So special!

I just love Crave Photography... Just a short note to let you know: At the moment there's an amazing giveaway on their blog http://cravemyphotography.com/blog/

Seaside Home

A crafting book...

.... with lovely summer projects...

...including my seashell garland "Coquillages à la Plage"...

I'm so proud!

But of course nothing compares to my new baby boy <3

Love,

Chani

Sparkling Winter

Want a star cookie?

After such a long time I would like to treat you with lots and lots of pictures of my winter decor.

We had a magical Chanukka, all sparkling and festive.

This is one of my December crafting projects, a vintage inspired snowman figure. Sculpturing is my new passion. Along with my old passion, glittering :)



We had a lovely little party at home... Would you like to try some chocolate fudge cake pops or rather...


... some lemon snowman cupcakes?


This is a castle made out of presents for our sweet 3-year-old son. He loved it! Every one of the 8 Chanukka nights he opened another gift...

White, cream, silver, and pale colors... I love them, but I also adore bright and colorful!

This is a mini "gingerbread" house my little one and I made together, I actually had the idea to cut the pieces out of Petit Beurres (French butter cookies), without any pattern this was quite tricky.

Oh well, I had to share this... another crazy passion of mine, colorful Re-Ment miniatures. I got a huge package with tons of new goodies!

So much to do, so little time - as always! Blanc & Caramel - both shops up and running - as always! I'm thankful to be busy with so many interesting projects and welcome such lovely customers.

One of my most exciting projects recently was working on my first publication. Stashbooks
will publish an adorable new Design Collective crafting book this March - Seaside Home. You know how much I'm inspired by summer and love seaside themed crafting projects. In the book, among many others, my Seashell Garland is easily explained for you to reproduce.

There are even more exciting news... guess what!

Gw in a few weeks (or days??) our family is getting bigger! Baby 2 is on his way!

Have a lovely time,

Chani

Into the light

I just want to drop in quickly and say hello. It has been almost 6 months now that I've been absent from the blogger world. Thanks so much to those who sent me messages and asked how I was, I appreciate this very much.

I guess I'm just not such a blogger person. In the beginning, I had many ideas, but then I realized more and more that I don't really have something very interesting to say and that I prefer looking at all those amazing blogs out there.

I've also been away because I've been ill for a long time. I'm praying for things to get better.

Thank you for supporting my shop. I've just updated for summer. Most items are favorites from last year because I wasn't able to find the forces to create much new. I have plans for the upcoming months though ;) Please make sure you have changed your bookmarks to www.blancetcaramel.com (sucre-et-cannelle is definitely not working anymore).

The last sunny weeks were so uplifting. I want more! Did you have such amazing weather in your corner of the world too?

Love,

Chani

Giveaway on Little Emma English Home

Yoohooo and almost hohoho, it's giveaway time!

I was so flattered when Zaira asked me to sponsor a giveaway on her amazing blog Little Emma English Home. I've been following her blog for a long time and it's a shabby chic lover's paradise!

You can win some lovely Blanc & Caramel goodies:

Follow this link to get to the giveaway.

Also take a look at more new creations on

http://www.blancetcaramel.com/ and www.etsy.com/shop/blancetcaramel.

I'm sure you will find something nice for the holidays.

Stay updated and join Blanc & Caramel on Facebook!

Thanks so much.

Love,

Chani

It was amazing...

... truly amazing. This vacation to the US has always been my dream, and it was exactly as I imagined. I would like to share some pictures with you.

We visited the lovely countryside of Cape Cod and drove down to New York. Two opposites; this made this vacation very special.

I adore lighthouses. On Cape Cod, there were so many of them!

There was actually someone living in this house. Having your own lighthouse, how amazing is that?

Breathtaking beaches... with the typical Cape Cod fences.

Right before Halloween, there were so many pumpkin patches. They made such sweet decorations in front of the white houses.

Oh, another lighthouse with the crystal blue sea... This one was on Martha's Vinyard, an island near to Cape Cod.

We went whale watching. I've rarely been so impressed.

We were living next to this beautiful lake...

Cape Cod has their own beach seat style. They know how to relax (and that you absolutely need a place where you can put down your book!)

Lovely countryside and white houses...

I love the American prim country style. Even though it can be quite colorful, I think it can be lovely on white!

I wish I could have shopped till the airplane dropped! Unfortunately I couldn't buy this entire shop (including furniture)

How I miss those!!

I wish this cutie came home with me!


This mailbox is so cool!



This house is not so representative because it's red (and not white or grey), but it looks so sweet. It's actually a great decor shop.

Little house...

... and big house: NYC

Hope you liked the pictures!

Good night,

Chani

Hiver à Paris - My new collection!

Hi friends!

It's been a long time! Just a quick note that the winter collection Hiver à Paris has now arrived in my two shops, http://www.blancetcaramel.com/ and www.etsy.com/shop/blancetcaramel.

I hope I can tell you soon about my wonderful trip to the United States. Oh my, I've been back home for two weeks already and didn't even have the time to look at the pictures...

Talk to you soon!

Chani