Texture for life

time for new adventures, 2 feet yet many roads...

This is the end of this blog, thank you dear friends for reading and looking.

You will be able to follow me on the following paths from now on,

• puff and flock blog, of course, my textile design collective
• but also recipe look, the online visual recipe blog where everyone can take part
• Metuo's upcoming website... Have a look at the intro

and most of all, for my personal research and projects I decided to move in with Matteo (John Smth) in our new home,

• the smths lab-log where I will continue to post my projects and ideas the same way as I used to do here, but in a shared vision.

See you there(s)

AMelie

We recently had a perfect studio warming party with Puff&Flock mates and Common Ground Design guys in our new studio in London Fields. There should be other occasions to party in there, it s just a wonderful place to work and also to have friends over. I have not been much on the blog lately, the reason for that is big life changes and the feeling I have many things to share but in other contexts. The next post will reveal the next step. I can't believe how much I've worked in 3 and a half year to get to a place like now, and to be honest I feel really blessed. Hard work can pay out (going along with luck). Until the end of 2010, hard work in London, and then who knows?

next station for Puff & Flock : Milanoooo, in April

it's alive... until the complete birth vision, here is the middle cushion of the Sofa we are working on with elisabeth. Puff & Flock is back, oh yes already :

for these purrfect presents 

jewellery by John and vintage 50s magnetic game from Slovakia (but found in Calabria for 4 euros)

wrapping paper : self production (pfffffff)

Taro was born...

There is a little bit of Taro in everything...

John john... my john has "gone to the war"...

Meet John Smth

very nice work...
blog
website

Smth + Smth = <3

...were edible :)

just a memory from may... the rainbow mini muffin
give me a good excuse to go back :)

I usually am not so fond of jewellery, too much blinging in a way I don't like... so... I decided to just make the kind of stuff I like and see where that goes. A Smth ongoing project also ! :)
here is the latest creation : a square brooch... an inspiration piece for the character sofa I am working on (see previous moodboard posts)

Elisabeth and I are working on our new collaborative project...
Exclusive WIP images from the character sofa building. Phase 1.
My favourite : moodboards...

more sketches soon
so so so excited by this project :)

If you didn't know yet, I have a vice... Yes besides chocolate...
I like special BUTTONS :)

my friend works in a haberdashery in London, and every time I go it's better than the candy shop.
This time I got these great vintage buttons for almost nothing (thank you my friend)
>the blue ones and the ones that look like jelly rainbow flans are made of glass.
I quite like the "disco gramma" ones. Oh dear, I am like a kid... Woooooooooo

I am already dreaming about where they are going to go... mmhhhhh

Ok school is over but it felt just like that. Road trip to Wycombe !
Jen had made chocolate muffins (because at Puff & Flock we are hopeless fat lumps !), we got to see the countryside (so exotic for us, we are desperately urban) and had to stop in front of this sweets shop with hysterical girlie screams...

More seriously...
We went to present some ideas and concepts to Ercol, an English emblematic furniture company.
Amazingly nice and welcoming people as well as a truely inspiring visit !
More soon...

Experiments on smth new.

Above : "Happy Go Lucky"
Above the above : "By Any Chance"

Used with random stuff I found in my room, beads and bits...

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The very nice bubble characters are "Bubble Gum" by Bubi Au Yeung for Crazy Label
We randomly found the bubbles in a London art toys shop,
and realized the font they used for the packaging was somalove made by John Smth...
What a coincidence :)

Right... Another move by Puff & Flock to get a bit of exposure.
2 moods that were a nice challenge to put together. We used only our work and came up with 2 different worlds.

For a month you'll be able to see our stuff in 2 shop windows in Canary Wharf Gallery where apparently 1 million people transit each month. Impressive number.

Thanks to Canary Wharf Arts and Events.

vinyl application has no secrets for me anymore... :)

Brooklyn bridge and dinosaurs

The good night story square... for no nightmares

warm home made cake and tea for two, and a cat spying out of the window
with love and rain, the hapiness recipe

Today we designed the shape of the main bit
made the battle plan of how to print on and where (we only have 2 days to print... aaaaaaaaaaa)
But we are HAPPY... End is far but there is light at the end of the tunnel

This is gonna be freaking cool, maaaaan !

We still meet up to give each other advice (and have dinner, of course)

Elisabeth and I were really ashamed of our "Godzilla" inflatable thinggy... We had NO idea the result would look more like an insect (colours apart). We spoke about the idea of Glamorous inflatable back in the reearch phase... yeh right... This wa just a shape sampling, but thank god we are changing the shape direction :) for something more geometric

Jenny's magnetic stuff in mutation. I will always be amazed

Kathy is going UV and EVIL (yey)

Melissa is developping her metal lace. Warrior princess !

Thanks Kathy for hosting and cooking

shit... it's like almost mid august... really???

HOW??

My head was so not in the summer mood that I even forgot that all my summer clothes were still at my parents' house in France. (I was so busy this year, and poor.. that didn t go to see them since like Christmas) Where has the time flown? Now I just wanted to show my mom' special Mary Poppins powers... she managed to send me by post in this tiny box most of what I need for my trip to Italy (where it's 45 degres, not like London where I am dressing like I would do in november) Now I can go to the sea side with a bathing suit (kind of) and appropriate clothing.

THANKS MOMMY POPPINS <3

I read Britney lost some weight again...

Indeed it seems :)

If you knew how fast we make things happen with this project (still Elisabeth and I)... and though it seems like it is taking forever and a lot of time and energy. Eventualy it gets closer and closer to the goal. The fabric material is amazing. September is nearer and nearer...

According to google, this is where I'm going on the 17th of this month... Calabria sea side, Italy, for 8 days. This is a half work half holiday break that I need because I've worked (no kidding) 7 days a week all summer with no break, and I was kindly invited to spend a few days there. How is it possible to say no? On top of that, there are no tourists there and lots of empty wild spaces that I'll get to discover with my local very special guide. uuuuuuuuuu

I did ask if this was photoshopped because the colour of the water doesn't seem real and I never saw such a thing with my own real eyes.

it s not. Well... I can only go and see by myself.

GOOOOOOOOOOOSH