Hello
for those of you who don’t know me, I’m Claire ^^ 
late- fifties, married to a French chappie, and living in France, in the Lyon vicinty. We have three children: two working and living in England and the eldest on living not too far away from us.
I try to avoid housework by spending way too many hours on the computer, cross stitching, patchworking and also a bit of clothes-making. My most recent hobby is crochet – yep something I’ve wanted to try for years and I’ve finally taken the plunge.
We are animal lovers: 1 dog, 4 cats, Amazon Parrot and three hens . . . so looking after that lot also keeps me happy and out of trouble.
and for anyone interested in trying out their French – I run two blogs, other one here c’est toujours Claire ^^
Claire93's Blog 
Hi Claire;
Love your blog! You and your daughter are doing great work on the grand.
Paula
thanks for stopping by Paula ^^
Hi,
I agree with you Paula 😉
I am not really patient so I am sure I could never do that !…
I remember the first time when I visited your blog Claire and now I can see that you have made a lot of new and different things !
See you,
Céline
Hi Claire. I’m in Paris from next week. Would you like to meet some time?
Felicity (who is usually in Australia)
Hi Claire
How are you Claire?? Dad sent me your details as I had some problems with hotmail and lost everything. How are you??? I have been thinking about you. Would love to catch up. Everything is great here.
Bev xxx
hello, is it possible to have the chart of the tree kokeshis dolls ?
I love it …. Thank you very much. Pascale
Hello Pascale
I have sent the chart. thanks for visiting ^^
Claire, i am not sure why I didn’t have you on my reader. I lost you for a good while. Great to find you again
Hugs Janine
http://makingatreechange-janine.blogspot.com.au/
I’m so happy to come and read your blog. First and foremost, i love to crosstitch and second, your blog is so much interesting for me esp. it is written in english as i’m still study the french language as of this moment. Hope to read and see more inspiring photos and words here Claire and keep up the good work!!!
Hi,
I’ve nominated your blog for an award. I don’t mind at all if you choose not to accept it. See my blog post for details.
Avis x
Hi Claire. Just thought I’d drop you a line to see how things are going? Bev
Hi Claire
Just discovered your blog so I will be following with interest!
thanks for stopping by ^^
Hi Claire, Love the new platform for your blog. Nice to have a change around. What a lovely photo of Black Jack – he is very photogenic, the MOTH wants to know does he give out Paw Prints as his autograph.
Hi Claire,
Because you feel more like a family than a line on my computer, you’re getting an award!
Read this for more information:
http://prettylittlethingsinabox.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/award-time-part-2/
Thank you for being the next-door “online” neighbour.
xo,
Angela
thank you ^^
Hi,
I’ve nominated your blog for an award. If you choose to accept, great! If you don’t like to take part in awards for any reason at all, there is no need to tell me. Just enjoy a few extra visitors to your blog from the link in my post here
http://ohsewtempting.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/13th-april-no-way/
Avis x
Claire dear ~ HELP!!! Just discovered the Grand on your blog….the link no longer available, but
when I found Isabelle’s (all in French) found it was a picture not a graph? Thank goodness I found
you in English…Has the Graph ever been published? I would so love to do this one…Reminds me
of a similar Perlin one I did. Many thanks.
Mary
hello Mary
check your email – I think you’ll find you knocked at the right door ^^
Hello Claire!
Do you exchange bookmarks with collectors from other Countries?
I am from Portugal and i have many portuguese bookmarks for exchange.
Best regards,
Paulo
Hello Paulo
I’d be happy to exchange bookmarks but not for the moment. We’re in a transition period, between selling our house and buying a new house, and living in temporary accommodation at the moment.
Love your blog and charts! My Great Niece had 3 cats (lost her pal of 17 years just a few days ago. Christmas is coming and I would love your Cat ABC cross stitch chart to make for her. Her remaining 2 cats are rescues and I feel sure she won’t remain “one short” for too long. Again, our ABCat would be just wonderful for her and hope you can send it to me.
