A MYSTERIOUS PARCEL sent by someone who is currently staying with us at the CHATEAU
In 'Cadeaux at the Chateau', all of the inhabitants of the Chateau de Lalande gather together to open beautiful gifts that people have sent from all over the world. All of the monetisation from these videos will be donated to a different charity each month. KZhead earnings fluctuate wildly each month, as ad revenue changes throughout the year. Here are the charities that we've donated to so far:
July 2020:
British Heart Foundation UK (in memory of my father) €634
August 2020:
Alzheimer's Research UK (in memory of all of the residents of my parents' nursing homes) €650
September 2020:
Prostate Cancer Foundation (in memory of Selmar's father) €1,255
October 2020:
Medecins sans Frontieres (chosen by my mother to support vaccinations in Africa) €942 (equivalent to 426 cholera vaccinations)
November & December 2020 & Jan & Feb 2021:
A Lalande Fashion Scholarship for a student at the Villioti Fashion Institute in South Africa R100,000 (approx €5,800)
March 2021:
Suffolk Artlink £1,505
April 2021:
Association Petit Prince €1,689
May 2021:
Melanoma Focus €1,204
June 2021:
Aide aux Jeunes Diabétiques €1,735
July, August & September 2021:
The 2nd year of the Lalande Fashion Scholarship for a student at the Villioti Fashion Institute in South Africa R100,000 (approx €5,800)
October 2021:
A La Bonne Vauvre (our local Crozon sur Vauvre community centre) €3,184
November 2021:
Techo €2,709
December 2021:
Genesis Hope El-Roi Baby Home ZAR90,000 (€5,248.01)
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January 2022:
We Are Here Venice €2,000
February 2022:
Red Cross for Ukraine €2,019
March 2022:
The Fred Hollows Foundation €2,311
April, May & June 2022:
Ardmore Community Fund €5893
July 2022:
Institut Curie €2.150
August 2022:
Movember €2.246
September, October & November 2022:
3rd year of the Lalande Fashion Scholarship for a student at the Villioti Fashion Institute in South Africa €6.092
I used to show the gifts as part of ' @The Chateau Diaries ' episodes, but you're all so very generous that we have many gifts, and if we spent the episodes opening them, we wouldn't be able to show you other aspects of chateau life! So, for those of you who enjoy watching presents being opened, and as a way to thank those of you who were kind enough to send them, I've made this new channel. Every week we will film your beautiful gifts whilst enjoying afternoon tea or aperitif together.
It is very important to me that you know that we in no way expect anyone to send us gifts. I would like to go further than that and add that, if doing so will put you in any financial difficulty whatsoever, please, please do not send us anything. Knowing that you join us by watching 'The Chateau Diaries' gives us all an enormous boost. But for those of you who have sent these incredibly thoughtful gifts, I hope that seeing us open them gives you a fraction of the joy that you've given us 💖💖💖
If you would like to see more of our life at the chateau, please go to our main 'Chateau Diaries' channel:
/ thechateaudiaries
Marie needs to wear that style of dress EVERY DAY at the Chateau as she frolics and forages for flowers! That dress is perfect on her! So fun!
LOVE Marie being here. I feel she is part of the family. Hope she stays.
Marie looks like she stepped out of a story book.
So glad you are enjoying the costumes. It gave me a lot of joy to see you both in my favorite gowns. I could feel the love. Believe me, it was an enormous pleasure to send them to you. I agree that the blue one is stunning on Marie with her coloring. It does look like it was made for her. I used to wear it with a velvet Tudor flat cap. But my husband commandeered it for his alter ego. A “persona” he created to prank a friend that created Casa Bardicci, an Italian palazzo that only exists for two weeks every year at a huge medieval event in Pennsylvania in August. You should google the Pennsic Wars. Now there is an experience that would be different for you and Ollie for your travel vlog. They actually have huge field battles, often with over a thousand participants on the field. It is quite the spectacle.
