Farm land where you want it to be...

I've always wanted to have a small farm. I would love to have chickens, more than my 2 dogs, sheep and alpacas but I never dreamed that I would come home from work to this:

We didn't get to know them well thanks to Lulu and Max. But it was very nice.
My son said that Mrs Duck needs some make up LOL


En revenant de travailler la semaine passée, j'ai trouvé deux canards dans notre piscine!
Il devait chercher la rivière des milles-iles et comme notre piscine a la même couleur, ils se sont trompés!
Philippe dit que Mme Cane a besoin de maquillage.

I love Montréal - J'aime ma ville....

Je ne pense pas que j'habiterais ailleurs. Même si maintenant je demeure à Laval, je suis montréalaise dans mon coeur. J'aime avoir une montagne en plein coeur de la ville et la quitter pour me retrouver sur Ste-Catherine et voir ces maisons si typiques de Montréal....

Il faudra que je prenne des photos sur la rue St-Hubert très bientôt. Je suis allée chez Effiloché vendredi soir et si ça n'avait pas été si froid, je pense que je m'y serais balladée pour un petit temps car les lumières avaient quelque chose de magique. Je devrai aller en prendre également dans le vieux Montréal. C'est bien de montrer un peu de notre quartier, notre ville à nos lecteurs qui ne sont pas d'ici.

J'aime également où je demeure à Laval car en quelques minutes de marche, au bout de ma rue, j'ai un grand parc où je peux faire courir mes chiens et si je marche au bout de ce parc, j'arrive à la rivière, si je marche dans l'autre direction, j'arrive au centre d'achats où j'ai de tout! Même la bibliothèque publique! Non, je n'irais nulle part ailleurs. Je m'ennuierais de mes saisons même du mois de novembre ! eh oui....

I love the city I live in. I always think that I have the best of both worlds. If I walk down our street, we have a large park where my dogs can run freely and we arrive to a large river if I walk the other way I get to a shopping centre where I can find everything... Even the public library! In the winter, we can see skiers and snowmobiles. What more can I ask for?

I would miss our seasons, even the month of November....

What am I working on these days? Well, the fairy theater for Anne-Marie... pics coming soon I promise and this:

I had varigated mohair that I really liked so I made a headband but was left with a small amount so I decided to get some mohair to match. I really like what it looks like. It's so subtle that you hardly see the stripes. But better yet, I had a GOOD reason to make a trip to my favorite yarn store..... Ah! life's hard sometimes!

Soon on a computer near you....

Fairies in a shadow box!!!

I'm making something special for my daughter! You'll see in a few days... In the meantime, I'm taking some time off to take care of Mamie who's not feeling very well and needs to be up and going by next week so she can have a visit from my sis in law from Nova Scotia...

Hope to talk to you soon and in the mean time here is some projects that I saw on the blogosphere and that give me some food for my imagination...

The picture that started the shadow box idea:

For this girl:An apron as a gift? OH YEAH....

And this under our tree? Of course!
Next time, I will post my own projects done I hope anyway...

Hedgehog

I love hedgehogs!! Because I can't have one because of our two dogs, I made one....


To make yours you'll need:

1 small piece of felt or fleece

small amount of yarn in two tones (I used a multicolored cotton)

2 beads for eyes

1 big bead or button for nose

matching embroidery floss for felt

fiberfill

Hot glue gun

Cut pattern (2 times) (save and print, it will be original size)

Sew around with floss.

I left a small opening for nose and inserted a black shank button and glued but you can sew a big bead if you prefer.

Fill tightly with fiberfill

Make a pompom

measuring 5 1/2" (14cm) around

Flatten a side of the pompom and fix the face to the pompom with hot glue. Sew the eyes.

Voilà!!

On my to do list

1. Throw my camera out the window

2. Do some research on how to download, scan, work with blogger. My self esteem is being very much affected when I look at other blogs being so well presented, clear pictures, clear tutorials and all. I guess I have a lot to learn!

Si une copie francophone est capable de m'aider à trouver un site expliquant comment se servir de Blogger, flickr et tout le tralala en français, svp faites-moi signe. Je suis vraiment désespérée quand je vois l'allure de mon blog. Je veux bien partager mais le faire de façon originale et de look plus expert serait vraiment extra!

A plus, Marguerite

One of my favorite knitting book

is an old book my mom used to have at home. I loved looking at the pictures. They're so well done with scenery and all. I have an idea for january after the holidays. I could post a tutorial for an animal every day. I needs to be translated as this is a swiss book and written in french and german. It could be Farm animal of the day! We could all have a small farm at home with fake grass and all. I love miniatures and I think it would be great. What do you think? I would personnaly change a few things like colors, eyes...

Here is some example:

OK, let's work on this little hedgehog I talked about yesterday. I'll post a little tutorial as soon as I'm finished! Bye le monde... à plus tard!

My first tutorial so please bear with me!

I'd like to share this little christmas tree. It is crocheted in the amigurumi way.
I've done my best translating from french to english, so if you're a good crocheter and you find errors please tell me and I'll correct it.
You'll need about 50gr of worsted wool and a size 3mm crochet or whatever size you feel comfortable with but it has to be tight. This is worked all around so mark your first st. (I used a safety pin) and move it up with your rows.

1st step, the base or the floor if you prefer.

chain 2 st.
1- 5 single crochet (sc) in second stitch
2- (1 sc, inc. 2 sc in next st.) repeat all around
3- same as above
4- inc. 2 in all st.
5- (1 sc, inc. 2 sc in next st.) repeat all around
6- same as above
7- (2 sc inc. 2 in next st.)repeat all around

You should have a circle of 56 st.

Now the tree. From this point on, you can work in fur st. but if you're not comfortable with it you can work in sc and when the tree is finished you can embroider the needles with yarn and a wool needle. That's what I did. You just work from the base to the top and work loops around every sc. If you want to give a try with the fur st. and don't know how to do it, here's a link to a nice tutorial.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4562824_fur-stitch-crochet.html

1- work all around in sc. and anywhere around the row, make 4 st. in chain st. and re-attach 4 st. away. this will form a slit at the base for stuffing or putting a weight if you wish. The circle in this picture is made with much bigger yarn to make it more visible.


2- Work in rounds, decreasing 4 stitches (1 at a time) across the row as evenly as possible every 2 rows - 9 times (18 rows total and 36 decreases)

3- Decrease 2 stitches every 2 rows - twice

4- Decrease every row 2 st. until you have only 2 left. With a wool needle pass yarn through loops and pull the yarn inside the tree.

Stuff tightly and place a weight at the base if you want.

Decorate with beads or whatever you please.

I'd love to see yours but I have no idea how to post your pictures on my blog. I've seen links to flickr groups so people can show their done projects. If you have the time or the patience to tell me how to do this with blogger, you'd be an angel. I'm not the techno type but if you want to help a stupid blogger, please tell me in my comments or ask for my e-mail.

Bye bye for now!

Time out until tomorrow night?

I'll take a blog break until tomorrow night. Got a phone call yesterday. Mom in law's not feeling good at all. She might have to go to the hospital so, I want her with me at home. No time to blog so I'll post friday. Oups! get a phone call this morning and our secretary is sick. Will she be able to come in tomorrow so that I can have my friday off as usual? Don't know yet .... So in the meantime, I'll share with you pics of another library book I got. Love it. Included are full size pattern sheets! YEAHHHH.....

This frog will be added to my ''to do list''

In the meantime, let's take care of Mamie...