Posts Tagged ‘paris’

Supervente: Let’s Go To Paris!

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Supervente Crafts Market web

You must all have heard about the amazing craft market lovely Mathyld has organized. If you will be in Paris on Sundays the 6th or 13th of December get yourself along to Supervente. There are so many wonderful artists taking part including Encore Petite, Resurrection Fern, Hibou Caillou Chou. Check out the flyer above for some more names. Oh, did I forget to mention that I will be there too, well, my work will be! Supervente will be my first craft fair, I am nervous and excited all at the same time. You can check out some of the offerings in advance via the link above, Supervente also has its own Flickr group here. I would love to do all of my Christmas shopping at the event, here are a few of my picks from the show.

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I was lucky enough to see some of the work in person when I visited Mathyld last week, photographs really can’t do it justice, stacks of beautifully made animal silhouette cushion covers like the one above, rows of pretty owlettes, necklaces, brooches, all manner of gorgeous things. If I had a pair of ruby slippers I would click my heels together and wish myself in Paris. Of course I am building up to blogging about my visit to the French capital, I have a weeks worth of hoops to make and then I am taking a little time off to prepare for Christmas, visit my lovely K and her new baby (who isn’t actually out in the world yet!) and, yes, get all of the Paris images off the camera and into the computer. Phew! There will be a few changes at Lou Lou & Oscar in the new year, including price rises, this makes me so sad, but I need to start charging more realistic prices and taking the exchange rate into account (come on dollar rise against the pound!). I feel that LL&O needs a little freshen up for 2010, new photos, a more coherent feel, the depth that comes with a little extra experience. My most recent work has streamed itself into two ‘collections’: Natural History and The Stars Down to Earth (thank you Mr.Adorno!). More about this tiny development soon I hope. Paris was so inspiring, I can’t wait to share it with you. I am going to leave you with a couple of images to whet your appetite, sources of inspiration for the Natural History collection.

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Returning

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

And so, we are back from Paris. I have so much to tell, it will take a few weeks of mini-posts to tell the tale in its entirety. The absolute highlight for me was meeting the most incredible woman (ah, you all know who I am talking about right?!) and the cherry on top was spending a little time with another amazing girl who dropped by quickly for tea. I have to upload pictures and make sure I do justice to that afternoon, it warms my heart every time I think about it. I will be catching up over the next few days with email and beginning a huge sewing marathon to make sure I have some pretty things for the amazing Supervente event in Pairs next month, more about that coming soon too. Such busy times! The Lou Lou & Oscar shop will celebrate its first birthday on the 1st of December, I share that milestone with a very special person (I am waving and sending bear hugs!), oh yes, more on this too nearer the time. I feel so blessed to have such beautiful, warm, talented people in my life, hooray for our little community of makers and dreamers.

Voyaging

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

So, we are off in the morning, I still haven’t packed everything and I just want to sleep. I keep telling myself that I am going to be blogging remotely but I have a feeling it may be a little quiet here over the next week. Our first full day in paris will include a trip to the Marché aux puces – Porte de Vanves and an excursion to L’Atelier Beau Travail, how exciting! I can’t seem to get enough of Lizzy Stewart’s work (above), I thought her Sacre Coeur print was very fitting. I hope that you are all doing fine, keeping away from the bugs and staying well. Kisses until later.