Oo so you're the secret guest hehe lovely dresses. Dressing up is one of my favourite things.
I think Marie needs a photo shoot frolicing in the flower garden in that dress.
📸 Yes💥! Those regal Renaissance costumes are rather spectacular. How kind of this lovely LaLander to share her artistic 🪡sewing🧵 talents with this historic household. 📖 A more fitting fairytale 🏰 setting she could not find! That 💙blue one certainly enhances 🌸 Marie Fleur's 🌸 natural, gentle beauty. Those silhouettes certainly make the best of the female form too. The ❤red velvet & pink suits Stephanie to a "T." 😉Perhaps when Michael Potts returns from his 🏁 international adventures, he can do another photo shoot. 💚Bridget from Cali☘️ (using my pal's YT acct)
Marie looks so at home and relaxed. So glad she is back. I agree that yours is the best of the chateau vlogs and that is because of Stephanie’s cheery personality.
Gosh that dress looks like it was actually made specifically for Marie... Soo beautiful 😀👗
Soooo glad Marie is home and she looked beautiful in her blue dress…
Marie looked stunning in the beautiful dress, it suits her so well. All the gifts were wonderful. 🙏❤️
I'm so happy Marie joined Love all the gifts
Marie's joy trying on the dress reminds me of Kat and her enjoyment wearing her midevil dress
medi - eval
This was a very fun video. And Marie looks absolutely radiant! She is stunning in that blue costume. Being back at Lalande must suit her!
Isn’t she absolutely GORGEOUS and glowing? Both Steph and Marie looked absolutely fabulous in those stunning gowns 🙏🏽
What lovely gifts!! So happy to see Marie at Laland!! 💚🌿🌸
So glad to see you Marie💚💚
Excellent cadeaux! I loved looking at the gorgeous, homemade, period dresses!!! How FUN to wear a style that is over 100 years old! Also, having a volunteer from the UK, who made so many different jams etc. cooking currently! What a coincidence!
What exceptionally lovely letters you received! And, WOW! That blue dress suits Marie to a T! She should wear it all the time.
You are intended to put a solid colour underneath the lace cover to accentuate the design ~
Those dresses! And what an extraordinary coincidence with Emma'a jams! Thank you for the video! I will so miss Cadeaux!
Those costumes are fabulous. Marie glowed in hers!
My wife and I are also part of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). You both look fantastic in the medieval garb. Marie, you were absolutely gorgeous and glowing in that bodice.
This was amazing. I’m so happy to see Marie flourishing at Lalande. Move heaven and earth to keep her there!
What a treat to see Marie at Cadeau! Perfect timing, beautiful gifts, and fabulous costumes!!
Loved the dresses on Stephanie and Marie! So pretty!
The letter sent with the gifts was so perfect. Stephanie you are all of those things.
This was a very special caddeau with the volunteer already there when you opened her gift. Those dresses and that lace are incredibly beautiful. ❤
I loved seeing Marie and so glad she is back ❤️
that coustume was MADE for Marie
This is sun a FUN vlog! Imagine Emma just in the next room while you’re unwrapping her gift. Unfathomable !
Simulation confirmed lol
Soooo many tea strainers! You will always be able to find one. No more digging around in the cupboard. The linens are beautiful. They look so delicste. The dresses are perfect. You both look amazing. 🙂🇨🇦
Love all the costumes and both you and Marie look fantastic in them. 👍👍
I love the dresses! They are works of art. Also, the tea strainers are wonderful. So much fun!
My jaw dropped at the vast array of tea strainers. They're so beautiful and unique, and must have taken years to collect. And how funny that Emma's gift opening turned out the way it did! All her treats sound amazing!
Wonderful gifts. The costumes are gorgeous and look perfect on both you and Marie. It is also wonderful to see Marie so happy and well at Lalande
So much fun this time with Marie, you both look beautiful in those dresses!
