Ho flower of Scotland....

Non non, je n'ai pas redisparu de la circulation :)
Nous nous sommes accordé presque 2 semaines de décompression intense....en Écosse :D

La reprise s'est faite sur des chapeaux de roues et me voici seulement aujourd'hui pour vous montrer quelques photos (le choix a été difficile...) de cet endroit magnifique que nous affectionnons tout particulièrement !

Ile de Skye - Skye Island

Nous étions super bien logés, au milieu de la nature et bien positionnés pour pouvoir rayonner ;)
on en a fait des kilomètres, mais ça valait le coup !

Notre cabane - Our lodge

Édimbourg, Le Loch Ness, L'Ile de Skye....
Le pont où est passé le train qui menait Harry Potter à l'école de magie, le château d'Highlander...les pas de William Wallace

Le château d’Édimbourg - Edinburgh Castle

Un beau périple :)
En pratiquant le Géocaching nous avons en plus eu la chance de découvrir des endroits où nous
n'étions jamais allés !

Loch Ness

Urquhart Castle -  Loch Ness

Partis en mai plutôt qu'en septembre comme d'habitude, nous avons découvert l’Écosse sous d'autres couleurs, une autre nature...et même avec de la neige :)

Glencoe

 

Un beau voyage bien dépaysant avec une seule promesse au retour, celle de ne pas attendre 8 ans pour y retourner :D

Quelque part sur Skye - Somewhere on Skye

Au retour nous nous avons fait un petit arrêt à Stratford Upon Avon, la ville natale de Shakespeare :)
Depuis le temps que je voulais y mettre les pieds !

Maison qui a vu naitre Shakespeare - Shakespeare's birthplace

Pas de croix cette fois ci, mes aiguilles ont un peu été en vacances :)
Mais d'ici peu un nouveau post.....
Merci à Super Moitié pour ses magnifiques photos
A bientôt

DMC ?? :)

Hi there
No, I haven't disappeared again :D
We just made a break of about 2 weeks and went to Scotland.
Both Hubby and I are great Scotland lovers, we are fond of Scotland and hadn't been there for 8 years !!!

Fairy pools - Skye

Too long :)
Usually we go in September, going in May allowed us to see that wonderful country through other colours, another landscape, nature...and even with snow !

La petite maison dans la ...Glencoe - The little house in the ...Glencoe

We had a terrific lodge , somewhere at the Ben Nevis foot (see in the pictures above) perfectly situated to drive here and there and discover beautiful places.
We play Geocaching and this made us discovering places we had never been before :)

Eilean Donan castle - Utilisé pour le film Highlander / Used in the movie Highlander

Edinburgh, Loch Ness, Isle if Skye.... we really had a wonderful trip !
We promised ourselves to not wait for 8 years before coming back ;)

Carrbridge

Here is the Glenfinnan bridge, that was used in Harry Potter movies :)
The train used at that time is still on. It is a very beautiful one but that was too expensive for us to take it. We wanted to see it on the bridge but hadn't that luck ;)

Glenfinnan - Quelque chose d'Harry Potter ? ;)

We just walked in the paces of Rob Roy in the Glencoe and William Wallace in the Borders ;)

New Abbey

On the way back, we made a stop at Stratford Upon Avon , the town where Shakespeare was born ;)
For years I've been wanting to visit it ! it has been a short stop but it is such a lovely town that it worth the few miles more and coming back home later.
And look what we saw there ? 2 perfect shops :)

No cross stitch to share with you this time... it will come with another post soon :)

 

DMC ? :)

 Just wanted to share with you that little paradise we love. We are not fond of white sand beaches and 40° ... this is really a little paradise to us :)

Glencoe

I wanted to thank you for your kind comments on my SODA pieces in the previous post, I'll answer them soon.
And also, a special thank to Super Half for those beautiful pictures (the choice has really been difficult )

Coming soon
xxx

Fairy pools Skye

Fairy pools Skye

Il était une fois...

...Quatre petits lapins, et leurs noms étaient Flopsaut, Trotsaut, Queue de Coton et Pierre.

J'ai toujours beaucoup aimé le conte Pierre Lapin de Beatrix Potter  et encore plus les illustrations , voir que même je les adoooore ;)
Quand Nia a annoncé qu'elle était enceinte j'ai tout de suite pensé à ce petit lapin pour mon cadeau de naissance...fille ou garçon, personne ne peut résister à ces adorables dessins !
J'ai brodé sur un plaid dit 'Afghan' que j'ai terminé en couverture comme pour Anna il y a environ deux ans.
Commencé en octobre, terminé en février après environ 120h de travail....le résultat et mon histoire de Pierre lapin racontée en broderie sont en images ci dessous ....

Pour info....Jeannot Lapin c'est un cousin de Pierre :)
La maman de Pierre et le papa de Jeannot étaient frère et sœur.  D'ailleurs, Jeannot épousera une des sœurs de Pierre et ensemble ils auront plein de petits lapins ;)
Mais celui à la veste bleue, c'est bien Pierre....
A bientôt
xxx

Once upon a time, there were four little Rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton Tail and Peter.

They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir-tree.

 'Now my dears' said old Mrs Rabbit one morning, 'you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr McGregor's garden. Your father had an accident there, he was put in a pie by Mrs McGregor. Now run along and don't get into mischief, I'm going out'

(...) Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton Tail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries. But Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr McGregor's garden and squeezed under the gate !

First he ate some lettuces and some French beans, and then ate some radishes. And then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.

 But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr McGregor !

Mr McGregor  was on his hands and knees planting out young cabbages, but he jumped up and ran after Peter, waving a rake and calling out 'STOP THIEF' !

