Wedding Pics

These pictures aren't brilliant. Sophie has some better ones to show, but I think she is tinkering with them at the moment.

Walking back from the church. The house is behind those huge trees in the background. About 10 minutes walk if you aren't wearing stiletto's, the most beautiful dress ever made and being hugged to death by your husband.

 

 

 

Two beautiful bridesmaids.

One of Mum's greatest friends is a gardener/flower arranger extraordinaire. She also did the flower's for Sophie's wedding in 2005. She uses the most unusual flowers and her arrangements are stunning. Tom's mother helped her do the flower's in the church and we all helped out with the flowers in the marquee on the Friday. Whilst she was doing the pedestal arrangement for the marquee, the wind picked up and we all thought the marquee was going to take off!




Not the most brilliant photo of Tamzin. I have fiddled about with it a bit so it looks a lot less blurry than it did.

 

More as and when - done enough fiddling for the day. Time to get some stuff done.

Fabric, Fabric, Fabric

No I haven't been buying. Sticking firmly to the No Fabric regime.


Yesterday was a gorgeous, hot day. Makes a change after the foul weather we've been having since May. Pool was cleaned on Saturday and is now a glittering blue instead of mushy pea green.

We had the option of a vide greniers at Le Rochebeaucourt or a proper brocante at Brantome. DH and I opted for the latter. Didn't really fancy traipsing up and down lines of tat!

I then remembered that Tonya had asked if DH could pretend to have a heart attack so I could take pictures of the fabric from Senegal hanging outside the fossil shop. I talked about it in June. So I grabbed the camera on my way out. Glad I did.

I think this picture is very Covered Porches. I thought of her when I took it.

I love the dummy on the left at the back and the cushions on the sofa.

It amazes me the prices people charge for things. Has anyone seen the huge clock faces made in plastic and battery operated? They are made to look old and sort of station clock ish. There were 2 for sale yesterday. One was 95 Euro and the other wasn't even priced!!

Here is the fabric outside the fossil shop

 

I've got too much to do at the moment so quilting has had to take a back seat. However, I have got a nasty niggly, guilty feeling about Quilts 4 Leukaemia so will have to pull the box out, have a rummage through all those beautiful blocks and design the next quilt.

 

Le Tour de France 2007

 

 

 

Some of you may be interested in this, some of you may not ......................................................

 

Le Tour is passing the bottom of our road on Friday, 27th July. The route is Cahors to Angouleme (210 km's) and is, apparently, going to be one of hardest routes this year (apart from the Alps and the Pyrénées).

 

I am hoping that I shall have the time to get together a white sheet and some red paint to advertise Qs4L so that those of you who watch it may be able to spot me.

 

The ETA is somewhere around 14.00 hours local time and we are between Brantome and Monsec. You can view the route here (and it is in English!!!!).

 

Back to the grass, the washing and everything else and will post more as and when.

 STOP PRESS - just realised the ETA for the "caravanne' is around 14.00.  The cyclists don't actually arrive until about 16.20.

 

Home Again, Home Again Jiggity Jig

Got back at midnight last night after a lovely lovely week in the UK. The bride look stunning, the groom gorgeous and the wedding was the wedding of the year, fireworks et al.

Pictures as and when. Piles of washing to do and must start organizing "The Bash".

Aunt loves her quilt. I nearly got strangled by the hug!

Early WiP Wednesday, a Recipe and the BBC

I'm supposed to be packing. I don't "do" packing and try to leave it until the last possible moment, which just happens to be today. I would much prefer to be quilting, but if I don't get my head round this packing business I shall be arriving in the UK with nothing apart from the clothes I am wearing!

There has been a huge amount of progress with Little Acorns. I have quilted along the bottom of the border and am about turn the corner and go up the left hand side. My stitches are getting more even and when the thread stops knotting itself and getting caught up in the safety pins I am quite surprised at the speed I am going.



I think I am getting the hang of adding photos to the posts. Not as simple as Blogger.

Connie posted a recipe the other day for Tomato and Mozzarella Pasta which made me think that I haven't ever given you the recipe for Dreamers's Tomato Tart. This recipe was put on the old Dreaming of S W France group some years ago and it has sort of become my speciality. It is so easy and quick to make and tastes sooooooo yummy. We are having it for supper tonight.

1 pâté brise pastry shell

1lb Comte cheese sliced thinly

2/3 large tomatoes cut into ½ inch slices

Salt

Black pepper to taste

1 tsp dried basil or 1 tbl sp fresh basil

1 oz Parmesan cheese

1 oz melted butter.

Sprinkle tomato slices with salt and leave for 30 minutes.

Pre-heat oven to 375°F, 190°C, or gas mark 5.

There is no need to bake the pastry blind. Just make sure you prick the base with a fork.

Arrange cheese slices, slightly overlapping, in the bottom of the pastry shell and place tomatoes side by side on the top. Sprinkle with black pepper, basil and Parmesan. Dribble melted butter over tomatoes and bake in the upper part of the oven for 25 minutes, or until cheese has melted and the top of the tart is slightly browned.

Serve hot or warm.

Alternatives are to spread mustard or puréed garlic over the pastry base before adding the cheese.

Now the BBC. I follow Craig McGinty's This French Life blog/web site and the subjects over the past few days have been very interesting. For instance, did you know that BBC 2 are running a history of Paris on Tuesday evenings? The second of three programmes is on tomorrow.

I am also a BBC Radio 4 freak and one of my favourite presenters is Caroline Wyatt who is the Paris correspondent. Sadly she has had enough of the drip coming through the ceiling in her office from the bathroom above and is leaving Paris. I shall miss her and hope the new correspondent is as good as she was.

I really must start packing. Most important things to take - camera, quilt, scissors, thread, pins and hot air brush. Oh and don't forget new outfit and hat Clare!

A bientôt!

From Little Acorns Great Oaks Grow

This is what I have decided to call Aunt's quilt.



The middle has been quilted and I am now on the border. I am not at all impressed with the Coats & Clark Multicolored thread. I like the effect, but it is not good to sew with. It is too thin, it knots and it breaks.



I've started using it now so I will finish what I started, but never again.



No way is this quilt going to be finished in time. I'll take it with me, but I very much doubt if Aunt will be receiving it this time next week. I'm relieved in a way as it means I can sit back and not rush it, which I have been doing. I was going to cheat and use the backing as the binding. There is so much "stuff" there, as you can see, so I was going to pin the backing round onto the front, using all that bat and making a lovely squidgey binding. I still might. I rather like the effect. DD said it would look like a large and soft picture frame.

I have just discovered that the photo isn't "clickable". I did say I've got a bit of plumbing to do so please be patient while I try to work out how Wordpress works.