Dinner in a castle

Yesterday we had dinner in a castle.

This chair stands in the toilet

We had a very good dinner in a beautiful old castle!

Wet-Felting

Last two weeks were very busy...... I did not blog a lot and did not visit your blogs!  There were so many other things to do. And someone is working in my house , he is painting the bedroom. I love to have the bedroom done but I cannot concentrate when there is someone walking around me with tools and paint and so on..... it disturbs my daily routine.

Although weather is like spring, beautiful days and lovely temperature, it is November!!!! But winter is coming, last weeks there were thousands and thousand cranes flying to the south.

In winter we organize other activities for our gardenclubs.
Last week we did wet -felting, so fun.....
Here is a picture of the gardenclub of my village, we made felted beads.

With my other gardenclub we made mittens and Dominique made a bag.

Christmas gift tutorials

What do you think of this wreath made with milk cartons? Isn't it beautiful? Here is the tutorial.

If you are looking for more handmade gifts, on this blog you'll find 307!!!!! tutorials.

Me and my hat

Some weeks ago, I visited with two friends, a craft show. There was a lady who made fabulous felted hats, scarfs and shawls. I bought this hat.

Living in the French countryside 1, the language

In my small village with about 260 inhabitants, there is, of course, a catholic church.

French people are mostly catholic. Here they say: we are catho.  They use often abbreviations. 

In stead of computer= ordinateur, they say : ordi. When I phoned to make a restaurant reservation, the girl said:  I am sorry I was working on my ordi.

A rain-coat is an impermeable, they often call it : my imper. 

A disaster is in French a catastrophe, but in the every day language they say a catar.

The next example is also very common, when they use ' as usual'= comme d'habitude, they use to say comme d'habe. 

And the last one for today; breakfast=petit déjeuner= petit dèj.

So if you come to France and want to talk like the French, use one of these abbreviations!

We love French knots

Do you know the new embroidery blog: We love French knots?
Bari J the fabric designer started this blog.

She says: this blog is dedicated to modern embroidery. And when I say 'modren' what I really mean is that lately, it seems, everyone is stitching again. We are clearly inspired by the embroiderers that came before us.....our mothers , our grandmother's and great grandmother's. There would be no 'modren' if not for them. It truly is with a nod and a tip of the hat to the past that we are thrilled to pieces with embroidery these days. This blog will offer tips and advice on stitching, free patterns, video's, giveaways, resources for materials and more.

Here are some of the free patterns:

Happy stitching!

My second different lines

In the train to Holland an on my way back to France I knitted a second shawl.
The same mindless pattern, the same beautiful soft yarn in the same colors. It only need to be blocked.

This shawl is for Corinne, my foot-reflexologist. we do a kind of a swap, I knit her a shawl and she treats me without paying. Last winter we did the same, I made her a bag, I was free to choose the pattern and the colors. She said : I trust your good taste. Quite a compliment!