:-)

Recently I acquired:

3 different fabrics

2 concert tickets

1 plane ticket 

Me happy :-D

That time of the year

It's that time of the year again.

It's sewing time:

It's crafting time:

It's woodworking time:

 

 

And it was totally worth it :-)

National day of culture

This year I celebrated the National cultural holiday abroad, in Ravenna, Italy.

Casually walking around mosaics dating from the year 450.

Yes, 450.

They did have a questionable fashion sense back then...

 

But with this calendar they could predict Easter for the years 532 to 626.

 

 

Plenty of new mosaics around the town.

 

And other sorts of modern art as well :-)

Reupholstering kitchen chairs

After ten years, the kitchen chairs really needed new fabrics.

And as you can guess by now, I am not a beige person.

 

So the chairs are no longer brown and beige, they are brown, yellow and green :-)

 

More cakes!

Another weekend, another birthday party, so more delicious food.

It started on Friday already by celebrating the Candlemas with tons of pancakes.

And continued on Saturday with fondue, empanadas and more cakes.

To be more precise, one raspberry-white chocolate-almond tart and one tiramisu.

They were both super delicious but surprisingly, eating them together was even better :-)

And you can also notice the green paper napkins with wild boars. They were brought especially for this occasion from Chambord castle in the Loire Valley.

And there were candles! One cannot properly celebrate birthday without blowing out the birthday candles, right?

 

And yes, there were a lot of them. Oh well...

Cakes

One needs a proper cake for a birthday.

Especially if 20 people are invited. Then one needs more than just one proper cake.

So I made three cakes. 

One was the standard carrot cake, the one I always bake for myself. 

And the other two, well, they were Christophe Michalak's cakes.

No less.

The one in the front is this coconut-orange-passion-fruit cake. This one was almost perfect. Methinks. I even got the microbasil!

The other one was this chocolate-raspberry tart. I had some issues with assembly as I could not transfer the filling onto the sable. So I just turned it upside down ... 🤷 Oh well... But the tastes were super intense and delicious.

Away

Sooo, we've been away.

In France.

Quelle surprise!

 It was beautiful - as it always is.

Despite troubles with our car.

Despite me feeling sick.

Despite the rain. 

Despite having to leave one day earlier.

But for once I did not regret returning home as this is what awaited me at home:

:-D