtre voir une pièce sur Marie Curie

une vie radieuse par la cie Slavicarib

Retour également dans les salles obscures

d'où ce déroulé de pellicule dans lequel je vais tâcher

d'illustrer : Les enfants des autres, Revoir Paris, Sans filtre, Simone

Le pharaon, le sauvage et la princesse, Couleurs de l'incendie

November will be about our Japan Expo visit,

attending Louis Chedid concert

my new red glasses and the xmas DIY ornaments

Novembre va indiquer notre visite à la Japan Expo,

le concert de Louis Chédid, mes nouvelles lunettes

et les bricolages de Noël

The BOO cover was 277/324 at the end of October

and Boo was happy to participate to Jo's Halloween blog hop!

A fin octobre, mon score était de 277/324 et Boo fût heureux de participer au Blog Hop de Jo pour Halloween !

Only 4 more squares but as we are watching the football,

I'm back on knitting and a future car travel will help me too.

My first attempts since the implants and new glasses are not

satisfactory, I lost my closer view and can't see right for stitching

linen I have to test with a magnifier for embroidery.

This month topic is : When do you begin planning your stitching goals for the next year?

No real "year plan", I see more my to do list like a river growing with its  tributaries (new projects) with a flow regulated with the finishes without real dated schedule. However the last week of the year, after the Christmas rush is usually the right time to think about the "forgotten projects in the basket" and see what can get a second chance or a new life.