Sunday, October 19, 2008

once upon a time - il était une fois...






Some time ago I went to Lille, France with a blog-friend, Veerle. The purpose was supply-shopping!! (what else :-)

I bought some gorgeous stuff about which I will blog later.

Just before we had to catch our train we dropped into a bookshop (a friend of Veerle collects bookmarks and we saw some in the shopwindow).

Entering a bookshop in France is deadly for me, (as I am a Children books addict!!!)
France has so many great and talended illustrators and authors (you all know some of them who sell on Etsy), and those books are not always available in Belgium, so I HAD to bring two awesome children books with the money I had left...

at home I let me inspire by the colors and the beautifull illustrations and made a matching Fairy-tale necklace with some vintage findings and japanese washi paper. soon available in my shop)
Les Mots à la bouche, Aurélia Fronty, une collections de poèmes sur les gourmandises
ISBN 2.01.391181.5
L'oiseau de Mona: Mona et ses parents ont fui, leur pays en guerre pour s'installer ici. La vie est belle pour Mona, elle a beaucoup d'amis.
Mais un oiseau noirlasuit partout,jouretnuit
il lui rappelle qu'elle n'a pas les papiers, les bons papiers, pour rester dans ce pays qu'elle aime....ISBN 978-2-35504-039-9

12 comments:

Apol said...

just a few lines of the story, and it's giving me goosebumps already...

Anonymous said...

Ah books...more is better!

Unknown said...

what amazingly lovely illustrations! I adore books...

Mitsy / ArtMind said...

These look like beautiful books! I love children's books too! :)

Kreativlink said...

Wonderful illustrations! I can see why you get inspired from them!

StaroftheEast said...

My mother has about 2500 children books, they are indeed very inspiring and beautiful :)

Erna Price said...

I am also a children´s books addict!

Anonymous said...

Die illustraties zijn om verliefd op te worden!!!

karlita said...

gewoon echt mooi, die illustraties!!!

PAC said...

ooo I just adore books!! As a child I spent all my time reading and now am building up my book collection again!! Love your photos too!!

Heli said...

I love children books too! Love the illustrations on them!

Anonymous said...

I just saw you put me in your list of links ! thanks ! I feel honored !!