Where have you been?!

I know, it has been over a month... Well I have been busy with Jeanne's christening, sewing her a dress, sewing matching little bags for the dragees and then I got REALLY tired and stayed in bed for two days, and never really recovered...

And yes, this is the best picture I have of that dress, isn't it bad? For me, yaking pictures is the biggest challenge in having a blog, I am just useless... Well, anyway it was pretty enough for her cousin to tell her she was a princess, which obviously is the nicest compliment you can pay Jeanne at the moment! It was a lovely day on the Ile the Batz, one of my favourite place in the world, surrounded by friends and family.

We are now back in London where a giant courgette awaited us...

It weights over 3 kgs! I already made 2 zucchini pineapple breads with it, thanks to my friend Barb's recipe and intend to make so more for Jeanne's birthday party on Sunday.

Here is the recipe :

- 3 eggs

- 2 cups shredded zucchini

- 3 cups flour

- 1 tea spoon cinnamon

- 1 teaspoon baking powder

- 1 teaspoon soda

- 1 cup sugar

- 1 cup oil

- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

- 1 6oz shredded pineapple tin

Just mix everything together, put in a greased and floured bread pan and cook at 180 celsius until browned, I would say an hour.

I think next time I might add the zest of one orange to give it more zing.

Jeanne turned 3 on the day we were back and had some ... Christmas cake to celebrate... It is what happens when you don't have neither the time nor the energy to bake one and that you send your husband to buy one... Well as long as there is a candle on top it is a birthday cake isn't it? She didn't seem to mind...

And we will try to do better for the party. I am supposed to make a butterfly shaped one covered in lots of pink and sparkles... The itch being that even though I am only due in a month time I was told yesterday that the baby had started coming down and could arrive anytime now... So fingers crossed I make it to the party! And if so I'll try to take pictures...

But the big even was that being 3 years old she started nursery 3 hours a day!

I always said I didn't like uniform but I have to confess that she is awfully cute, if I say so myself... She really likes it so far and I enjoy every minute of it!

Waited for me on the fridge was also the To Do List... We are down to 43 items... Progress might come to an halt any minute though...

The recipient

It seams the recipient of the blanket has quite happily adopted it!

This was taken last week-end and he was only 10 days old! Quite perfect. My brother thinks I am going to find it hard to do better in a couple of months... His / her blanket will be quite different in any case... Actually that baby is getting 2 blankets. A crochet one of course which is over half done already, but has been put aside for a little while to work on a few other projects, including the 2nd blanket :

It's a quilt I started las winter when visiting my dear friend Barbara in Michigan. Quilting is not one of my skills, it is more a fantasy of mine and every time I visit Barb I want to make one. It is only my second one and the first time I actually get to the quilting stage, Barb did quilt the other one. It is progressing very slowly as I do it by hand as I really like the hand quilted look, and being alone with Jeanne all day till dinner time and in bed by 10 these days I actually only have little time to spend on it.

We have been rather busy doing things leaning more toward this :

Yes, her grandfather had a PINK wetsuit made for her... and she has the matching PINK and SPARKLY mask... What more can a girl ask for?

Well the weather has now turned for the worse and Jeanne has had a fever since yesterday... Which was the only excuse she needed to watch Kirikou for the 4th and 5th time since we have been arrived less than a week ago...

The to-do list? It is probably still on the fridge at home...