Nice review in Homes & Gardens magazine

We just received the Homes & Gardens E-newsletter this morning and it was nice to discover that they had mentioned the launch of our new website in it with a lovely review.

"Unique home accessories website Bodie and Fou has not only launched a new autumn/winter collection, but also a new-look site. Created by French sisters Elodie (Bodie) and Karine (Fou), the website has been revamped to give you a stress-free shopping experience.

Offering a boutique feel, bodieandfou.com now includes a wishlist option, an A-Z list of designers, a gift guide for all occasions and a gift-wrapping service. Finding a stylish piece for your home or for your Christmas shopping couldn't be easier. We think the Family Tree Print is the perfect way to display family photos, particularly great for teaching children about their relatives."
We agree and we also think it's a nice and thoughful gift for a new mother or as a wedding gift.

Win 3 beautiful London map prints by Famille Summerbelle

To celebrate the launch of our new website, we will run a fabulous competition from October to December 2009 to reward three people each month instead of the usual one! In fact, we may do something like the Paris map print to win in October, the London map print in November and the NYC print in December as they are all as popular as each other.
To enter the competition, simply go to our competition page here and fill in the form with all your details.
From tomorrow, you can enter up until the end of October. The draw takes place on the 1st of the next month.
We'll contact the winners by email and announce them on Twitter so if you don't follow us on twitter yet, do now Twitter.com/bodieandfou

Marie-Claire Maison loves our new site

We just received a short but very nice email from Nadege Fougeras, the Web Editor of Marie-Claire Maison who kindly wrote to us out of the blue:

"I love your site. Bravo!!"

Ok it's short but it says it all and we are over the moon...Marie-Claire Maison is one of our favourites French interior magazines and I don't know about you but I have little lists of things I would like to do in my life (like launching my own uber cool online shop for instance)...and one of my DREAMS would be to have either our little business or our home featured in it...that would be a dream come true :-)
Their website is full of inspiring ideas and gorgeous interiors which we regularly feature on the BODIE and FOU blog....sigh...so nice to finish the day on a positive note!

Comptoir des Cotonniers Mother/daughter casting

Each season, one of my favourite French fashion labels Comptoir des Cotonniers organises a casting nationwide to find real mothers and daughters as the new faces for their advertising campaign. The casting in London for the Spring Summer 2010 collection is happening tomorrow: Wednesday September 30th.
So tonight, tell your husband that you will spend the evening in the bathroom and lock yourself to come out truly stunning so that you can take your gorgeous daughter and yourself to the casting tomorrow.

Casting takes place from 4-7pm in their boutiques on London's King's Road, and at 40 East Street, Brighton.
For more information visit mothers-and-daughters.com

New-York City paper cut map in stock next week!

Finally the wait is over.....the NYC map by Famille Summerbelle is now ready! Whether you are a die-hard Sex And The City fan or have already got a few NYC marathons under your belt (or your boyfriend has…that counts too), the NYC map print is one of these designs that are going to make a great Christmas’ must-have for everybody in search of cool designs for the home, great wedding present or birthday gift.
The NYC map is available in two beautiful colours: Plum (just saying the word sounds gorgeous) and night blue and BODIE and FOU will receive the prints next week but you can pre-order yours now.
We will also get more stock of the Paris in hot pink and London map in turquoise - which keeps selling faster than we have time to eat a chocolate muffin and god knows when it comes to chocolate eating, we're fast!
I'm so excited for Julie, the French Designer of Famille Summerbelle (read interview here) and us of course, because it's a great success for our little company to find beautiful designs that so many people love. Julie did a lot of research on NYC before starting to draw the different areas and decided to focus on the lower part of Manhattan where you find most of the tourist attractions and the Brooklyn border.

