Lunes Bijoux offers Polymer Clay Products

For those polymer clay addicts lurking out there I am now pleased to announce that we stock a relatively full range of polymer clay products….fimo, premo sculpey & some stunning tools studio by sculpey.
For more information see my website!
Speaking of which it has a new colour scheme and a modified layout…..hope you like it!

Now - [...]

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What are you doing this Sunday?

This Sunday (6 April) is my first organised event as Art & Culture President. We have 30 exhibitors in total. It’s a wonderful feeling knowing that we have by far exceeded our desired number (18)!
Here is the list with website information where possible:

Alarcon Nathalie
Mosaïques
http://www.e-monsite.com/talymosaique/

Amiel Jean-Claude
Tableaux peinture

Barrot Claudine
Tableaux [...]

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Blowing my own trumpet!

With the studio complete my thoughts can now turn to classes & teaching. It’s funny how I seem to have gone full circle in my teaching capacity. Although teaching someone how to create a piece of jewellery or art object is slightly different from A Level French & Language Consultancy etc.,
The classes at Lunes Bijoux [...]

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Happy Birthday - 1 year old today

The European Polymer Clay People Forum is 1 year old today! I launched this forum as a way of highlighting & supporting polymer clay artists based primarily in Europe. Membership is free.
The forum currently has over 300 members with 2929 posts and 410 topics.
In December last year we completed our first International Bead Swap [...]

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Wow a first for me!

Many thanks to Susie at No damn blog for honouring me with my very first award!
  I am going to pass this award on to Matt & Angela of Two Yolks a fab blog dedicated to their culinary experiences! And also to Kristin at French Word-A-Day such a great blog to read, shame it’s only [...]

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Chicken & Apricot Tagine

I love trying out new recipes and often follow a hunch I have for something mixing flavours and textures to suit.
The following recipe is my own “concoction”. It serves 6 people

You will need

6 chicken portions
3 lemon confit
garlic
ginger
ras el hanout
1.5 litres of chicken stock
2 medium onions
4 large tomatoes
1 can of chick peas
handful of dried apricots
3 [...]

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Cream of cauliflower soup with crispy onions

 

This is one of Gordon Ramsay’s recipes with a slight adjustment! Instead of using mushrooms I used onions and garlic croutons.

You will need

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What’s cooking?

We have friends coming for dinner tonight. Manon Lily’s “guardians” from Domaine de Meilhac and a wonderful ceramiste & her partner from Gruissan Plage. The culinary thinking cap has been on for a while. I only have to cook two courses as Céline has offered a dessert.
So I have decided to make a cream [...]

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We have finally set the date!

After much deliberation the date has been set for our first “Rencontre de l’art et des Saveurs” at Luc Sur Orbieu. Having taken over the role of President of the Arts & Culture section I seemed to have a bit of a battle on my hands convincing other committee members (all male 50 some things) [...]

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