 Peter (...) rushed all over the garden, for he had forgotten the way back to the gate. 

He lost one of his shoes among the cabbages and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

 (...) unfortunately he ran into a gooseberry net, and got caught by the large buttons on his jacket.

It was a blue jacket with brass buttons, 

quite new !

 

 (...) leaving his jacket behind him (...) he rushed into a tool-shed and jumped into a can.  It would have been a beautiful thing to hide in, if it had not had so much water in it !

  Mr McGregor was quite sure Peter was somewhere in  the tool-shed. 

(...) Presently Peter sneezed 'Kertyschoo' ! Mr McGregor was after him on no time.

Peter jumped out of a window, that was too small for Mr MacGregor and he was too tired of running after Peter, he went back to his work.

Peter sat down to rest. Also he was very damp with sitting in that can. (...)

An old mouse was running, carrying peas and beans to her family in the wood. Peter asked her the way to the gate.  But she had such a large pea in her mouth that she could not answer, she only shook her head at him. Peter began to cry.

 Then he tried to find his way straight across the garden. (...) He started running as fast as he could go, along a straight walk behind some black-currant bushes. (...) He slipped underneath the gate and was safe at last in the wood, outside the garden !

Mr McGregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scarecrow to frighten the blackbirds. 

Peter never stopped running till he got home to the big fir-tree.

He was so tired that he flopped down on the nice soft sand on the floor of the rabbit hole and shut his eyes. His mother was busy cooking, she wondered what he had done with his clothes ! 

It was the second little jacket and pair of shoes that Peter had lost in a fortnight !

I'm sorry to say that Peter was not very well during the evening.

His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea, and she gave a dose of it to Peter.

'one table spoonful to be taken at bed-time'

But Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton Tail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper.

 

* The End *

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

*** 

To Lourenço, with all my love 

May you have a long life full of love, health, joy and funny adventures just like Peter Rabbit :D

xxx

'My' story of Peter Rabbit in stitches...
Afghan plaid , stitched 1 thread over 1

Fleece at the back 

Designs picked from the book 'le monde de Beatrix Potter'

Started October 2013 - Finished March 2014 
And obviously made out of love for a cute little man 

***

une souris...une boite

Bonjour (tout) le monde =D

Nous avons failli essuyer de gros orages ce 15 aout mais finalement l'été est resté tel qu'il était et c'est tant mieux....
Le jardin commence à prendre vie et d'ailleurs parlant de prendre vie, nous avons un nouvel habitant
C'est Mario =D

La photo n'est pas superbe parce que prise avec le téléphone mais Mario est tout mignon tout de même et j'espère qu'il va rester =D

Place aux petites croix maintenant...
Vous vous souvenez, il y a quelques temps je vous parlais d'une 'commande' que j'avais eu de la part de la fille d'une amie =D
Le Tailleur de Gloucester par Beatrix Potter
Le voici maintenant terminé et il sera offert cet après midi
J'espère qu'il fera plaisir =D

C'était en tout cas un plaisir de broder mon premier Beatrix Potter !
Ma jeune demoiselle a pour projet de refaire sa chambre dans les tons bleus avec de la toile de Jouy alors il m'a semblé évident d'utiliser ce tissu que j'avais...

et hop hop hop, Super moitié est entré en action =D
de la dentelle, 2 boutons en époxy, une petite boite en carton....et au final hé bien .... une boite à trésors  =D
une jolie pièce dont je vais encore avoir du mal à me séparer =D

Avant de partir, j'avais participé à un concours organisé sur Facebook par Craftseller , un magazine anglais avec des tas d'idées pour les choses à faire soi même....et j'ai gagné =D
J'ai gagné 2 entrées pour une expo de loisirs créatifs en Angleterre  !!!
Trop contente je suis. C'est début septembre et j'ai hâte d'y être. Je vous en parlerai plus longuement quand j'aurai reçu mes entrées =)

A très vite, j'ai d'autres choses à partager avec vous =)

Hello the world =)

Yesterday we were expecting big storms, but finally Summer stays as it was, no rain, only great wind and a grey sky (almost black ! )  and today it's still very hot !!

I must admit I don't like heat, especially when 3 days before there was 15° less ! 

Can't adapt myself ! 

But I won't complain, I asked so much for Summer to come back =)

Our garden is becoming more and more a garden (I have to show you pictures I know....) and we have a new inhabitant...

It's Mario =D

Yes, yesterday was Marie day so...Mario.....

isn't he too cute =D

He was a bit afraid and I had to take this bad picture with my phone , but we can see anyway that he is cute =)

I hope he will stay with us ! A real hedgehog in my garden =D

Let's speak about cross stitches now =D

You maybe remember the 'order' I had, the Taylor of Gloucester from Beatrix Potter... so here he is , on his bobbin , my cute first Beatrix Potter stitching =D

The young lady who will receive it this afternoon (I hope she will love !) will have her bedroom decorate in August in a new way, and she chose blue colours, with Toile de Jouy on some walls .... then I found that this fabric I had was perfect for my finish.

My finish...yes, I know....Super Hubby's finish =D

He used lace, ribbon, 2 different fabrics,  2 buttons and decorated a cardboard box in (I find but I should not because it's my hubby who did it) a WONDERFUL way =D

Thank you hubby  ♥

Once again he said that it's a piece it will be difficult for me to give =D

I have other things ready to show you, but it will be for another post =)

I just leave saying that I participated to a competition organised by Craftseller magazine on Facebook and I WON !! 

I won 2 tickets for a craft show in England , only 45mn driving after the crossing, at Bluewater , 2nd weekend of September

I'm so happy ! I made a real happy dance yesterday =)

Will tell you more about this when I receive my tickets =D

Happy stitching

xxx