Back to school with amazing fabric covered moleskines!

The school is just begun and with some of my favourite hand carved rubber stamps I've took decision to produces some folder in fabric for notebooks, that can help each crafty person to bring the joy all around. These notebook covers fit with the classic and chic moleskine and I made them in two size:

For the moleskine large size (13 x 21 cm (5 x 8 1/4 "), the cahier has 80 pages and the last 16 sheets are detachable), as this "Little Red Riding Hood", on sale on my etsy:

There is also a Petit Prince version, on sale on my ALM, click on the round below to discover it...

and for the moleskine pocket size (9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 "), the cahier has 64 pages and the last 16 sheets are detachable), as this "Mille Bolle Blu", on sale on my etsy:

in this little size you can find a lot of other versions, check all them clicking on the round below....

Vote for me! Help me to win a stand at the next T-Mode salon in Paris!

The T-Mode is one of most important appointment for all French creators: it's a wonderful salon, held two or three times per year in Paris in the charming district of Marais, in which innovative creators show and sell their products and try to affirm their brand. Until now, I went to T-mode only as a visitor, but I hope to can participate to the next one as an exposant! Indeed, A Little Market, a French website for selling and buying handmade, open a competition for winning a stand for the next T-Mode. So, please vote for me! Click on "votez pour moi" below, then find my shop in the list: memi-the-rainbow

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First the nature! Eco-Friendly tote bags!

To use a shopping bag instead of a plastic bag is lifestyle choice: it’s an ecologic need to change bad habits, to act against the waste of resources, and to work for saving the nature. These bags are purpose made for all people who believes that changes start from daily little actions. However, for making the habit of recycling effective, the tote bag has to endure longtime: a tote bag should not broke after a little while because of its poor quality material. For make this attempt more effective, these tote bags are build to ever last and to be used without ceasing with a strong cotton fabric and also the draws are not printed but embroidered to be more resistant. Moreover, the fact that a tote bag is functional and daily use has not serve as a pretext to neglect the aesthetic side: for that, I dedicated a particular attention to create a simple and tender illustration that make the bag friendly and amusing.

For instance, one of my best favourite tote bags is the Matryoshka one: Matryoshka is a very cult item: in every respectable sitting-room should have one in exhibition. If you do not have neither a Matryoshka nor a sitting-room, you can remedy with this absolutely funny canvas tote bag. On the contrary, if you have a complete collection of Russian dolls in you sitting-room, this shopping bag can complete it or can let you show to the world your real passion....

These are all embroidered tote bags I've created:

La ronde des boutons

Here me back again in Paris; one of first things I've done, once come back from my holidays, was to have a short visit in some wonderful haberdasher's shops of this town... colored ribbons, precious fabrics, and amazing beads... all these things drive me crazy! But, above all, I've a weakness for buttons: both new ones, multicolored and imaginative in their forms, and the vintage ones, able to evoke again in me sweet souvenirs linked with my old clothes, such as my favourite cardigan or the coat of my childhood. I keep jealously them all into big jars in which every now and then I love to put my hand in: it's a unique sensation. The proof of the pudding ;) !

Following my passion for buttons, I took decision to carve a rubber stamp set figuring some little colored buttons of different shapes:

Once stamped upon some fabric, they were so much cute that I took the decision to turn these drawn buttons into real fabric covered buttons. As I had already experimented in the past, the result is very original: it has a somewhat of surrealistic that remember the celeber "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" by Magritte, in this case I ought say "Ceci n'est pas un bouton!" ;)

For the new set of buttons, I created 3 exigent mademoiselles to wear them :

I have the honour to introduce to you

Annette, Fifi, and Juliette.

On sale on my etsy and on my new French on-line shop, ALM!

I'm sure that these buttons will be able to give a special touch to everything upon which you'd like to sew them. You'll see, you are going to exhume old cardigans that you did not wear since longtime ago in order to totally refurbish them with a simple and little touch of craftiness!

Le Temps des Cerises

As summer is coming to end, I have tried to produce some hand-made stuff able to bring some of warmth and happiness of summer with me during autumn and winter, while I will be waiting for the next summer... and what is more evocative of summer feelings than cherries? Recently, I've also discovered an old French popular song, called "Le temps des cerises", which refers to the time of cherries as an happy time of populair cheerfulness, as the summer is....

J'aimerai toujours le temps des cerises

Et le souvenir que je garde au cœur

[I will always love the time of cherries

and the memory that I hold in my hearth]

Moreover, during last days I've also hand carved some rubber stamps figuring fresh fruit, inspired by the characters of Decolello:

Apple, pineapple, orange, strawberry, cherries, mushroom, pear, and lemon... they were all used to produce some cotton covered buttons that you can find, together with the Cherries Brooch, on my Etsy shop:

Summer tattoos

Ink me - Tatouages temporaires forever

Author: Paco Asensio

Publisher: Mao Mao

Some time ago taking a look into a book shop I've fallen in love at the first sight for this book. Attracted by the wonderful draw of the cover by Gemma Correll, of whom I'm an authentic fan, I've taken the decision to buy it without any hesitation. By this way, I was very lucky discovering a huge selection of amazing draws made by Gemma and other very talented artists! Moreover, in this book I find a selection of 16 wonderful decals, which I couldn't wait to use. And here indeed some photos in which I am showing off my temporary master tattoos... At the beach this summer, I was the envy of all children, whose temporary tattoos, found into chips packs, could not compete against the wonderful style of my tattoos ;)!

IAN STEVENSON

GRAND PEOPLE

SONNI

Among other artists present in INK ME, I desire also to point out:

Nomono

Ghost Patrol

Beck Wheeler

Katharina Leuzinger

Daniel Egnéus

Cramm Cramm

Akinom Oishi that is also the author of this last drawn:

The hidden perils under the sea, part 2

Now that summer is almost ended, I can state that, other than jellyfishes, the sea hides other dangerous tricks: the sea urchins! These little pointed creatures have tormented me during the whole summer, to such extend that I was forced to wear those ridiculous pvc sandals...

Anyway, the sea abounds also with wonderful creatures and hides amazing treasures, which this summer I tried to discover during my dives...

My only regret is that I was not able to find a siren... so I have taken the decision to do this rubber stamp figuring a cute dancing siren with a little sea horse, I hope you like it!

Magic soap bubbles

For a long time when I was child I wondered what was the secret formula able to create such as a spell and which magician was insomuch as genial to invent it. And I remember how many times adults tried hard in vain to repeat me that beyond bubbles there was only water and soap; all rational explanations were unable to break the fabulous dance of these perfect bubbles hanged over in the air. It was and it is still now for me an inexplicable mystery, and for that, a kind of magic moment that I love every now and then to recreate.

This insubstantial perfection that belongs to soap bubbles seems to be the metaphor of the happiness: more the blow lasts, bigger will be the sphere. Likewise, even if a soap bubble endures only a little and ephemeral instant, its fragile sides are able to contain the beauty all the spectrum of colours of the rainbow.

By this way, I took decision to make this set of hand carved rubber stamps with which you could create wonderful soap bubbles that (surprisingly enough, funnily enough) have the extraordinary power to hang over the time and to give a touch of magic poetry to everything on which they will be stamped. You can find this stamp set on my etsy...

and here you can find other hand carved rubber stamps set, that I've made during last days... I hope you like them!