PetitPlat Handmade Miniature Food

New Tutorial - Alice in Wonderland Wonky Cake

2012-05-26T10:16:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone!
I finally finished the wonky cake tutorial, and you can get it on CraftArtEdu.com
You are going to learn how to make the chocolate wonky cake, but I also made the white and pink one to show a variation.

J'ai fini un tutorial en anglais du wonky cake que vous voyez ci-dessous, et vous le trouverez sur CraftArtEdu.com.

Le gâteau rose est une variation suivant le même principe :)

xx
Stéphanie

Itty Bitty Tiny Chocolate Bars

2012-05-25T23:40:00.000+02:00

I had a blast making those tiny chocolate bars. They have all been wrapped in some stiff plastic. I tried to use transparent tape as well, but the result being less good, it was back to folding and gluing the plastic sheet around those tiny chocolate bars :)

I'm going to put some in a display and some are going to be sold loose at the coming fairs, 1:12 Messe and SIMP :)

Je me suis bien amusée à faire ces toutes petites barres de chocolats! Je les ai emballées dans du plastique un peu rigide. J'ai tenté une version avec du scotch, mais le résultat n'était pas probant.

Je vais les mettre dans des petits présentoirs et en vendre aussi à l'unité aux foires de iniatures 1:12 Messe et au SIMP :)

xx
Stéphanie

Miniature Fair Display 2012

2012-05-23T16:48:00.002+02:00

New year, new display. This time I think it's pretty awesome! Because it's... foldable! yaaay! which means easy to carry around. Since I'm going to need about 1 day just to go to the fair in Germany, the 1:12 Messe, "easy to carry around" is a must.
Of course, the same display is going to come to the miniature fair in Paris, the SIMP.

Nouvelle année, nouvelle présentation. Cette fois mon présentoir est top! Car... pliable! Et donc facile à transporter. Comme je vais me taper une journée de voyage pour aller à la foire en Allemagne, 1:12 Messe, "facile à transporter" est une condition à ma survie.
Et le tout viendra également au salon de miniatures à Paris, le SIMP.

Sk.

Istanbul Trip - Shopping and Food

2012-05-22T22:37:00.000+02:00

Since I started to work as "PetitPlat" I met quite a lot of people and got close to some of those over the years.
This year, some of us finally met in Istanbul! An it was a lot of fun! We chatted, laughed, laughed, ate, laughed, ate, walked and saw many things and it was just wonderful!

Pictures of Bazaar and Food

Istanbul Trip - Streets and Building

2012-05-22T22:31:00.002+02:00

Istanbul Trip - Blue Mosque, Haya Sofia and Topkapi Palace

2012-05-22T22:31:00.001+02:00

Blue Mosque / Mosquée Bleue

Haya Sofia / Sainte Sophie

Blue Mosque / Mosquée Bleue

Topkapi Palace / Palais de Topkapi

Et Rond et Rond, Petits Macarons

2012-05-16T22:40:00.000+02:00

I'm off to Istanbul tomorrow and will be back on the 22nd of May. Yaaaaaay!!!
But, but, but, I just listed macarons jewelry. Extra limited edition for the simple reason that I only have 2 hands :) (meaning just 1 pair of each design, I only have several coffee macarons pairs)
So hop, hop in my online shop.

Je pars demain pour Istanbul et serait de retour le 22 Mai youpiiiiiii!!!!

Mais j'ai tout de même mis en ligne des bijoux gourmands macarons . Super limités, vu que je n'ai que 2 mains :) (en gros une paire de chaque modèle et c'est tout - sauf pour les macarons café)

Alors tintiiin dans mon magasin.

Stéph.
p.s.: sorry for the bad rhyme.
Désolée pour la rime pourrie.

Baking Day!

2012-05-15T19:22:00.000+02:00

The good thing with miniature fairs is that I get to do a lot of miniature items and not just minifood jewelry :)
Now of course it makes you mad, 'cause it's not up for sale! But hey, I'm sure you appreciate the pictures ;)
And maybe you can come to the miniature fairs: 1:12 Messe and SIMP

Le bon côté des salons miniatures est que ça me donne l'occasion de faire des miniatures et pas uniquement des bijoux gourmands (rhôôô elle est moche cette phrase!)

