Art Studio near Bordeaux, France

February 8, 2023 By {Alice} in Uncategorized Leave a comment

-Children & Botany- if those two topics are dear to you, we should be friends!

Please join the art studio via Newsletter, Instagram or LinkedIn to receive sneak peaks and dates of coming art exhibitions.

I’m please to let you know that my work has won an Award at The Salon des Arts d’Aquitaine and a Certificate of Artistic Merit from the Luxembourg Art Prize for my work on enthusiasm in children. The next exhibition will be in Bordeaux at the Art’Gentiers Art Gallery next March.

Thank you for your support!

By the way, a few Map Games are available here.

-Their turn, to build their toys.-

April 1, 2017 By {Alice} in Uncategorized Tags: activity, build it, children, DIY, handmade, light saber, Star wars, toys, woodwork 2 Comments

After so many years building, sewing, painting, carving, tinkling toys and games for my children, they now do it themselves! The rule under our roof is; -start with what you have-. Having enough bits of timber in the shed, my son (11) decided to cut out some lightsabers for himself, his sister and his friends! I let you imagine the number of sabre fight we had at our house, at the park, in the bush, at the beach… in only a few weeks.

I love to see him draw and cut the shapes and drilling for the ”light blade”. My suggestion of carving each handle and sanding them till it’s cylindrical didn’t have much success…so here it is, raw and already well used:

“May the force be with you.” 😉

-The Mechanical Cockatoo-

February 12, 2017 By {Alice} in Uncategorized Tags: Artist, automaton, cockatoo, craft, makers, maps, mechanical, sculpture, spools, stone, vintage, wire 3 Comments

Mechanical Cockatoo 1

I realised that I’ve not shown you my moving sculpture on the blog.

This little stone & wire Cockatoo flaps its wings when you turn the handle and slides out a gift card for you.

The two rocks come from the Dandenong Ranges, the stick from Mornington beach and from there, I’ve cut out some feathers out of old maps and built the mechanism with wooden spools, rods, the handle of a vintage hand mixer and sewing elastics.

Let’s see it in action at a market, it has delighted big and little children:

Mechanical Cockatoo 3 Mechanical Cockatoo 4

The Finders Keepers in Melbourne

May 24, 2016 By {Alice} in Australia Tags: designers, finders keepers, Made in Australia, made in melbourne, makers, market, paris-bourke, sculpture, the map game, thefinderskeepers, woodwork, work in progress 2 Comments

Next July, The Map Game will have the honour to be part of the iconic Finders Keepers in Melbourne.

It’s a very exciting experience to be part of the festival of makers and designers from around Australia!

So I’ve started to work on a display for the Games and an automaton for the visitors. Tinkering with old mechanisms, crank handle, wood, rocks and wire, I’m surfing through the days with joy. (Well, and stress too!)

I will post more about my progress and ‘behind the scene’ pictures on Instagram in the next few weeks. Please come along!

paris-bourke Kinetic sculpture Alice N Legendre

Presentation Finders Keepers Melbourne

The Map Game Paris-Bourke Finders Keepers

The 6 most beautiful Apps for children.

February 10, 2016 By {Alice} in Things and Tips for Children Tags: amazing applications for children, apps for children, best app for children, best kid apps, nice screen time, no gilt screen time, visually attractive apps, well designed apps Leave a comment

On this blog, I usually share handmade activities and toy projects but today I wanted to share nice screen activities.

It is not easy to find applications with a serene and arty design. So I wanted to share the latest results of my AppHunt!

– Les 4 Saisons d’Antoine
Beautiful App for Children

-Simple Machines by Tinybop

Beautiful App for children

– La Foret -Gallimard jeunesse

Beautiful App for Children

-Pierre et le Loup -France Televisions Distribution

Beautiful App for children

-Monument Valley

Beautiful App for children

-Morphosis-

morphosis

Do you know well designed and visually attractive applications for children? Let’s share them here or on Instagram or Facebook.

When was the last time you climbed a tree?

February 3, 2016 By {Alice} in Uncategorized Tags: artist cards, Australia, be involve in your community, cards, challenge, challenge a friend, connect with other, drawing, enfants, engage, etsy, friend, gift, grandchildren, idea, illustrations, invitation, original work, partage, play, share, to do, What to do Leave a comment

Bonsoir, bonjour, good morning, good evening, hi!

I’m happy to present you my last side project that was on my to do list for a long time, I’ve finally finished the first 6 illustrations that will make you engage even more with each other.

Here are the Challenge a Friend Cards!

Those cards are an invitation to share an activity with someone that involves your community, your creativity and even your fitness!

A little challenge in our busy lives.

Do you want to invite your aunt, your grandchild, your brother or your best friend to play together?

Well those cards are here to make it fun and real. So let your imagination go wild and let me know about the other challenges you would like to see for the next set of cards. I will upload more photos on Instagram and Facebook, please share and comment to have your idea(s) illustrated!

