With all my heart...

I indulge myself making some cake boxes recently.I do love them!

They line up here for delivering my best wishes…
Happy Valentine's Day! also...
Happy Chinese New Year!

Cupcakes for your sweetheart & gentleman! [My Etsy online shop]

Still 4 days, St Valentine is coming. I am not good at words.
I seldom say some sweet words to my ex-bfs even my husband.
For me, happiness is just from the pure hearts that we have ever exchanged and many tiny things we have ever experienced together.
But I admit that sometimes the honeyed phrases are quite necessary and useful even at that moment we felt like vomiting but we laughed at the same time in the end.

I am touched and fascinated when reading some brief paragraphs or simple sentences. Here is one for St. Valentine's Day:

"Mon Coeur a rencontré le tien…Il est à toi… garde le bien!"
"My heart have encountered yours…It’s yours… take good care of it!"
--> I promise I will repeat this in Chinese in front of my husband on 14th Feb, no laughing.

Another thing is I consider what to do first for my own business on Etsy.
I believe it would be great for me since it’s part of my passion.
This will be also the first time that I start managing my own online shop.
So many details need to handle.
I just realize how much efforts the sellers need to prepare…
not only the creation parts but administrative procedure & responsibility need to take.

Okay, so eventually my Etsy shop is here: http://oiseaudenim.etsy.com/
My Flickr album is http://www.flickr.com/photos/oiseaudenim/
Hope I will start smoothly…. *Praying!


Cupcake chocolate (7mm*7mm*10mm)
Cupcake stand box (11mm*13mm*8mm)


Cupcake rose (7mm*7mm*10mm)
Cupcake box (11mm*11mm*11mm)

2010 wishes & resolution!

It’s been a long time I don’t play the mini food. During the past 3 months, we went back to my hometown, and then continued house hunting till Christmas. Fortunately we did find one lovely house; if everything goes smoothly, we’ll move in April. That means I will have my own "professional studio" instead of playing clay on the dining table every time.

It takes some time for me to be back to the world of mini since I was out of practice.
Here I’d like to say thank you to someone, because of his guidance, I could be back and return to this BIG family "faster".
I would also encourage myself to make progress. Of course could not be as lazy as in 2009. XP

Below are my new works. Via them, I'd like to wish Happy 2010 to everybody even it has slid in February, a month to be in love...

◆Charlotte de macarons aux fruits de la Passion
Charlotte: diameter 20mm
Macaron: diameter 5mm
Cake box dimention:23*23*11mm

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◆Plaisir aux macaronsframboise et pistache
Plaisir (L): diameter 20mm
Plaisir(S): diameter 14mm
Cake box dimention:23*23*11mm

Live in harmony with her

It’s more frequent those natural disasters appear and it also become more difficult to predict the weather. Several days ago, two earthquakes happened in Samoan and Indonesia on 30th Sept and 1st Oct, thousands of people were killed. After four days, one earthquake also happened in Taiwan when one typhoon approached it.

I felt a little bit down when my sister told me the news through MSN messenger. As a Taiwanese, I understand how violent it can be when here comes an earthquake; especially my parents and sister live in 14th floor. It’s rare but “normal” to see the fish flying out of the aquarium.

It’s common to see typhoons and earthquakes in Taiwan but they bring more and more unexpected execution nowadays. The Earth is sick without doubt but the true factors of the change of the weather is still indefinite.

These beads of mine are called "green eddy of the Earth"; the main concept is they could be the modest typhoon, which follow The Doctrine of the Mean (Chinese: 中庸; pinyin: zhōng yōng). Maybe it’s a little bit philosophic but this could remind me to reduce pollutions and respect this land. But the worse is, even I know that, I will still need to pollute the Earth when the flight take off in the coming days.

Some dishes

It seems I was absent for a period of time but I am always here!:D~

In July and August, we start looking for some houses and apartments; it’s an exciting but also a tiring job. I collect a lot of information from Internet and ask for appointments with agencies. In September, I also go back to school and restart my French courses. I am surprised that I am divided into a higher-level group. I am glad with the result without doubts but that also means I get plenty of vocabularies to deal with from now on.

It’s the main reason I disappear for a while; since I have some pressure from the course in French, I concentrate on it. Even I try to do some parts of handcrafts during the weekend, I don’t have good sense to assemble them.

I am late from the original schedule but it will last till November because I am informed that we will go back to Asia for one month that also means I will be able to stop temporarily my course in Oct. I feel like playing clay as if I get the liberty. ^_^

There are a lot of techniques I want to learn; I start with the method of creating gradient colors in clay, try to arrange the cane and do the pattern. It’s difficult to make the exact shape but I like the color combination.

So, we will fly to Beijing next Thu and come back in France on 6th Nov. During the unexpected holidays, I’d continue reading your latest posts secretly. Once I do something interesting in my parents’ home, I'd also make a new post!

A Gastronomy Trip in Paris

Last night we were back home. It’s really an unforgettable memory in Paris.

First, we ware very lucky to see one rare falling start on 15th Aug evening. My husband and me were walking along a small road in the field after dinner. We met two neighbors of my parents in law and their dog. Of course we said hello to each other and chatted for a while. Suddenly my husband shouted and all of us raised the heads looking into the sky at the same time. It was a very exceptional falling start. Its head is green color and the tail is red. It’s huge as a fist and it stayed in the sky for almost 4 seconds. It was around 22h00 at that moment.

Second, we passed a great time in Ladurée Champs Elysées yesterday afternoon just before coming back to the South. Since we had a big lunch with my brother and sister in law in a Japanese restaurant near Pyramide and l’Opéra, we just ordered one dessert for each in Ladurée.

My husband ordered “Tarte Mirabelles”. It’s sweet pastry, with almond cream, and Mirabelle plums.

I chose “Millefeuille Framboise”. It is caramelized puff pastry, vanilla cream, fresh raspberries, Chantilly cream, sprinkled with icing sugar.

Beside we also shared a glass of “Thé Mélange Spécial Laudrée”. It is delicate blend of citrus fruits, rose, vanilla, and cinnamon ice tea. Very special aroma!

The patisserie is just on the 1st floor. People can buy and carry away the pastries.

We did not do that cause we have already bought a small bag of macaron in Pierre Hermé before arriving Ladurée. XD

We walked along la Seine toward the Eiffel Tower. We decided to finished these six round cakes near the river.


This was the first time I understood that macaron could be as clear as crystal when the sunshine illuminated on it. Sooo beautiful!

The vacation is over and everything is going back to normal now. I sincerely hope that I could make more beautiful pastry miniatures after this trip! :D...