Nos vacances en cabane

Cet été, nous avons passé deux nuits dans une cabane dans les arbres en famille. C’était vraiment une expérience formidable et que je vous recommande vivement avec vos enfants ou en amoureux.

Cela a eu plusieurs effets sur nous - et voici les raisons qui nous ont fait aimé cet endroit.

1) la déconnexion

Bien sûr dans les cabanes, pas de réseaux et pas non plus d’éléctricité. Pas question donc de passer tout son temps sur son smartphone ou même à écouter de la musique en famille.
Se déconnecter c’est aussi se reconnecter à la nature, écouter le bruit des feuilles et le chant des oiseaux et les poissons qui sautent dans l’étang.

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2) le retour à la nature

Vivre dans une cabane, au-delà de l’expérience sensorielle de vivre comme des oiseaux, c’est aussi l’occasion de se rendre compte du gaspillage d’énergie que nous faisons au quotidien et d’en faire prendre conscience à nos enfants. Dans la cabane, il n’y pas d’eau courante - les toilettes sont des toilettes sêches, il y a un petit bidon d’eau pour faire une petite toilette et pour se brosser les dents. Si on laisse l’eau couler, le bidon se vide très vite.

Si vous pensez à passer des vacances en cabane, pas de panique. Il y des douches très bien équipées à la réception de l’hôtel.
Dans la cabane, il n’y a pas non plus d’éléctricité (il y a quand même un générateur à piles mais nous ne l’avons presque pas utilisé). Tout le monde est équipé de lampes frontales au début du séjour et vous pouvez imaginer la joie de notre petite miss.

Nous avons même fait une ballade nocturne en forêt le premier soir pour son plus grand plaisir.

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3) Les activités en famille

Nous avons profité de ces vacances dans la nature pour réaliser un herbier avec Ella.
Elle adore depuis toute petite ramassé des trésors en forêt (comme tous les enfants). Faire un herbier a permis de commencer à reconnaitre les différentes feuilles et fleurs sauvages. Nous les avons les avons conservés dans une presse en bois et nous allons maintenant les coller dans un joli cahier.

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4) L’aventure

L’aventure ce n’était pas seulement de vivre sans électricité et de se déplacer avec des lampes frontales, mais aussi de monter ses repas - petit déjeuner et dîner - grâce à la poulie de la cabane.

J’espère que ce petit aperçu vous aura donné envie de tenter l’aventure.
Les nuits en cabane ne sont pas données mais c’est une expérience innoubliables pour vous et pour vos enfants.

Voici un aperçu des autres cabanes du domaines des grands reflets. Certaines dans les arbres comme la nôtre et d’autres flotantes sur l’étang.

A très bientôt pour la suite de nos vacances ou pour mes reportages sur les fleurs et les fleuristes.

Elodie

At the cactus farm

Hello everyone,

It is cold and gloomy outside, so to cheer us up a little bit I propose to take you to the cactus farm we visited last summer on the costa brava. 

I think those pics speak for tehmeselves and I am sure you can already feel the heat on your skin.

I wish you a great weekend.

Elodie                                      

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cactus farm costa brava
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mini cactus
cactus farm by madame love
cactus farm by madame love
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succulentes by madame love
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cactus by madame love
Starform cactus
Starform cactus
cactus from above
cactus from above
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cactus glasshouse
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cacti by madame love
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mini cactus

fog linen

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  Hello! 

Today I am so pleased to present you the brand I teamed up with for today’s window. The brand is called Fog Linen Work and I have been a very big fan for years. The designer behind the brand is called Yumiko Sekine. Her brand is mainly famous for beautiful linen, that are produced in Lithuania. Her first collection started with only seven items. Now after ten years, Fog Linen Work produces a large line of linen products for the home and linen clothing.

You can see some of her products here. My favourite one is not a linen product, but it is this beautiful metallic crown in the middle, and I am so happy you can win it today on my instagram 

les petites chineries

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Hello everyone, it’s already day three of my calendar and today I have invited Marina to participate.

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Martina is an interior designer but also passionate about junk hunting and she really has an incredible eye. Here are a couple of the things you can find on her site. I love everything in her selection. 

I am very much in love with the pink vase you can work today on my instagram https://www.instagram.com/madame_love/.

good luck and see you tomorrow for the new window.

Elodie

Sobomarket

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Hello everyone, I am glad I went live yesterday with my floral advent calendar. It was so exciting, preparing it and it is great now to find the way back to the blog.

 

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Today's brand is called Sobomarket and is run by the talented Mathilde.  SoBomarket is the contraction of South Bombay (a bit as we have SoPi in Paris for South Pigalle) and is the starting point of the brand created by Mathilde where she can mix her passions for interior and travel. As soon as she can, Mathilde travels the world, and sells the products she brings back from her travel to India or Marokko.

