8 - 1 = 7 yoghurts and 30 years old

Hello Dears,

Yes ! I could not prevent myself from tasting one of them. For my 30 birthday, I've been really gifted. Friends offered me an electric yoghurt maker.

It's been years since I started to make my owns using the oven. Last time I failed, they remained liquid as vanilla flavoured milk. I was really disappointed !!!!

In fact I far prefer making yoghurt with the machine, it tremendously easy compared to the oven recipe which is for beginners as well.

Let's compare together...

First The ingredient are the same for 8 yoghurts:

-80 cl milk

-80 g of sugar or less (I prefer less)

-vanilla extract or vanilla

-one yoghurt

- milk powder (option)

Then for the oven...

1/warm the milk till its boiling point, adding sugar and vanilla,

2/wait the temperature to dwindle till 37/45 °C (98.6/113 °F) and add the yogurth mixing gently. Be cautious to the temperature !

3/warm the oven (50/60 °C > 122/140 °F)

4/ pour the mixture into 8 containers

5/ put in the oven (bain-marie system) for 6 hours, then in the fridge for 2/3 hours

With the yoghurt maker

1/ mix every ingredient gently (yoghurt, sugar, milk vanilla)

2/ pour the mixture into you 8 containers

5/ put in your yoghurt maker

6/ wait 8 hours, and put in the fridge for 3/4 hours

For mine I added some milk powder to have them more creamy.

I really enjoy the taste. I also remember mummy doing some since in french Guyana it was really expensive to buy some, they were imported directly from France. She was adding some goyava, banana and other fruits purée.

Soupir or childish thoughts

Yellofield7

Dear readers,

It has been three weeks since my last post and I miss you. I just want to share today a bit of my life and tell you how sewing, creating, making little stuffs is deeplys missing me. I am still there, but far away from my blog, my etsy boutique, and I would say, truncated.

The Millineryshop

I started a new job the 1st february. I love it, I really enjoy my new team, my boss on departure, the cosy ambiance. I will have few meetings abroad in Europe, with smart people. I cannot complain, I must not complain since I am gifted at the beginning of this year. A good job, a lot of love and friendship, health.

The Millineryshop

These days I have to get use to working hours (I was disoccupied for 3 months, it is considered as a short time in France), to train (1h15 to reach the office). Now I am stealing minutes to sew, to take care of my sweet fellow. My dear photographer also have a job now and I do not want to bother him.

The Millineryshop

I did some stuffs meanwhile : some hats, a silk shawl and skirts for an Etsy enthousiastic buyer that I cannot show you.

Yellowfield7


To end this post I want to show you two esty shops that I really enjoy and develop my desire to sew some hat: yellofield7 and TheMillineryShop.
Mine are far from this marvellous result, hope I can show you soon. For now, just admire those one.

Yellofield7

Vivien Ayroles

Vivien Ayroles

Today I wanted to speak about him, my invisible etsy partner. The one who know how to shoot me right with his camera. I met Vivien one year after he found his camera and "really" started to wander his eyes on people and their environment with sensitivity, in 2007.

Eté 2010 : Vivien Ayroles/Stefano Marchioni

We met again in Paris few month ago thanks to facebook. I noticed he made with Stefano Marchioni a photography book, Eté 2010 that is now sold out. I was one the lucky one who had the time to buy it and for two hours we spoke, in a Parisian french café that I really like : Le Café Crème. We were both disoccupied with our days fullfilled with creativity.

Eté 2010, according to me offers two intermingled visions of an every day life intimacy. I felt very closed to this work, that reveals tact and fragility as if a relationship is a gift that we can only touch lightly with camera or words. The most beautiful part remains hidden, it's only little parts of it we can guess through Vivien and Stefano eyes.

Eté 2010 : Vivien Ayroles/Stefano Marchioni

Vivien is giving me an inestimable hand now, having pictures of my little stuffs. And I feel relieved he's here now.
I tried to make pictures in my dark flat, and it was so ugly, obliging me to use lightroom and photoshop tools. I hate that, it gave me the feeling I was a liar. I'm not a photographer. I enjoy pictures, images transformed, as I worked in advertising agency. I also know how you can be fooled by pictures, how words can betray.

crédit photo : Vivien Ayroles

Vivien came and I love his work that you can also appreciate on flickr. Pictures are true, and each time I discovered things I made through his eyes, they give me selfconfidence.

