YOU CHOOSE 05/23

 

First Saturday of May 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/2023/05/the-people-chose-embellishments.html

This month theme is : Embellishements

I was thinking about the first work I have stitched with adding beads or charms and it seems it was maybe my little house with a small bird on the roof and the wisteria. There is even a button for the yellow phone.

Another old WIP not fully finished is the treble clef

with keys  big and small

More recent work is Spirit of Mrs Claus, she is waiting for her wings and many small stitchings on a ribbon. I only added the beads on the apron.

Since I have bought that bags of sequins, I have played a lot with them, angels wings, clouds, fish ornaments.

and a bracelet for the birthday "bag" card with many others

small ornaments as on the kitchen/garden cards

More stars, beads, cakes and a pair of skis...   on the Advent calendar.

I recently discover  "brads"  for diy, great help for me to make those train wheels

more festive.

On felt it's easy too to add pins, small wood characters, squirrel charm, beads for berries and hedgehogs in buttons.

Tiny tassels for my camels to look great.

If sugar counts on pastry...

Maybe you're ok for more Chantilly...

To end this post, some bees (more workers than embellishements)

and flowers to embellish those sweet unicorns

Vous avez sûrement compris que le thème du mois était les "embellissements"

ou dans ce cas tous les petits rajouts : charms, perles, sequins etc

qui viennent donner un petit plus à nos ouvrages.

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1ER MAI, ART NOUVEAU !

Happy May 1st!    Joyeux 1er mai !

Tomorrow we'll be busy sailing on the Mediteranean Sea so I have chosen this day to celebrate May, my soon to come birthday and lily of the valley.

And to post about some visits we made last December in Nancy dedicated to Art Nouveau with the Villa Majorelle and the Museum of Nancy Art Nouveau/New Art. 

Je reviens sur deux visites faites à Nancy pendant notre séjour pour célébrer à ma façon ce 1er mai, mon anniversaire demain et le muguet.

               la villa Majorelle et le musée de l'école de Nancy

Great fan of the New Art, it was amazing to discover all those treasures presented in these two magnificently reconstituted places. Furniture, stained glass, lighting, earthenware.

Grande fan de l'Art Nouveau c'était un régal de découvrir ces superbes mises en scène dans ces deux sites rénovés. 

De magnifiques meubles dans des essences de bois sculptés, de superbes vitraux, faïences, vases, luminaires.

Bien sûr de grands noms : Louis Majorelle, Antonin Daum, Emile Gallé, Eugène Vallin, Victor Prouvé, Jacques Gruber.

École de Nancy, or the Nancy School, was a group of Art Nouveau artisans and designers working in Nancy, France between 1890 and 1914. 

Major figures included the furniture designer Louis Majorelle, ebonist and glass artist Jacques Grüber, the glass and furniture designer Émile Gallé, and the crystal manufactory of Daum. 

Their work was largely inspired by floral and vegetal forms found in the region. The goal of the group was to produce in series ordinary objects, such as furniture, glassware, and pottery, with fine craftsmanship and in original forms, making art objects available for people's homes.

Here is a link, if you want to see more

https://musee-ecole-de-nancy.nancy.fr/la-villa-majorelle-2887.html

I love the floral and vegetal forms, like to see waterlily, annual honesty, coloquint... in lights, stained glass, furnitures.

My own way of stitching Lunaria Annua - Annual Honesty  (we call pope's money)

Le M de Majorelle et de la monnaie du pape pour illustrer notre visite

One year of stitches

En mai, fais ce qu'il te plait !   Je vais retenir la seconde partie de ce dicton météo pour me faire plaisir en mai et célébrer mon mois de naissance, tout en continuant certains encours, par plus de projets personnels en gardant un peu de place pour d'anciens et de nouveaux faits par moi pour moi !

In May do what you like!  It will be my "gift goal" this next 4 1/2 weeks to celebrate my birthday month and put first more personnal projects!

I'll continue my WIP but try to keep place for old and new DIM for myself!

Quelques idées pour ces prochaines semaines / Some ideas for those future weeks :

Scrapbooking : envelopes book,  washi tape

Aquarelle / Watercolor : Egyptian theme 

Necklaces : Beads, Cross stitching for tiny patterns.

Couture / Sewing : veste/jacket,  quilt

Crochet / Wool :  Granny square test

Feutrine / Felt :  marque pages / bookmarks