A NEW BABY ALBUM 2

Baby boy or baby girl?

We'll know next April...  but for the moment I'm making a birth album.

Ten pages to prepare with old ideas as a link to the first one I made two years ago for the big brother and adding some new ones + maybe some JJ ideas.

Fille ou garçon ?

Nous le saurons en avril prochain... en attendant je prépare un album de naissance, dix pages à décorer en lien avec celui réalisé pour le grand frère, de nouvelles idées y compris peut-être un peu de techniques utilisées en JJ.

I'm keeping the kite page...

Nouvelle version du cerf volant.

The first album had a fork nest and I have chosen this times a swallow Mum and her two kids.

Here is the woven nest

and the two babies

Au lieu du nid de cigognes
cette fois l'album va accueillir
une maman hirondelle et ses petits oisillons

Après avoir tissé ce nid d'angle

ajout de plumes de faisan de mon stock

d'une époque révolue.

I have a full bag of different feathers from a pheasant and I'm not sure I already told you the pheasant story.

I have glued some small feathers

Years ago I worked in an electrical    society and we used to invite some clients to participate to a hunt in Sologne. Usually it was the job of the boss secretary to organise every thing but one year I had to take her place and her boss used to bring her a wild bird.

That's how I found myself with a pheasant on my desk! What do you do in this unexpected situation? I called my Mum! But she wasn't a great cook and finally a collegue told me that I could give it to a charcutier who would make pâtés with it.

So proud to have found one in my one town, I called back my Mum and she asked me : "does the bird have to be plucked". I didn't thought of that! No time to loose, I had to deliver the bird after my work day and before going to the Nanny get my daughters.

Only a lunch break...  so you could have seen a crazy girl in her small car on the supermarket parking plucking a pheasant with energy and a lot of down fluttering around me.

Of course the shopkeeper told me later that it was not needed, I don't regret because every times I need feathers it gave me a good occasion to laugh about that day.

Instead of the baby bed I had the idea of a baby bath.

Again the memory of a birth card, but sometimes between the idea and find the way to do it there could be some distance.

I'm glad with the result : a vintage bath tube shape, a bath foam made with protection  , a faucet made with a handle of a chocolate umbrella.

I have cut a small bath towel with fringes (not very realistic) but I love it.

C'est l'heure du bain,

découpage d'une baignoire

vintage, fabrication de la mousse

de bain à base d'une feuille de 

protection de colis, le robinet

vient d'un manche de parapluie

en chocolat de Pâques !

I had a train on the big brother album and for this one I chose sailing boats. You can take them off and I have add some plush sailors cut in the same serie.

A la place du train, cette fois de petits

voiliers se glissent dans les vagues.

Les mâts et les voiles sont fixes

mais les coques sont mobiles et peuvent ainsi recevoir de petits messages ou photos.

Have you ever seen baby elephants flying, here they are.

Avez-vous déjà vu des éléphanteaux volants (à part Dumbo), voici une bande de quatre suspendus à leur mobile.

Made with the same pattern that my JJ's one, a kind of pocket with a bear head button

Pochette façon JJ, avec un joli bouton bleu nounours

et un autre ourson qui vous accueille dans son  coin sieste

A welcoming Teddy bear going to bed

WIPOCALYPSE 02/25

 

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/

+++  2025 is the year of  "more of" +++

Plus de point de croix / More cross stitching!

A few more stitches on my two WIP, more brown on the left side of the dress and more flowers on the left side of the Lady

and a new project for an April baby

Quelques points en plus... sur mes deux encours

et un nouveau projet de bavoir brodé pour le futur bébé

More scrapbooking/JJ / Plus de cartonnage

I'll still have my homemade birthdays cards, previously shown for the GG post but a new project had joined the top of my list with the Junk Journaling it's a new baby album I'll have to prepare for a new baby coming in a friend's family.

It will be for Pierre little brother or sister so I'll make the same kind of album. 

Instead of a train this time I thought of boats, then I needed a sea and thought it could be fun to be able to take off the boats from the waves to put or write something on them.

so the masts and sails will be glued and the folded rounds will be slid in.

Le second cadeau sera un album de naissance, voici les pages sur lesquelles je bosse : de petits voiliers glissés dans les vagues, des éléphanteaux volants, un nid d'hirondelles et un nounours dans son lit.

Bientôt un article dédié avec plus de détails.

I have a page with a baby mobil, four young elephants ready to receive pictures or informations on their backs.

There will be a nest with two babies and a swallow Mum

and a Teddy bear in his bed

More details in a future special album post with a special feathers story!

More sewing / Plus de couture

The sewing WIP is about fabric dominoes for the big brother

Préparation des bandes de dominos à découper ainsi que leurs dos dans le tissu au motif de coccinelles.

