{ Scrappy sunday // why I sew for you }

Happy sunday everyone!

I hope you had a relaxing sunday! Mine was spent waiting at the horse riding club for my girl to do a jumping competition and then to recieve her price! she ended up winning in her category , so I guess that was worth the while of waiting 4 hours in the wind!!:)

This girl has my heart!! she is the cutest one and the funniest too! and what a chatter box! Always talking and making stories up. 

Et voilà une toute nouvelle page faite avec le kit de Mars de Hip Kit club. Un peu de découpe et un long journaling. J'ai caché deux photos sous du papier calque pour ne pas surcharger ma page.

I made this layout to document how much I like to sew for her.
I used the March Hip Kit club kit. 
I knew I wanted a long journaling and I aso wanted to incorportate these 3 photos. So I cut bits of patterned papers to the size of my photos and then layered them, and stitched them with my sewing machine.
Then I hid some of the photos under a piece of vellum to tame the whole layout down. 

Papers and emebellishements are mostly Crate Paper and American Crafts. I am crazy about both!  That little sewing machine from Crate Paper was just spot on for me!!:=)

 Of course there is a little bit of stitching going on here!!:)
I fussy cut the "&" from a Crate Paper sheet. Oh how I enjoyed this process!
I am now working with the April Kits. There are filled with fun colors.
 

{ Graphic Marthe }

I am probably the last one on the surface of the earth to sew a Marthe blouse! the whole sewing universe already had a go at it! but I was not sure this loose fiting pattern was for me.

Well, people, it is for me!!

First and foremost; it is so quick and easy to make. It is perfect for a beginner or anyone who has little time to sew. 

Secondly the fit is great! I cut in size 36 . I just added 1 cm to the length of the bodice and to the bottom of the "skirt". 

Je suis probablement le dernier être vivant sur cette planète à ne pas avoir encore cousu une Marthe!

Il faut dire que je n'étais pas sûre que cette blouse ample m'irait. J'avais tort. Ce patron est non seulement hyper rapide à coudre mais en plus, la coupe est superbe.

 Oh that wind!!! / rho ce vent!!

The fabric is from Atelier Brunette. I love that it is so soft and modern. I got it online along with the perfectly matched bias tape for the neckline finish in this shop called Un chat sur un fil.

J'ai choisi un tissu graphique de chez Atelier Brunette, acheté chez Un chat sur un fil, en ligne. Service hyper rapide et colis impeccable.

I am taking this tunic and the whole outfit to Paris next week, where I am going to meet some awesome ladies! more on that soon!

{ Follow your dreams }

The story of this dress is a dramatic one!!

It took me ages to make the dress my girl wears on that photo: I altered the pattern and took ages to make it. It was perfect. Blandine wore it once and then I washed it. Tragically, the washing machine "ate" it! it was an old machine and the dress got destroyed in it!

Would you believe me if I say we both cried??! true story!

I made this layout because I want my girl to remember that even though we lost this dress, I hope she will remember how beautiful she was in it, and how much love I put in making this dress for her! 

I also want her to know that her beauty does not depend on what she wears but on what she is inside.

Une nouvelle page avec le kit de Mars de Hip Kit Club. J'adore ce kit si féminin. Tout à fait mon style!

Une page à propos de cette robe faite pour Blandine l'été dernier, à l'histoire tragique: dévorée par la machine à laver! 

{ How long do you want to be loved? a Hip Kit Club layout }

 These two... they are so close. always together, playing, chatting, sleeping in the same room as often as they are allowed, fighting too!
Oh, ces deux là!! quelle chance ils ont d'être là l'un pour l'autre!  Ils passent la plupart de leur temps ensemble, à  jouer, bavarder, lire, et se chamailler!
Cette photo, je  l'adore! Je l'avais prise en début d'année quand j'avais fait la robe de Reine des neiges pour Blandine. Il fallait donc la scrapper!!

I was listening to this song last time, an old lullaby called "Lullaby" sang by Edie Crey and Sarah Sample and it sang:
"How long do you want to be loved
Is forever enough
'Cause I am never never giving you up "
I thought it was totally appropriate for their sibling love and for the love I feel for them. 

{ A baptism and a neon skirt }

A baptism and a neon skirt might not have a lot in common, unless the skirt was made to be worn on the day of the said baptism!

This skirt is probably one of my favorite garments ever. I love the fabric, I love the pattern and I love to wear it!!
The fabric is some jacquard (no idea how to translate that word:) that came from Little fabrics. It is neon coral on nude background!
The pattern is my beloved Pleated Pencil Skirt by Delia Creates. I made a wearale muslin and this new version has got an even better fit.

 I wore it with a blouse I bought from a sweet local shop: I love that navy-indigo color and the softness of the blouse.

My girl took the photos on Easter monday: it was freezing cold and crazy windy again! then we decided to have some fun photos together. She is such a crazy silly, just like her maman!!

Easter was also the day of her baptism. It was such a marvelous day: my mum and sister were here with us, and my children had almost all their cousins to play with.  Blandine wore a huge smile on her face all day long!

 After the church service, we had dinner in a restaurant high in the mountains. It even snowed at one point! food was delicious beyond words.

 Then we had some quiet and good family time back home : cousins and grand-ma playing together with what they had found in their Easter eggs:

As you can see on the table, Blandine got her first real grow-up Bible for her baptism. She started reading it this morning. I am hoping she will stick to this habit of reading the Word of God as often as possible. 

 I will never forget the moment the water was poured on her. She is now filled with the light of Jesus. And I hope she will also be the light of Jesus, I hope she will shine in her life and help people benefit from her light.  It was so amazing that she was baptised on Easter day, the resurrection of Christ and her being born to a new life  celebrated on the same day:so powerfully moving.

I don't have many photos from the day: it was way too cold outside for a family photo, and inside the church I was beside Blandine. My dear sister took the photos and, well, let's say she is not used to big cameras!! still I will hold these blurry shots dear for a very long time!!

{ Scrappy saturday: "Limited edition" }

 It is spring, well, it is supposed to be spring!

But it feels like winter and we are still wearing heavy jackets and boots and having lots of indoors activities.It means more time inside for me too, so I got to indulge in some scrapbooking last week!

Voici une nouvelle page, créée la semaine dernière, je me suis amusée avec des papiers Basic GRey, un transparent et une carte Crate Paper et des nouveauté de chez Teresa Collins.

This layout documents my boy's " right now"s!

# Even though we tried to avoid the Pokemon fever as long as we could, sadly school did the job and now he is kind of obsessed by these silly monsters!

# He still loves his bedtime stories but he is getting more and more independant. 

# He now knows how to tie his shoelaces, and has started to read words in capital letters. He is so eager to learn anything, really. 

For this layout, again, I dig in my stash and played with some Basic Grey papers, some Crate Paper vellum and tags and some newer Teresa Collins cutouts .

I swear the photo really does not do justice to the layout that is much more cute in person!

Tomorrow my Blandine is getting baptised. I am so excited for her. It shall be the start of  a great adventure!

Have yourself a beautiful and peaceful Easter week-end.

{ Thursday soulmate stitching : the washi dress }

Today my friend Annika from Näh-connection and I are both posting our take on the Washi dress pattern by Made by Rae! 

If you follow me on Instagram you might have seen this already, so I apologize for the fact that I am not showing anything new!!

Aujourd'hui mon amie Annika et moi postons notre version du patron de la robe Washi de Made by Rae. Pour ma part, je me suis contentée de la version top, pour être sûre que le patron taille bien et c'est tout à fait le cas!!