Until the end of december she is not only selling online but also in a pop store, 14 rue du Chateau d'Eau in Paris - until the 3rd with lusaluso under the name un si beau voyage, and afterwards until december 31 with la seinographe

Here are a few pictures of the copper vase that can be won on my instagram today.

 

titi la tige

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Hello everyone, I am starting my floral advent calendar today and I have a lot of surprises for you. I have teamed up with fantastic flower and plant shops in Paris, but also for the non Parisian, you will be able to win floral prints from very talented photographers, some vases and also some floral and green books.

The first window in my floral calendar is the flower shop of one of my favourite florist in Paris - Thierry Feret, also known as titi la tige. If you follow my blog, you have probably already seen this article about flowered by I wrote last year. His bouquets are very colourful are recognisable at first sight. I am so happy he is opening the calendar and that you can win one of his marvellous wreaths. I wish you all a very good luck.

 

Flowered by Thierry Feret 37 rue de Chabrol 75010 Paris 

Papermint - a wallpaper workshop in the heart of Paris

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Hello everyone, I am back on the blog today, after a long silence.  But there is something I would like to show you today. I have the chance to live in a very lively and bursting with creativity neighborhood of Paris :  The 10th disctrict. A lot of creatives live here, a lot of ateliers and workshops have chosen this still kind of "affordable" (if that word can be at all applied to Paris) area of the city. Yesterday during my lunch break I paid a visit to the lovely atelier of graphic designer Alexandra Bruel who created the brand Papermint a year ago. 

Flamingo by Papermint papier peint

All the wallpapers are designed and printed in the workshop in Paris.  They have many different designs such as the flamingo (which the little miss would love) but also some more classical ones in the style of the 20's such as this one called Han'i, which I really love in that colour combination.

Han'i noir et doré - papier peint papermint 1925

or this one called 1925 . 

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I really love those dark colours in combination with the gold accents.

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and last but not least, I had a crush on the lovely collab between Papermint and My Little Paris

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I really like the one with the paris buildings and little shop fronts in the most charming streets of Paris such as the rue Sainte Marthe on the picture.  One of the particularities of Papermint is that you have 2 different ranges : GAMME ATELIER and GAMME EDITION ROULEAU. 

The GAMME ATELIER is a fully customizable range which is printed on demand in the workshop - you can customized the size and also the colour. 

The GAMME EDITION ROULEAU are some more standard editions that are already printed and stocked at the workshop.  The wallpaper come also in many different finish quality from fully washable and waterproof (ideal for a bathroom or kitchen) to more standard ones.  Some of them already have the glue at the back and you only need to humidify them to install them and some are fully repositionable. 

They also produced stickers such as the moon, that as been designed with Lisa Gachet from Make My Lemonade.  I used the moon for a set design I made last year for "La joie des fleurs" :

and I can confirm it is very easy to reposition the sticker. 

For the time being the website is only in French but can ship internationaly and from what I have heard, the international website is coming soon!

I wish you all a great day and looking forward to hear if you like French wallpaper and would consider it for your home!

Talk to you soon,

Elodie 

Flowered by Thierry Feret - A lovely florist in Paris

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I have been living in the centre of Paris for  about a year now and I am still on the hunt for new and old flower shops that are spread over the city.  Today I would like to introduce you to one of my fav. A shop with a lot of atmosphere and flair. 

The flower shop is called "flowered by" and his run by the talented and lovely florist, antiques dealer, curiosity lover Thierry Feret.  He started is new carreer as a florist five years ago after having worked in many of the greatest restaurants in Paris. His shop is an explosion of colours inspired by India and Mexico and reflects a lot of joy.  I loved talking with him today about his late passion for flowers, and about how much he likes it despite the hard work and the many hours spent in the shop and bying the flowers at the flower market of Rungis.  He also shared a little secret with me :  He made the flowers that Christine and the queens is holding on the cover of her album Chaleur Humaine. How cool is that.

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We both decided to organise a little give away for my readers on my Instagram @madame_love . If you leave a comment under my post, you and the person you tag, can winn a very special Christmas wreath made by Thierry. 

Good luck!

Elodie

The black wall series #1

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Hello everyone, Long time no see. As I have no other valid excuse than "life" and instragram for being silent here, I will not try to invent one.  I have started a new series of floral pictures in front of my black wall in my Parisian flat, that I call the black wall series. You can see them all on Instagram under the hashtag #theblackwallseries.

I enjoy doing it so much that I wanted to share it with you here. I will be posting more of them soon. You can also see some on my portfolio

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