J'adore le Paris~

At the end of January my boyfriend and I had a lovely weekend break in Paris celebrating our anniversary. I last visited Paris back in 2003 but I was unfortunately very ill from food poisoning so ended up not seeing much of Paris at all. For this trip we booked the Monterosa Hotel which we were extremely pleased with, it was modern and clean and the price was very reasonable as well.

The main part of our trip was spent going round the museums in the city centre but the highlight was definitely going to Laduree and Angelina, their cakes and pastries were just too cute and tasty! It was like heaven for me and I loved the rose and raspberry profiterole I had at Laduree. The hot chocolate there was also nicer than the one at Angelina as that was just a little too sweet for me. I would go back to Paris tomorrow just to buy cakes and macaroons if I could!

Another yummy find was at the Pierre Herme near Concorde, I bought a selection of macaroons before I got onto the Eurostar and they were the best macaroons I'd ever had. All the fruity flavours were delicious and they also had creme brûlée!

The trip was lovely and hopefully we'll be going there again soon! I'm sure I'll need to go and visit their bakeries and cake shops to get some inspirations for my jewellery anyway :p x

One more day to go!

It's as usual that I'm frantically trying to get everything ready for the London Anime Con this Saturday! My plans of making jewellery every week so that I won't have to rush last minute never seems to happen. I guess I still have tonight and tomorrow night to get organised!

In view of the lack of time etc, I'm quite proud of myself that I was able to find time to make a new design ;) Valentine's day is next week so I thought I'll make something with hearts (cheesy i know...) and after some tough decisions I decided some Jammie Dodgers might be quite cute as its not the usual Valentine's gift of bright pink/ huge glittery hearts/ 'I love you' jewellery. I think its more subtle but still keeping with the cute and sweet theme! These biscuits were really fun to made and I've decorated each of them with a clear and a pink diamante (well, I wanted to jazz it up a bit!). I've also made a few rings as well and I think they are just adorable! Well, its hard not to be biased and think most of my handmade jewellery look good enough to eat!

I'll be selling these at the London Anime Con http://www.londonanimecon.com Do pop by and say hi if you are able to come along!

Next week I'm gonna post the highlights of my recent Paris trip, some amazing looking cakes and macaroons there! Real ones and not jewellery, I promise ;)

xx

It's been too long!

Happy new year! Hope you all had a lovely xmas and new year! It's a shame its all over now. This xmas I was lucky enough to go to Finland and Estonia. I absolutely loved Estonia, delicious food and the old town area is so cute. The xmas market there was packed with handmade fur hats and gloves etc. The seafood there was really fresh and not too expensive.

I had a lovely time in Finland, people there are so friendly and I really enjoyed meeting the official Santa in Lapland! He's so tall and his hands are like 3 times of mine! Rovaniemi is a quiet little town and the drive to our little cottage wasn't bad at all since we had our sat-nav. There was a huge amount of snow there and the atmosphere definitely felt a lot more Christmasy than if we had stayed in London! The big Christmas tree, open fire and the family of reindeers that visited our back garden all helped to make our trip that little bit more special!

Coming back to London and being back at work was hard at the beginning but I guess we have now settled back into our usual routine. Really looking forward to my next trip now which has been booked for the end of the month. I've already made plans to visit some of the amazing cake shops in Paris, just need to wait a few more weeks!!

On 11th February I'll be selling my jewellery at the London Anime Con, the home for anime and gaming fans! I will not be at the Expo in May this year so please come and say hello at the London Anime Con instead! Check out the details at http://www.londonanimecon.com/

Alice in Wonderland Jewellery

It's been over a week since my sushi making sweetie set and I've finally found some time to upload some of my new designs onto the website! The Alice in Wonderland inspired range was well received at the MCM Expo back in October and I've desperately wanted to put them onto the site but work has been mad so I've not been able to do so until now.

The Alice in Wonderland range is as its name suggests a line of new designs with cupcakes and cookies with details inspired by the classic story. I've designed some cupcake necklaces with the White Rabbit and 'I'm late!' clock. I also made a few that are with the playing cards.

The cookies are decorated with either pastel pink or green clay that looks like icing! The message 'Eat Me' was hand written and just like my other designs the cookies are handmade by me! Size of the cookies are similar to proper cookies and they look just like the real thing!

The amazing DIY sushi candy set !

The box and its contents
Water is added to the sweet powder to form a paste

Squeezing the spaghetti out of the piper bag

Voila!

For Valentine's day this year I received a cute little sweetie set instead of the conventional chocolates, I really can't believe I've waited this long to open it though! My boyfriend had bought it from Cybercandy along with some other really cute biscuits and sweeties!

The box along is sweet enough to eat! It's so colourful and it also has all the instructions on the back of the box. The set is for making a set lunch of rice balls, spaghetti and mushroom etc but all made from sweet powders! Each piece of 'food' is made from different sachets of powder which smells incredibly sweet. They are all colour coded so it's not a problem even though I cannot ready the Japanese text!

I had so much fun making it for roughly 30 minutes but only took me a minute or two to eat the whole thing! lol! I've taking some photos to illustrate the steps it took to be completed!

Expo again!

It's been a long time since I last wrote, reason being I was busy with a charity cake sale and preparing for Expo which happened last weekend. It was as usual a fun filled weekend with new games, movies and cosplay! The array of costumes were so impressive, they must have spent hours to produce each of those outfits!

My new designs which were inspired by Alice in Wonderland were completed end of last week. The range includes mini teacups with hot chocolate and cream, rabbit cupcakes with pretty bows, 'Eat Me' cookies and 'Drink Me' glitter bottles. These pendants are all presented as necklaces apart from a rabbit and cream ring. I have still to upload these new designs onto my website, I wanted to see what the reaction was at Expo first and it was definitely much better than I had anticipated! All the girls (a few guys as well!) seemed to love my new designs and they gave me loads of praise and encouragement! The most popular were the teacups and the rabbit cupcakes!

The down side to having the Expo on the same weekend as Halloween is that there was no chance for some sleep after the party on Saturday. We chose to dress up as zombie school children with matching skirts, ties etc. It's been a while since I've done fancy dress and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it! I just loved the way people stare at you and then later realise that it's Halloween!

Lovely Rilakkuma Stamps Set!

Just received this cute little set of Rilakkuma stamps set from my mum!! It's really petite but I just love the French inspired designs with the blue, red and white colour scheme, luggages and the french stick bread! I'm gonna decorate all my paperwork with these cute little Rilakkumas! Such a nice addition to my Rilakkuma collection :D