Evidemment pour vous c'est pourri, vu que vous ne pouvez rien acheter! Mais je suis sûre que vous appréciez les images ;)

Et peut-être aurez-vous l'occasion de venir aux salons de miniatures : 1:12 Messe et au SIMP :)

xx
Stéphanie

Mussels and Wide-Angle

2012-05-12T22:47:00.000+02:00

Hey :)

We made mussels with crème fraîche today (first time ever!) and they were exquisite ^^
We also went out to Quiberon and tested my new wide-angle lens. But I'm afraid there's some issue on the sharpness on the right side of the pictures. I'm going to ask pros tomorrow if it's me or the lens.

And we dipped our feet in the sea :)

Ou a fait des moules à la crème (pour la première fois!) et elles étaient super bonnes :)

On est également partis à Quiberon pour tester mon nouvel objectif grand angle, mais je crains qu'il y ait un problème avec la netteté sur la droite. Du coup demain je demanderai à des pros si c'est moi ou l'objectif :/

On a aussi trempé nos pieds dans l'eau :)

xx
Stéphanie

Recette des moules

Work in Progress - Baking Day

2012-05-10T14:42:00.000+02:00

Sharing the work in progress via phone pictures. Not beautiful but quick :)
Je partage mon travail en cours via portable. Les photos ne sont pas super, mais c'est rapide :)

Bread Makes Me Happy

2012-05-08T22:41:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone :)

Still busy preparing the 2 upcoming miniature fairs.
1:12 Messe in Germany
SIMP in Paris, France
Today, bread! That you can also find in my online shop :)

Toujours très occupée à préparer les 2 salons de miniatures.
1:12 Messe en Allemagne
SIMP à Paris
Aujourd'hui, le pain! Que vous trouverez également dans mon magasin en ligne :)

And if you want to wear French food, than these are for you :)
Et si vous voulez un look baguette, ces boucles d'oreilles sont pour vous :)

Etsy Has Gone Mad

2012-05-06T21:32:00.002+02:00

Hey everyone!

Youu might know that Etsy has gone terribly wrong these last weeks... and months.I just got a message form a very dear friend who saw her Etsy account closed.
They first e-mailed her to ask her proof that her things are handmade. She answered back and gave all the pictures she could within 24 hours. Still.
Account closed.

4 years are lost.
All her clients are lost.
All the feedback is lost.
AND Etsy was her main income.

She did handmade jewelry. You can see her work here.

I'd like to tell you that this is a first, but unfortunately it's not.

I know of 4 artisans friends who have been investigated by Etsy to check if they were resellers. I'm talking about small shops here that have less than 50 items and are clearly handmade.

Also, recently, Etsy went so far that they featured a reseller on the front page.
And I'm afraid to tell you that they are not breaking any of their rules by doing so, because "resellers" are easily put under the term "collective", which is (intently) very vague.

Now, this is what many of us think Etsy is doing right now:
They want to open their doors to resellers, because resellers sell a lot, thus Etsy is going to earn a lot. They even bought trunkt, a marketplace for wholesale...

So if you have an Etsy shop, please join protesty.com
We are going to close our shop on the 10th of May, as a form of silent protest.

We do not want Etsy to turn into a form of eBay.
We do not want Etsy to close real handmade shops.
We do not want Etsy to keep tons and tons of resellers.
We want Etsy to stay handmade. The real handmade.

Thanks for reading.

Stéphanie

Work, work, work. no... play, play, play :)

2012-05-04T19:26:00.000+02:00

It's all about defining what you do :)
Anyway, first miniature fair is in less than 1 month!!!
Haaaaa! *running around in panick*

Première foire de miniature dans moins d'un mois!!!

