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November 12

I’ve been watching this video of Florence and the Machine for a long time now. I’m getting used to the idea of really liking it. I mean, I have a bad habit of discarding things as “too mainstream” too fast, so I’m forcing myself to get an impartial idea of things.

This video helped me forging an opinion. Florence had en incredible charisma and I love pretty everything : the dance, the costumes, the church, the colors and even the music. So now I can say that I like Florence and the Machine and this video gets my seal of approval.

October 20

I want this !

This necklace is so cute and original ! It’s exactly the type of thing I’d like to wear, not too expensive but still stunning.

Check also the english summer necklace.

http://mixko.co.uk/

via Notcot

July 1
This is exactly it !

This is exactly it !

June 3
A close-up of the custard filled ditch of my castle cake. Looking at pictures, I really don’t think the cake was thaaat nice, but it was a matter of making it reasonably good looking and still with a good taste. The composition was: - a huge base of moelleux au chocolat (La Régalade recipe), covered with green almond paste and digged to make the ditch. - a huger amount of custard sauce (Pierre Hermé’s recipe), that I must admit was a little too much cooked - rolled sponge cakes (Robuchon’s recipe) with chocolate butter cream filling (again Hermé’s recipe) for tower - a first failed attempt of sponge cake for walls, wich was perferctly hard and flat - a LOT of toothpicks to make it all stand up and stay in place. I also used some Pockies (Mikado in French) to strenghen the towers The whole cake required a total amount of 50 eggs, can you believe it?

A close-up of the custard filled ditch of my castle cake.

Looking at pictures, I really don’t think the cake was thaaat nice, but it was a matter of making it reasonably good looking and still with a good taste.

The composition was:

- a huge base of moelleux au chocolat (La Régalade recipe), covered with green almond paste and digged to make the ditch.

- a huger amount of custard sauce (Pierre Hermé’s recipe), that I must admit was a little too much cooked

- rolled sponge cakes (Robuchon’s recipe) with chocolate butter cream filling (again Hermé’s recipe) for tower

- a first failed attempt of sponge cake for walls, wich was perferctly hard and flat

- a LOT of toothpicks to make it all stand up and stay in place. I also used some Pockies (Mikado in French) to strenghen the towers

The whole cake required a total amount of 50 eggs, can you believe it?

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… to the castle cake!

… to the castle cake!

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From the Google sketchup…

From the Google sketchup…

May 27

Because a girl can't have too many jewels

I desperately need those!!!!

Pretty as hell Mario chain chomps

OMG can you believe those pacman ghosts glow in the dark? It’s so brilliant!

Those cute tiny Mario stars would be the perfect discreet gamer/geek touch to a normal outfit.

And for a more serious less cute look, I also like very much the light guns:

The Clay collection

[via SpriteStich]

May 13

When my colleagues and I talked about how my new knitting hobby could also mix with my video games passion, and how pixel art and knits patterns were similar, we almost believed we were the first to think about it, as much the idea seemed silly. As usual, a quick search on Google conforted us on that you’re never the first to have an idea. That’s how I discovered spritestich.com and a whole new world of possibilities.

From the Day of the Tentacle amigurumis to the Katamari dresser, every new picture made me clap my hands and laugh of loud in excitation. Reading the stories behind all those wonderful handcrafts, I discovered that there was sometime a bonus motivation, apart from the only awesomeness of it all. The girl that knitted the most crazy project of a scarf representing the whole first level of mario bros explains that she did it like a super pre-proposal challenge. The deal was that when she would finish the scarf, her boyfriend would propose to her. When reading comment about her amazing guitar hero cake, we can read that imnotcharming was proposed right when she served it. And what about those Zelda and Link wedding cake toppers?

Are video games crafts the ultimate means to get your boyfriend propose to you?

Unfortunately my boyfriend is not truely a gamer. I kinda charmed him by bragging about my digger skills, but it was a loooong time ago.

http://www.spritestitch.com/

May 9
The last of the Carl Marletti series is a pastry which name was forgotten and that we can’t find on the website. Its a dome of something that looked like vanilla bavaroise cream, with a dacquoise biscuit and a red fruit filling. The recipe is quite classic but once again, it was excellent and pretty. The little macaron biscuit was particulary good. I recommended that next time we try taking a box of macarons from Marletti. Marletti was certainly a discovery for me and I can’t wait to try some other of his original or surprising recipes. His individual pastries are about 3,5 / 4 euros, which is expensive but still far less than the average 5 euros each for Pierre Hermé’s.

The last of the Carl Marletti series is a pastry which name was forgotten and that we can’t find on the website. Its a dome of something that looked like vanilla bavaroise cream, with a dacquoise biscuit and a red fruit filling. The recipe is quite classic but once again, it was excellent and pretty. The little macaron biscuit was particulary good. I recommended that next time we try taking a box of macarons from Marletti.

Marletti was certainly a discovery for me and I can’t wait to try some other of his original or surprising recipes. His individual pastries are about 3,5 / 4 euros, which is expensive but still far less than the average 5 euros each for Pierre Hermé’s.

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The most surprising of the 4  pastries we tasted from Carl Marletti, the censier looks like a rice crispies rose des sables with a chocolate quenelle on top. The trick is that Marletti added “poppin candy” to the rice crispies, which you don’t notice at first, but at some moment you start thinking “wow, those are crispy rice crispies” and then it’s an explosion in your mouth. The cleverness of it all reveals when the chocolate melts and soothe your mouth. Brilliant!

The most surprising of the 4  pastries we tasted from Carl Marletti, the censier looks like a rice crispies rose des sables with a chocolate quenelle on top. The trick is that Marletti added “poppin candy” to the rice crispies, which you don’t notice at first, but at some moment you start thinking “wow, those are crispy rice crispies” and then it’s an explosion in your mouth. The cleverness of it all reveals when the chocolate melts and soothe your mouth. Brilliant!