Famille Summerbelle News

This year the kids kept asking me to make an advent calendar so I managed to finished it just on time! Behind each illustration I wrote a fun activity to make with the family on each day up until Christmas!

Following many enquiries from our customers, we are very happy to offer our House Boxes in Black & White. They are great to store small objets or toys (yes, these little pieces of Legos that can be found everywhere in the house!) and look great display on a shelf or window ledge. The boxes are sold as a pack of...

During half term Ophelia and Lucien had a really nice idea to build a little house for their cat Pipo. Since we moved house 3 months ago, the cat has been sleeping on the armchairs in the living room. As soon as they started cutting the windows the cat fell instantly at home and would not leave the box! I...

As an extra treat for our customers 💕, we will include a FREE Un Dimanche à Paris tea towel in every order placed between today and Sunday 21st October.

A few months ago, before we even had planned to move, I met up with Charlotte Burgoyne, the co-founder of My Little Travellers, a reference blog for traveling families. We met in one of my favourite café near our home in De Pijp. Charlotte is a well travelled French mum who happened to be visiting Amsterdam with her family so...

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past weeks. We moved from the Netherlands to the neighbouring country, Germany this August. We are slowly settling in this beautiful white house who must have been built in the early 1900. How stunning is this entry with the stained glass windows?! This is the 5 of us waving goodbye to our...

We arrived in l'île de Ré exhausted after busy weeks in June and July preparing our move to Germany, but so happy to finally switch off for a couple of weeks. We've planned nothing apart from going to the market, make jam, cycle around the island, draw and read book by the pool :-)

After 5 wonderful years spent in Amsterdam we will leave for new adventures in the neighbouring country, Germany! It is every time unplanned and fast moving but it seems like every 5 years we are going through big changes in our life! It is a bittersweet news as we are so happy as a family in the Netherlands but at...

Last time I watched so excitedly a football game was in 1998!! I cannot believe that 20 years has gone by!! I was 21 years old and I remember so vividly working with my best friend on a beach hut/bar/restaurant in Saint Tropez and celebrating the French World Cup like crazy! Watching the final last night with my kids was...

I wanted to share with you some images of the World Illustration Awards exhibition that was held on 7th June at Somerset House in London. I was very happy to be there for the opening ceremony and to see my paper cut map of Copenhagen as part of the 200 shortlisted illustrations on display. We all cheered the winners who...

SO HAPPY to hear the news that my paper cut map of Copenhagen has been shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2018!! The 200 shortlisted work (out of 3300 entries) will be exhibited at Somerset House in London during the month of June and a ceremony will take place on 7th at the same address to announce the winners! A...

The children had a really nice idea to make a series of fish and a fishing rod as a fun little present for their little brother Téo for his 3rd birthday. We painted few cardboard sheets with a white primer before drawing the fish with chalk and pencils. We painted them all using acrylic paint. Once the fish were dry...

The Siberian freezing wave is now over and the temperatures are rising fast. It was -5 degrees two days ago and 13 degrees today in Amsterdam! I have to say I liked it when it was freezing cold as we had the most beautiful blue sky and the sun shinning every day which is rate at the time of year...

We celebrated Téo's 3rd birthday on 1st March, well actually his birthday was celebrated every day of the week as the kids were on holidays. He was the happiest boy!

While the children were cutting their colourful flowers ( see previous post) I made a quick sketch of a bouquet and then cut it up! I've already asked my followers on IG, wondering if we should make this a Famille Summerbelle product? And if so which colour? Please leave me a comment as I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Make your own paper flowers bouquet with these Paper Flowers! They are so pretty to hang in your home to add touches of colours. The kids and I also decided to cut a bunch of flowers to make a bouquet as a Valentine's present. Isn't it always best to receive a hand made gift? Especially coming from your kids ;-)...

There is something so playful and pleasant about cutting paper and laying shapes to create many variations on the same theme. I made this little hands project 'Give me your hand' last week while my son Lucien was cutting some paper flowers next to me. Which one do you prefer?

If you think of cement tiles, no doubt you'll have one of Popham Design image saved in your Pinterest board (like mine on Floors) or in your Inspiration folder. Every single interior mag has been featuring stunning homes decorated with the highly colourful and bold patterns of Caitlin and Samuel Down-Sandes, the owners of the brand. They have revolutionised cement...

It's never too late to wish you all a very Happy New Year! I would have liked to post this earlier but I was struck by the January blues and a bad cold on our return to Amsterdam! We travelled to the beautiful city of Marrakech after Christmas to escape the harsh Winter weather. It was 10 days of pure...

Like in any City it's a bit of a gamble to eat in a restaurant unless you have a recommendation or done some little research. Nomad was highly rated on many travel blogs. We went there twice for lunch during our stay. Both times we had an amazing time. Nomad is set atop the Place des Epices (see the post...