I like to see Marie and Stephanie together. Special episode. The gifts are various and all so nice. But Marie in the blue dress Wow! It´s like made for her. And Stephanie in contrast in the red, fitting so well. Davy couldn´t beleive his eyes. 😉You have to make a summer fairy tale party in the chateau together with the other lalanders.
The large hand-drawn handkerchief lace pieces are coverlets to go over the top of bedding. They are beautiful to use as tablecloths as well. They were exquisitely and painstakingly handmade and were so precious they were used as dowry pieces which would have gone into a maiden's hope chest and would have been handed down through the female family members, from grandmother, to mother, to daughters. They were highly treasured before the industrial revolution when cheaper imitations were mass produced by machine.
That blue dress looks like it was tailored for Marie and she looks beautiful ❤️🇨🇦
Ohhhhh this was so lovely! I watched this with my four year old daughter, Rose 🌹 and my 2 year old son, Theodore. They loved it too! It is so nice to see Marie more and lovely to hear Philipp’s commentary and of course, Stephanie, you are such a light in this my world and inspire me to keep my home beautiful! I can’t believe this channel is ending… but I am not sad because I totally support your decision to make sure you are always doing exactly what you know is right to do. ❤
I think the lace bedspread and curtains would look lovely on a romantic four-poster or hanging from the ceiling to give the illusion... also the period costumes looked gorgeous on both of you. ❤
The two of you look so beautiful and appropriate in those gorgeous dresses!! Yes, you need to wear them every day!
What a great blog!! Totally enjoyed seeing Marie
Loving seeing sweet Marie at LaLande!
So nice to see Marie
how cool the timing of the unboxing of Emma's home crafted treats. The universe sometimes works in wondrous synchronicity! ✨✨ lovely sense of joy in this cadeau with Marie, Steph & Philip. (hi marie ✋lovely to see you!) so many thoughtfully gifted treasures!
The medieval dresses are fabulous! Marie looked so perfect in the one she wore. Steph as always is also most beautiful.
My grandmother had those kind of Bed covers she had a solid coloured satin/ silk sheet ( yellow) and would put lace type cover over it and it made pattern of lace pop . Hope that helps with regards to styling. I'm from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤
My Grandmother had the same in Australia. It's interesting that it seems to have been a very Australian style, last century, mid-century or earlier.
I loved the perfectly said words in the letter & dresses from Kathy. There are always so many beautifully thoughtful gifts sent from around the world & the concept of the law of attraction is so true. This is highlighted when you consider Emma’s gift sent last year & being opened while in the next room! Wow! Marie and Stephanie together make me think of comfortable uplifting & genuine friends!
❤ I love Quince jelly, Emma is a very clever lady with her conserves. Such a happy coincidence having her there with her parcel. The dresses were stunning.
What a fun Cadeau. The dresses were awesome! You both look so beautiful in them and so fun to have the person’s package you were opening right there. I can’t believe you asked her to read the card and it was hers!!
As one of the resident historical fashion nerds that's frequently in the live chat, I *adored* those costumes you were sent! It's absolutely begging for a pastoral, historical costume picnic!
Lots of fun and can I say how wonderful Marie looks in her blue renaissance outfit!? It was as if it was made for her!
Oh My Goodness...those costumes are....and look amazing!!! Such a talent...as a fellow sewer of all.....that is some work gone into those!! I do hope Isabelle is OK?? Sandi x PS.....I just caught Marie on a Chateau DIY episode showing in UK on Channel 4 at the moment.....doing a gorgeous wedding arrangement around a tree and other things for a photo session.
Gorgeous gifts and dresses! Enjoyed watching the kindness and love from viewers around the world! I’ll miss watching cadeaux next year.🥲🥲🥰
This was a fun Cadeaux. Seeing Phillips "china Pantry" full was a nice treat. The linens for the bed I believe are called coverlets. The idea is to have a solid spread underneath to highlight the sheer lace over top. They are gorgeous. So nice to see Marie so happy and dressed up in the blue dress that highlights that beauty. I will really miss Cadeaux when it is said and done.
