A year ago I bought a book of recipes. French recipes to be exact. I blogged about the book arriving in the mail here. And I said I was going to be making one of the recipes ASAP. As soon as possible turned into a year later. And it was a French recipe I will be making again – hopefully before another year goes by 😀
My oldest daughter was our only daughter for 4 and a half years before her little sister came along. When I had birthday parties for her I went all out – planning weeks and sometimes a couple months in advance. I loved getting all the details in place and creating a fun party. Daughter number 2 had a few parties with all the details and daughter number 3 had a couple – well, maybe one! Somehow my stamina for getting all those fun details together waned as I got busier and had more kids to take care of.
This past weekend I was privileged to help out a friend who was putting together a fun, detailed birthday party for her little 1 year old. My friend had all the details and crafty fun made, the decor items gathered, and she just wanted a bit of help getting it all set up. I was delighted to help out – and I took my camera so I could share!!
When I created a tablescape a couple weeks ago, for the sole purpose of photographing it for a blog post, my 3 girls wanted to eat at the fancy set table. Never mind that we were having leftovers for supper instead of a fancy dinner, they thought we should eat there. And since typically you set a table to be dined upon I can’t really blame them! They weathered it well when I insisted it was just for a photo shoot and even left it all intact for the few days before I took it all apart and put everything away so I could use the table for sewing projects.
I did decide that it would be a shame to not set a nice fancy table for Easter – even though it would just be the 5 of us here, and it sounded easier to just eat in the kitchen like always.
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, in this post, the things we had for a birthday meal. Our meat was called ‘Sticky Chicken’ and I had several people ask for the recipe. And I am finally posting it here for you! It’s a yummy one.
Cake pops are nothing new – they’ve been around blogland and pinterest for a while now. I’ve had them before and thought them seriously yummy every time. But I’d never made them. So in a way they ARE new to me – at least the making of them is 😀
On a recent trip to Jo-Ann Fabrics I happened to spot the Wilton’s Lollipop sticks and grabbed a bag to have on hand. Cause you can’t make cake pops without sticks. Well, you can, but then they would be cake balls not cake pops and if you want them to be real cake pops you must have the sticks. So I bought some sticks. Just in case I had a make-some-cake-pops moment.
