Famille Summerbelle

Easter

Some images of our Easter Sunday....lovely french eggs...

B:Kids

We are very happy to be the guest of B:Kids this Friday.
If you would like to know a bit more about the backstage life of Famille Summerbelle have a look at B:Kids Open House:

Thank you Irene for the lovely interview!
You can check her other fabulous blog 'Bloesem' here.

Wonderful White

I love these photographs by Janne Peters

FamilyLifeStyle: HOME

HOME: 'is a word that resonates deeply. For many people it evokes family, childhood, some of their most vivid memories. It is a word that brings comfort to the soul, that names a place we want to return to, that makes us feel safe,loved and nurtured'.
Anita Kaushal is a lovely lady who had the brilliant idea to do this book called FamilyLifeStyle: Home.
I love going back to this book for inspiration and it makes me want to have a huge home with lots of children running around!
The book is divided into 6 themes: Start / Live / Share / Nest / Bare / Find. Each theme is beautifully photographed. Here are few examples:

You can contact Anita directly anita@anitakaushal.com or order her book on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/FamilyLifeStyle-Family-Lifestyle-Anita-Kaushal/dp/050051366X

Children's rooms

My dear friend Anais sent me 2 lovely books for my birthday, Children's Rooms London and Children's Rooms Stockholm by Jeu de Paumes. I wanted to order them for ages but never got round to it. Now, I am the proud owner and they are a great source of inspiration...

You can link to the publisher's website here.

Lost my head...

The doll heads come from a shop in Amsterdam. Sadly I can't remember the name of the shop. They were collecting lots of weird stuff in there. I love discovering things like that!

pink Thursday

I needed some pink to brighten up this grey day...

Bloesem Kids

I am so happy today, Irene from one of my favorite new blog "Bloesem Kids" is talking about Famille Summerbelle. It means a lot to me as her blog "Bloesem" really inspired me to create Famille Summerbelle.
We will be her guest on her B:Kids "Open House next Friday. Don't miss it!

http://bkids.typepad.com/
http://bloesem.blogs.com/bloesem/

Underwater

Very strange and beautiful photo of a family underwater...

...but the water is not actually in the pool but on top of a glass lid. Very clever.

London doors

On a lovely Sunday walk near Waterloo Station we came across this tiny street with the traditional brick houses and coloured doors.

Junior Magazine

This was our first four pages magazine feature in Junior Magazine February 2008 issue.

www.juniormagazine.co.uk

Milk Magazine

We are big fans of French Milk Magazine and we are so happy to be part of the March 2008 issue:

www.milkmagazine.net/

Our School...

I just wanted to share with you some images of our School.
We live in a converted Victorian School near the famous Tower Bridge in Central London.
We love it there as we have some amazing view on the City and in particular of the "Gherkin"(Sir Norman Foster iconic building).

We have this amazing open plan living room with lots of natural light. Well, this was a picture I took before Ophelia was born. Now there are toys everywhere and the glass collection is up high on a shelf!

This is Ophelia's bedroom. I painted her wardrobe in dark grey and added some illustrations of branches and organic shapes made up of hundreds of little white dots on it.Here is the result. I found the vintage orange glass door knobs on a flea market in North London.

As I couldn't find a nice chest of drawer for her room i decided to buy one second hand and customize it with wallpaper samples.

This is it for today. I am off to pick up Ophelia at nursery!

lovely colours...

Happy Mother's day

Merci Ophelia!

Merci Simon!