Four dead swallows and some baby hedgehogs

Life in the countryside is not always as peaceful as you want...... We had a swallow nest in the barn.
Suddenly we realized that they did not make noise anymore.  When we looked inside the nest we found out that hey were all four dead, two of them did not have a head anymore........
 This could not be the cat, impossible.   We think maybe it was a rat or a marten.   The parents were already gone. This did not happened before......we hope they will come back next spring!
When i made this picture they were still alive.....

I showed you the large hedgehog that i saw near the house. Some days later we found at least three baby hedgehogs. In the beginning they only were active in the evening , Rosa our black labrador is very curious. 

These last days you can see them walking the whole day, did you know that they walk rather quick? 

Yesterday one came on the terrace while we were drinking our glass of wine.  He /she walked around the terrace and then went away.IT was wonderful !

Some more rose pictures, they are so beautiful.

And did not I craft these last weeks? Yes i did but i did not take pictures yet. We had visitors, lots of appointments and the gardenwork.........

Be sure that i will come back with some crafting.

More garden pictures

I am so busy working in my garden , there is not much time to craft. After the market I always am tired , then I got the flu and i was in Paris for one day to meet her.

I am re arranging  my garden, last year the garden has been abandoned a bit by me . So this year i cut a lot of plants and make more path.  I lay cardboard on the new path with black plastic  on it. For the moment it's quite ugly but after a year or so the the soil will be clean . It's quite a job that I started but I hope that this year i will have a well kept garden, with a lot of black plastic but clean.....

I still have my fathers flowers.....

Some garden pictures

We had our market last sunday , a friend made a lot of pictures but i do not succeed in having them on my laptop. There is something with the USB stick, maybe it is only because i am really a zero with computers.......
We had a mini tornado wednesday evening! Fortunately we had no serious damage, some things are gone by the wind, that's all . Our neighbour had a big, big branch of the walnut tree fallen down. In villages nearby there were roofs seriously damaged and trees fallen down. We were lucky!!

The other morning i saw this hedgehog in the middle of the courtyard, maybe he lost his shelter...

The roses start blooming, this Bouquet parfait.

Buff Beauty

Westerland

Birds and birds

This birds kit was a wonderful present from oversea. Thank you my dear friend. In the kit was only red and white embroidery thread and of course I wanted more color..... And I also changed the embroidery design.
Here they are, i only need to attach them on twined cord.

Arent' they cute?

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Nantes, the workshops

I did two workshops in Nantes, one with Tina Jockel from the US and the other with Eeva Piesala from Finland.

Tina Jockel is known for her folk art dolls. This is the doll I made, she is une petite danseuse....

The body was already sawn by Tina.  So we started to fill the body, then painted the top of the dress and with a brush sopped in coffee we made her looking old and vintage.

Tina is helping ........

There was a fan to dry them.

We were supposed to give her this face; too folk art for me.......

The other day i did a wet felting workshop. I was the only participant.....

Eeva had made an example and i made the same because we wanted to concentrate on the technique of wet felting. We incorporated buttons and a piece of fabric.

There was some time left, so I prepared a small pillow and we felted it together, we had a lot of fun!

Nantes was: lots of ideas, lots of inspiration and lots of very nice people.

Nantes, Pour l'amour du fil 2014

The craft fair in Nantes was GREAT this year, the theme was 'vintage', so many dots, petticoats, an old caravan with fireplace and lots of crochet plaids .
An impression....

I don't remember the name of this artist. She makes garments and bags from ld embroideries that she find on fleemarkets. 

Lots of color and sweet mice in the stand of Odile Bailloeul, i bought the kit for the mouse.

Beautiful applique and embroidery work from Martine Apaolaza.

Embroidery from Ise.

The Japanese miss Ike was there with her fascinating work, called Chiku Chiku.

Next post will show you the workshops I did.