I can’t believe autumn is over already, this month just flew by! And because December is just around the corner with lots of celebrations and gift, I thought I would share some gift tags I designed, maybe you will find them useful when the time for wrapping gifts comes.

You can download them here   (You can get Adobe Acrobat Reader here )

In other news, there’s still a Cyber Monday sale in my etsy shop all day today. You can get a 15% discount on your order with the code LITTLEHOUSES during checkout.

You will also receive a coupon for a 15% discount during January and February of next year. 

The sale is now over, thank you for everyone who purchased something!

These photos are from 10 days ago. The forest was still mostly green. Now the lovely autumn colors are starting to show and it looks beautiful. I must capture them one of these days. How’s your autumn like?

♥ at Jardin de Luxembourg

♥ on Pont des Arts, with a little sparkly Eiffel Tower in the distance

♥ cloudy evening on Pont des Arts
It was a cold and rainy July day, but fun nonetheless! And us humans, we had fun too, we saw the last Harry Potter movie.

I hope your week is nice so far!|
xox

It was nice to dream about this little village and its striped lighthouse and finally making it. Now I want to make more! I hope you will like it too!

* available here *  SOLD

Like I promised a month and a half ago (O_o), I will make a (mostly) photo recap of some of the things I did since the beginning of this year. I can’t believe we are already in June!

Brace yourselves, this is going to be my longest post ever!

Here we go:

In February, we went to visit an old and, unfortunately, no longer functioning chocolate factory at Noisiel. It was a lovely visit, the buildings were beautiful and it was fun to imagine how living and working there must have been. Not easy, I tell you.

(I also love their advertising poster )

Most of February and a week of March was spent making 300 little houses for a special order. It was hard, but really fun too.

The spring finally came (and it’s still here, the longest spring EVER!) and Tomi discovered these sheep and their lambs on one of his biking routes. Of course, I went to see them too because I love sheep. The lambs were smiley and playful, to bad there was a fence between us.

I took so many pictures of flowers and blooming trees this spring, it was so beautiful. But I have a soft spot for irises, too bad they are gone so fast!

We take a lot of pictures of dogs on the street. This one was called Boulette (Meatball), very cute!

Flamingos at Jardin des Plantes. What amazing colors!

Petting a peony (also at Jardin des Plantes). I was surprised to see them, as it was the first week of April. I didn’t know they were blooming so early.

People hanging out at Jardin des Plantes, enjoying the beautiful April weather (well, until a guard came and told everybody to get off the grass)

Paris landmarks in spring: The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral and Sacré-Cœur Basilica

We spent some nice evenings by the pond where we live. Everything turned golden and there were many birds to watch.

I loved these handsome ducks hanging out at the park.

We even played basketball one Saturday in May, in front of the Paris City Hall.

A huge apple tart that was tasted by the visitors of a Bread and Pastries Festival in front of Notre Dame de Paris, me included.

It looks like the Paris authorities want to remove them, but the love locks are still hanging on Pont des Arts. There are so many, all sorts of shapes, colors and sizes and some are even engraved with initials.

May14th was the European Night of the Museums and we visited two nice ones: Pinacothèque de Paris and Musée de l’Orangerie

Monet’s huge Water Lilies paintings were really impressive!

I made some new houses too, but not too many. I really liked the three in the second picture. They went to live in Australia where, I am happy to say, they are liked too!

Lately, we started going to the farm again. Here you can see a strawberry I picked trying to make friends with my awesome green bean brooch from Katie.

Riding to the farm among the wheat fields.

The almost friendly donkey at the farm.

Sun kissed strawberries

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with this giant post.  I’ll be back with some new stuff I’ve been working on.

XOX

PS: I forgot to tell you that I’m now “likable” on Facebook. You are welcome to keep in touch there if you feel like it.

I’m one of the sponsors of Jill Heupel’s Egg Hunt that is taking place on her site. You can check her blog for details about what to do to win a $25 gift certificate to one of the many lovely etsy shop participating. There is also a bag of goodies to be won!

Good luck finding the eggs and maybe I will send you something from my shop soon!

The Egg Hunt starts Monday, 18 April 2011, 10 am Central Time / 17 pm Paris Time

Good luck!

PS: I’m sorry for being away from this blog for so long. I will show you what I have been up to soon. I hope spring is treating you well!  Now go find some eggs!!

Here are the winter villages I’ve done recently. The first one is sold and the second one is still available in my Etsy shop. This one is sold now too and it’s on it’s way to Australia! How exciting!

I love rainy days! We had a lot of those lately and there’s nothing better when outside is raining and the wind is blowing the last leaves, than drinking a cup of tea (or several) while painting and playing with clay, planning  future little winter villages. I’ll show you the villages that are already finished tomorrow.