Pathways

Late night stitchingblazing a trail of coloracross the landscape of denims...a patchwork gard...

Ragbag

I really had fun working on this project. It just popped into my head and omce I started on it I couldn't put it down. I like how it looks so far but I can't decide if I want to go any further on it. D thinks I should outline the star with some trim I have and I think it looks O.K. with it but I didn't just HAVE to do it. If you know what I mean... I think I will look at it for a few days to see...

Recuperation

Just a quick note to say...I am recovering. Slowly but surely. I knew I was feeling better when this idea popped into my head today. For the first time in days my hands picked up my scissors. I will survive...

Grumpy bunny longs for sunny beaches....

This is my favorite photo I have ever taken. Its old, bent and worn but still chereished. I have taken many more photos that I'm sure other people would say were much better than this one. I love the expression in this one though. The carefree spirit and triumphant feeling it speaks to me. Ah to be so young and free again eh? I am a bit grumpy today. Woke up with a scratchy throat and a sniffly...

Raggedy

5456 strips...It's been a bit of a hectic week here. We arrived back from Moirax Sunday evening, then to bed, then to class the next day. As soon as I arrived home from class Monday, D informed me that he had a job interview the next morning and we had to rush out to buy him an overcoat and dress shirt. Then to bed, then class the next day....My test was today so I spent yesterday studying and then...

La Mandigote

My husband grew up in the tiny village Moirax in France, born and raised there. It is a quaint little village set atop a hill just outside of Agen. The main and ONLY attraction was L'église Sainte-Marie de Moirax, an almost 1000 yr old church whose construction began in 1080. A gorgeous structure to say the least. Well move over, we now have a new attraction in town "La Mandigote". La Mandigote...

down Moirax way....

I am off for a visit this weekend so all activities are on hold. I am packing my french books and papers to study for my test while I am there (if I can possibly find time to squeeze that in) Also my latest purse and a few threads to work on some embroidery. I will be surprised if either see the light of day while I am there though. I love D's Family and look forward to our visits. I am truly blessed....

A little pink...

...or purple, however you see it. I have finished my little bag and I think it's quite cute. It doesn't look quite as pink as I thought it would at first. The jeans material after washing took on more of a purple hue. I really love how all the colors flow into each other, the benefits of dying your own material! I have plans for another of these in a green blue combination. After I finished this...

Les Vacances

Sorry I have been a bit slack this week with posts. I have a week off from class and my MIL came in this weekend for a visit. As always we had a wonderful visit. We also took a trip up to Bordeaux-Lac. Now when I first came to France I thought they had no big stores. Everywhere I went there were tiny little shops dedicated to some of the most interesting merchandise. Shoelace shops...yes we have...

Building a stash

My MIL gave me this wonderful old sheet. Heavy. Not like the sheets you see back home. It had several holes and stains in it but it was such wonderful cloth! That is what I used to make my last two dye experiments. The sapphire blue and cotton candy mix, and the navy blue and emerald green mix. I had ripped the sheet into four pieces. I decided to dye the two remaining ones today. One a nice mix...

A wealth of stitches

I have finally finished my first purse! It took me a lot longer than I expected, but I attribute that to a LOT of hand stitching. Since I did a big part of the piecework by hand even before I started the embroidery it was a little more time consuming than it could have been. I know that the next one will go quicker. Mainly because YAY! I have a new machine but also because I wont take so long deciding...