Paris Mode
I’m in the Paris mode judging from the guesses coming in for my new Block of the Month! You have me wishing for a pink, French Christmas quilt! Ahh, how many of you would really buy a pink Christmas quilt? Sale of one pattern to Bunny Hill but the rest of you? Well you saw the fabric I’m using in my last post and I’m in more of a universal mode, but I’m always dreaming of Paris…
I loved Paris and I would return in a minutes’ notice just for a chance to browse the flea markets for treasures! Anyone ready for a Paris treasure hunt? I actually looked up costs online today for next year. I’m hooked don’t you think?
I paid 10 Euros for this card of vintage Mother of Pearl buttons. It was a bargain. I would have paid more, I loved them so much. I’m not good at bargaining. I hate it, but I made myself ask if they would take less in my most French sounding English. At the same vendor I paid 25 Euros for one button. The bargaining didn’t work at all. I really wanted that button from 1880 and so I paid the money. Can’t show it to you now because I’ll be using it for something in the spring. You’ll appreciate it more when you see it.
As for that 5″ square of pink in my block of the month? Try looking at some of my other block of the months to see how I’ve used “pink”! Do you think I’ve used the entire square or do you think maybe I cut it up?
Guess what? We have a few correct guesses in the contest already! If you guess right you’ll get an email confirming that you’ve been entered in the contest.
Quilt shops can email me directly for the “La Petite Ecole” fabric sku’s I’ve used.
One more question for today. How many of you have Facebook pages and why? I’ve been visiting Facebook and I’m not sure I “get it”. Do you actually use Facebook? Do you use it every day?
Back soon!
Anne
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Martine
Hi Anne,
I am not on Facebook but don’t miss it. Surfing on blogs and exchanging e-mails is enough.
My suggestion for the next BOM : maybe Santa’s workshop in the faraway Lapland. That would include Santa’s elves, sacks full of toys, the children’s addresses, Santa’s wife packing Santa’s luggage, Rudolph and its fellow-reinder…
Well, easier to say an write than to make, but considering how talented you are, I am sure you would meet no obstacle.
Have a good day Anne,
Martine – FRANCE
mimi'sdarlins
Oh Anne, these buttons are the perfect vintage pink! I can’t stand it!! Any time I find anything in this color, I just have to buy it! I think 10 Euros was a bargain, and I’m sure the 1880 button was worth the price, too. If you wanted it and you love it, it was worth it :-)
Ok, back to this guessing…maybe a Christmas story like
A Christmas Carol, or The Night Before Christmas (visions of sugarplums), or The Nutcracker, or 12 Days of Christmas?
Or cute critters w/ pink noses? pink hearts? pink ribbons?
Or an old fashioned Christmas scene or village?
I’m running out of guesses!!
Cynthia
Hmmmm…
When I see the fabrics I keep thinking of an an old flag (red, blue, cream) waving outside a house or little one room country school house in a snowy outdoorsy Christmas theme.
The other thought I had was red and blue birds on a snowy/creamy background.
Or teddy bears with little pink noses with little vests or bows.
I’m hungry right now so I’m also thinking Christmas cookies though I don’t know how the blue would look for cookies so how about vintage red and blue Christmas ornaments on a creamy background.
This is fun!
As far as Facebook, no I don’t have an account and don’t follow it. I’m a working mother raising two teenage children. Don’t have the time (games will pull you in…) and when I created a test account all of their friends wanted to “friend” me. I kept seeing stuff from their generation I didn’t need to see. :-)
Cynthia