How to feel good at home without getting bored? This time, we tell you the story of Julie and Mélissa, the founders of Season Paper!
It was on the school benches that Mélissa and Julie discovered a passion for stationery and decided to found Season Paper together. Bursting with ideas, the two companions transport us each time to delicate and colorful worlds made up of notebooks, weekly planners or even notepads. So many pretty supports that make every little word, all its importance. All to our pencils!
“In our dream life in confinement we do yoga every morning, but in real life we don't have time! »
Good evening - Your confi, you live it...
Mélissa & Julie – With philosophy 😉
Good evening - What has changed for you since the start of this period of confinement?
Mélissa & Julie – Being pushed around is part of the life of entrepreneurs. For a small company like ours, it's been quite a tsunami, but it's also forced us to reorganize, to rethink our priorities, to imagine new avenues of creation... And we're getting better and better organized over the years. weeks!
And then we were both coming out of maternity leave so it allows us to spend more time with our babies, it's a bit acrobatic at work but it's still a big bonus!
Good evening - To be well at home...
Mélissa – In our dream life in confinement we do yoga every morning, but in real life we don't have time!
Julie – We take our time more. In the morning, for example, the kids come and slip into bed and we hang out a bit, it feels good!
Good evening - In this context, your favorite object is...
Mélissa – The oven to make cakes 😊
Julie – And pencils, paint, scissors, paper, cardboard, modeling clay... In short, enough to occupy a 3-year-old child!
Good evening - In general, where does your inspiration come from?
Mélissa & Julie - From everywhere! Even if we are inspired a lot by nature, plants, flowers, animals... We are also inspired by our travels, real or dreamed, we really feel free to create all the patterns that come to mind. head !
Good evening - And since confinement...
Mélissa - The activity being slowed down, it leaves more room for creation and imagination. We also want to offer lots of great ways to spend this time confined to our community, so we reinvent our creations in new forms that we offer for free download: mobiles, games, coloring, DIY. In the end, it's more of a creative confinement!
Julie - The paradox is that everything is slowed down, but the time for work and creation (at home with the children) is really reduced! As a result, we go faster to the essentials and we strive to create the things that make us want at the time.
Good evening - Do you have any new sources of inspiration?
Julie - The children 😉 It was while making paper garlands with my son that I had the idea of offering a Ribambelle bird tutorial for our community.
Mélissa - Let's take advantage of the calm before the storm. At the end of the confinement, everything will be a little accelerated, the activity will resume but for the moment a lot of things are put on hold, if we manage not to be paralyzed by the news it is rather a good period for create. There are many things (operas, comics, etc.) available for free viewing/downloading, good sources of inspiration!
Good evening - A song, a book and/or a place that you find inspiring or that makes you feel good...
Mélissa - A book, " The Man Who Knew the Language of Serpents " by Andrus Kivirähk. It's a somewhat fantastic story that tells of the danger of cutting oneself off from nature, it's full of poetry and rather topical.
"It's a somewhat fantastic story that tells the danger of cutting oneself off from nature, it's full of poetry and rather topical"
Julie - " Labanana " by Philippe Katerine, this song is working quite well for me at the moment 😉
Good evening - The first thing you will do post-lockdown will be...
Mélissa - Uh work…
Julie - Yes work, but go see the sea first!
Photo credits : @seasonpapercollection