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]

Aww yes what a good mother's day! The meal sounds delicious, and the cake sure looks it.

The box is looking very nice already, and yeah, would be a shame to glue over the patterns, they're gorgeous.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Scrapbook paper is generally beautiful; unfortunately, it's quite expensive, too. This is not a cheap hobby. :(

The cake is delicious indeed and fairly easy to make. I made it with Cremequark instead of cream cheese, but I don't think there would be such a difference, really.

BTW, I've just realized that I forgot to post the last 8 chapters of Arthur's Quest to hiddenrealms, so I began to correct that error. Chapter 15 has just gone online, in case you're interested (and not too stressed-out to read).

[artemis10002000]

I believe you! I've had crafting hobbies in the past and man, crafts supplies do cost a lot of money. Even now with just knitting/crocheting and such it does pile up, a bundle of wool here and there...

Yay for the new chapters! I do need to catch up to that story!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've just finished posting the whole thing to AO3 as well as to hiddenrealms. Unfortunately, the AO3 crowd isn't very enthusiastic when it comes to comments. Although it's still better than the idiots who did comment on FF.Net, only to tell me what I should write, how I should write and how one of the minor characters (who only showed up in a total of 2 episodes) was completely OOC. *sigh*

[artemis10002000]

You have been very busy indeed! Uploading is such a pain, especially with all the handcoding you have to do.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

True. Fortunately, the greater part of it was already posted to LJ, so I only had to copy&paste it to AO3. The last eight chapters, though, were a real pain. But now the whole stuff is up to both places, so I feel quite accomplished. *g*

[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.