How Sweet It Is
What is it about pink frosting that makes sweets so appealing? This cookie, which was rather large enough to share with three of my family members, was a sample I ordered ($5.95 shipping included) from a lovely little etsy shop. It was an experiment in search of something wonderful to put on the dessert table for my grandmother’s 75th birthday soiree. I think we may end up ordering enough to give as favors instead, though in butterfly form.
To see the lovely little confections visit lorisplace on etsy. She has all kinds of baked goodies, but her favor cookies are just beautiful. They also come in varied themes. For my grandmother we plan on ordering butterflies. She has Mother’s Day gift assortments. Come Father’s Day, I’ll bet she’ll have some for that too! I like giving edible gifts to family members who have limited household space. They get a very lovely gift and they don’t have to find a place to store it!
Jade got some lovely flowers for her birthday from Ken and his family. Or maybe they were just from her beau Ken. We got her flowers to give her after a performance of Seussical the Musical, in which she was an ensemble member. She also got a nice bunch from a friend of ours too. It was a very sweet gesture. As the flowers died I would combine them into different containers. One of my favorite containers to put flowers into is an old fahsioned Ball jar. The below image includes some crazy cool stripey roses that Ken gave her. In the photo below that is what the bunch looked like as certain flowers began to die off.
The flowers we bought Jade faded the fastest. Why, you might ask yourself? Why oh why? Well, I cut their stems nice and tidy, picked the perfect vase for them and put them in the center of a freshly cleaned table. When I woke up the next morning they looked wilty. I was much dismayed that the store had obviously given me a lousy bunch of old flowers. I marched over to the table and picked the vase up and notice that I had forgotten to put water in it! The poor flowers were dying of thirst and it was ALL MY FAULT!
In keeping with the Seussical theme of the weeks surrounding Jade’s birthday, we ordered a fun little cake from Charles St. Bakery. I just said, “Gimme some stripes and polka dots in bright colors.” They did it on one day’s notice too. WOO HOO!
I stopped by the bakery this morning to meet a new pal and ran into two old pals who came in at different times during our visit. New pal Kendall asked, “Heather, do you know everybody?” And older pal Debra said that I did. I laughed. On the way home I thought of my first friend I’d made when I moved to Maryland. Sherry befriended me a few months after I moved here. I was pretty lonely and insulated with Robert gone at work all day, no car and little cash. I was homeschooling my daughters and we spent most of each day reading, doing crafts, watching shows and movies and playing games. Anyway, Sherry was doing work for a local community theatre. She was tying up loose ends on a show she was directing and she needed somebody to help paint the set. I had been poking around the internet looking for something to do and somehow we connected. I think it was the next day, she picked up my kids and me and took us to the theatre. I painted some designs on the set having no idea what the heck I was doing. She was very nice and encouraging. I’d never done set painting in my life, but I was very happy to have something creative to do besides what came in kid’s craft books. Sherry immediatly took me under her wing. She toted my little clan around town a couple of times and every place we went somebody knew her. I thought that was so cool. She is a good friend and now her daughter, who grew up alonside my oldest, is a regular fixture in our house – a sort of extended family member. And just like that, I had a friend. From that friendship the world opened a bit more. Sherry’s goddessy energy really made me feel inspired.
While at the bakery I had a lovely buttery apple poundcake slice. It was a resonable slice and my lungs have been doing quite well, so I’ve allowed myself a little bit of dairy here and there. I still am using soy milk all the time though. There are only three tables in the tiny bakery, but it’s got such a nice “small-town” feel to it.
Robert is doing a 5K walk for hospice in St. Mary’s tomorrow. I’m very proud of him. I think when I am done writing this I will go give him squishes and kisses.
Billy boy is putting on a Monty Python – maybe I ought to go spend some time with him now.
Those are sweet things in life too, don’t you think? Doing a good deed. Snuggling on the couch and watching something silly. Nibbling on pretty cookies. Making new friends. All wonderful sweet bits of life.
I am missing a party at a fabulous friend’s house tonight. I sure hope they are having fun! All the little puzzle pieces didn’t fall into place for me tonight Christiana – sorry! Have tons of fun without me and thank you *so much* for the invite. That was sweet too!
Tomorrow I hope to get the studio humming! I’ll keep ya posted! Hey, remind me to tell you about all the Alice in Wonderlandy things going on around me. And the Snow White stuff I plan on doing!
An admirer from Belgium