La Belle France

Yep, here I am again in La Belle France, at our sweet little cottage on top of the hill. We arrived on Tuesday. We had only been away for a month, but oh boy, did I get a shock when we got to the cottage - the acacia trees, which had been pollarded last year, had thrown up suckers everywhere and there were mini trees growing all over the garden. NOT what we wanted to see. It is just about impossible to get rid of the little rascals, all we can do is keep mowing them down as soon as they spring up. Unless of course we want to dig up the whole garden and take out all the roots. I couldn't believe how aggressively these things grow, you know, even the cut logs, LOGS!, were sprouting new stuff. But for now all the little ones are mowed down and we can move around in the garden again. Most of the veggies survived, we have had radishes, mange tout, lettuce, peas and green beans from the garden, the courgettes are growing, as are the beetroot, the only things which really suffered are the tomato plants. They got ruined in that horrible hail storm a couple of weeks ago.


We have been so busy clearing up the garden, I haven't had time to visit anybody's blog or answer emails, bad bad me. But now I have dug out the laptop, plugged everything in, and I am ready to go. Sort of, lol. Haven't got any France pics to show you yet, for today you will have to make do with pics of tags. Yep, more tags. 


I made a whole bunch of tags to go with Etsy orders, here are some of them -

I made these tags a while ago, but I don't think I have shown them before. If I have, well, blame it on old age -

I also made some of this month's tags for the Tag Tuesday challenges before we left for France, including this week's SWIMMING challenge. When we were kids, my brothers and I used to spend almost every day  at the lido. I have very fond memories of those days, so a Lido tag seemed the obvious choice -

I haven't even gotten round to unpacking my suitcase full of craft supplies, isn't that just terrible? I must head over to my craftavan this weekend and get unpacked and crafting as well. But one thing I did manage was go to a vide grenier, woohoo! During the summer we have a series of Thursday evening vide greniers in our area, in different villages within half hour's drive. And I did manage to find a couple of lovely new treasures at yesterday's. If the weather improves tomorrow ( today it is very drizzly ), I'll take photos and show you.


Must go and try and answer some of  your lovely emails now.  Big hugs to you from France, toodlepip xxx




Oh, I still have time to link this post to the wonderful White Wednesday linky party over at the Faded Charm blog. Great. If you have time, go visit and marvel at lots and lots of lovely whiteness.