I received a wonderful package from French stitcher, Elisabeth B., in the mail today. It is for a Christmas ornament exchange on the Stitching Bloggers Exchange Bulletin Board. Earlier year I made a Bicornu for Elisabeth for an exchange! She made me this gorgeous Biscornu to hang on my tree! It is from one of the Prairie Schooler charts (it is funny as I was thinking of making this same design and finishing it into a Biscornu, too!!), and I *love* it!
My gifts came inside this lovely doll (remember the one I bought earlier and now have hanging with my ornaments) that Elisabeth made!! She is lovely and will hang next to my angel! I wish I was a good enough seamstress to make something like her! The top of her dress has a drawstring so you can keep things inside. I will do as Elisabeth suggested and keep some of my stitching supplies inside and I will display her year round! Her dress is made out of vintage fabrics that she bought at a flea market--I love things like this!! She also sent along a lovely wooden ornament for my tree and yummy sweets. She tells me they are called Gavottes, which are a specialty in Bretagne. The inside is a thin sort of crepe, and only at Christmas time do they dip them in chocolate. I am sorry to say that they are already almost all gone!! I feel very spoiled! Many thanks Elisabeth--I love everything!!!!