a snowy mantel with a new deer embroidery

After the New Year, I removed most of the Christmas décor,but I missed so much all the lightsthat I decided to leave the garland on the fireplace mantel.The lights are on a timer and I love seeing it thereas I come home from work(no remote working for me.)

I did remove the Santa, my reindeer sleepers, the deerand my Noel embroidery.I left the tree parts of the décor and added somesnow/winter accents, like the giant snow flake from last year,and this cute deer embroidery that I just finished.(free pattern from this French magazine,I think it is Veronique Enginger pattern)

Of course nothing fight the chill like a nice fire:

And you will find me here working on another embroidery!

Happy snow day!

Christmas mantel with a new skating embroidery

I finally finished decorating the mantel,

just in time for Christmas!

The cross stitched embroidery took me a little longer than I thought,

but it looks perfect there!
I layered lots of garlands on the mantel,most of them from previous years,adding the stockings from last year: 

and a blue Santa from my Lucketts trip.I added a little tree made from scraps of 1 x 4,inspired by this tutorial by Crafted.
And there's nothing better than reading by the fire on Christmas day!

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

a few pumpkins and cabbages on a Halloween front porch

With last year Halloween being cancelled,it is my first year decoration our new front porch for trick or treat:

and I had a good time!

I started with setting up my pennant from last year:

Then added some decorative cabbages in lovely shade of purply green

in the wood pumpkin I built a few years ago:

still good after all these years!

The crows took back their places on the porch,

on top of ladder and pumpkins

Our big pumpkin has not been carved yet,

Miss C. is doing it this weekend,

I am not sure what she will do,

but last year one was awesome:

Elmo on fire, very fitting for the pandemic!

Happy Halloween!

a mushroom embroidery and a fall mantel

I just finished my first fall embroidery:

And it has mushrooms!

It is a free pattern from Madame La Fée,

with the most beautiful fall colors you would want:

It is from the same designer that inspired my apple pillow:

These little mushrooms are quite smaller and faster to stitch!

and look perfect on the fireplace mantel

that I built last year.

So this year is my first fall mantel décor,

simple with a lot of reuse pieces from previous years,

and a few new ones, like the pumpkins pillow.

Happy cross stitching!

A daffodil spring embroidery

Over the last few months,

I slowly cross stitched this sweet little spring embroidery:

It is from "Enfance Enchantée" by Veronique Enginger, who is behind les brodeuses parisiennes.

So fun to cross stitch daffodils and sail boats!

I had to update a pink IKEA frame with some contact paper:

It goes much better with the décor!

It is perfect touch to set up a little spring/bunny vignette!

Happy Spring!

a simple teenager bathroom makeover, part two

In the summer 2019, I started  making over Miss C.'s bathroom,with a new mirror, new lighting and new towel hangers.

I even repainted the vanity from brown to black,much nicer with the black mirror.

We could have stopped there as she was quite pleased with the outcome, but after removing the medicine cabinet, she was a little short in storage, so I built her some:

I built this cool ladder following this tutorial from Ana White (of course!) and painted it black like the vanity. It was not a complicated built, but it took me forever!

So now there is space to store extra TP, Kleenex and more cactus!

Speaking of cactus, I found the perfect print:

Of course, I could have taken this makeover further by embracing the new trend of painting tiles, but I thought it was good just as is. Sometimes it is nice to keep things ....simple!

Happy Day!