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Little presents from Lilly to her brother, sister and Daddy.... Inspiration for the cards from Pinterest (where I spend too much time!) Petits cadeaux de Lilly a son frere, sa soeur et son papa...Inspiration pour les cartes de Pinterest (ou je passe trop de temps!)

January is a challenging month to keep a hyperactive 2 year old busy.... The days are so cold, dark and short.... Even the ducks have left the pond...! So we keep busy indoors with a roaring fire on.  Janvier n'est pas un mois facile pour occuper une petite de deux hyper active....Les journees sont tellement froides, sombres et courtes... Meme les canards sont partis de la mare... Alors on s'occupe a l'interieur avec un bon feu de cheminee.  

I seem to have left another long gap since my last post.... So what happened here? I might go in reverse from now back to September... A day a the time.... J'ai encore laisse passe trop de temps depuis mon dernier post...Mais que c'est-t-il donc passe ici? Je vais vous raconter a l'envers en commencant par maintenant, c'est plus simple.... January is (and has always been), tidy up and maintenance month....so bags and bags of unwanted stuff are headed to the charity shop, the admin is in order (!) and walls are being painted.  ... [Lire la suite]

Time flies too quickly... So here is a little summary of what happened here: A cheeky weekend in Zagreb. Mr British was there on business and at the last minute I and Lilly went with him. Great time. Amazing markets and above all lovely, lovely people. And wondering the streets all day with a little one not old enough to moan about it....bliss. Le temps passe trop vite...Un petit resume de la vie ici: Un week-end improvise a Zagreb. Mr British y allait pour le travail et au dernier moment, je l'ai accompagne avec Lilly. Génial.... [Lire la suite]

It has been a while hasn't it? Well let say that the summer was intense. Looking on my own after a 14 year old and 11 year old and a 1 and half year old for 4 weeks is...rather tough. Good times too of course, plenty of them but oh so tiring times. The little one is obsessed by the trampoline (which she calls deebeedee because it does not seem enough to absorb 2 languages so she invents a third one...) where she would spend all day but you can imagine that it is not the place where she can be left unsupervised... Anyway, creating time... [Lire la suite]

When I am not sewing for the little one, I sew for the big one: A princess dress for my tomboy! She was Cinderella in her Y6 production. I really enjoy making it (althought I did not enjoy sewing the shinny acryliky fabric that she insisted on me buying...), and I think she secretly enjoyed wearing it... although she would never admit to it which I totally understand as she has a reputation to protect! Quand je ne couds pas pour la mini, je couds our la grande: Une robe de princesse pour mon garcon manque! Elle etait Cendrillon pour... [Lire la suite]

When I am not sewinf for Lilly (!), I am playing with old doilies for my coming fair... Quand je ne couds pas pour Lilly (!), je joue avec des jolis naperons pour mon marche a venir...

Impossible de trouver un joli chapeau pour Lilly... Trop rose, trop de dentelle ou juste trop moche! Et la je tombe sur ce tuto et je me dit c'est juste ce qu'il me faut pour mon intrepide. Et le resultat me plait beaucoup beaucoup. Le tissu est Liberty et j'ai diminue la taille de la visiere. Impossible to find a summer hat for Lilly... Too pink, too much lace or just too ugly! Looking around on the net, I found the perfect tutorial for my fearless. And I very much love the result. The fabric is Liberty and I have shorten the visor.... [Lire la suite]

J'y serai!/I'll be there!

De retour d'un tres chouette week-end a Bruges avec un peu de shopping (quand meme!) dans mes deux magasins preferes (je les ai decouvert quand j'habitais Bruxelles il y a 10 ans). Et quand les caissiere a mis tout mes achats dans le sac, je me suis apercu que presque tout mes achats etaient dans la meme harmonie de couleurs.... L'incontournable Hema:   Dille et Kamille