What's another year?

Cindy from http://romantichome.blogspot.com/ is hosting a year in review party. Visit her blog to check out everyone who is involved in this look-back.

Honestly, I did try to make a choice which one I wanted to place .....I could not so I placed a lot of my mosaics I 've made since I started in blogland in october 2008.

I think this is one of my favourite mosaics I made in the past year..it tells a lot about my passions:....fleamarkets, needlework, decorating and all kinds of vintage nice material to look at. My kitchen in not very big, I decorate it with blue and white China, mainly plates I bought in Normandy in France, we used to go camping there once a year. I didn't take a lot of clothes and stuff as we went so that I could fill the car with plates and fleamarketfinds as we went back. Our 3 children allmost ill because they could not wear any coats but....they recovered..

In August we went to Paris for a week, for the first time in 20 years
without any of our 3 children...The mosaic below is of some of the blue and green and grey doors in Paris..just randomly chosen...

The mosaic below has the theme: "White in Paris..."

Fleamarkets in Paris, Saint Ouen, Porte de Vanves etc.

Père Lachaisses, Cimetere Montparnasse and Cimetere Montmartre

Getting dizzy in Paris?

ornaments and statutes in Paris

what to eat in Paris when you want to keep on walking..because you don't want to miss a thing...

A mosaic of Normandy in France, the beaches of Deauville, Trouville and Cabourg

The cats I've made from old linen....

Old linen on the beds, the tables and used as curtains....

I used to collect bears...

Almost Christmas in our bedroom

Christmas in the livingroom...

The old religious linens displayed in the hallway upstairs, they all came from a Catholic church.

I made these hearts for the christmas tree

In the hallway upstairs we painted all things white...including the statue of Maria..

Our bedroom and a part of the collection old linen, I bought most of it at fleamarkets Several things in white, old lace, the hearts I made from old linen and doillies combined with pearls and pictures of our kitchen etc.

For the christmas tree I made 50 hearts of old linen, pieces of tableclothes, pieces of old dresses, old jewelry etc.

These pictures were all taken in our bedroom. We tried to make it nice and calm since we are very noisy ourselves...

Again our bedroom...I keep a lot of the collections in the white cupboards.

A combination of the fleamarket-things in my house and the things Jeannette (my friend) collected over the years and keeps in her house.

The old quilts I bought in America...I love them...

White in the bedroom to keep us calm...

Our hallway, it is not so big but I stuffed it with all things I gathered from the markets and brocantes we've visited in France.

Angels all over the place, I don't know why but I adore them...I think it is because I allways wanted children like angels (I didn't succeed)

Some treasures ...

When you think you have seen them all..you are in for a shock..I also made a lot of mosaics at my friends place..We have been friends since we were 8 years old, we started collecting at the same age and we are now in our mid-forties...

embroideries with roses are favourite

Jeannette made this one with pieces of China she found in a wood, she combined it with little toys also found in the mud....

As soon as I find time I will place some more mosaics in this chapter since I absolutely love Cindy's idea of a review...

Below a mosaic of the white christmas at Jeannette's place...

so shabby...

jewelry mosaic number 3

Jewelry and the favourite statue

shabby chique all over the place...

This is Christmas in the cabinet in which she keeps her fleamarket finds of blue china, she has combined it with antique christmas ornaments and silver, we've been sitting next to all the things just wondering how beautiful they are...and how many times we've been to the fleamarkets...
some pink, pastels and white all over the house...the heart with the word JILL on it, she has made that one of antique lace and pins as a birth gift to her daughter Jill.

jewelry...

handkerchiefs...

Christmastime with the old birdies and homemade hearts from old linen.

I will add some more in the next days..it is 1th of january now and there's no time left today to continue....