September's Bliss

I go in Paris this saturday, I can't wait to go back there, It's been only 3 weeks I went there for the last time but with the spring coming, that will be even more interesting. I'm never tired of taking this town in picture, there's always different ways to create great images with suh a place, I especially want to go to Montmartre this time and maybe around the Trocadero.

Me, my boyfriend and his parents had a nice afternoon yesterday, just a walk in the native village of my boyfriend's mother but I really appreciated It. I took a toy to make bubbles with me, we had a lot of fun with It. A simple afternoon like I love...

I like the retro style of this illustration, I think It fits well with the frenchy style of macaroons. I dicovered a new bakery in Reims that makes yummy macaroons, among other delicious flavours, the "Fraise Tagada" ( a french sweet) flavour is my fave one.

Just a few weeks to wait and I will be able to capture all the beauty of the spring again...

I made this illustration today. I first wanted to do a test for my wedding invitation but It turned completely different from my initial idea. I'm satisfied with It though and that gives me an idea of how my invtitations will look like. I would like to put me and my boyfriend instead of the girl and keep some orchids and butterflies...

Here is th link to my Etsy Store in case you are interested by one of this photographs : http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5870575

Some of the pictures you can find in my Etsy Store, they are available in 8x8 inches.

I made this illustration today, It's going to be available in my Etsy shop soon if you are interested.

One of the jobs I would have dreamt to do and that I admire the most is Chief. I'm always amazed to see what they are able to do with food, It's a kind of art for me. Now that I tried all the interesting restaurants of my town, Reims, I'm eager to try some new ones in Paris. I hate chauvinism but I have to admit that we can be really proud of our french "gastronomie"...

Before realizing my dream to go to Japan, I go from time to time in the japanese district of Paris. This is where I find my books for my japanese lessons and my ingredients for my japanese meals. The third pic is the restaurant I tested saturday, I took a soup with fried rice, so delicious !

Randomly and at my big surprise I just found this image on flickr, It's a design I made 2 years ago of my face. Someone probably bought the licence at one of the agencies I work for and made a wall decal out of It. Anyway, what a surprise to find yourself on someones's wall !

Me and David are living in our lovely little flat for 6 months now and It's a total bliss. We know It will be impossible to stay here all our life because It's too small but we alerady fear the moment when we will have to leave this place.

I had the idea and my mum created It, a cute light shade to put in the hall of my flat. I like It so much that I asked her to make some other ones to put in my bedroom and in the kitchen.

I found a great bakery where I decided to order my future wedding cake made of macaroons, It's called "l'atelier d'Eric" in Reims. I can't wait to see It !

These are some of the last illustrations I made. I'm very inspired by my wedding. I'm going to create the invitations, the menus and the place cards myself so for the moment I'm trying a lot of possibilities with retro birdcages, butterflies, orchids...

This is a picture I took during my Valentine's day with my future husband, David. Instead of going to restaurant, I decided to cook myself and preparing a romantic dinner for us. On the menu there was a mexican Tiramisu, Rossini Tournedos (delicious !) and a sicilian cassatta. David was delighted and he said everything was yummy. I'm pretty proud of myself, though I love cooking, I'm not used to prepare that kind of meal.

Me and my boyfriend David are going to get married in october ! Tomorrow we are going to visit a reception hall in my hometown, Reims. It's just the beginning of a long, stressful but exciting organization...

Orchid is my favourite flower and also one of my favourite subject as a graphic designer and photographer. This is a montage of one of my design with my great grand father identity card. I love to melt modern computer generated drawings with retro textures, It gives a more personal touch and It's more unique.

This is a photomontage I made with some of the last pictures I've taken in Montmatre, one of my favourite parisian district.

One of the things I love when spring comes is to wander in the nature with just my camera to capture all these nature's beauties. I particularly love poppies.

This is a design I have just finished, I love to melt my pics and my illustrations.

I have made some stickers with some of my designs for mandellia . It's so great to think that my drawings and designs are going to be on walls in homes all over the world...

I'm mad of these cute pastries called "macarons", a french speciality (cocorico !).

I live at about one hour and an half from Paris and wandering there is always a pleasure. It's very inspiring to me. I go there from time to time to take some pictures, I create illustrations with some of them. This is the result of my last parisian escape. Butterlies again...

Stacy asked me to create some designs to put on T-shirts, personal cards and web templates for her personal training business, "Gotta B Fit"(http://gottabfit.blogspot.com/). It was really interesting to work on such a project. Stacy was very nice to work with, and It was great to see how my designs were going to be used.