I’ve been here - at home - for five days, and so far I’m enjoying it. it’s been very quiet and busy at the same time. but I guess things will fly by faster from tomorrow, as I’m starting my internship at pâtisserie Lac in Nice.

looking forward to it! and to actual autumn weather.

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remember that project I told you about a couple of weeks ago? well, it’s slowly getting together. so far, thirty one polaroids of the clouds were taken; daily.
I can’t wait to have a hundred of them, so I’ll finally be able to compile them into a neat little book.

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polaroids make me happy. always have and always will. so far, it’s all old news. but this project I’m working on at the moment makes me fall in love with polaroid pictures all over again.

I can’t say more for the moment; but it involves: a polaroid camera, the sky, a notebook and a stamp. one hundred days. and lots of love.
I so can’t wait for it to come together.

secondly, I’ve just received Jen’s beautiful For the love of light book. every page of it is gorgeous and reflects how I feel about polaroids.

have a lovely week end.

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another sneak peek from the used series. so far I’ve drawn eighteen of those, with many more in mind; and I’m now seriously considering turning them into a neat little book, so I can look at them whenever I feel like it.

bless blurb!

this got me so inspired, that without even noticing it, many memories from my last *favourite* relationship came back to my mind. and I decided to start a new series of illustrations about what we used to do/be together.

although I’ve now moved on, those are all precious memories I want keep securely nested somewhere around my head.

oh I know I’ve been real quiet around here. but I’ve been busy making wooden blocks for a shoppe update!
also, I’ve been in a blissful mood thanks to the science of sleep original soundtrack. this movie is my favourite ever and always makes me feel inspired. just like if it stopped the time, leaving me with neverending hours to create pretty things for you.

do you have any plans for today? have a lovely sunday.

sometimes I tend to be slightly not-so-patient, well, ok totally impulsive. the thing is that I’ve had those cubes in mind for ever.

so during my lunch break I cut four pieces out of a wood pole. this took quite sometime, and my thumb got lost in the battle - so sore and tender.
anyway, as soon as I got back home, I sat at my desk and started sanding, painting and glueing. yes, I did glue some scraps of beautiful vintage paper - maps, newspaper, postcards - onto the wooden blocks. and I think it looks very pretty.

here is block number eight. now I just need to brush the blocks with varnish, and we’llbe all set.

currently working on an alphabet poster as part of the playground flavours series. and the first part was quite obviously to draw the font.

lower case. solid. letters.

next step will be to illustrate those little naked letters. I have already found what I want the l and m to be.

those are the first two cubes I made for the alphabet wooden cube collection. and although they are highly imperfect, I can’t help but find them beautiful. I know the wood is cracked around one of the knots, but I decided to leave that part instead of sawing it out.

plus, the cube angles are so not 90°. but cutting 45mm thick wood with a handsaw is harder than I had imagined (and much harder than cutting through 15mm thick wood, like I did for the stamps).

basically, I just love the process; love how this very rough looking wood gets turned into neat little cubes. sawing, sanding, polishing.
the next part will consist in painting numbers onto one of their six sides. then smear on some matte varnish. because matte rocks.

ps. I initally put this vintage ten francs coin to show how big the cubes actually are: 45 x 45mm; and then fell in love with it.

today was probably the best day ever. I got my morning off to pay my doctor a little visit (nothing serious though); and this gave me plenty of time to relax.

this, plus the couple of things I received from the postman totally made my day a perfect one.

first, one of the people I care the most about reminded me that all that really matters is to be true to yourself. which clearly means I can wear those adorable acorn earrings my best friend made for me (isn’t she the sweetest?).

then, I got this fil invisible, so I’m finally going to be able to try my hands at this. so exciting.

I also picked fifty beautiful welcome perroquet cards from the cirque savant series. the illustrations are printed onto thick recycled (and acid-free) paper, which makes for gorgeous little cards that can be used as notecards, postcards or even possibly as wall art (can’t wait to frame the ten illustrations from this series).

soon in the shoppe!

and the extra little surprise: two rolls of polaroid 600 film. I have no idea of who sent them, but I’m eternaly grateful to whoever she/he is.

as a side note, I really want to thank lucie and chris for being so awesome. love you guys.