Famille Summerbelle News

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...

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...

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...

The Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven ended last Sunday. I wanted to share with you some of my highlights. Ophelia and I left early morning by train from Amsterdam to meet with my younger sister Charlotte in Eindhoven. Charlotte studied Product Design at the Design Academy, she knew the town very well and most ex-students exhibiting so we were very...

I am very happy to finally announce the launch the Friends Book, Vrienden Boek in Dutch. It’s been such a pleasure to collaborate on this book with my friend Esther from Babyccino Kids and the wonderful Snor publisher. We started to work on this project back in September so I can tell you it is really nice to finally hold...

The best thing we did in the kids bedroom is to have a long desk with a chest of drawers on both ends for their little belongings and enough desk space to draw, cut, make collages and other things. Ophelia and Lucien love spending hours on their desk after their come back from school. The desk and chest of drawers...

This is a belated announcement on the blog (sorry my dear blog followers!), we had a new addition to our family at the beginning of March: a little baby boy named Téo! We are so happy and excited to finally meet him, especially Ophelia and Lucien who were very eager to see him after this long 9 months wait... Téo...

The children are in the French Alps with their grandparents while I'm patiently waiting for baby number 3 to arrive next week...maybe! Have a nice weekend!

I love the excitement we all have every year when the time comes of choosing and buying the Christmas tree; bringing it home and getting the boxes from the basement with all the Christmas decorations nicely folded in tissue paper from the previous year! This is what we did this weekend. It was so cold outside (below zero) here in...

I wanted to share with you some inspiring photos I took while I was in London last week. I was there to work in the Famille Summerbelle studio in Finsbury park. On Saturday I met with my younger sister Emeline (we call her Milou!) who lives in Shoreditch for a nice breaksfast at Albion. She took me in all the...

Lately on my Instagram... My little creative corner. I like to pin a mix of inspirational and colourful things on the wall above my desk. The desk lamp is from Jielde. Leaves pattern paper cut in our bedroom. There are so many little flower shops here in Amsterdam so on my way back home I spotted these beauties. I just...

Yesterday was a wonderful Sunday full of sunshine, creativity and surprises. All my family met in the South of France, in Hyères to support my sister Coralie, one of the 10 young fashion designers shortlisted at the prestigious Festival of Fashion and Photography of Hyères, organized by the Villa Noailles. We went last night to view the third and final...

Our dream week in the Alps... Ophelia and Lucien are now following us everywhere on the slopes, it's such a pleasure to ski en famille! You can see more images on my Instagram!

It was such a perfect day.

We had a beautiful blue sky day yesterday and I took random photos of things I like in my neighborhood. We live in the very nice area of Willemspark near the largest park of Amsterdam ,the Vondelpark. THINGS I LIKE: The children have their cute little red and yellow chairs, tables and toys on the pavement to play outside their...

I'm typing this post sitting on the floor of our empty house, with only 10% of battery left on my laptop I have to be brief. We are moving...to Amsterdam! Big news and so little time to think about it as we had to make the quick decision at the beginning of September to start a new life over there....

It has been a month since we came back from our long Summer break and I am already thinking of the holidays and where we could go next with the children. When we go abroad for a family weekend break or longer holidays we always try to rent an apartment instead of staying in hotels as we like to have...

I am so excited to share with you some images of the project I have been working on since last January. I had a fantastic opportunity to work with Outsign architects in Paris to design a unique art piece for the newly refurbish Italie Deux shopping centre in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The commissioned work was to design a...

We are back on the beautiful island of Ré on the French atlantic coast. I have been waiting for this break for so long! The last months have been so grey, cold and wet that it feels like a dream to wake up every morning with the sun shining...Enjoy the holidays wherever you are! Yesterday on the beach in La...

This weekend we visited the annual antique fair on the island of Chatou (West of Paris) called La Foire à la Brocante et aux Jambons. It is one of the largest antique fair in France with more than 800 stalls. I try to go every year as I love the atmosphere there. (see here for last year post). The fair...