Head up to the shop to see all the illustrations and to start challenging someone and have a wonderful time with them!

Cheers!

-Three, the magic number -Trois, le chiffre magique-

January 14, 2016 By {Alice} in Australia Tags: creative, Map, map game, new year, organisation, resolution, the map game Leave a comment

January: my favorite month (in Australia…because, let’s face it, in France, at that time of the year, it is cold and miserable…)Soooo the middle of summer, the new year and the no-schedules weeks are always a time I cherish to re-organise our home and work space.

For the organisation of the everyday life, I already use the very efficient -Three Things- rule : every night, write down 3 things you can do the next day for:

– your business,

– your home,

– your children,

– your hobby,

etc. and be realistic about timing! This helps me getting through the day knowing that I have accomplished some things, rather than seeing the same never-ending to-do list and feeling like I never get anything done.

Choose only 3 things in each category and it will work!

-The Map Game-

This week, I’ve decided to join the Creative Woman Circle with the Resolution project to organise my year better.

Now is time to start navigating through this new year!

Thank You! – Merci!

December 18, 2015 By {Alice} in Uncategorized Tags: Australia, Melbourne made, the map game 1 Comment

The Map Game Tree

-HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU MY CHERISHED FRIENDS, READERS AND CUSTOMERS-

This year was amazing and I wanted to thank you all for your support.

MERCI! – THANK YOU!

The Map Game leaves

Tiny Teaser for the video of The Map Game -France-

November 18, 2015 By {Alice} in Uncategorized Tags: animation, Board Game, dice, france, jeu de societe, parisbourke, stop motion, the map game 1 Comment

Why a Rooster?

October 12, 2015 By {Alice} in Uncategorized Tags: art, charcoal, the map game 6 Comments

The 20-21-22 November 2015, Paris-Bourke will be at the Paris to Provence Festival in Melbourne. For this occasion, my last charcoal work on timber will be on display: a proud French rooster! But why a rooster? Its association with France dates back from the Middle Ages and is due to the play on words in Latin between Gallus, (inhabitant of Gaule, which later became France), and its homonym gallus, (rooster). The rooster was featured on the reverse of a French 20-franc gold coin from 1899 to 1914. Today, it is often used as the national mascot.

artist Alice N.L.

The rooster crowing sound in French is “Cocorico” (cock-a-doodle-doo)

(This post is dedicated to Cecilia.)

The Map Game France is now ready!

September 25, 2015 By {Alice} in Uncategorized Tags: Board Game, cadeau, for grandparents, france, gift, Jeu, Made in Australia, made in melbourne, map game, original work, play, play with children, quality game, screen printing, themapgame 2 Comments

Look at this blue! The Map Game France is now in the online shop and we are ready to accept Wholesalers too! Thank you to all the people that already ordered it, offered it and are already playing with it, your lovely feedbacks are so heart warming!

The Map Game France -bleu

By the way: The new packaging is stunning and hand screen-printed in our studio:

The Map Game France

A little sneak peek inside The Map Game -France-:

Made in Melbourne

Can You Guess?

August 24, 2015 By {Alice} in Uncategorized Tags: animal, Artist, Board Game, boussole, Carte, Jeu, jouer, Made in Australia, Map, Melbourne made, play, playing pieces, teaser, the map game, wood 7 Comments

Hello there!

I have one photo to show you. The playing pieces of the Map Game, but there are no kangaroos or cockatoos on those. Look closely and tell me if you can guess what this means?

The Map Game Playing Pieces

This is a very exciting news and more photos will come next month!

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Harry Potter -Mini Playing Kit-

August 8, 2015 By {Alice} in Decoration, Gravure/Engraving, Things and Tips for Children Tags: carving gumtree, decoration, DIY, enfants, Harry Potter, jouer, kit, Magic, party, play, potions, wand 7 Comments

We do have a few Harry Potter fans here, and spells are flying from every corner of the house. (Shame it doesn’t work though, I will do with a few Quietus! Repairo! or a good Accio! spell to find a lost sock 😉

After reading all the books, we made a little potions kit and my son carved a wand in a Gumtree branch:

Now the children have hours of pretend play ahead!

Little terrarium for little hands

June 22, 2015 By {Alice} in Decoration, Things and Tips for Children Tags: DIY, fairy garden, inside, mini garden, petit jardin, plants, pour enfants, rainy day, succulent, terrarium, unbored 6 Comments

The latest project for those rainy and cold winter days: build a terrarium! Before assembling it, we went to the beach to collect tiny seashells, to the river to collect peebles, a few acorns from the park and some red sand from our hourglass collection. Next time we are heading to the forest, we will collect a bit of moss. Meanwhile, here is the beginning of our tiny garden for fairies, blue wren and ladybug :