Week 14 2025

 Hello!

We have been readying ourselves at the Maison des Artisans in SAuveterre because this weekend is the annual Journées Européennes des Métiers d’Art where artisans throughout Europe open their workshops to the public and share their skills.  

Find out more here https://www.journeesdesmetiersdart.fr/

 

In Sauveterre, La Maison des Artisans is open on the Saturday and  Sunday and welcomes you to come and visit, try your hand at weaving, learn about making lamps from gourdes and put hands in clay.

 

On Friday we will receive students from the local college who will be developing their school projects with activities in clay, felting and gourde carving. A great way to find out more about local artists and artisans.

 

Whatever you do in the Gironde and Dordogne regions, have a great week.

Best wishes,

Helen

notjustfortheholidays@orange.fr

 

Week 14

 

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 4 April

 

5 April 

There are still some places left... come and make some cute sardines...

 

 

 

6 April

 

5 - 6 April

Coming up...

 

And finally...

We've been making travel noughts and crosses... hand sewn bags containing the themed 'noughts and crosses'  Here's the football set. 

Available at Arts Typiques in Sauveterre - perfect gifts!

Week 13 2025

 Hello!

Don't forget to change your clocks this weekend.   Loosing an hour in the morning, means an hour extra sunlight at the end of the day. Or, think like a cat...

 

Whatever you do in the Gironde and Dordogne regions, have a good week. 

Best wishes,

Helen

notjustfortheholidays@orange.fr

 

Week 13

 

 29 March

30 March

 

  Coming up...

 And finally...

 

Next weekend is the annual Journées Européennes des Métiers d’Art where artisans throughout Europe open their workshops to the public and share their skills.  

Find out more here https://www.journeesdesmetiersdart.fr/

 

In Sauveterre, La Maison des Artisans is open on the Saturday and  Sunday and welcomes you to come and visit, try your hand at weaving, learn about making lamps from gourdes and put hands in clay.

 

 

Week 12 2025

 Hello!

And a very belated Happy New Year!  After a having in both a holiday, and a massive dose of flu, it's taken me a while to get back to the keyboard.

Last weekend, at the carnival in Sauveterre-de-Guyenne, we set Monsieur Carnaval alight, and burning him represented the end of the harsh winter, the rejection of the ills accumulated over the past year, and the beginning of a new period of fertility, growth and hope.

Seemed a good impetus to get Notjustfortheholidays back on the screens. 

So, I'm starting off slowly, and whatever you do in the Gironde and Dordogne regions, have a great week, (or 2!)

Best wishes,

Helen

notjustfortheholidays@orange.fr

 

Week 12

 

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21 March

 

 

 

 22 March

23 March

 

 Coming up...

 

 And finally...

 

There are pottery workshops in the pipeline in Sauveterre at the Maison des Artisans.

 

 

 

Contact me, if you'd like to join in a session, or if there's something you'd like to do, but can't make the date.  I'm sure we can find a solution. 📞0630898536