See you in Paris!

This weekend I'll be in Paris, i'll be at the beautiful Hotel Boheme with my work.

 Hope to see you there! 

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Carnet de Paris

I have updated my other blog Carnet de Paris today, with some fresh post of some shops I visited last time I was in Paris. The design of the blog was old so I made a new banner and made some small changes. So if you love to know my favourite Paris shops or you are lucky enough to travel off to Paris very soon, take a look at my blog!

Bonton

After my trip to paris I made a few little paintings from my favourite places and shops in Paris. I posted my painting of the Bonton photobooth on instagram where they saw it and liked it and reposted it on their acount so great! But the best part was that someone saw it and contacted me, she wanted a print of the painting to give to her husband on their  1st anniversary because he proposed to her in that photobooth!! Love that story! I love how social media works and how it connects people and stories.

Paris shopping tips 1#

I love this shop near Place de Bastille, it's full of pretty papers, patterns and craft materials. I could easily spend a whole day there looking at all the beautiful products. If you like paper, origami, Japanese craft materials this is a must visit shop.

You like to read more tips about cute, pretty, interesting shops in Paris visit my other blog

Carnet de Paris to find a Paris shop guide. I'll be posting there some more shop tips from my recent Paris trip.

Souvenirs de Paris

My favorite Paris Souvenirs to bring back home are Macarons. There are of course the famous ones of Laduree and Piere Herme, those are really tasty but of course you can also find them at a lot of  Boulangerie's. These Pretty macaraons are from just a random bakery in Paris and taste& look great, not as delicate as the fancy ones but way better than most of the Macarons you can find in the Netherlands.

Packing for Paris...

Today I'm packing for a trip to Paris, I will leave tomorrow and will be there for almost a whole week!

I'll be visiting the Maison et Objet and Playtime to see all the new (interior) trends.

I look forward to walk the streets of Paris and visit my favourite places and shops. I'll try to take plenty pictures to share here and if you like you can follow my trip on Instagram.

Have a lovely week

want to see my favourite Paris shops? you can go here 

Paris Fabrics are here....

I'm so happy and excited to let you know that my Souvenirs de Paris fabrics are here. I have wanted to make fabric by the metre for so long and finally I have done it. Of course my first fabric had to be inspired by my favourite city Paris, I cannot wait to sew all kind of project with these fabrics. 

The fabric comes in two colours, blue and aqua and in two different weights, a soft cotton ( 120 gr) perfect  to make clothes, bedding etc and a heavy weight cotton (210gr) great for making cushion covers, bags, pencils purses.

You can find the fabrics in my Etsy shop.

Paris Paperdoll in Flow

So nice to finally have the flow Summer book in my hands and see the Paris  paperdoll that I designed in there!! It was such a nice job to make this for Flow magazine!

See you in Paris

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12 créateurs des pays du Nord
(Russie, Pays-Bas, Angleterre et Suisse)4 étages2 salons de thé
Samedi 14 et Dimanche 15 Décembre 201312h > 20h – Entrée libre

6 Rue Beauregard - 75002 Paris
M° Bonne Nouvelle /// Sentier /// Strasbourg Saint Denis

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So I'm back from London where I had a really lovely time and preparing to go to Paris, I hope to see you there!!!

Paris, Paris........

I'm feeling so lucky that next month I will not only visit Londen and sell my work there but also will be in Paris and sell my work at Hotel Boheme a lovely crafty market in the centre of Paris. Of course I will also take time to do some christmas shopping and visits the Frida Kahlo expo in the Orangerie.....

now back to work because I have a lot of sewing to do!

Pretty Paris shopping

 

Last week i spend a few days with my man and girls in Paris, we had such a lovely time. We did some tourist things like climbing the eiffeltower ( it was scary because I'm afraid of hights !) walking the Champs-Élysées, eating macarons at Laduree and of course we visited Notre Dame and Sacré Cœur and had dinner at Montmartre. Besides all the tourist attractions I managed to visit some of my favourite shops and also visit a new favourite shop called Adeline Klam.