I have to say I really loved the London and Paris maps and the latter is now in our house in France but now my favourite is definitively the NYC print....I have such wonderful and happy memories of trips to NYC...the last one in 2004 was before having Mila....I escaped there for a week of fun with my best friend Manu and we had the time of our lives. Then I came back to London and things in my life started to change quicker than I ever expected. Steve moved in, 5 months later I was pregnant and 9 months later Elodie and I launched BODIE and FOU, the rest is history as they say...Well it was more like a mad adventure that kept me very busy for the past four years but I'm dying to go back to New-York, spend some time with my friend Charlotte and live again the whole SATC again even if I have moved onto House and Gossip Girl.
So tell me..which print are you? The London map in turquoise or red here or the Paris map in hot pink or sage green here?

the new BODIE and FOU site is now LIVE

After weeks of silence, mainly because most of us went either on holidays or working like busy bees on the launch of our new website, we're finally back on planet blog with a bang and a gorgeous, user-friendly new website....

The feedback from our lovely customers, our blogger and twitter friends we've received so far such as Designersblock, DomesticSluttery, Retrotogo and Decor8 has been fantastic and it really made our days because I can't tell how you much work went into this so we sincerely hope you like it too....

The new bodieandfou.com is as ever very stylish and chic but more minimalist, simple and closer to what truly inspired us. Although solely online, we really wanted to create a haven of inspiration and creativity. A website with a real boutique feel, exceptional customer service and the added value of being incredibly convenient and stress-free.
In a nutshell, we want shopping with BODIE and FOU to be a friendly and enjoyable experience. BODIE and FOU is open 24/7…no crowd, no noise, no parking ticket, no heavy bag to carry…pure bliss.

As Elodie put it... “We live and breathe BODIE and FOU. It's our name and our reputation on the line and we genuinely care about our customers and their shopping experience...”
So what’s different?

· A new and simpler, easy-to-navigate layout. For instance, you can now browse directly into our most popular product categories such as the Art & prints category and see how great our best-selling London (turquoise) and Paris map (hot pink) prints look in new colours: red and sage green.

· All our product page and key customer information are now available in English and French..et oui! Cela faisait longtemps que nous avions envie d'avoir BODIE and FOU en francais et de retrouver nos racines...

· You also have now the options to tell your Friend about your favourite product but also to bookmark it on your preferred social network....Facebook (where you can join us), Twitter (where you can follow us), Stumbleupon, Delicious, etc...
· You can also see all the designs from one same designer so if you love Kathleen Hills' new pendant lights in black (real lust-have), you can either click on the link from the product page to see all the gorgeous designs by Kathleen or go to our Designers A to Z page.

· The B&F Gift Guide: Yep! A whole area dedicated to unique gifts for her, gifts for men, eco-gifts, for mother & child, ‘petits’ gifts up to £20, vintage/retro, handmade, inspired by nature, wedding gifts.
· BODIE and FOU Gift-wrapping Service ...oui....because there is nothing easier than buying your present online and get it wrapped by someone else (US!) and if you want, we will also hand-write your message on one of our chic gift cards.
· Monthly competition: Each month, BODIE and FOU will also offer one of our best-selling designs to one lucky participant! But the GREAT NEW is that from October to December 2009....we will offer 3 lucky people each month the chance to win one of our best-selling Paris map print. Click here to participate
· New affordable, flexible delivery options to suit everyone’s needs starting from as little as £3.50 for orders up to £15....and standard delivery is still at £4.95 whatever the weight and size of your order so that's a pretty good deal..

And of course, along a new website, we have added lost of gorgeous new designs and gifts for the home...
Our favourite are all the books by Edition Paumes. If you haven't heard of Paumes, you are really missing something....Paumes is a little family business that put together gorgeous series of books about children rooms, Designers' studios, flats, Flea markets in Paris, London, Stockholm, Copenhagen.....they are a goldmine of creativity and inspiration. The only thing is that they are all written in Japanese so unless you're fluent you won't get a lot out of the text but you will definitively be inspired by the imagery and the gorgeous layout of the pages...
Don't take our word for it...give it a go, there are only £20 each and they make wonderful presents but we are pretty sure that once you get one, you will come back for more...

We are also in love with the beautiful eco-friendly wallpapers by Swedish Designer Camilla Diedrich and we have dedicated a whole area to eco-friendly, sustainable designs.....

Anyway, we could go on all day about all the beautiful things we have added to B&F but instead we will do dedicated posts later on...In the meantime, have a look yourself and let us know what you think....
Thanks again for all your support and feedback