Colour celebration

Today - grey sky, lots of rain - I was desperate for some colour. Came accross this French artist, Sophie Cuvelier. She lives in a world full of garlands, mostly textile ones (sometimes paper as well!), which she makes by hand. Not only she does the colouring herself, she cuts them, sews them and puts them on a string. She dresses buildings, streets, huge ceilings. Don't forget to click on her 'diaporama', it will make you feel good and smile in a second!

Christmas?

No snow, no cosy candlelight today (it was sunny and 24 C): this is about my Christmas-mailing for the Dutch magazines. All the Christmas publications are being produced in August or the start of September. So, actually I am rather late this year!
Tomorrow I'll send the editors and stylists some new pictures I took from my angels (with the lanterns in the background). Hope they'll give them a little stage to sing their Christmas carols on!

Scholten & Baijings

Wanted to write about Scholten & Baijings already for one whole year, but didn't have a blog back then to post anything on! So here they are, a pair of incredible designers.
Famous for their striped fabrics, but they designed so much more. A friend of mine met them in Milano and she told me that they were so friendly and easy going...
You can buy their cushion covers at the great webshop of one of my friends: BijzonderMOOI*

Home

When I came home my eye caught this: a climbing plant silhouette on the sun screen of my window... so very summer!

Back

Hello again! Had some wonderful weeks abroad. Fresh new inspiration in Germany and good old hard labour versus relaxation-sun-and-fun in France!

In a tiny white church in Bavaria (Germany) I saw this great cushion cover:




And yes...our luxurious stay in the Black Forest was great! Specially the well maintained cottage garden around our house was a real treat (not to mention the German Frühstück!).

Summer holiday!

Bye bye, tomorrow we are going to pack for our long summer break! First to Bavaria (Germany) to visit a dear friend, then to The Black Forest (Schwarzwald, Germany) in a super-German-good-quality-hotel for a few days.

We end up in our house in France, allways work to do (cleaning, fixing the roof, see view below), so we'll stay there for allmost 3 weeks!

If I can find any possibility to keep you posted, I will!
Have a great summer!

Winter's Moon

Julia from Winter's Moon contacted me yesterday, because she's interested in selling my Paperwork in the UK. Because I fell for the name of her webstore (Winter's Moon, so poetic!) I took a quick look. And yes, what a great style (good photography), beautiful stuff, vintage, handmade, would love to buy the whole assortment.
Although today we feel like Summer's Sun,
I recommend visiting Winters's Moon!