Ten days !!!

Have you seen my ticker? No, not the christmas one (see how you are all focused and obsessed with christmas ? ), the vacation ticker !!! We are leaving in 10 days I can't believe it! It doesn't feel like it is going be soooooo soon !!! And nothing is ready ... not even my list (what to bring, what to buy once there ... ) We are famous (in our own crowd ) for doing everything at the last minutes but this HAS to be planned ... right?

We are going to take the train from Caen (where we live - by the way: when you see Caen in my traffic feed on the right: it's MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ! ) to Paris then we have 1 hour and a half to find the other train station to go from Paris to Stuttgart ... Now the question is: should we try to go with the subway or should we take a taxi?

I still can't believe we are almost on vacations !!! 14 years without vacations ... This is going to be our first vacations as a family !!! Waow! still hard to believe ...

Good progress !

Look at my fairy: she's ready to fly if only she had a head !!!



Don't think I'm done with the wing: I still have to finish the top of the wing and all the backstitch that will add the final touch to it !!!

Yesterday, Esteban asked for a Santa hat before to go to bed for his nap and I let him have it, thinking he will use it as a blankie and look at what I saw when I checked him:

He fell asleep with the hat on: isn't he cute?

I still open my daily gift. This is what I got yesterday:

This is a tree that is more like a bag. I guess you can use it for craft, using napkins (but the only thing I do with my hands (beside cleaning my son's butt ) is cross stitch ...) I did try once to use napkins: it was a disaster I had said I only cross stitch (we had to be specific about our tastes ... ) Anyway, I can always offer it someday to someone who has more talent than me

Today was more in my tastes:

It's danish chocolates and it opens like a flower Yummy

Another rainy sunday ....

Will you believe we still have a storm It's dark, rainy, windy ... Beside staying at home stitching, I don't see what else someone could do on such day (well, maybe writting all her christmas cards )

I'll keep working on my fairy right after this post

I hope I can finish the wing very quickly. I'd like to see how it will look when it's finished !!!

Here is my latest stash:

A lanarte of course!!! Marie, another Lanarte's lover (or should I say collector ) gave me this great link on ebay and here is the baby: safe and sound at home with mama

Have a great and warm sunday

Rainy saturday ...

Pierre and Emma had school this morning. They never have school on saturday morning but today was special:it was the christmas market! (you know the kind of market where you are supposed to buy stuffs to raise money for the school - but where you actually buy what YOUR kids made ) So that what we did this morning: I bought Pierre's mystery box (I says "mystery" because I don't know what is the purpose of that box I also bought Emma's flower pot (with a small poinseita in it) for a "merry" price of 4.50 Euros I only bought it because Emma made it. The price is way too high ! Imagine how hard it must be for single mothers or low income families ... (especially when you have several children in the scholl !!! ) Blogger doesn't let me upload my pictures The weather was awfull: rainy and very cold (of course, I had forgotten my gloves ... )

Here you see Emma, Esteban and Chuy who is holding the "precious" flower ...

Pierre, ready for the sale, and Steb. Yes, Pierre forgot (again ) his coat in the classroom ...

One of my friend made this gingerbread house and put lights inside. I don't think anybody bought it .

My family doctor gave me an iron supplement for Steb. He said he has a small anemia. He has to take it for 2 months.

I have a new baby in my life: a new camera I got a Fujifilm. It has 8 millions pixels and save the pictures really fast. With my old Nikon, I had to wait for some seconds, enough time for a baby to escape far away from the picture scene Now, I'm wondering: is 8 millions pixels too high to upload the picture directly from the computer to Blogger (well, when Blogger let me play with it ) What do you think: should I first upload the picture somewhere else?

Blogger is teasing me: I can show you some pictures and some not ... Weird ... Maybe it didn't like to switch back to french ...

So here is my fairy! I think I stitched half of the wing. I even did some backstitch to make it look like a real wing. I still haven't had time to check my Mirabillia's charts so I'll have to stick with the wing !!!

Blogger is nice: let's take advantage!!!

Here is what I got on thrusday: some felt flowers (maybe to decorate the purse?)

And this is what I got yesterday: green and red pearls !!!

And today was the big DAY ! Look at that:

How did she know that today would be soooooooooo cold? This is a handmade scarf. I didn't have one yet so I'm very happy with my nice gift. Chuy doesn't like the color. I agree with him that it is dark but I think she may have been afraid I won't like a more colored scarf. (I would have loved more colors !!! ) CHuy said: you are not going to go out with that scarf because it looks like the ugly dog of one of our neighbor ... I guess this is some kind of mexican humor ...

Tomorrow, I'll scan my new stash: I have to keep something to make you come back to my blog