Haaaaaaaa! *cours en rond en s'arrachant les cheveux*

Jaaaa ich komme nach Deutschlaaaaand! Yuuuchuuuuu!! Ich freue mich schon, wieder nach Deutschland zu kommen :)
Und die Miniatur Messe ist in weniger als ein Monat!

1:12 Die Messe

2 - 3 June 2012

Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany
Facebook Event

Shop Update - Miniature Food Jewelry / Nouveaux Bijoux Gourmands

2012-05-02T18:00:00.000+02:00

Just a quick note to let you know that I listed a few new donut earrings and waffle studs. I also changed the cookie studs :)
So fresh miniature food jewelry is waiting for you. Hop, hop in my online shop.

Juste un petit billet pour vous dire que j'ai mis à jour mon magasin en ligne. Je viens de mettre en ligne de nouveaux donuts, des gaufres et des cookies :)

Des bijoux gourmands vous attendent avec impatience, du coup, tintiiin, aller dans le magasin.

Short Travel - Nantes - Les Machines de l'Ile

2012-05-01T18:04:00.000+02:00

Today is a holiday which means, BF and I took yesterday off and we went over the WE to Nantes. It was rainy and very wet, so we didn't get to make many outside pictures, but it was fun nonetheless.

We visited Les Machines de l'Ile. Which was awesome! Here some pics :)

Comme c'est férié aujourd'hui, mon copain et moi avons pris une journée de vacances hier et sommes allés à Nantes.
Le temps était très pluvieux, du coup on n'a pas beaucoup de photos d'extérieur mais c'était tout de même génial :)

Nous avons visité Les Machines de l'Ile et c'était fantastique! Voici quelques photos :)

Basically they plan to make a huuuuge fake tree which is going to be walkable and full of wood animals and insects that you can ride. They plan to finish it for 2018. Awesome.

En gros, ils veulent faire un faux arbre gigantesque sur lequel on pourra se balader et où il y aura plein de bestioles en bois qu'on pourra monter. Sortie prévue en 2018.

Here the tree, 1/10 scale / Voici l'arbre au 1/10

Here's their atelier / Voici leur atelier

Here a prototype of a walkable branch! / Voici un prototype d'une branche sur laquelle on peut marcher!

Have a Small Breakfast

2012-04-19T15:46:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone :)

Not home right now, so working on pictures and listing items :D

I've been finishing a few breakfast trays and put some thought in the photographies for once. The goal was to have bright pictures with a sense of scale. Maybe next time I'll add some humor as well :)
You can find the breakfast trays in my online shop.

Je ne suis pas à la maison en ce moment, du coup je travaille sur des images et je mets en ligne :)

J'ai fini quelques plateaux de petit déjeuner et j'ai (pour une fois) réfléchi à la manière de les photographier. Le but était d'avoir des photos sympas avec un sens de la taille. Peut-être que la prochaine fois j'ajouterai une touche d'humour :)
Vous pouvez trouver les petits plateaux dans mon magasin en ligne.

xx
Stéphanie

The Art of Procrastination - Top 10 List

2012-04-11T11:56:00.001+02:00

Oh yes, procrastination is a good thing.
It gets all the boring stuff done.

Sometimes you wake up early, full of energy, you arrive in your atelier and realize you don't want to sculpt/paint/sew/knit/be creative.

Now, that happens quite often, but fear not, my brave little artisans, fear not.
Because in such cases you have a joker : do all the boring stuff that is long overdue.
Here the top 10 list of things to do if you do not want to work, but still want to be productive.

1. Cleaning your Atelier
Most creative people are not tidy when it comes to their working area.
Chaos is good because it helps to create (only fellow artists can understand that sentence I think).
But sometimes it's good to clean everything, sort out broken stuff and remove all the empty cups of coffee/tea/hot chocolate and the remains of cookies.

2. Inventory

Pff... Checking your inventory... Annoying!
Now, that is perfect when you don't want to work, because it makes you feel good to see all the stuff you still have on stock.
And so you can check what needs to be listed online... which brings us toooo...

