A few weeks
ago my husband and I were lucky enough to be part of a wonderful party.
Lucy, the
daughter of my friend Emma, was celebrating her first Communion and we were
invited to join in the celebrations. It was a memorable day and weekend.
The day before the Communion Emma’s husband Olivier took us all to St. Quentin to first visit the basilique,
which was all the more special because when we were there the organ was
being played (a short video on my IG account (click) unfortunately I cannot
insert the video here as my phone crashed the day after we returned from France
and I lost all my data ☹
)
After this we
visited the weekly town market,
In the
afternoon the boys went to visit nearby champagne caves and the girls went to……Le
Patchwork d’Emma, where else?!
Emma’s own
work is exquisite
And then of
course the next day it was Lucy’s big day, she looked so pretty
After the
church service, time for presents and a party!
It was a
wonderful weekend, with lovely people, a great fête (wonderful food and champagne, I was like a kid in a candy store) in
beautiful surroundings. The highlight of our summer, of our year I am sure. And
a warm memory for ever.
Since then I
have gone a bit awol. Both on my blog and on my IG account. Apart from the
memorable weekend in France with Emma and her family, this summer is turning
out to be a trying time. Just before our weekend in France I have had to say
farewell to a kind, wonderful, charismatic, spiritual, positive and beautiful
person who was taken from us much too soon. The speed with which his illness
claimed him left us in shock and incredibly sad.
Then those around me are suffering set backs and challenges, which for privacy
reasons I shall not get into, but it drains my energy and in some cases
involves a lot of work. Not even our dog Whopper was exempt from this run of
bad luck, suffering from kennel cough. And my new part-time job proved to be
less part-time than I was led to believe.
So since my afternoon at Emma’s atelier I have
hardly had a chance to do some quilting and it doesn’t look good for the rest
of the summer. I will try though (oh, I miss it) and as soon as I get the chance
to do so, I will share on my blog and IG- account.
In the
meantime, have yourselves a lovely (and hopefully quilty) summer,
Phyllis
