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dimanche 15 septembre 2019

GIFTED GORGEOUSNESS 09/19

Summer was busy, I missed August GG post due to family issues but I worked on gifts.

Gifts are perfect for the Gifted Gorgeousness JO is hosting on the 15th of each month.

Visit her blog and you'll find amazing stitchers preparing gifts or using gifted threads/fabric/charts etc in their works.

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/

First, I started some knitting for dolls (wool therapy!) a puncho, a skirt, a jacket.

I added some "beads" small pieces of sea shell (I suppose) I had in my stash for many years, right color for a nice finish.

Fun to knit special point when it's on small and easy piece!

Warm and cosy.

Beaucoup de plaisir à retrouver mes aiguilles à tricoter pour de jolis points (fort agréables à réaliser quand il s'agit de petites surfaces !).

Back to the kitchen now, at the end of our holidays in Belgium we'll make a stop in Champagne on our way back to visit my goddaughter; Her daughter is 3 years and an half old and she loves playing cooking. I made some ice cream and pastry in felt for her.

Retour dans la cuisine, dans quelques jours, nous allons rendre visite dans la famille et j'ai confectionné pour une très jeune cuisinière de trois ans et demi quelques pâtisseries et glaces en feutrine.

Ces petits esquimaux et cornet avaient besoin d'être joliment présentés, donc...
They had to be nicely shown.

Perfect colors for this ribbon given by JO.

Côté pâtisserie, le retour de la tartelette réversible

My famous reversible pies are back : cherries/strawberries - peas/pumkin

Deux nouveautés ce mois-ci, un petit roulé au chocolat d'après une photo vue sur internet

et de petites meringues

Two new creations, a chocolate rolled cake and small meringues I saw on internet.

We'll see how Soline will love them.

samedi 14 septembre 2019

ETAPE/STEP 15 - 3/4

jeudi 12 septembre 2019

ETAPE/STEP 15 - 2/4

mercredi 11 septembre 2019

ETAPE/STEP 15 - 1/4

We are back in the surroundings of PARIS, so a closer maps.
De retour en région parisienne avec une carte plus détaillée.

dimanche 8 septembre 2019

ETAPE/STEP 14 - 4/4

Le jouet à trouver était : les jeux de lettres
La ville était : MEAUX dans le département de la Seine et Marne 77

The toy was : all the games playing with letters
The town was MEAUX chosen because the name sounds like MOT (word)

Clues : 77 bottom left grass blade

the score for DIZZY calculated with Scrabble

The "longest word"was a popular show on French TV since 1954

Scrabble, Boggle, crosswords too.

How we play crosswords at home on the terrace

Now it's your turn!
A votre tour, une petite grille vous attend !

Across :
1 - precious for Ariane
3 - to avoid
4 - our hobby
9 - happy coincidence
11 - the first one is one Valentine day
12 - our world
13 - to do after seven

Down :
2 - from December the 1rst
5 - on the first Saturday of the month
6 - much appreciated so many
7 - network to watch
8 - on the last Sunday of the month
10 - cant wait for the next one

samedi 7 septembre 2019

THE PEOPLE CHOOSE 09/19

Le blog va bourdonner ce mois-ci grâce au thème du rendez-vous du premier samedi du mois : les abeilles.

Bien joli thème mais qui m'a donné quelques inquiétudes, j'ai cherché et recherché parmi mes ouvrages comment illustrer mon article.

Je commençais à désespérer de ne rien trouver en quarante ans de broderie, mais l'honneur est sauf, ouf !

Grâce à ce lien, vous pourrez visiter le blog de Jo où admirer de belles broderies :

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-people-chose-beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.html

Joining Jo's blog will give you many lovely stitchings to see and many friends sharing what people choose to visit.

The blog will be buzzing this month thanks to the theme of the first Saturday of the month for You Choose : bees.

A very nice theme but which gave me some concerns, I searched and researched among my works how to illustrate my article.

I was beginning to despair that I couldn't find anything in forty years of embroidery, but the honour is safe, wow!

Two little bees are flying on this DMC "Pressed wild flowers" "Herbier fleurs des champs"

That couldn't bee the end of it. Too late to start a new project so I thought of adding a honey case on my goose game. Here we are :

I'll add some blue/grey thread on the wings.

Of course, on this post our guest star can't bee someone else than our friend Winnie

As a little girl I got a "viewmaster" with Winnie l'ourson stories slides

and the 3D effect was so great I guess that why I became a great "honey tester"

Well, now you know that I always kept an eye to the sky,

first the flag of Elbe island (design by Napoléon!)

and lovely kites "nid d'abeille"

Bee is an emblem for many very different things or creators...

As for Guerlain (Paris 1828)

Bees on bottles and honey in "Royal Bee" range products

Time to say good bye with Mireille...

September is our holidays month, so I won't forget to put some stitching, knitting in my hobby bag!
See you soon if we got a good wifi if not I'll have many to post on in two weeks.

Je vais aller dard-dard ;) faire mes valises car demain c'est le départ pour quelques vacances, à bientôt si le wifi fonctionne bien dans la location sinon à dans deux semaines avec plein de choses à raconter.

ETAPE/STEP 14 - 3/4

jeudi 5 septembre 2019

ETAPE/STEP 14 - 2/4

mercredi 4 septembre 2019

ETAPE/STEP 14 - 1/4

Sorry to leave Ardennes where my Dad family lived, but we have still three steps before the end of the game, so are you ready to move on to the west...

Quittons à regret les Ardennes, berceau de la famille côté paternel, mais nous allons voyager vers l'ouest pour retrouver la grande région parisienne pour nos trois dernières étapes.

dimanche 1 septembre 2019

ETAPE/STEP 13 - 4/4

Le jouet à trouver était : le théâtre de marionnettes
La ville était : CHARLEVILLE MEZIERES dans le département des Ardennes 08

The toy was : the puppet theater

The town was chosen for its famous puppet festival

Indices/clues
08 in the water of the fish bowl, les traces dans l'eau du bocal du poisson

dans le dialogue : Mais hier = Mézières et Charles vit le..... = Charleville
the "place Ducale" a famous place in the town

la marionnette Pinocchio, the puppet Pinocchio
tirer les fichelles, pull the strings

le festival mondial annuel de marionnettes de Charleville Mézières se déroule chaque année impaire.
Les marionnettistes viennent des 4 coins du monde. 250 compagnies provenant d'une trentaine de pays proposent près de 600 spectacles.

http://www.festival-marionnette.com

Puppeteers come from all over the world for the festival every odd year. 250 companies from about thirty countries offer nearly 600 shows.