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
73 Comments
Yvonne
Ohhhhh, this is so difficult! I’m still thinking 12 days of (something) but maybe that’s not right…
How about ‘Christmas in Europe’ with either a traditional English thatched cottage or an elegant Parisian apartment block in the snow? With a selection of European wildlife – using the pink for noses and the insides of ears? Or maybe the pink is for a house/cottage… And maybe there’s no European connection at all!
Facebook – love it as a means of keeping in touch with friends throughout the world but get slightly ‘freaked’ when strangers ask to be my friend. Quite happy with the 30 or so friends I have…
Sharon S
I love Facebook. I can message old friends I haven’t seen since high school & see cute pictures of my great niece & nephew or see what my DD’s friend is up to in the Phillipines. Link my blog posts so my FB friends can see what I’m up to there. (Check out Monica of Happy Zombie fame on FB.) I like that it’s usually just a quick sentence or 2. Some of my more “high tec” FB friends use their Blackberry phones to take pictures & comment on their FB pages. Just make sure you have the “privacy settings” all set so that your information is only shared with your FB friends. The best FB story, a 70+ year old relative of mine accidentally called it FaceSpace! Combining Facebook & My Space! LOL
Doris Jablonski
I think it could be “Christmas in the Country”.
That’s my guess.
Doris