September's Bliss

I went to Paris last weekend and one of my favourite places there especially during Christmas is Ile Saint-Louis, It's so peaceful though It's in the middle of Paris, we have the feeling to be in a village and It's so beautiful ! I took some photographs of this beautiful café, Le Saint-Regis, I love the vintage Parisian style of this place !

It's been a long time I was dreaming of a Sakura tree in my garden and I found a cute and beautiful one this year ! It was the occasion to gardening with my son, a nice moment... I can't wait to see It growing and blossoming next spring !

Bokeh is a Japanese photographic technique that isolate a subject and create a beautiful blur all around, I love using my macro to do some bokeh, especially for flowers. I have beautiful little pink flowers in my garden, I don't know what kind of flowers It is but I love them. And the heart shaped ones are called "coeur de marie" in France, they are so beautiful, It's my daughter's favourite flowers.

This is my birthday cake, I made It myself. It's a very simple chocolate cake inspired by a recipe of Cyril Lignac. I just cut It in the middle, put some mascarpone inside of It and on the top of It. And I had fun to decorate It with some macarons and rapsberries, cute and simple, the kind of cake I love to make !

I was wandering in Paris and just stopped to check some photographs on my camera and then I realized that I stopped rue de Verneuil. This street is very famous in France because the singer Serge Gainsbourg was used to live here. I couldn't help myself to search his house. It wasn't difficult, even nearly 30 years after his death there are still so many people who are coming in front of this house and taking pictures. Fans have painted on the house some beautiful portraits of the singer, that was very touching.

I had some black chocolate in my kitchen so I decided to make some mendiants with It. It's very quick and simple to do and you can put everything you want on them : nuts, dried fruits, pistachios... I put praline roses, dried fruits and nuts on mine. I just melted some chocolate, and with a spoon I did some circles, and added some pralines roses, nuts and dried fruits and I put It in the fridge for 30 minutes and It's ready to eat !

This is my birthday cake, I wanted a simple cake because I lack of time and concentrate on doing a pretty autumn decorations. I picked up some leaves ans pine cones in the garden and here It is ! This is just a chocolate cake with some philadelphia frosting but I liked to do It.

Today I had the pleasure to share a great moment with my son at the Barcella's concert for kids named 'Tournepouce" at La Cartonnerie of Reims. It was magical, the concert was melted with the beautiful story of a little boy calledTournepouce, I loved to watch the eyes of my son in front of this poetic show. Here are some pics I took.

This is a quite beautiful cake considering the few minutes I needed to do It. Though It's finally just cake decorating, It might be a good idea when some friends are coming for tea and you didn't have the time to prepare anything. Well, you just have to buy a simple cake, mine was a "cake breton", typically French, I cut It to make 3 layers and I melted Cream cheese, crusted "Biscuits roses" but you can also use crusted oreos, rose sirup to put between the layers. I put the rest of the cream on the top of the cake and decorated It with roses. And here It Is : a 5 minutes layer cake !

I never had the chance to eat at the well renomed restaurant "Les crayères" but a Japanese member of Its team recently opened a restaurant named "Racine". It's more affordable than "Les Crayères" and the meals are delicious. It's very minimalist and It's composed like an abstract painting.

I thought It would be quite pretty to choose "Alice in wonderland" as a thema for my little girl's birthday. I really had such pleasure to organize It, I made some researches on the internet to find vintage illustrations to use on invitations, labels... I found lovely cake cutters in tea cups shapes. And I used an old birdcage to make a kind of 3d scene of the book by cutting illustrations of Alice and a rabbitt from a vintage book and glue them in different places of the birdcage as if they were moving. Suzie seemed to love, she will appreciate a little bit more when she grow up and see the photos...