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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...

For our second Creative Cutting project, we have this fun and quick activity to do with your children: a little paper puppet show! Just download and print our free PDF here. Take out all your colourful pens and pencils on the table and draw bright tee-shirts and funny faces to the sporty characters. Follow the lines to cut around the...

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...

Hello, we're really excited to share with you some creative cutting ideas for Easter to do at home. This is the first of a serie of Creative Cutting ideas that we will share with you an will become a regular feature on Famille Summerbelle blog and website. You can download and print our free PDF, follow the instructions to make...

I received yesterday a copy of the book The Little Bookroom Guide to New York City with Children with our Morning in Manhattan design illustrating the cover. Isn't it sweet?! This book follows the successful Little Bookroom Guide to Paris and is packed with cool addresses of restaurants, shops and activities to do with children -and adults- in the big...

Spring has arrived and it's the start of the flower season here in the Netherlands. As new inhabitant of Amsterdam we went along (with other tourists!) to the famous flower garden Keukenhof to admire what the Dutch are renown for, tulips. I don't have green fingers (our garden grow wild and I'm not really good at keeping our indoor plants...

We are very pleased to introduce our first A5 notebooks featuring Famille Summerbelle familiar World map and City map collection. The notebooks are sold as a pack of 2 with plain white recycled paper. We had fun shooting this short paper cut video introducing our notebooks: Music by Deep East Music. London, Paris and World map notebooks Paris notebooks, cerulean...

We are so pleased to have our collection The Performers featured today on Bobby Rabbit. Thank you Nicky! Ludo le Lapin and Maximilien le Magicien screen prints and cushion. Enjoy your sunny weekend! Spring has arrived here in Amsterdam and it feels so good.

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.

Next weekend we are going to Paris with the children as it is the start of the school holidays. I really look forward to seeing these two exhibitions: Decorum at the Musée d'Art Moderne and WallpaperLab at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and maybe (if we can get a table) go for dinner at Septime. Have you seen the beautiful...

I am so proud of my younger sister Coralie Marabelle who has been one of the 10 shortlisted candidates for the final of the Festival de Mode d'Hyères at the Villa Noailles. It is a prestigious fashion (and also photography) event where 10 young fashion designers have been selected (out of 345 candidates) to present their fashion collection to a...

We escaped to Paris for the weekend to visit our family and wonder on the riverside and the Jardin des Tuileries with the children. We went to see the Typorama exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Our short trip was actually an excuse to come to France to eat a galette des rois...

I feel reenergised after a week in the Alps with my family. The snow arrived on Christmas day and it was so magical... Le Mont Blanc Bee hives outside the chalet The children and their cousins watching a movie after a day on the slopes Have a wonderful weekend!

from our new home, Amsterdam...

Wherever you are, whoever you are with, we wish you a very happy holiday!

This morning I went to my son's class room to organise a little atelier of christmas tree decoration. I had some cardboard boxes left from our removal so it came in handy to make very simple cut out shapes of Christmas trees for the children to paint and cover with glitter. It was a fun project to do and the...

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...