Endrucks project

Hi,

Today is Eleonore Endrucks birthday,  with the Endrucks project we have been working on for several years, from her book published in 1920,  today would have been her birthday.

We did a pattern in relation to the international lace day last Sunday,  the pattern released for the day came too late for me to include it the international lace day,  so I combining the two days with project and the pattern suggested for the day.  a letter ‘E’. From the Eleonore Endrucks pattern E41 by Julie Santos  Villegas June 204 for  the Eldrucks 1920 Project

for my ‘E’ I used Lizbeth thread no 20 Girly girl,  of course you could turn it upside down and make a 'M'

I also did a Life is Bliss butterfly derived by Antonia Lai January 2023 for the #pickmeEndrucks February 2023.   I used Lizbeth thread no 20 in Sunkist Coral  I added the antennae with a spiral chain,

I hope you have a lovely weekend

Margaret

International lace day

 

Hi,

Today is international lace day around the world,   Tatting is a type of lace and although it’s not known as much as it should be  we tatters like to promote it as much as possible.  I get told it’s a dying art or never heard of it,  or even my grandmother used to tat.  Well lets put the record straight it’s not a dying art,  it’s 17th century, although it die out in the 19th century it’s back in fashion and there’s so much that can be made with tatting.
Never heard of it well if you are reading this,  you have now heard of it,  and finally if your grandmother used to tat why not learn and bring something done in your family back.  There are so many YouTube videos on how to tat and many books,  no reason why not do something your grandmother did years ago.

The christening present is finished at last,  I cannot show you as it has not been given to my nephew and his wife.   As soon as they have it I will post it.  It’s taken about six months through illness, hospital stay, and a holiday which ended with flu and six weeks not even looking at it,  I am relieved to say it’s finished.

Today for international lace day I am showing the tatting I did on holiday in Switzerland,  the bookmark I finished while there,  it’s Four Petals bookmark by Robin Tatting by the bay and I used Lizbeth thread Christmas green and Lesur Pixie both no 20,

The little coaster is a pattern by Laura Bziukiewicz and I used Lizbeth thread Sunkist Coral no 20.  I started this on holiday and finished it off at home.

The Endrucks project did produce a pattern for today but unfortunately I only got the pattern yesterday and have not had time to do it.   I will make it and post it in a few days.

Enjoy the day making lace.

Margaret

60th Diamond Wedding Anniversary

Hi,

Today is our friends 60th Wedding anniversary,  and this is the card I made for them,  Vernon said do something simple they won’t appreciate the hard work you put into making a card so just do something simple.

I designed the card myself,  using two heart shapes which I did cut and used Hunkydory diamond Miri card and a white small heart shapes which with I embossed using a cutterbug heart design folder.  The backing sheet is from stock (well everything was). It’s a damask paper and I have no idea where I brought it from but it’s a long time ago,  white ribbon bow and the words are peel offs and the dots as peel offs as well.

I hope they liked their card,  they have gone away to celebrate as they did not want a party. 

Margaret 

Debbi Moore's Birthday Competition

 Hi,

Today is a little cooler and although the sun is shining its quite cloudy here in Somerset,   It seems ages since I made a card,  the flu has taken its toll on both of us,  but now after six weeks I can say its finally gone and I am begining to feel I have some energy.  I have started back on the christening present and hope it finish it in the next two weeks,  I have also started to feel like knitting only this week with the heatwave knitting was the last thing I felt like doing,  hopefully now its turned a little cooler I can get back to finishing the knitted cow and babys cardigan. 

 Now on sundays I do something else, it lovely to do some different  craft on a Sunday and then you can come back afresh to what you have been doing during the week.  watch this space for pictures.

This week is Debbi Moores birthday and the 17th year of her company,  again this year she has done a birthday competition for a birthday card,   I used her The Flower Patch CD and made a slightly different card using some beautiful images of a vase of flowers.  I do like doing shaped cards it makes card look more speical,   well I think it does.  Its not my best effort as I made it a couple of weeks ago but I hope you like it.

I have some ideas for new cards just got to find the time and energy to get into the craft room and play.

I hope you have lovely weekend,

Margaret

Nestle amongst the Glaciers part three

 

Hi,

Well this was a highlight of the trip,  we took the cable car to Scex Rouge known as Glacier 3000,  for a panorama view the mountains.   The cable car takes 15 minutes and reaches an altitude of 2,971 meters,  it was well worth going up,  there was a lot of people sking and going up with their skis to ski,  we had some lunch in the restaurant,  this was the view from our table of the bridge,    we could have gone for a walk on the bridge but unfortuantaely there is 60 steps up to the bridge,  and theres no way I could manage the steep steps.  as you can see in the photos,  its a bit open and looks wobbley.

Lastly on the saturday morning before leaving Switzerland we had a curise alond Lake Geneva to Vevey,   it was a beautiful morning,  the lake was calm,  the sun was shinning and here are some photos to you to enjoy.

Before we got on the boat these are few more photos of Montreux

and now for the boat ride to Vevey

Well that was our holiday in Switzerland,  I love Switzerland and vistied the country many many times throughout my life.     the only place I have never been to is Geneva,  Lake Geneva is  73 kilometres long and borders France and Switzerland and is one of the largest lakes in Switzerland.   I hope we can visit it again,  

I hope you have enjoyed these three posts a much as we enjoyed the holiday.

Margaret

Nestle amougst the Glaciers Part two

 Hi,

Today I thought I would tell you about the three trips we did,  one was to  Gruyere,  here we saw how the Gruyere cheese was made and then to the village for lunch,  The cheese is turned everyday by a robot,  see the photo of the cheese store above,  we were given a free sample each.

Free sample 

The village of Gruyere where we had lunch

This is us as we  walked into the village

View from the village,  as we walked back to the coach 

Then we did a trip to Nestle Chocolate factory in Broc,   I was not able to take many photos but this one is outside the building where there was this lovely fountain,  and I managed to take the photo of the model made of choclate.  very interesting visit seeing how they made the chocolates,

We also did a visit to Charlie Chaplins home,  and his museum which was his former home now made into the museum,   I think I am a bit young because I dont remember much about him and the films he made,  the guild was very knowledgable but she kept on about films that I had not seen or perhaps had seen as a young child and I did not remember,   in the end it became a little boring,  and we were not the only ones who lost interest.  never mind it was a beautiful house and here is a photo of his garden.

Three interesting places,    I think we enjoyed the chocolate factory ther most and tasting sdamples as we went around.   

Margaret

Nestle amongst the glaciers part one

Hi,

 I am sorry it’s taken weeks to get this post done but I came back from Switzerland with a cold which turned to flu,  I am not a 100% yet but better than I was,  we both spent the first two weeks in bed with it and only just starting to go out again.  There was a woman who was going to cancel because she had a cold but her friend persuaded her to go on the trip,  we all have to thank her for passing the cold round the coach.  What a lovely lady …. Not. 

This is part one of our trip to Switzerland,  we really enjoy our coach tour and the weather was good,  in april it could have been anything but good,   ok there was still a lot of snow around,  the cows have yet to go up to the top pastures,  most of which still had snow,   today I thought I would show you Montreux,  these are the flowers that graced along the lake side walk of Lake Geneva.  I hope you enjoy the walk 

And finally this is the statue of Freddie Mercury who was a former resident of Montreux

I hope you enjoyed the photos it was a lovely day when we walked along the lake side,  in fact 

we had beautiful weather on the whole trip in Switzerland.

Margaret.