{"id":30580,"date":"2014-07-16T05:50:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T09:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=30580"},"modified":"2014-08-04T23:13:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T03:13:12","slug":"lulu-in-paris-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/lulu-in-paris-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"French LuLu Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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granddaughter Laurel feeling Parisienne<\/p><\/div>\n

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This fun French outfit was a quickie project.\u00c2\u00a0 Just finishing a growth spurt, Laurel needed some new play clothes.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, that was all the excuse I needed.\u00c2\u00a0 And I just love this cute design from Great Notions\u00c2\u00a0 LuLu in Paris\u00c2\u00a0<\/em> <\/a>collection.<\/p>\n

The inexpensive shirt was paired with a\u00c2\u00a0 white tank top and hot pink leggings.<\/p>\n

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One of her closest friends recently returned from a 6 week visit to Paris with her grandmother.\u00c2\u00a0 Between the stream of e-mail photos Ava sent and all her chatter about the wonders of the romantic city, Laurel’s interest in Paris and all\u00c2\u00a0 things French is piqued.<\/p>\n

Of course, the shirt is a poor substitute for a glamorous trip to France, but it’s the best this Nana can do.<\/p>\n

After studying French for several years, our daughter, Rebecca, speaks the language fluently.\u00c2\u00a0 For two consecutive summers while she was in high school,\u00c2\u00a0 we housed two French foreign exchange students. \u00c2\u00a0 Their English and her French improved enormously.\u00c2\u00a0 Later, Rebecca spent two summers in\u00c2\u00a0 France.\u00c2\u00a0 Each experience improved her French.<\/p>\n

One of those summers she studied in Paris at La Sorbonne where her room looked out on the Eiffel Tower.\u00c2\u00a0 Later, as a young career woman, she was sent to Montreal for 8 weeks to represent the Florida office of her French-based company for meetings and business sessions.\u00c2\u00a0 I flew up for a fabulous week of \u00c2\u00a0 les bons temps<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 with my world traveling daughter.<\/p>\n

With all these connections, the Lulu collection has been put to good use for a variety of projects.<\/p>\n

It’s such fun to use embroidery and sewing to recall special memories.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope some day Laurel will have a memory of something more French than this little shirt.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe she will study French and see the Eiffel Tower for herself. Or maybe she will just remember that her Aunt Rebecca and her friend Ava BOTH saw it in person.\u00c2\u00a0 Life is not always fair.<\/p>\n

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Mama Fun: When our French student Olivier was with us, we wanted to show him as much of our country as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the trips we planned was to my brother’s ocean front home in Cedar Key. (Technically, is it a gulf front home, as it faces the Gulf of Mexico~just a waterfront detail that seems to be important to the residents of Cedar Key, especially my brother.) \u00c2\u00a0 <\/em> “Cedar Key,”\u00c2\u00a0 I explained, “is surrounded by water and is connected to other keys with bridges and causeways.”<\/p>\n

Later that day, he asked, in his very heavy French accent, “Is Cedar Key in Iceland?”\u00c2\u00a0 I tried and tried to explain that a key is usually a small body of land, all or mostly surrounded by water. \u00c2\u00a0 Often it is connected to other keys by bridges and causeways.\u00c2\u00a0 And Cedar Key is IN FLORIDA.\u00c2\u00a0 We will be driving there.\u00c2\u00a0 In the car.<\/p>\n

But he persisted and asked again, “Is Cedar Key in Iceland?”<\/p>\n

After a lot of time and explanations, we figured out that he was pronouncing island phonetically.\u00c2\u00a0 He was asking, “Is Cedar Key an island.”<\/p>\n

Foreign languages are tough.\u00c2\u00a0 Even English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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