I wanna be a queen...Crown tutorial

I love the Twelve Night Pancake period, since I allowed myself to eat this gorgeous pancake during the whole month. I need fat to survive in the winter time period.
It's been the third year now that I make the pancake. The most difficult is the puff pastry, you need time and a taste for struggling.

This year, reading Marie Claire Idée offered by my step mother - I already have many ideas on my own, and I'm already frustrated not realizing them -, I saw a little crown for a sweet girl,made of old crochet rags and decided to create mine.


Crown Instruction (for experienced crochet maker) :

CROCHET : (click here for stitches tutorials)
Chain 1oo stitches and close the chain in order to create a circle.
1.Make a row of single crochet
2.Make a row of double crochet
3.Make a row of one *double crochet, one chain stitch*, and repeat the pattern from *to*
4.Make a row of one *double crochet, one chain stitch, two double crochet, one chain*, repeat the pattern from *to*
5.Make a row of double crochet and chain stitches >> one *double crochet, TWO chains stitches, one double crochet, TWO chains*, repeat the pattern from *to*
6. Make a row of treble crochet >> two treble crochet on the TWO chains stitches made the previous row
7. Make a row of one single stitch, *6 chain stitches, one single stitch* ( insert the hook in the fourth treble crochet made the previous row), repeat the pattern from *to*
8. Make a row of single crochet >>8 single crochet stitches in each chain space created the previous row
9. Make a row of single crochet and chain stitches >>*five chain stitches, one single crochet (hooked in the middle of chain spaces), one picot (composed of five chain stitches)*, repeat the pattern from *to*
10.Make a row of single crochet >>* six single crochet (on the five chain, stitches), six single crochet (created in the picot loop)*


RED COLOR
In order to strenghten the crown, it's necessary to paint it with an acrylic red (or whatever) painting oil.
First I advise you to paint one side, to wait its complete drying, and to paint then the other side.

To avoid acrylic painting oil, you can strengthen to crown with sugar. The sugar must be mixed with a small quantity of water. The crown will have the yarn original color.

Hope this tutorial is clear enough. it's a bit hard to put into word crochet instruction. Please feel free to ask for any question.

Christmas fairy tales !

Happy New year Dear readers,

Hope you can fullfill your deep wishes, those one that make you happy in your heart, whatever happen to you next.
Holidays was overcrowded by Family : family gift I finished at Mom's home with her damned broken sewing machine. It was hell to be on time and to hide myself from my parents. But they were all very happy, really happy and it brought me joy.

photo : Vivien Ayroles

I also received a an another huge gift. The story started at the beginning of december. I had a christmas dress to create for a friend daughter. She gave me through her father since it was a surprise strong measurements and I had to manage by myself. I spent hours asking myself if the finished dress was the right size and wether she would enjoy it.
First, I created my pattern and made myself a dress, to check it was ok. I always made an item for myself to test it. And then I adapted this pattern according her "false measurements" that I decided not to follow. They were too odd, I tought.


During Christms eve, I could not prevent myself from thinking about this gift. And my gift came the following day, when the father told me how his daughter was pleased, that the fit was perfect and she would wear it this very day. I felt released and so happy.

Here is the dress, that is available on my etsy store now.

photo : Vivien Ayroles

Work in progress...

I'm pretty busy with family gifts. 3 among 8 are done, don't you think I'm late ? Unfortunately I caught a kind of flu and I don't feel like sewing and being concentrated for hours on gifts or orders. So I spent my time drinking milk and tea.


But I manage to finish a special order on time for two little boys: two cuddly toys.

Great Monday or making little things

I love mondays. It means each week a new start and challenges.
Today I wanted to speak about Dreams... mine and may be yours, if you want to share them with me.

Since I'm 3, I'm living with handmade stuffs. I remember my very first nightdress made by my mum. An awful white square with 4 holes that was really uneasy to wear. I was both glad and nervous. I already felt glad because mum made something especially for me, but a bit scared to wear it. I feared to get stucked in it.



So I grew up with needles, mummy clothes, yarn, crochet. As I was a good student, I went on with studies, litterature, science politics, management, advertising.


My heart was elsewhere, in my hands. But it was as if, sewing and making littles things was forbidden, it was not considered as important enough to make a living. So I did not listen my heart and hands since for many people (family, boyfriends, and friends) it was only a joke.


Few months ago, on march I have been overwhelmed by a new live I had not decided. I met the right people too that gave me the confidence I lost for years.
I decided to choose my heart and hands and I deeply know that it's the right thing to do. So I dare to try. If I'm not successful, I know I won't be sorry I spent time and money on it.