Famille Summerbelle News

Very Limited Edition of our iconic paper cut maps, these unique risograph prints in pop colours will brighten up your desk wall or your favourite room! I love risograph prints as they have a lovely grainy quality, each colour is added onto the paper layer by layer that makes each print totally unique. The following maps available are: La France,...

For my birthday - back early March- my wish was to have a week-end away on my own in Paris. Thanks to my amazing husband this happened last week-end and I had such a fantastic time. The kids (Téo is one year old, Ophelia nearly 10 and Lucien 6) were just so excited to spend a couple of days just...

Adeline Klam is a French designer who is passionate about Japan, origami paper and bright colours. She has the most beautiful shop in Paris in the 11th arrondissement where she sells a variety of colourful Japanese papers, fabrics, stationeries and books and also offers workshops to make beautiful paper flowers like these: Make your own paper flowers kit.

We will be visiting Maison & Objet on saturday to be inspired and see friends in the evening. Hopefully the weather will be as beautiful. What are you up to? This is a photo I took on my phone last weekend at the village fête while on holidays in the South West of France. I wish I was still there!

I started my day in Merci meeting up with the lovely Emilie from Lait Fraise chatting about work, children and the difficult task of replaceing a home in the East side of Paris! Afterwards I had a little look around Merci, Bonton next door and few shops in the charming rue de Bretagne. This cane and leather chair is on...

Chatou is a place to the west of Paris where the Impressionists used to come and paint on the charming banks of the river Seine. Twice a year (March and September) a huge flea market La Foire à La Brocante et aux Jambons is set on the Ile des Impressionnistes. I recommend to have lunch at the nearby Maison Fournaise...

It's been a ritual in Paris over the past 20 years or so, thousands of people all dressed in their best white outfit arrive at the same time to have a posh picnic in a prestigious Parisian location. You only get invited by friends and the location remains a secret until the last minute (you get told once you are...

featured in Elle Deco Thailand in the March issue.

Yeah! it made my day. The Paris bag is part of the 2010 Gift Guides: for the francophile. Thanks Anne & Grace!

A huge thank you to the Dutch magazine Ariadne at Home Kinderen for featuring our Paris map in their latest issue. When they contacted me before the Summer, they asked me if they could enlarged the Paris map into a wall sticker for the photo shoot. I really love the result!

The beautiful Papier Maché online mag has released a new issue. As always it's a pleasure to read and look at. I wanted to say a big MERCI to Emma Cassi for including our new coral pink Paris map in her photoshoot 'I fell asleep amongst the flowers.. for a couple of hours...' (love the title). This little blond curly...