Who are we?

It was on the benches of design school that Laura and Médéric met and discovered the famous polymer clay canes, which would become our best-seller a few years later.

While browsing the web in search of new materials for her art project, Laura came across canes, these little sticks of Fimo clay in various shapes: fruit, flowers, animals... But they were only available in large quantities and our students weren't made of money. 

They still took the gamble of ordering 5 references and decided to resell the 500 canes they didn't use online. In one week they had sold everything! Laura and Médéric then got caught up in the excitement and, like good shopkeepers, they started adding more and more creative references, then creating their own DIY kits and accessories. 

La Petite Épicerie is committed to working, whenever possible, with suppliers based in France and Europe.

This choice is guided not only by our desire to reduce transport and our environmental footprint, but also by our wish to support local and European businesses.

Before launching each collection, we systematically give priority to these local partners. This commitment is reflected at every stage of our product development: from the choice of materials and packaging to the final assembly location.

Today, we are proud to offer more than 150 La Petite Épicerie products assembled in France, including nearly 60 that are entirely manufactured in France.

Among them, our Petit Pinceau range, dedicated to paint-by-numbers, perfectly illustrates this responsible approach: bio-based paint from near Toulouse, paper and boxes printed in France, and assembly carried out in a workshop for adults and disabled persons (ESAT) in the Paris region.

Our Quatre Coins puzzle collection is also entirely manufactured in France.

And for our Jesmonite pigments, we work with European partners: pigments developed in the United Kingdom and packaging manufactured in Portugal.

At La Petite Épicerie, every detail counts in combining creativity, quality, and responsibility.

For several years now, La Petite Épicerie has worked daily with an ESAT to assemble our products and, more recently, our paint-by-numbers kits. The ESAT supports people with disabilities who are unable to work in a mainstream environment or in a sheltered workshop, enabling them to engage in professional activity, maintain their educational achievements, and develop vocational skills. In their workshops, the workers assemble all our jewelry, haberdashery, and decoration kits that you receive each month with the Mes kits Make it box, as well as paint-by-numbers kits, which they have been doing for over a year now. From filling the small paint pots to packaging the kits with their components, the ESAT workers contribute daily to the smooth running of La Petite Épicerie.

They always visit us at La Petite Épicerie's premises with a smile, great kindness, and a little shyness. Working with an ESAT is a real choice and a social commitment that we are keen to maintain and develop over the long term.

We chose to work with an ESAT partly because of its proximity to our warehouse, but also for human reasons. We are in contact with the ESAT workers every week, which allows us to both build bonds with them and respond quickly to their questions or requests.

The ESAT workers come into contact with very different products, and working with so many colors, for example with paint, or working with beads when they assemble our bead mixes, is a kind of therapy for them. This allows some of them to work on their fine motor skills, as well as their memory and knowledge.