Wow! Those tea holders are spectacular! One for every personality!
Beautiful gifts! So happy to see you so happy.
I don’t think it’s a stretch but what I’m straining to say is that Wendy’s wide array of cool gifts used to steep hot sips suited Stephanie and crew to a tea. On the topic of suited, the costume gifts modeled by the always delightful Marie and engaging chatelaine Stephanie are bound to ignite the desire for a true fashion renaissance at Lalande and well beyond. I definitely feel a party coming on. Not least by any means is heartwarming news that the El Roi Baby Home in South Africa has a new home for those in need of love and shelter.
love the vlog.. the costumes are gorgeous ... Marie you are so sweet. And so are rest😁
Another Godwink with Emma and her name. Little miracles! Those lace pieces look like museum quality. Beautiful. Love watching you all. Many blessings.
My mother had a beautiful Irish Lace Table Cloth. Used it for special dinners on a table that could seat 10 of us.
I was thinking, why does it need a title/name? If it is a curtain but it will fit the table, why not call the curtain a tablecloth? Nobody will stop over & say "Is that a bedcover on your table?"😮 It's the exemplary craftsmanship that needs to be displayed in a prominent place!😊
I'm glad you like the thee strainers at the end of my collection I had 280 strainers but I have no room for them any more greatings wendy
You guys are the best at thanking people!
Beautiful gifts . Enjoyed. Love to all.
Please continue Chateau Unwrapped. It is one of my favorites. Hugs all. A warm welcome back to your beloved Marie. She's been gone too long. Judith
The weddings suite is the perfect home for all that gorgeous lace!
Love all the crochet curtains bedspreads .Can't wait to see how you use them.
You do a grand job on your videos with unwrapping gifts and giving the money you collected it to charities' that can use it. I'm really going to miss this video at the end of the year. You and Marie look so nice in the dresses you need to have a medieval party where everyone dresses up it would be wonderful.
Wow what lovely gifts. Stephanie and Marie look beautiful in the dresses. ❤🤗🤗
So good having Marie back :)
Phillip, One of my grandmother's was from Friburg, Germany and my grandfather was from the area near Strasburg. AND we have been hiding the "pickle" tree ornament ALL of my life. I am still laughing about your pickle story. By the way, I am 77 years old. Love all of you LaLanders and have been following since advent 2019. Keep up the wonderful work. John from LI, NY. By the way, I am the fellow who sent the Thai brass cutlery a few years ago. LOL
Yes, it made me smile too. I have a number of German family members and when they were visiting, we showed them the special pickle ornament on the Christmas tree honoring our German family’s traditions. They said no one in Germany has ever heard of the German pickle tradition! Hilarious.
You made me wonder, just how long ago that gigantic pickle 🥒 order was made😂
I have a pickle ornament too. My aunt gave all of her nieces one for Christmas one year. The story behind it is interesting.
This year I decided to take after you and leave our tree up until the end of February. We'll life has gotten busy and the tree is still up in July, which is great since we are doing our family photo in front of the tree this weekend .
OMG! We started doing the hidden pickle with our girls!!! I thought it was a thing! 🤣🤣🤣 I live in Pennsylvania.
Marie is amazing. Every dress she puts on looks like it was made just for her! ❤
Love you all, you spread a little happiness all year round ❤ thank you Fr or this precious gift ❤
Ladies you look beautiful, what gorgeous gifts xx love from Australia
Interesting to know about the American/German ‘find the pickle in the Xmas tree’ thing. Doesn’t matter if it started as a marketing gimmick, it sounds like fun. I don’t think it matters what ornament you choose. My mum kept an ornament I made her out of an egg box when I was five.