3. Shooting Star

Photographing all the items that need to be photographed since weeks/months/years (yes years).
Perfect way of avoiding work, while still being extremely useful.
Or you can post-edit the pictures that wait on your computer.
Once you have the pictures, you can...

4. List Stuff

Oh yes, listing items online is booooring as hell. So another wonderful task when you're procrastinating. :)
Once the stuff is listed, yes, what's coming now??

5. Social Networking

Tell everyone!
Be it FB, twitter, Flickr, deviantArt or ahem the rest. That is boring too when you're in full swing to create new items. But when you feel like doing nothing? Perfect!
And marketing is always good :)
6. Prepare your Packaging

Boxes to stamp or to decorate? Business cards to make? Tiny cards to make?
Gift paper to pre-cut? I'm sure there's a lot to deal here too. I know there always is here.

7. Buy Supplies

:) not a boring task at all. Buying supplies is fun! Just be careful not to spent everything on supplies ;)

8. Blogging

Maybe you love to blog, so this won't be an issue, but most artisans prefer to create, than to talk about how and what they create. So blogging is somewhat a painful (but necessarily) activity to yell to the world that you exist and to show what you're up to.
(like me right now)

9. Read blogs/interesting websites

Once you've done all the boring stuff, use your time to get creative again.
Staying up to date with what's happening in the creative world is helpful to get you back on track and to motivate you.

10. Deal with your Home

If after all this you still don't feel the urge to create things, attack your home: laundry, cooking, cleaning, ... should get sufficiently on your nerves to make you wish to go back to your atelier :)

Hope that'll cheer you up :)
And what do you do when you don't feel like working?

Fruit Tarts on Sale!

2012-04-10T22:53:00.002+02:00

Yup.
On sale. On Etsy. NOW.
(listing them right now before heading off to bed)
Cause I'd like to get rid of the old bottom tarts to only have improved new ones.

Paf!
Toutes les anciennes tartes en solde sur Etsy.
Go! Go! Go! (à nous le magot)

Below new vs. old
Ci-dessous, nouvelle version vs. ancienne version

xx
Stéphanie

Painted Shoes - Candy Sweet :)

2012-04-09T20:20:00.002+02:00

Hey everyone!

I had a blast yesterday and today while painting shoes!
I got cheap fabric shoes from H&M and painted them with setacolor form Pebeo then fixed everything with a hair-dryer (I had to buy one just for that purpose XD)

Anyway, I'm pleased as punch with the result. :)

Je me suis amusée comme une petite folle hier et aujourd'hui à peindre ces chaussures!
J'ai acheté des tennis pas chères chez H&M, puis je les ai peintes avec setacolor de pebeo et ensuite fixé les couleurs au sèche-cheveux (j'ai du acheter un sèche-cheveux pour cette occasion XD)

Bref, je suis toute jouasse. Elles sont trop choupis :)

xx
Stéphanie

Bracelet Addiction

2012-04-09T11:10:00.000+02:00

Ok.
I admit it.
I have a bracelet addiction, especially when summer is arriving.
Oh and Happy Easter :)

Moi et les bracelets, une grande histoire d'amour :)
Surtout en été *___*
Et Joyeuses Pâques!

Goodies: teal button cuff / bracelet bouton - P8 Button Art, watch/montre - Marrianne Watches, donut bracelet - me / moi. All the rest with DIY instructions on / tout le reste avec l'aide de Honestly WTF

Busy, busy!

2012-04-03T09:56:00.000+02:00

Hey Everyone!

It's been ages I haven't written in my blog. Here a quick explanation why:
- 3 wholesale orders to finish
- 10 days of trip to see family + 5 friends
- a stupid cold caught in dirty Paris
- a drama play to learn (a very short one, I'll be on stage for about 15 minutes)
- approaching Easter = tons of orders

Pffiou, ça fait un bail que je n'ai pas écrit sur ce blog!

