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My own bag... / TIFC ...(sort of)
That's it : I prepared the interior with its pockets, and I finished the squares : Do you want some details ? OK, now I'm off to assemble all these squares !!!! See you tonight maybe with the whole thing sewn up !!! Bye !!!! PS a little game : guess which...
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Well, my BB isn't about to be finished !!!!!!!!!!
I wanted to hurry up to finish it, in order to get on to something else.... I made rounds and rounds... And now, I'm stuck!!! Yes and for 2 reasons : 1.Intensive crochet has given me tendinitis, no way to crochet, knit, or even weave in the yarn ends...
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Quilt Giveaway !!!
Today I've just discovered a new blog called Old Red Barn and guess what that lady is giving away a really nice quilt and people need to post in order to enter the draw. We get extra entries if we mention it on our blogs and even more if we put this logo...
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Fini!!!!
I finally finished a creation begun at the end of last summer to go with a nice spaghetti strap T-shirt that I had bought myself..... I wanted to put into practice several textile art/mixed media techniques like inchies, layering of materials, and transformation...
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I did it !!!!
I've created a website/blog dedicated exclusively to my business : Potiron's World A website where I offer translations from French into English and from English into French to professionals as well as to individuals Fo the time being this blog will remain...
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These shoes are made for walkin'
I dreamt them, She made herself some!! ! See for Yourself!!!!! There are people like that, who make things that I've had in my head for years sometimes without having spoken about them to anyone. I have an image in my head, and one day, sometimes a few...
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AEF 2008 - Meeting people....
Meeting People One of the things I apreciated the most was all the different people I met, even with the crazy crowd.... There were long-time friends from forums like Françoise 28 or Carole D . But we only had time for a quick kiss.... Funny/Coupaillon...
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Tribulations
My adventures continue .... After having redone 2 fronts of Jeanne with a larger size needle, I realised in measuring them that one was smaller than the other!!! (see my article in French here : Penelope or Not Penelope???) Not remembering what I had...
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Some Mixed Media textile art
I figured, that while waiting for more pictures of our trip, I'd show you some of the things I made last year. My objective in september 2006 for the year was to get seriously into mixed media textile art. In order to do so, I first did 2 of the exercises...
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Sushi !!!!
I'm not very good at making fimo canes, but when I saw this posting , I decided to try to make this : And here is the result : I love sushi !!! Ok, I'm off to make some more, I gotta hurry, it takes time !!!!! Note : I put in salmon, not papaya !!!! And...
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I've done it!!!!
I've done it!!!! After having hesitated a long time, after having thought about it over and over, I've finally done it!!!! Done what, you ask???? I've created my very own small company, in France they call it an "auto-entreprise" my business card I got...
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For MLG
Yesterday, I went to Paris and had lunch with her . And right next to the place where we ate delicious Thai food, we saw these and got a kick out ot them!!! And these : and these : There were also some golden pigs, but alas, I didn't take any pictures...
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Trilogy - Episode 1 : Potiron is a witch....
Yes, last week, I decided to play at being a witch and to make mysterious mixes with colored powders...... Yes, I started to play with dyes !!!!!!!!! At first I simply wanted to use Dylon dyes in my machine, but I didn't have any Dylon on hand, and the...
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Mesa Verde - the photos !!!
In the same batch of sorted photos, there are those of Mesa Verde ... ready??? Visit of the first site with a really super ranger, who instead of giving us a crash course, made us think, and answered all questions we could muster!!! He was a charming...
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Some news...
It's been a while since I've written here.... not much to say I guess... I've been keeping busy, don't worry, mainly knitting in the evenings... and with my new translation activity + my part-time job - it's still work, and everyday stuff, my little blog...
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New Discovery
The other day I went to the new "mediathèque" (library that lends cds, dvd, as well as books and magazines and newspapers) in Chartres, and while going through their CDs, I fell upon a CD which cover seemed really nice, in colors I particularly like....
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Keep on Trekkin' again!!!
Hello!!!! It's about time I finished writing about our trip in the American West last summer before a full year has gone by!!!! In order to remember the beginning of this trip, I invite you to go in Categories and to click on Travellog, there are 8 posts...
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Ta Da !!!! My own bag / TIFC
That's it !!!! I finally finished that drasted bag !!!!! OK there is still some hand "finishing" to do with the truncated losanges, I have to reinforce a bit for the handles and my wonderful sewing machine has just told me I need to add some oil, and...
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Oh Happy Day !!!!!!
I did it, who thought I would, I finished the Gilet de Jeanne - a pattern by COCO with a few little changes, see for yourself : To follow the saga of this little sweater, you can re-read here , here and here I added long sleeves, because I shiver easily,...
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Christmas is around the corner.....
Maybe some of you have already decorated your house in a Christmassy theme.... We haven't yet. In our family two of us are celebrating our birthdays in December, and usually I prefer to put up the tree afterwards, that way we don't mix the special birthday...
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Reading....
I love reading.... especially at night in bed before going to sleep... At Christmas, we got as a gift the Millenium trilogy Stieg Larsson, I have just finished it... At first I had trouble getting into the first tome (a little on the technical side concerning...
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It's Christmas !!!
I hope you've all had a nice Christmas and that Santa has spoiled you once again!!!! And especially that you were able to share some precious moments with those you love, and that you had a bundle of laughs !!!!! I really wanted to say hi today with a...
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Great Sand Dunes - some pix !!!
We've just sorted out a first batch of pictures and so I can finally show you some pictures of this incredible place. To start off you have to cross a river at the foot of the Dune (here it doesn't look so high, don't be mistaken!!!) Here it wasn't very...
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I am Woman
Yesterday, with my friend Tagada, we went to Paris to see HIS exhibit dedicated to women of the world at the Trocadéro, (accross from the Eiffel Tower). The place is vast, with drawings and photos everywhere, it takes a while to see everything. Everywhere...
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Auto-satisfaction...
Today, Sunday, I got busy in the kitchen!!! Cookin' Sunday!!!! What did I make???? I started by making this : poule au pot Then this : coq au vin Then this : bread And finally these: and these: they are cooking at the moment... And here's the first batch...