The day we visited this shop it was grey and rainy in Paris but as soon as you open the door you'll forget all about the weather. This shop is so light and colourfull and everywhere you look there are pretty things to see. The shop owner Adeline Klam made a few japanese inspired books and her shop is filled with all kind of beautifull japanese craft materials like kimono fabrics, origami paper and of course washi tape.  The shop is located  near Bastille in Rue Richard Lenoir where you can also find a very nice market and is walking distance from Merci and Bonton. Of course we did not leave the shop empty handed, i'll show you in a next post what we bought and the rest of our Paris shopping loot.

Vintage hankies and more.....

I have updated my etsy shop today with some limited edition items. I have printed some Onesies with Moonrise kingdom print, printed paper bags and Vintage Hankies. From all these items i have only 1 or 2 pieces so a very limited amount!

You can find my etsy shop here

Have a lovely day

Oh la la...new packaging

 The Paris D.I.Y. kits needed  new packaging, so a few weeks ago I started designing the new pacakging. I wanted to create some labels too, for the packages & orders I send out.

I love making pretty packages and think these labels will look great combined with red/white twine and simple white paper bags. Do you like the labels?  I made a few Paris label sets so you can decorate your packages too, you can find them in my Etsy shop

Christmas shopping in Paris

 Wow what a great weekend I had, I spend it in Paris with my sweet sister and had such a lovely time, the weather was perfect, the christmas decorations where so pretty and the shops where stocked with lots of wonderfull things. We spend our days walking the streets of Paris, shopping, chatting and had some really jummie dinners!Bought some nice things for the girls and me that I will show you later...

Paris...Paris...

This weekend I will be in Paris with my sister, lucky me! It's been a while ago I was walking the streets of Paris and I'm really looking forward to it. If you would like to walk along ith me you can follow me on Twitter & Instagram !

visit my other blog for some nice Paris window shopping!

Paris on my mind

A few days ago I recieved the new issue of Flowmagazine, inside was a poster designed by Natalie L'éte, within 5 minutes I hang it above my desk and together with Mila arranged a nice Paris collection around it.

Plein du publique

Karin from Stiksel and galerie Gesamt is organising a very nice market in Rotterdam in may, 'Plein du Publique' a market with the feel of Paris but with a ' Rotterdamse twist '  If you are in Rotterdam be sure to visit and if you are an artist, creative or performer who would like to join this market there are still a few places availible, for more infor you can go here.

 

I recently renewed my banner from my other blog, Carnet de Paris, and I have some posts coming up very soon!

Click clack

I'm working on a little extra to add to the I love Paris doll kit and thought a little camera would be great to take pictures of all the pretty Paris Monuments. I have a little space left on my fabric for an extra to add to the kit. What do you think a Paris girl cannot live without, what shoul I add?? By the way I printed the doll in red and I like it, I will list some in the shop very soon.

Petit Pan goodies

Each time we come to Paris I try to visit one of the stores of Petit Pan, my favourite one is the Mercerie, here you can buy colourful fabrics, little metal bells in all colours and shapes, fabric remants, fabric string, pretty paper, fabric buttons and so much more. It's just like a candy store!! I'm very happy with my goodies I bought and the cute bag the use to wrap it. On my Paris blog you can see some pictures of the shop and later this week I will share a small tutorial with the fabric string and bells. You can buy the peit pan fabrics here and here

Macarons

One of the things on our to do list was to visit Laduree and buy some macarons, the shop was worth a visit, so pretty and well presented. So many different flavours it was really hard to choose....we bought two boxes of 8, one to take home and one to test right away. We sat down on the stairs of a nearby church and had a baguette with brie and had a macaron as dessert. The macaron tasted really good, perfect crisp from the outside and soft and tasty from the inside. Our favourite taste was Cassis, fresh and fruity and not to sweet. So when you are in Paris treat yourself to some jummie macarons from Laduree.