J'oublie souvent la question du mois de Measi, voici les quatre évènements auxquels je souhaite participer : 

Question of the Month:  What stitch-a-longs (SALs) are you participating in this year?

on the 10th :  the Full Finish Gallery     chez  Ten hour stitcher

on the 15th :  the Gifted Gorgeousness    chez Jo  Serendipitous Stitching

on the last Friday of the month :  the Smalls SAL chez   Ten hour stitcher

on the last Sunday of the month :   Wipocalypse  chez Measi's Musings

sur mon blog j'espère pouvoir régulièrement alimenter ma chronique "Les Jeudis du Junk Journal" et commencer à préparer un futur Tour de France.

Four events I'd like to post about every month and I hope to be able to have regular updates on the JJJ  "the Thursdays of Junk Journaling" and start to prepare a new Tour de France.

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 02/25

 

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.

*

Cadeaux donnés ou reçus, toutes les occasions sont bonnes

pour partager nos coups de coeur et participer au "Gifted Gorgeousness"

de Jo - Serendipitous Stitching.

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2025/02/gifted-gorgeousness-february-link-up.html

Opening the post with my homemade birthday cards.

Soon this one will join my goddaughter.

March will come soon with early birthdays, so I needed a new idea for a friend and I'm thinking of a vintage disc player

When I was younger I wrote on this "vintage record" writing paper (in round of course) so I thought I could add a pocket on the top of the card with a vinyl with my wishes.

With an old pen I have designed the grooves of the vinyl record

(so many memories back...)

and a new stitched one for DD2 and DSiL3, both pleased with Japanese food, I have finished the inside.

Comme entrée en matières : mes cartes d'anniversaire faites maison avec pour les anniversaires martiens deux nouveaux modèles. Le premier sera inspirée des tourne-disques de mon enfance, le vinyl et le bras de lecture seront mobiles et j'ajouterai une pochette avec un petit disque pour les voeux.

Anne-Solène et Benjamin sont amateurs tous deux de nourriture asiatique donc ce joli bol de nouilles sera parfait.

My two stitched WIP progress, a few stitches on the skirt of Christmas carols and on the flowers of the Lady with the unicorn.

Quelques points supplémentaires en marron sur la jupe de Christmas carols et des fleurs pour ma Dame à la licorne.

Un petit tour au salon du DIY fin janvier avec quelques achats dont ces dominos à coudre de chez Zazobouzi.

At the end of January we've got the annual DIY fair, not a lot of very interesting stalls and some prices getting totally crazy. But I was happy Zazobouzi was here this year so I could buy a new fabric gift for Pierre, I have chosen the dominoes.

I will use the same fabric with ladybugs I used for his forest story bag for the back of the dominoes and for a bag to store them.

For the baby birth I'm making an album similar then the one I made for Pierre in 2023.

I'm using the leftovers of the paper pages.

That will make a link to the big brother sharing some decorations as the kite, the musical page, the shape for the birth date for example.

For other pages, I have selected a bear in his bed, a swallow and a nest and some little sailing boats.

I have found my ready to stitch bib and I have designed "Miam Miam"

= Yummy and some small patterns looking like the fabric.

Bons progrès sur mon album de naissance, avec ce nounours dans son lit, la famille hirondelle et mes petits bateaux. J'ai retrouvé mon bavoir prêt à broder, je vais recopier les motifs du tissu et inscrire "Miam miam".

Quelques petites surprises fabriquées en laine pour Soline que je vous montrerai à l'occasion du Smalls SAL.

I'm making some small knittings for Soline's new shop and the right place to show them will be last Friday of February in the Smalls SAL post.

FULLY FINISHED GALLERY 02/25

  

It's the 10th of this month and Rachel from "Ten Hour Stitcher"

welcomes us and our Fully Finished achievements.

Please visit her blog and see all the finished projects of our stitching friends.

https://tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com/2025/02/link-up-for-fully-finished-gallery-sal.html

A small cross stitching for March birthdays cards.

DD2 and DSiL3 are big fans of Asian food and I have kept in mind a lovely card I saw years ago with a bowl full of noodles.

I made a first attempt on a light fabric but the pattern looked too small. Then I found these medium brown Aïda fabric perfect for my pattern size and a great color for the contrast.

Voici la première de mes cartes d'anniversaire brodées pour mars, Anne-Solène et Benjamin sont de grands amateurs de nourriture asiatique et j'avais envie depuis longtemps de broder ce bol de pâtes !

Après un premier essai sur une toile claire, le résultat donnait un bol trop petit. Cette toile Aïda marron s'est révélée parfaite pour ce modèle autant pour la taille du motif que pour le contraste des couleurs.