Voilà une explication succincte :

- 3 commandes de boutiques à finir

- 10 jours de voyages pour rendre visite à ma famille + 5 amis

- un rhume stupide venant de Paris, la crasseuse

- une pièce de théâtre à apprendre (juste une petite scène d'environ 15 minutes)

- Pâques = pleins de commandes

But, but, but! Since I thought of you during aaaall that time I took pics :)

Mais, mais, mais! Comme j'ai pensé à vous tout le temps, j'ai aussi fait des photos :)

Here some work in progress in my atelier :)

Mon atelier dans sa propreté légendaire :

And here some spring feeling in the Palmengarten in Frankfurt/Main.

Un peu de printemps au Palmengarten à Francfort/Main.

Oh and I forgot to show you our latest sushi :D

Oh et nos derniers sushis!

xx
Stéphanie

Improved Fruit Tart Jewelry

2012-03-07T23:02:00.000+01:00

Hey everyone!

As I hinted a few weeks ago, I'm changing all my fruit tart bases.
So here some updated versions and also some new fruit combinations :)

Otherwise, there's still more pastel coming up and as well a new cookie range and tons of new bracelets! Yaay! 'Cause summer = bare arms = bracelets.
But I'm too busy with wholesale orders right now, so it has to wait :)
The fruit tart collection is available in my online shop
and also on Etsy and Dawanda.
Which also means the old ones have to go and I put them on sale.

Comme je l'ai indiqué il y a quelques semaines, je change toutes les bases de mes tartes aux fruits. Donc voici les nouvelles versions ainsi que des nouvelles combinaisons de fruits :)

Il y a aussi de nouvelles choses pour la collection pastel et toute une floppée de cookies, et aussi des bracelets! Car été = bras nus = bracelets!

Mais je travaille sur des commandes de boutiques en ce moment, du coup je manque de temps :)

La collection tartes et tartelettes de fruits est disponible sur petitplat.fr

et aussi sur Etsy et Dawanda
Ce qui signifie que les vieux modèles sont en soldes :)

xx
Stéphanie

Finished Black Forest Cake

2012-03-04T22:54:00.001+01:00

Hey everyone!

I forgot to show you the final result of the black forest cakes so here you go :)
We had a fabulous day yesterday and went to Auray where I fell in love with Henriette Gorbitz work. I especially liked what I call her "tree-leaves". We had a nice chat :)

J'ai complètement oublié de vous montrer le résultat final des forêts noires, voici le résultat :)

Sinon, on a passé une journée fantastique à Auray hier où je suis tombée sous le charme du travail d'Henriette Gorbitz et surtout des ces "arbres-feuilles". :)

Get the miniature black forest cakes in my online shop.
Les gâteaux miniatures "forêts noires" sont disponibles dans mon magasin en ligne.

xx
Stéphanie

Braided Bracelets

2012-02-28T20:29:00.000+01:00

Sometimes I need a creative break.
So I do stuff.
Today, I did some braided bracelets, following this Honestly WTF DIY.

Parfois j'ai besoin d'un break créatif.

Alors je fais des trucs.

Aujourd'hui c'était des bracelets, suivant les instructions de Honestly WTF.

xx
Stéphanie

Rainbow Cake - Gâteau Arc-en-Ciel

2012-02-27T09:27:00.000+01:00

Hey :)

I made four pastel rainbow cakes and decorated them in 4 different ways.
Three of them have been decorated with colored bead lines and one with big confettis.
I placed every single bead or confetti one by one with a toothpick on the cake. This long and hard work resulted in 4 very fun and modern looking cakes :)

J'ai confectionné quatre gâteaux arc-en-ciel dans les tons pastels. Chaque gâteau a une décoration différente.

Trois gâteaux miniature arc-en-ciel sont décorés avec des lignes composées de perles colorés. Un gâteau a été décoré avec des gros confettis. J'ai déposé chaque perle ou confetti un à un sur le gâteau à l'aide d'un cure-dent. Un travail long et fastidieux pour un résultat très moderne :)

Get the cakes in my online shop
Les gâteaux sont disponibles dans mon magasin en ligne

xx
Stéphanie