2008 Diary

Here is my contribution for the "Diary 2008 Project":

www.fantazya.ca/diary2008.html
www.flickr.com/groups/diary2008/

Here is the drawing that I used... I made it as Birthday present for a friend of mine...

New baby to nurse…

My sister in law gave me a new baby!



She came with this small little one yesterday afternoon; I couldn’t resist!
Just look at this little girl; isn’t she lovely?




She is so adorable and sweet and tiny!

Now I’m looking for a name… If you have some nice ideas; please share.

Muchu is somewhat jealous!

Elvire flew out of the nest ;o(

Two weeks ago Elvire flew out.
She was flying here and there in the garden when her real parents pushed her out of their territory.

Happily, she already could eat alone and was flying quiet well!

Some of our neighbours saw her last week; she came nearby and wanted some friendship. She seems doing well.

I walked around with one of my nephew and screamed all the way long after her; but she never came.

I want to share the last pictures I took; she was so funny and friendly.

Good luck, Elvire!

Sunday with Mireille and a lot of fun …

Mireille came on last Sunday and we had a great day!
Chatting, laughing and of course embroidering….

We still work on our Passiflora Edulis, my student is more advanced in her work than me ;o) just have a look on her blog!

This time we had begun stumpworking using wire to make a leaf for our passiflora.
You’ll find some pictures of the process.

First give a shape to your wire; using the pattern is a good think. Just be sure you give the shape a good size; here we’ll have to do it a litle bit biger to have enough material to give it a good shape when finished.

After that, the first “row” on the wire is made by buttonhole stitch all around the leaf.

The filling with buttonhole is taking a lot of time, but what a good result ;o)

Mireille came with a beautiful quilt made by here mother; just look at this!!!


The quilting is gorgeous… and the back is as nice as the front!

Baby quilt and Faeries, continued…

While I wasn’t on my blog or on Flickr ; I was still working (not much; I must admit ;o) on the babyquilt.

The last faery came out very nicely and the top was done; I also begun the assembling and quilting.

I just forgot to embroider here mouth, oups!

Is this good enough for Sir Muchu?

Muchu our cat gave his approval after a good quality test!

And here begins the real work!

More pictures on http://www.flickr.com/photos/boskez/

Around the terrace.

Our terrace is south orientated and we are spending a lot of time on it!

And our pets too!

We have a nice big climbing rose ‘Albéric Barbier’ on the pergola together with a purple clematis and grapevines; perfume and color: all in one!

It is surrounded with other roses, ferns, Buxus and a lot of pots with all kind of flowers…

Among the roses we have:
R. Little White Pet spore from ‘Félicité et Perpétue’

R. Madame Legras de Saint Germain (no good picture from this year;o(

R. Yellow Charles Austin

R. Blush Noisette; probably my favorite (with a lot of others, hi hi… )

R. Tapis Volant

R. Seagull is climbing on a pinetree and is now that high that we can almost see part of his flowers.

Just an enchanted garden; unfortunatly we had a lot of rain this year and roses doesn’t like it at all ;o(


We will have a lot of grapes this autumn; we never saw this! The Vine is contiuously making new flowers that are polinisated into grapes and again, and again…

More pictures on my Flickr pages.

A corner in my garden!

I’m trying to organize my garden ;o)
Growing perennials and plants that doesn’t ask too much attention as my garden is quiet big!

Here I putted some Pleioblastus Shibuyanus ' Tsuboi ' in the background.
(or Bamboo Pleioblastus variegatus 'Tsuboi')
A beautiful variegated specie, with small white-striped leaves.
It is very vigorous and has a running root system and likes to be in a lower light and doesn’t tolerate hot sun.

A Cornus Kousa "Mon Amie Francine" was blooming as ever!

I also planted Alchemilla Mollis and Asperula Odorata with Geraniums and Hemerocallis.

You'll find more pictures on my flickr account ;o)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/boskez/

After one month...

I wasn’t available for anything but my family and my job during one month!
We have had some “problems” with Nicolas’ health and mine isn’t very good aswell for the moment.
Nicolas suffers of 15% heart failure. He had ventricular fibrillation, high blood pressure and tachyarrhythmia up to 180 per minute and they had a lot of difficulties to have it coming down again; they also diagnosed a thyroid disease that could have helped this becoming. The doctors told him he has a heart that’s aged 50 and he’s only 21!!!

I’ll be glad to have 2 weeks at home from 20st of July.
I’ll use those days to go ahead with my hobbies and some WIP(ssss) ;o)

Nevertheless, I took some pictures during the period I was “absent” and now I’ll give you some news…

Thursday afternoon with Elvire…

She loves to play and make jokes… just like a kid! Water is also a great play...

She also tries to speak and pronounce sounds that are very similar to those made by a parrot; very strange!

She always wants to have your attention and if you don’t pay her enough she comes and prick you with her beak or try to eat your fingers. That’s what she is doing with my husband’s fingers…