Noel au Château!

Hello Friends, 

Today, I will let you look at these beautiful Christmas videos and pictures. A magical Christmas!

Hope you enjoy!

 

Catherinette!

Drying oranges and lemons.🍋 

 Today is a special day! 

.It’s Saint Catherine ‘s day, so it’s my day.  On Saint Catherine 25th of November the custom here is for the women who are not yet married on they 25 th birthday wear  and make a yellow and green hat 👒 on that day. This from the Middle Ages. Another custom is that you must plant on that day, trees…all will be well rooted !I am Catherine, but no more a Catherinette! 😂 

Not doing much today on my special day!

I wish you a nice Tuesday

Christmas market and a Chateau.

By the end of yesterday we finished my puzzle!

To start the week nothing ‘s best than a coffee!☕️ 

(Source ZZZOe)

Hello Friends!

Yesterday we finally went to the chateau D’Argeronne which is an hotel ( chambres d’hôtes) wedding and seminars in an Orangery. A beautiful place but I forgot to take a picture. Instead of going to the sea because we did not know if it was going to snow.

A 17 th Century castle!

All the chateau’s  have a big land around there was a farm 

A pigeon house ( only for the upper class) and woods for hunting  with hounds.

This was the farming part

We had heating and wood fire inside

The beautiful stairs

I could not take many pictures of the artisans but the picture was hand made baby clothes in Toile de Jouy

It was very nice.

The entrance of the chateau

A grasshopper garden decoration as there was a  landscaper enterprise exhibition 

This is the guest house 

And the famous pigeon house! This one is still in a very good state.
 

Then my husband found some earrings and I had to choose a pair. It is made with peacock feathers and two different pheasants feathers 🪶 and I found a mohair and silk hand knitted scarf to match with my earrings . These people have cattle of Mohair goats 🐐 and do there own will.

There were only good quality gifts for Christmas and all was nice to look at!

So soft  warm and light!

I wish you a nice week!

Snowy and cold weather.🌦️

Last year’s pictures. Only cold, frost and little snow today but it does not stay long on the ground.. in the past we had snow like on the pictures and I remember having -12 C

But not anymore so last year was a surprise!

Hello Friends!

It is cold here! After the sand from Sahara and heat we have now polar cold! 🥶 it is very cold. No snow last night but it is difficult to know if we can go to the sea as there maybe snow on our way. Last year at this time we already had ⛄️ snow I selected some last year pictures on the same month of November.

If we stay one I will make dried fruits especially oranges 🍊 today.

(Source:ZZZOe)

While my husband was on duty I started making, or I should say trying to make ginger bread houses… not easy!

And continued my watercolour exercises.

These ones are Christmas ones.

Frost in our field.

 (Source:Facebook Rouen en photo)

This is our Christmas market in front of the Cathedral in Rouen. Just opened.

Enjoy your Sunday!