Et voila!

Let’s take a few moments to love things that look like other things.  I just finished a cross stitch from the cute French book, ‘Sweet Treats in Cross Stitch’ by Tinou Le Joly Senoville, which captures the fresh, fun chic of French design, with the wonderful advantage of charts based mostly on whole stitches.

Cafe et croissant

By chance, I dropped by Le Pain Quotidien while working on it.  I felt like I’d fallen inside the book, sitting at a wooden cafe table, drinking hot chocolate from a French-style bowl.   There are various charts in the book for motifs like teaspoons and ingredients, so once my seasonal projects are under control, I plan to put together some stitched table arrangements.

Maybe like this one?

Le Pain Quotidien