Mother's Day celebrations

[wiseheart]

After the insanity that is spring's house cleaning yesterday, Mum and I spent a quiet day together. I cooked a somewhat more festive meal - asparagus ragout with chicken breast stripes and buttered noodles, as well as a soup from the cooking water of the asparagus and a mixed salad - and baked a white chocolate cheesecake, inspired by the re-runs of The Great British Bake Off. Mary Berry made a similar cake, and I was lucky enough to find the recipe online.

This is the end result:



I have to replace the raspberries because they're insanely expensive yet and would cost more than the whole cake altogether, and there was something wrong with the cake bottom - most likely the biscuits were grated too finely - but I'm fairly content with the results anyway.

I wanted to buy Mum some tulips because those are her favourite flowers, but the ones I could have got were already wilted, so I gave her a tin of pineapples instead, in gift wrapping, and she was happy with them. At least those would last longer than wilted flowers. *g*

Currently, I'm also working on a shabby chic explosion box for one of my beloved colleagues. It's supposed to be done by Teacher's Day, meaning that I've got about 3 weeks to finish it, and all children from her class will sign the tabs. I hope she'll like it.

Here are some pictures from the parts that are done so far:

https://hu.pinterest.com/ekunster/my-journals-cards/explosion-boxes/

Unlike the Kerala box I did last time, this has a greater variety of techniques. I used shutter cards, folding cards and the likes to decorate it, but I'm still trying not to overdo them because the papers I use are beautiful and it would be a shame to glue over the patterns with some "clever" desings.

Comments

[artemis10002000]

I feel you. I just realized it's been half a year or so since I cross-posted to FFN and since uploading there is always a pain for me, with FFN eating my coding, I'm dreading it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's odd! I never had any problems with FF.Net. The only thing it eats are the asterisks, but it does that for everyone. The main reason why I still post to FF.Net is because I can simply upload the files as I've created them with Word.

[artemis10002000]

That's how it is with me and AO3. But FFN is a giant pain it eats everything.