Month: November 2012

3 ways to update your guest bedroom for Christmas

I’m known for kicking off DIY projects the day after Christmas…A few years ago, after a jolly Christmas meal where I ate for the entire year, I got restless and enrolled my brother and sister to revamp our mum’s beach house next door and we spent the last few days of the year stripping wallpapers off and painting everything in white to bring more light to each room. We had a great time, cracking up jokes about our childhood and listening to old French pop songs on the radio although I doubt they would like to repeat the experience – one DIY Xmas is enough but I still enjoy doing things around the home to make it look better.With Christmas around the corner, you’re bound to have family staying at your place so here are a few things you can do to create inspiring and inviting guest bedrooms. 1. | 2. photography: Ric Wallis | Styling Deb McLean via | 3. Photography: François Kong | Styling: Karine Kong In collaboration with Time4Sleep | All opinions and layouts my own Je suis connue …

My style, that daybed, our office move….

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I’m so happy to have found this gorgeous photos on Temp*files. It is exactly what I had in mind for the vintage army bed I got from one of my sponsors Chez Les Voisins last summer for our holiday home in France .Between wallpapering our bedroom and well..enjoying our holidays at the beach, I didn’t get around to take decent photos, well not as good the one Claude took on Temp*files anyway, so this one is perfect. I spotted two of them in Isabel Marant’s flat in Paris on Refinery29, mine will end up either in Mila’s room or in our tree house for afternoon naps up in the air.On a completely different subject, we found new offices for BODIE and FOU!!!!Thanks to Viktoria who reads this blog and is a regular customer of BODIE and FOU (thank you so much Viktoria!), we are moving in with Bombay Duck in Acton. So this is the perfect time to put all these inspiring workspaces I collected on Pinterest or the ones I wrote about here including Isabel Marant’s workspace to good use and come up with something really nice. Our new offices are gorgeous – think original …

Styling tips to make your Christmas decoration easy

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Early this week, I shared some of my styling tips to decorate your home for Christmas at little cost using masking tapes. If you have children around to give you a hand, that’s even better! Mila loved doing the Christmas tree on the wall or making little flags to decorate cakes and pies…and then eating the pies afterwards! Today, I would like to show you what Frida from Trendenser did with black & white masking tapes to give you more ideas. From decorating tea lights (you can get cheap ones from Ikea) to jazzing up Christmas gifts, there is a huge amount of things you can do with masking tapes… If some of you have lovely images of your creative projects, by all means email them to me to leblog(at)bodieandfou(dot)com and I will post them here with a link to your site or blog if you have one {Thank you for leaving a comment. Reading them always makes me very happy} (C) Trendenser En début de semaine, je vous ai montré quelques unes de mes suggestions pour créer une décoration …

4 Styling tips to make your Christmas decoration easy

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If you are on Instagram, you may have seen that over the weekend, Mila painted a pumpkin left over from Halloween in silver. It was a creative job we both enjoy – although for different reasons :-) but that pretty much kick-started our Xmas decorations… For those who haven’t received a copy of the BODIE and FOU Christmas catalogue*, here are four styling tips I put together using washi tapes. I’m a big fan of japanese masking tapes and I use them regularly at home and at work to create mood boards. Versatile, easy to use, they are an inexpensive way to get cracking with Christmas decorations… *You can see the BODIE and FOU catalogue on Issuu here {Thank you for leaving a comment. Reading them always makes me very happy} Decorative star | Polar bears (SOLD OUT!), can be replaced by White Deers | masking tapes Si vous etes sur Instagram, vous avez peut-etre vu que ce weekend, Mila a peint couleur argent, une citrouille qui nous resté d’Halloween. C’était un petit projet créatif que nous avons apprecié toutes les …

Guest post on Kellly Hoppen’s blog | Women

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I was very honoured a few weeks ago to be asked to participate to Kelly Hoppen‘s media campaign which aims to inspire and support those in business with Prince’s Trust, the UK Trade & Investment and Prime.Kelly asked several internet entrepreneurs for their testimonials including my friends Arianna, Carole and Daniel who launched the first digital UK Interior magazine: Heart Home magazine last year Jaime Derringer who left a full-time job to launch DESIGN MILK – one of the world’s most influential online design sites and of course, Holly Becker of Decor8 who is one the most inspiring and warm person I’ve ever met and who has recently launched very successfully her second book Decorate Workshop.And then us…who launched a family business 7 years ago.You’ll see that the first few years were ‘a bit challenging’ to say the least but like anything…. what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. I found everyone’s testimonials very inspring and if you are thinking of launching a business online, I’m sure you will too.You can read the full article here and read Kelly’s article on the Huffington Post here …

Julia x 3 | Styling from last week

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Gee…that was a busy day! Good news is that our decorative animal heads got featured in Daily Candy, and the Circus print is back in stock.Those who follow me on Instagram know that last week Francois and I were shooting the new Clare Vivier clutch collection with Julia…Yes that Julia….the slim, beautiful, long shiny hair, funny, big-mouth Julia!!First, I would like to say that I’m still madly in love with this oversize clutch bag which I had in blue last year but then I went to see my sister in Paris and she begged me so much that I ended up giving it to her to keep her quiet but the more I look how good it looks on this photo, the more I want it.Second…well, after putting the BODIE and FOU work stuff to bed, we played a bit and here is the result…Hope you like it! Photo: François Kong | Styling: Karine Kong http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs

Happy thoughts for the weekend….

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I meant to do this post on Friday but I ran out of time. What are you up to today?I’ve just been for a little 5K run and kicked off my day with a healthy breakfast. I have been slacking for a few weeks but I need to get back into because the next few weeks in the shop are going to be a marathonLast night I realised that I was allergic to Lancôme Renergie Lift volumetry yeux – So annoyed!! Instead of reducing wrinkles and lines around my eyes, I ended up with puffy eyes looking like a Panda. So today I’m gonna explore a more natural way with brands like Origins, Kieh’ls, Aesop and get a few samples before committing to a brand. Which product are you using for wrinkles around your eyes?This week I loved….discovering Les Carnets Parisiens which made my day! Gorgeous, gorgeous food styling! taking part in this fabulous online auction,pulling the names of 3 winners for this competitionand this afternoon, I may take my mum to We Make London at Spitafields market.Have a great Sunday xoxo{Thank you for leaving a …

What did you think of the The Little Black Jacket exhibition?

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For those who are on instagram (bodieandfou), you would know that Elodie, Mila and I went to see the Little Black Jacket exhibition yesterday on King’s Road which was a very pleasant surprised because I was convinced that it ended last weekend when I was in France.Beautiful photos of beautiful people taken by Karl Lagerfel. If you haven’t see it, hurry up! Yesterday they were given away a set of 3 posters Ceux qui sont sur instagram (bodieandfou), savent deja qu’ Elodie, Mila et moi sommes allées voir l’exposition a la Saatchi Gallery: Little Black Jacket exhibition sur King’s Road, ce qui était pour moi une agréable suprise parce que j’étais persuadée que l’expo s’était terminée le weekend dernier lorsque j’étais en France. De tres belles photos prises par Karl Lagerfel. Si vous ne l’avez pas vu, dépéchez-vous!! Hier, ils offraient un set de trois posters a chaque visitor. Qui se souvient que Maiween avait gagné le concours de mannequin du magazine 20 ans, il y a presque 15 ans??? http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs