the house that fell from sky & other stories

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The house that fell from sky could be the tittle for a story book for kids and the images above, the illustrations.

French artist Jean-François Fourtou loves to play with the ideas of perspective and childhood worlds of imagination and magic. Playing with proportion and scale, Fourtou’s houses are inspired by personal memories of childhood and the disproportion of scenes from books such as Alice in Wonderland or Gulliver’s Travels. The experience of walking on the ceilings must evoke both a disorienting and funny feeling…and what about sharing table with a natural scale giraffe in your dining room? XO

(via covet garden)

Julie Ansiau

Julie Ansiau is a multi-talented French photographer and embroidery artist. She makes these beautiful colourful felt ‘popquilts’. Each piece is hand sewn, unique and a piece of art. She studied the craft of embroidery at the prestigious parisian school Lesage.

julieansiau1On the other hand, she works as a photographer, not only specialized in kids & interiors (but these are my favourites) here below are a few of her latest works…

julieansiau21.Images from the latest Oeuf nyc catalogue (I love the stylism too!)
2.Editorial for the always stunning Papier Maché magazine.

Liebster award

The Liebster award is given to up and coming bloggers to encourage them to continue their work.  What is a Liebster?  The meaning: Liebster is German and means sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, kind, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing, and welcome.

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Here are the rules for receiving this award:

1. Thank the blog that has given you the award.
2. Answer the questions that the tagger set for you.
3. Choose 11 people and link them in your post.
4. Create 11 questions for the people you’ve tagged to answer.
5. Go to their page and tell them.

First of all, a big thank you to Fayette from El blog de nimú who nominated us for the Leibster Award. Blogger awards are such a great way to learn more about your fellow bloggers so we knew we had to participate.

Our answers:

1. When did you start the blog? One year ago, March 2012.
2. What or who encouraged you to start a blog? Many other bloggers I admire.
3. How many hours do spend on your blog? Depending on work but always less than I would like.
4. Do you have the blog as leisure or business? It is linked to a shop but it is fun at the same time…
5. Do you get an economic return? Not directly. It is our inspiration to keep the shop going.
6. If your blog has several categories, which is the favorite? Cakes and desserts!
7. What brings you personally writing a blog? The opportunity to contact interesting people.
8. Do you give more importance to the writing or the visual? Visual: we take our own pictures.
9. You have to nominate 11 blogs, can you comment briefly on what you like of each? Discover them by yourself without prejudices!
10. How do you feel about being nominated? Pleasantly surprised.
11. What is your image of the day? Ariele Alasko for KINFOLK at la buena vida.

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Our list:

Decoración entre las ramas
Con botas de agua
Tea Time Alicia
Lol and Crow
Happy doodle land
This is naive
Wee gallery
The Sofi’s world
Mac and ninny
Misako Mimoko
Cinnamon and apple

Our questions:

1. Something that has inspired you today.
2. Three favorite online shopping websites.
3. Is your blog related with your life or work?
4. What would you blog about your city?
5. How do you plan your posts?
6. What would you DIY?
7. Do you have ambitions for your blog? If so, what are they?
8. What advice do you have for someone who wants to start a blog?
9. Do you write and photograph all your content?
10. What are your favorite social networks?
11. How is your day-to-day and how do you combine it with blogging?

Happy weekend! XO

craft as art: animal farm

Everybody knows how much we love all things handmade.
Today we came across the story of Nishi Chauhan, as she explains:“It all started with the gradual accumulation of glass bottles in our household. Beer bottles, mason jars, wine bottles, pickles, preserves and sauce bottles, ad nauseum. Soon it became difficult to ignore and the bottles in the growing pile took on a life of their own. Shapes started to emerge- animals, things, people I’d known and possibly even a cloud or two! From such trivialities are ideas born.”

animalcraft1Et voilà!…this is how the entire animal farm was born. Come and meet Peeves the penguin, Porky the pig, Gerry the giraffe, Flo the shark, Humf the hippo and Ellie the elephant!

animalcraft2Have a lovely weekend! XO

(via designboom)

all things sunny

CASTLEI love felt and I love these hand sewn artworks  on vintage linen by Rachel Castle. They are colorful and have a little pop of energy that makes me smile. In their shop you can find all things for homewear like cushions, bedlinen, garlands and a range for kids also. As they say, the brand has become haven for lovers of all things sunny. XO

a happy planet

hd_3986448b1042520304128b2981864833 hd_482fb35007d06170cd2d0786b877e216Happy-Planet-for-IBM10 Zim&Zou, is a french studio based in Nancy that explores different fields including paper sculpture, installation, graphic design & illustration. Rather than composing images on a computer, they prefer creating real objects with paper and taking photos out of them. Take a look at their portfolio and specially at the video created for IBM “a happy planet” that is the result of : 5 bottles of glue + 65 sheets of paper + 58 strings + 280 hours + 25.000 cuts, trims and snips + tons of talent! Enjoy! XO

(via fubiz)

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