Hello!
I like to read your blog!
I like your polka dot matryoshkas! Its so cute!!
If its possible can I ask you to see the chart?
Thank you so much!
I want to try to stitch it)
sorry, I no longer have the chart. I gave it to a friend when I had finished stitching the design.
Hi Claire, I’m just clearing my mums house and found an album full of bookmarks, all sorts of places, mainly UK, are you interested? I seem to remember that you collect them but I wasn’t sure if you prefer to have been to the place yourself. If not I can send them to a charity shop, no worries 🙂
thinking of the weight of a package, it’s probably best if you take them to a charity shop, but thanks for thinking of me ^^
OK, will do 🙂
Hi Claire – I like your blog and like you I own a Meyer’s Parrot called Hetty, what is you Amazon like – can you post a picture please.
Hi Claire, I found your 2016 post with the Bagpuss cross stitch (https://claire93.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/bagpuss-dear-bagpuss-old-fat-furry-catpuss/). I would love to stitch it, too! Would you be willing to share the pattern, if you have it scanned as a PDF? I am having some trouble locating the hard copy magazine. Thank you.
sorry I passed the chart on to a friend once I had finished with it.
Thank you for letting me know!
You are going to be so popular when little people come to visit and find all these tiny cuddly things to play with.
Hi Claire. I just saw the ABC cross stitch cat with the fish hanging from his tail! Hence I LOVE IT!!! As you were given credit for the pattern and the link brought me to your blog, could you please tell me where I can get the pattern? Thank you so much.
I have no idea what pattern you’re talking about. Obviously a photo from my blog if I was given credit, but not necessarily one of my patterns. If it was a monochrome I’m wondering if it wasn’t an Isabelle Vautier design, but that’s the only one that springs to mind.
My daughter received that same latch hook kit but lost the instructions/pattern, so she doesn’t know colors to do where. Do you still have your instructions and could we please buy them from you?
Katie Pung
I’m not sure if you are still responding to posts here but there are several of your designs I would love to stitch! Both quakers and the black work ones are beautiful!
hi Evelyn, all you need to do is click on the title above each picture and it’ll open the chart in pdf format.
Happy stitching.
Hi Claire.
Love the blog. Especially the chickens!
And you still look just the same as when we were at school.
Alison
Hello Claire, I found your blogg when I was trying to find patterns for a certain Dimensions pieces. It is 6 pieces of christmas ornaments “let it snow”, “holiday and Ivy” and so on. It appears as if it is not possible to buy it anywhere. Can you point me in the right direction where to get the patterns?
All the best
Gudbjort Erlendsdottir (icelandic 🙂 )
Hello Gudbjort, thanks for stopping by. I’m afraid I don’t know where you can buy those particular kits now. It was several years ago that I bought mine, and I passed the charts on to a friend when I finished.. Sorry!
I just checked out your blog. Get emails from “The Crafty Creek” & all her amazing work…thought I’d check out others..
Ok 1st I’m in the USA in Va. near the coast…My 1st .? Is about your chickens
What is imposted crop, don’t have chicks just curious, sorry for her passing.
Also love the cabinet, can picture it loaded with lots yarn & fabric!
On your post birthday items you showed some beachey/nautical fabric, name
& or manufacturer. I like to quilt & love that fabric!!!
Thanks enjoy your day.
Blessings
Ellen T
thanks for stopping by Ellen ^^
Sorry there’s no selvage on the nautical fabric, so I can’t tell you what collection it’s from.
As for impacted crop (also called sour crop): hens have a sort of pouch where food goes before heading to the gizzard (where it’s ground down and digested). Impacted crop is when there’s a blockage in the crop and food can’t move down. Trick is to massage, and try to get it to shift (usually trying to help hen vomit back up). Can take several days to sort out – sadly I caught it too late.