portraits of friends - part 2

This is another of the portraits I made for my friends' birthdays. It's quite different from the first one... every portrait matches a different person & personality. Please meet Marie-Emmanuelle and her addiction to call her friends! She can't live without a phone!

in the mood for a warm apple cider...

The weather is cold again in Paris, but with a wonderfully blue sky and a bright sun up there! Still, the cold makes me long for a chimney fire and a nice cup of hot apple cider! And this was my inspiration for my new pattern "winter spices"... (I know it's only fall, but sometimes winter can be amazing!)! Have a lovely day!

portrait for bride & groom

I don't have time for a big chat right now, so I will just leave you with this illustration I made for friends of mine who got married this weekend, it's one of the personal projects I have been working on lately... As you can see, the illustration also works upside-down and I had lots of fun making it!:) Have a lovely week!

summer flowers or autumn leaves?

This is a new design I came up with last week for contemporary women fashion for Juna Studio. You could see it as flowers or already interpret autumn leaves, depending on your mood... I am on a little Italy-break right now, spending a few days in Paris where the weather is kind of weird, not knowing exactly if it should still be summer or if it's time for autumn... exactly like this pattern, it matches both seasons!...

portraits of friends - part 1

This week-end I went to a great birthday party and a part of my presents for each of the 3 girls who were celebrating was a portrait of herself, doing what she most fancies... so let me introduce you to "Alexandra, the fashion-victim"... :)

plenty of things to do!

I have a whole lot of projects going on, some for work, other more personal, and everything tends to mix a little bit and to be stuck together in a big mess, just like these cars (a pattern collection I designed some time ago for Juna Studio) stuck in the middle of a huge traffic jam...! I have to get my head a little clearer... and working things off would probably be just the right way to do it...!

oh dog!

I have been asked to design animal patterns in a less childish way, something that could be used on fabric for adults (although I think it could also be used for kids... ), so here go my new dog patterns! what do you think? where do you see them?

being surrounded by nature...

... is healthy, beautiful and inspiring! I hope to show you some pictures of the wonderful garden we live in very soon! 

Have a nice start in the week!

I'll be back very soon!!

the rhythm of publications on this blog has dramatically slowed down during the past weeks... I'm sending all my apologies to you, my lovely readers!! I hope to be back to my regular posting rhythm very soon, I promise I will do my very best!

In the meantime, here is a little treat for your eyes... it's an illustration I made this summer for lovely Courtney who came across my blog and made some nice comments on one of my patterns... after chatting for a little while and getting to know each other better, we worked out an illustration of her and her hubby John for their wedding - on a caribbean theme as you can guess - ! They are now happily married and I had a great time working with her! 

Congrats Courtney! ;)

ps: click on image to see it bigger!

some news at last!

I have arrived in Lecce, south Italy, about a week ago and I am moving in today! So the excitement is big! I have been taking some intensive italian classes which has been very interesting so far. I have also gone to several beaches and I hope to see more very soon! 

Now, I don't know if it's the fact of being a bit tired after all this traveling, settling down, etc... or the fact that I now live in a country that makes great coffee (even if I'm not a coffee fan myself...) that inspired me, but the result is this tiny cup of coffee and all it's flavor & scent drops!

I might not be able to connect to the internet in the following days so please forgive my absence! I promise to come back as soon as I can! :)

Have a nice end of week-end everyone!

glimpses of holiday...

It's been 3 days that I'm back in Paris but I still can imagine the sound & smell of the sea and all the bright colors that made my holiday unique and amazingly relaxing! It was all about laying on the beach, getting tanned and having no internet, no cell phone and nearly no shoes at all! hhhhmmmm... great! 

Now to another very exciting news: I am moving to Lecce, Italy for 8 months!... wow, I still can hardly believe it myself... I'm going with my boyfriend who will be working there... we only got the news 2 weeks ago so everything is kind of hectic right now, getting everything ready, packing, trying not to forget anything...! we're leaving at the end of this week and then we will have to settle down there... so I might not be able to write around here for several days... 

... but until I'm back blogging again, I will leave you to my holiday's pictures, enjoy! :)

ps: click on the image to see it bigger!

my holiday...

Today is a good day to tell you where I will be going on holiday this year... it will be......... Tunisia!!!!! :) I'm leaving next week for a week of rest, swimming, sunbathing, having cocktails and everything fun and relaxing you can think of... :)

Have a lovely week-end!

living in a raspberry dream...

a new summer pattern! How would it be to live in a raspberry dream...? Probably a lot of fun and surely very yummy! I just had an excellent raspberry sorbet yesterday night and I swear it was hard not to eat it all up!! Today I also planned my holiday... :) but that's another story and I'll tell you more about it in another post!

I hope you are all having a lovely summer so far!

house pattern

another pattern range that made it to Printsource! :)

Have a great weekend! 

Printsource NY

Okay, I have no real excuse for having been away of blogland for soooo long, besides a huge amount of work... which included pattern design for Juna Studio! You can find my patterns right now ( august 4-5-6) at Printsource in NY! :) How exciting!! :)