Update of everything

Spring flowers from a friend - we had an eight-friends afternoon party

with coffee, tea, cake, sparkling wine and baked toasts 

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Sample of the Embroidery School - with buttonholed loops and wrapped

threads, bullion knots and the never missing French knots

and this - embellished lace, gimp with bulllion knots, a square of 16 small

octagons, bumpy things and Suffolk puffs. Moreover a gimp snake.

The cross stich letters are from a previous project. 

And then in Frande ....

Much rain in two days and the meadows became lakes

A visitor in the "garden" - I want to be friends with her

but she is shy

and a pouch for battery chargers for our travels

from house to house.

No more uglgy plastic bags 

A wonder how I could find fabrics being far from my stashes - 

and not bad ones at all. I like it and DH will be happy using it.

It is not tatting - river Ognon

Once more the lace.

Thanks to :Diane and Deanna.....

I know now that this excellent lace is crocheted.

---- Question ---- And the circles?

and the flower - might there be needle-lace involved?

 

We do a little walking or biking every day - here to the bridge

and back - We like to look how waters of the small river Ognon

are changing - is it higher or lower - are there fish in it -

Our children and their friends started a kayak tour two years ago

from here to the next town Villersexel.

It wouldn't be possible now - the level is too low.

I do not know much about kayaking - they would probably have to

carry their kayaks a little further.

 

 

One day later

This was on Sunday (February 16, 2014) - on Monday our weather was

beautiful so we went again to the bridge and over it

 

and it was like that.... bye, bye water - it is flowing

towards the Mediterranean - with the help of other rivers

on its way.

 

It is normal .....

.... in February

although we thought there will be no inundation because there is no snow to melt.
But obviously it rained tremendously much.
I am standing on the bridge over the otherwise tame river Ognon.
It is three times as large now.

Alongside a very small road - yes, we are again in France.
Renovation will go on.
And I will again work on the Korak-piece.

Equalising the top - it is "patchwork" in the real sense.