Here we have some delicate little viola tricolour flowers from the garden. I spent an hour this afternoon with children chattering endlessly, drinking tea with my mum and embroidering these little ones to make a needlebook. The sun shining through the windows and this French music on the stereo… not a bad way to spend the afternoon….
Hope you're having a very nice time this Tuesday, too.
Ooh delightful! ❤
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Sounds wonderful indeed and your stitching is beautiful.
I love the blouse from a few posts ago too. Perfect fabric, sweet buttons and gorgeous pattern. The perfect blouse!
🙂
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We call them Johnny-jump-ups which is such a brilliant name for a great little flower. When we moved into our house there were heaps growing wild in the garden (sadly there are less now) and the guy who was mowing our lawn at the time told us that we needed to get rid of them all because they were a weed and would take over the garden and we were all “yes!”.
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That does sound like a nice afternoon. Love the violas with all the different shades. I think we’ll miss the chattering when the kids go back to school.Enjoy the week.K
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Beautiful Melissa!
I will miss the chatter also – our little one starts
school tomorrow. (the Ozzy kindergarten year at big school!) We didn’t realize she would be going so soon!XX
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Such pretty embroidery. Can’t believe you managed that with everything else going on around you. Does sound like a lovely day.
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hi jennie, ive been thinking about you! hope life is going well over the ditch, and all the best for the start of school! (exciting!)
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Putumayo do the BEST kids albums – we have rock and roll playground on constantly in the car. Might need to check out a few from the library.
Lovely stitching (as always!) 🙂
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Gorgeous embroidery! What a lovely way to spend the day.
Sending you warm wishes from (hot hot) Australia.
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as we are bearing down for the biggest snow storm of the winter I am really feeling your warmth.
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I’m usually a lurker but this time I can’t help but saying how much I LOVE your embroidered viola !
and shame on me, because I’m a French living in France, but don’t know ANY of this playlist !!
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Beautiful, your stitching is always so brilliant.
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We are getting the same storm Margie is awaiting. 2-3 more feet of snow! To hold a lovely viola seems unreal at the moment. Thank you for sharing.
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Incredible summer in your corner of Earth. In Paris, we are frozen !
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oh, i so look forward to the smell of the violas that pop up all around the yard! big snow here today!
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Beautiful. I love violas and you have captured their essence very well. We have a neice in Germany named Viola. I long for summer. We are -20 Celcius with the windchill this morning.
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I love violets ! Here in France, it’s minus 4 degree Celsius and the violets on my window are still beautifull !
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Just “luuuuuuv~ly”!
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oh i’m jealous when i see these beautiful violets and your embroidery..it gives the sun!
Here in Holland it’s freezing again .aarrrgh
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Beautiful stitching! That sounds like a lovely afternoon!
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Beautiful! What’s the difference between a pansy and a viola?
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So nice, sometimes it is hard to remember what summer feels like with all the snow and cold- this post transported me to that summer-day feeling. I love those violets.
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it’s just so hard to imagine that the ground is not covered with snow where you are, but instead you are sitting outside enjoying a lovely afternoon with…bare feet! Your project is so sweet and so reminiscent of warm and inspiring sunny days 🙂
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Wow What a great idea. I really glad to got that amazing idea,its sound like great Beautiful stitching. Definitely its nice afternoon.
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Purple is one of my favourite colours and we have some of these violas that come up every year in our garden – beautiful.
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Very pretty! I’m inspired.
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oh, I love violas!
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Where I live this flower is called “amor perfeito”, which means “perfect love”. I love these flowers, also in yellow and dark red…. The embroidery is beautiful as usual.
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hi elsa,
i love that name! thank you for sharing it 🙂
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It has been too long since I have visited your inspiring space online, Melissa. I do so love your embroidery. What a special, beautiful creation.
Warmly, Nicola
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