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pop-a-porter web shop launch

written by patricia

Last Friday, Kim Welling answered my question :

I finished my shop and now it’s time to let the world know about it… Do you have tips for a successful launch?

She gave me a lot of good advices,

how to contact bloggers

I already have an appointment with

Giova from

One bunting away,

You can read all the good tips from Kim on how to launch a web-shop

on her blog.

Thank you so much kim,

I felt so happy to see my work featured on someone else blog.

My web-shop,

pop-a-porter.com

will officially open on November 15

For this occasion I will offer

10% discount

from 22 nov till 22 dec

with the code: web-shop launch

enjoy it !

November 11, 2013 0 comment

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the artichoke brooch

written by patricia

Yes ! My artichoke brooch is finished !

The brooch is made from

dyed felt,

painted wood carefully varnish,

and silver pins.

the brooch is

8.5 x 11 cm

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The brooch comes from

an handmade mini -serie of 9 pieces,

every piece being slightly different from the others,

each brooch is unique !

The first model is now available at

My web-shop

November 5, 2013 0 comment

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Dutch Design Week part 2

written by patricia

After the klokgebouw, we went to the Van Abbemuseum, (we thought it was the graduate but actually it was an exibition inspired by the graduation, the graduation show was at the witte dame.)

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November 4, 2013 0 comment

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Dutch Design Week part 1

written by patricia

Last week , I visited the Duch Design Week 2013 in Eindoven. It was crowded … Here is some pictures I like to share with you
at the klokgebouw :

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Theo Herfkens

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November 1, 2013 0 comment

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I loved so much the recipe of the chocolate entremets from La super superrette, that has become a regular at our home…
remember my post about it ? http://www.patriciathomazo.com/2013/07/15/the-chocolate-entremets/

So when I saw a recipe about the chocolate cake like papy brossard® , ( famous brand in France when I was a child ). I had to try it.
so from:

L’AÏEUL, FAÇON BROWNIE BROSSARD®

find the post here

Here the promise result :

and here is my result:

impressive isn’t it ? I also got the crackled on top !

I was very pleased 🙂

you notice that I pimped the recipe with macadamia nuts bits and chocolates.

So here the traduction of their recipe ( if you don’t speak French )

you need :

– 90 g flower

– 160 g brown sugar (but I used white because it was in my cupboard)
– 3 eggs
– 75 ml colza oil (but I used sunflower, same reason as above)
– 200 dark chocolate (I got a packet of 500 g of little melting cocolate’s chips wich is the basic packet at the chocolate/nuts stand on ‘my’ market. So I used 120g that I melted according receiped and the rest that I sprinkeld in the cake. According to tips, I putted them in the freezer during the preparation to avoid complete melt during cooking the baking. And it worked 🙂

– 2 spoonful of cacao powder
– a good pinch of salt.

Recipe:

Preheat oven to 180 ° C. In a bowl, mix eggs, sugar, oil, cocoa powder and salt.

Melt 120g chopped chocolate gently in the pan in the microwave or in a bain-marie. Add it to the above mixture and stir well. Add the flour. (I did it little by little of course)

Now, cut the chocolate chips with the remaining (frozen) 80 g of chocolate. Mix with the dough. (also add the pimped nuts if you want to. )

Pour into a buttered and floured or covered with aluminium foil and bake for about 15 minutes mold, should not it be soooo dry! (oh it isn’t trust me with the oil, the extra chocolate and the tree eggs , it is a rich cake, and just the perfect moist ! )

October 21, 2013 0 comment

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bouquet week 43

written by patricia

I bought this vase at the woonbeurs

at the 101 woonideeën shop

and because it is a chemist inspired vase,

I decided to make a little experiment.

I putted some food colourant in the water

to see if the flowers are changing colours…

🙂

October 21, 2013 0 comment

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woonbeurs Amsterdam

written by patricia

Last week I visited the woonbeurs in Amsterdam ,

happy to get some inspiration…

so what where the trends ? starting with the 101woonideen stand

* Botanical chic *

I discovered you can buy these on the 101 shop

* Retro feelings *

* Geometric & facet fantastic *

☞stand 101 woonideen

origami lamp

boxes from House Doctor available online at wehkamp

from Musthave

from Bloomville

from Pepe Heykoop

* products from Hay were VERY popular *

http://www.hay.dk/

* Long bench kitchen table

with shelves on the side *

from the Arianne at home stand

* One of my favorite stand *

☞ the vitra stand, stand out for me, with their bold choice of colours and this good mix of modern & retro.

> I love love love this chair, mixing colours, modern geometric shapes with a retro feeling.

Can you spot the HAY product ?

some more facet item…

and at last:

* The cactus *

which were everywhere ( and I’m not complaining )

the big ones from the More Than Classical stand

also some at the 101 woonideen stand:

I couldn’t find back all the credit, next time will be better I promise 🙂

yes Dutch design week in Eindoven is coming very soon …

October 11, 2013 0 comment

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hortus botanicus leiden

written by patricia

The hortus leiden is the oldest botanical garden and one of the oldest garden in the world…

I just visited for the first time, here are some pictures for you to enjoy too !

You can celebrate weddings at the hortus,
and for this event some owls were rented !

owls are moving their head very fast
and I didn’t read the chapter for speed settings on my new camera at that time…

a baby one , 20 cm height !

then we went into the warm glasshouse

unfortunately my camera didn’t liked it so much…
I couldn’t do any more pictures there
way to much steam!

*** the plants nursery***

Into the nursery, which is open to visitors

Little orchid

they have a lot of tubes hanging on where the plants grown

Did you also study this plant at school ?
In the biology class, I had to take some spores from the polypode plant
look at it thought a microscope
and draw the cell on a white page .
It was a special drawing white page that fits my small ring binder,
the ones you use only in the biology class.
( the other page were all squared )
Of course , I’d loved that , making the drawings and the caption..

***back outside***

Outside in the garden, in the pond
I have the same plant on my balcony,
slightly smaller 🙂

***In the vegetable garden***

the artichoke of course,

yes a chickpea plant.
I had absolutely no idea it looked like that.

***the cactus, fat plants***

May be this one is the ‘guinea pig’ for making cactus cuttings
( I try once at home but it didn’t work, my cactus piece went try and made no roots)
Did you successfully multiply cactus ?