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Le jouet à trouver était :  les voitures, le circuit 24
La ville était :  Le Castellet dans le département du Var  83

The toy was :  cars toys, race cars circuit (we call 24 for Le Mans famous race)
The town was   chosen for France Grand Prix cars racing :  Le Castellet


Clues : 83  n° on Mc Queen,  the movie "Cars", Paul Ricard is famous for an anise aperitive we called a little yellow "le p'tit jaune" and all the vocabulary of racing.

No possibility to get any gift considered for boys in my youth, so no car, no train and so on.

I bought my first car toy myself (age 10) with my pocket money it was a yellow one.






Very famous toys "Circuit 24H"   named about Le Mans 24 hours race.

I have had three daughters but they have played with circuits, garage and cars.

Our favorite was this one, eight pieces you can put together the way you want, a lot of fun.

I have found a nice one on internet, very useful circuit bag for travel.

The only car I have ever stitched was for a German friend found of "2 chevaux Citroën"

Les Cars vues aux Studio Disney en avril dernier.

Some Cars characters seen in Disney studios 

Timothé when he was two years old

He loved to make big lines of cars on the edge of the dining room table.

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Hi, Sheryl

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We won't go far today, maybe fast! This tour takes on rally feel.

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Le jouet à trouver était :  la dinette
La ville était :  FAYENCE dans le département du Var  83

The toy was :  the toy tea set
The town was FAYENCE in Var 83  chosen for its name which means "earthenware" like faience.


Clues :  83   1 / on the cup - sur la tasse / vocabulary : Russian or French service, china, cristal, silverware, diner - le service à la russe ou à la française, porcelaine, cristal, argenterie, dîner.
All the characters of Beauty and the Beast et bien sûr tous les personnages de la Belle et la Bête.

Do you want a cup of tea?

The complet set

Zazobouzi        WIP for my granddaughter

 Un très joli panier
de dinette
 présenté au château d'USSE


Seen in USSE  castle,
known as the
Sleeping Beauty's castle

 Les dinettes en porcelaine de ma soeur ainée

My sister china sets

My grandfather made for me in wood a cokker (my grandson has a little bit damaged)

I'll have to fix it but it initially
worked with a battery
I got lights on the top fires
and in the oven due to
an ingenious electric circuit.

Le gazinière fabriquée par Pépère
à réparer suite à une utilisation
musclée de mon petit fils
Initialement une pile permettait
grâce à un ingénieux montage
électrique d'avoir de la lumière
sur les trois feux de cuisson
et dans le four.




Quelques broderies...

Cette série de verres musiciens vue dans les vitrines de Rochefort en Terre.
Funny set of glasses seen in a window shop in Rochefort en Terre

I have already told you about Lucioles in the visit of Sète who is DD3 favorite cosplayer;
She has made so many princess cosplay, another way to sew, stitch and pay with fabrics, ribbons, threads and beads, I'd like to show you Belle.

WIP Belle  (details on FB)

Sorry, this picture is a little blurry but the photograph who works with LucioleS, Sandy is very talented. She is Swiss and her work name is  "S Photography", some more pictures on FB and a video on Youtube for a Masterclass on cosplay photography (with English sub-titles).

Album S Photography Belle bal dress

How to pose in cosplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8-SRZG45Ds&fbclid=IwAR2-sDe9UA6jrYT014hhs95W9wvJJ3QDnRGJAEe5_xE2o6ZU9Ci31RzaJ1Y



Well, if it's time to say goodbye, maybe you'd love to drink some Champagne from Disney Paris  Ratatouille fountain.



C'est l'heure de se dire au revoir,
peut-être après une petite coupe de Champagne
à la jolie fontaine près du manège de
Ratatouille au Parc Disney Paris.

YOU CHOOSE 08/19

Premier samedi d'août, donc notre article mensuel sur une thématique proposée par les brodeuses blogueuses, ce mois-ci brodons : monochrome.

Tout est expliqué chez Jo :

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-people-chose-monochrome.html

The new theme of August month is monochrome, you'll find links to the blogger's posts who are participating in this SAL, Jo organized since last October.


Thinking about monochrome leads me to my very first cross stitch project back in 1988.
I was more a classic embroiderer (stem, chain, festoon and so on stitches) and as I was visiting my mum I found her cross stitching some small designs for cards. Quick made on easy Aïda, no big deal with large charts only fun. She showed me her book...

I was preparing our wedding/DD1 christening party and was looking for an idea of gift for each guest... then came a cross stitched napkin ring / place mark with the initial!

Let's start, I made 24 units which means in a "double first name family" 29 letters.

Blue for gentlemen, purple for ladies and some orange for duals.

Retour sur une série brodée à l'occasion de
festivités familiales,
re-découverte du
point de croix
pour la réalisation
de ronds de serviette
marque places brodés
aux initiales des invités.

It took some hours (most often my lunch break in office) and I kept the blue color for the new members of our family, here we are now.

I used the same blue for some stitching to decorate the shelves of my dish cupboard.

Never stop cross stitching since. Black, red, white...

An old blackwork from a "Modes et Travaux" magazine, I made one for a friend and the second is somewhere waiting for a frame.

Free chart from Gazette 94

https://gazette94.blogspot.com/search/label/coeur

some lace charts and a dark blue for a sea theme