Some stitching and -just a little- mischief.

Hi Stitchers! :)


First of all, I want to thank all my readers who left comments here, my friends who asked for news of my son. He is feeling better now. He had lots of tests, including a fibroscopy that revealed nothing wrong, and our usual doctor has finally given him some homeopathy treatment that has done wonders where nothing else worked... There was some gelsemium for stress and nux vomica for his stomach. Huge relief. But yet, it reveals that his stress can make him physically sick and it's a problem.

 Patchwork Sampler, Jardin Privé freebie (You have to be a customer and then you can make your own patchwork). Nathalie Cichon is a French designer who sells her PDFs worlwide.

School is over! At last! And they will have to go back in September, which means a long break. While Daphné will enjoy a well deserved rest and the swimming pool in the garden, her books, and games on the computer (her best friend is in Cambodia until end of July, we miss him, he's like my DD's twin), Corentin will have to make up for the weeks he missed at college and the general laxism he has shown this last year. Being 15 is tough, all right, but it's the time when they ask that you make important decisions for your future anyway... So I personnally deal with the German and French lessons, while his father deals with Algebra. O joy... I have always admired the mums who homeschool their children, mine do acknowledge my competences, but don't like seeing in me anything else than a mum...

Prairie Schooler a little transformed with a heart instead of a pink ribbon, the design is/was sold to help cancer research.

OK, here's for the almost seasonal projects. I have found many things I hadn't scanned and shown on my blog in the last year. Here are some of them, they're all Xmassy. I guess my avatar suits me fine... ;)

Lizzie Kate's snowman 2010, but a little truncated and that will be turned into two small ornies instead of one big.

Sorry for the bad scan, the beads don't help...

Homespun Elegance Sampler Santa.

I've added a fish (I had intended to but it was all the more useful to hide the red that did dare run when I ironed, bloody red thread, lol!) and the backing fabric shows that it's a gift I have offered my father, the fisherman, last Xmas...

Reindeer freebie from tantes Zolders

This design is old, I have seen it many times. For instance, it's in the last JCS ornament preview (part of a sampler that looks like bad DIY designing really) and Rosewood Manor also offered it (well rearranged) on her site for Xmas 2008.
Here's what it looks like (so you don't have to browse this blog):

Although I love Xmas and celebrate it in my heart all year long (does ring a bell... lol!), I've had real bad Xmas days, where the people around me just didn't seem to understand the true meaning of Xmas, and the good spirit that should have been shared. I must admit that this drove me angry and that these days really turned into flops and this memory made me change this design just a little tiny bit (of mischief).

This is Windows of Faith, Hope and Peace by Primrose Needleworks, from JCS ornies 2010.

I also did this in remembrance of these neverending wars, those truces that don't even see the end of the night when we celebrate the birth of our Savior... I am losing faith in men. :(
Originally, the design is stitched in a very beautiful, peaceful blue thread, and I'm thinking of doing it too. Without the FLOP word. To honour the designer. ;) And to remember that I should keep hoping... There was a time when asked "what do you want?", I always replied "Peace on Earth". This would make people laugh and ask "But seriously?". I was serious.

Yet, we all ended eating some Xmas cake, but not that kind, that's typically British:

JBW Xmas Pudding

That's it for now. I'm off to start La D Da's Old Crow. I just fell in love with this design...
Ooops, and first of all, German. (It's a chance I love studying foreign languages... lol!).

Hugs to you all, my friends. A special thought for those who are having a very difficult time, you know who you are. I will visit your blogs soon.

Lili Bear