What amazing gifts! A warning note on Lace Curtain placement: I had/have some cotton lace curtains from my sister. The ones on the north facing windows are still doing great for the most part; they are never exposed to sun. One spot is thinning, from rubbing against a pull-cord when the window was open and the breeze blew, but better cord management has stopped further damage. But the amazing ones in my west and south-facing kitchen windows are falling apart from sun-rot, though they’re not as delicate as those (what could be more delicate?). It didn’t take many years for them to start failing. The west facing ones turned completely to dust. The south facing ones, shaded in deep winter by the neighbor’s house and in summer by a shrub when I’m slow to trim, is failing more slowly. It’s a bit miss Haversham, but I can’t bear to part with it yet as I haven’t found anything satisfactory as a replacement. Alas, I’ll have to go with polyester.
The glassware looks great in the cupboard
Where in the UK is Emma from? I ABSOLUTELY adore her accent! I could speak with her all day, just to listen to her speak! The dresses at the end were GORGEOUS!!! The color on Marie was STUNNING! Cannot wait to see you Stephanie, and Marie in them for a party. Another themed party with period costumes is way overdue!
She has nice clear accent-less English You could not easily tell her regional origin from how she speaks.
@@ludovica8221 UM, your ear isn't well tuned...I could tell she was British without being told for sure, she definitely has a regional accent, just not sure which one cause I am not from the UK, nor am I British...but I have loved British culture my entire life, and I KNOW a British accent IMMEDIATLY. Her english is VERY clear and destinct that is true, but if you cannot detect an accent your ear is not well trained at all.
I couldn't help but laugh when Philip spoke about the glass Christmas pickle. My nickname for my granddaughter when she was little was Pickle. So of course I saw one of those for sale at Christmastime and had to get it. We have some lovely memories of hiding and finding the pickle. I think my granddaughter will love the story.
I 100% agree with the letter from the last lady.
they would make beautiful bed curtains on a four-poster bed
Hi Stephanie,Marie & Phillip,I really enjoyed this video.The lace panels etc are beautiful & the dresses are amazing,love watching all of you at Lalande(Beautiful Chateau)😊❤
Those dresses 👗 are awesome, you both look like you came from a Renaissance Fair " ❤️😁
What a fun episode! Presents with coincidences, Christmas in July, Antique Linen Beauties, Marie that is looking Fab, and so many beautiful tea strainers. The dresses & Yes, Stephanie needs to hear kudos for sure Sighhhh.... I feel the stress of the day leaving now that I have watched this episode.
Excellence entertainment! I’m so glad these gifts can provide such wonderful benefits to the charities you choose. I will miss this so much when it’s over. But I know you can only accept so many gifts before you run out of storage room.
You could put a solid colored table cloth under these to really a show off the detail.
Great gifts The ladies look fantastic in those out fits
Marie’s smile wearing the dresses the best!
I deeply appreciate that so many viewers see the chateau as an appropriate repository for antique gifts that they can no longer use. It adds a fine pedigree to something that might ordinarily be regarded as mundane. now it will have a history which includes a fine chateau.
Oh my those dresses are gorgeous. I loved everything so thoughtful of everyone.
Marie looked fabulous in that dress!
In your cellar...the sand basin is for burying apples to store for the winter. Was just rewatching a video from 3 years ago. Ive enjoyed your show for years now. An inspiration and retreat.
That Marie doll is so sweet. Just like Marie.
Time for dancing in the garden in the stunning dresses. Lovely cadeau!
Stephanie, you may be in trouble because the butterfly dogs ears are always up. Hmmmmmm😏
I am on team Dog for Philip!
Congratulations Philip! A papillon dog it is going to be, we all heard it 😂
That’s what I was thinking when she said it! They are gorgeous, intelligent little dogs.. would melt their hearts!
Oh someone please get Emma to narrate audiobooks!! What a lovely voice!!
Such amazing dresses!❤... You have bought cheer to this day so thank you 😊😊😊😊😊😊
The beautiful curtains and bed covers would look beautiful on a canopy bed.
The first cloth you unfolded would look lovely on the Altar in the Chapel.
So many beautiful gifts 🎁
Such lovely gifts! Can't wait to see them all settle in to their new home.