Happy Pink Saturday with Vanilla Lemon-Lemonade Cupcakes for Father's Day....

Today I'm connecting with Beverly at HowSweetTheSound for Pink Saturday.  Be sure to follow my link to her blog for more Pink participants.

I've been experimenting with recipes and found a delightful vanilla cupcake recipe that has lemon zest and lemonade. Hence it is a Vanilla Lemon-Lemonade cupcake. It requires extra mixing and buttermilk and carefully folding in stiff egg whites. To the buttercream frosting I added both lemon zest and pink lemonade so its lovely.

See how pretty in my covered cake stand....all the Pinkness...

 The colour was slightly pink but I added some pink colouring nevertheless.

My peers at work are helpful, enthusiastic tasters and they agreed it was yummy so I'm keeping it.

I made wrappers from dollar store doilies and they add a sweet touch. 
 I found the template here.

I made 2 dozen so I'll take some to the cottage and Marc and I can enjoy them over Father's Day as well.  They are PINK but  I couldn't make BLUE lemonade cupcakes.  I guess I could have chosen a different flavour...hmmmmm....but I so wanted to make these.  He'll like them no matter what colour.

Happy Father's Day to all father's out there....to my dear Son Geoff who is a fabulous daddy to Madeline...and to my Loving father who although it has been just over 5 years since he passed away I will think and remember dearly on Father's Day and to Marc a Happy Father's Day....

 Have a beautiful weekend... Judi xoxo

Pink Saturday Baking and a Mailing

I haven't been able to participate in Pink Saturday for a while but I do like to visit other participants.

Those of you who follow my blog know that Beverly from How Sweet The Sound the gracious host of Pink Saturday won my Giveaway last week which was 1 dozen of my decorated sugar cookies.  You can see more at my Etsy shop SweetCreations by Judi.
Beverly told me her favourite colours were yellow and of course PINK I thought it would be only fitting to participate THIS Saturday.
Its been a busy Pink kind of week actually.  I baked cookies...decorated pink ones for a little baby girl's shower. 

It was a "Foodie" type of shower and the request was for teapots....

I packaged some of the teapots because they will be favours guests will take home...

and cupcakes some with sprinkles....

and sweet little cakes....

and I added an extra cookie...a  Pink Carriage.

I also made some Cake Pops for another event..see there are some pink ones...

and I  baked Beverly's cookies which are going into the mail on Saturday.  Which leads me to the next subject.

I have to tell you U.S. postal service is quicker AND less expensive than in Canada.   We take advantage of U.S. postal service when we order online.  When I go to the Rockledge cottage in NY State each weekend I never know what someone in my family has ordered that I'll be taking back across the border.

I've been greeted with a huge dog crate, gun holsters (for my policeman son), Wii games, book on how to build a bat house, tape for taping the doberman's ears, batteries for whatever, military sleeping bags, a fancy shaver, camping stoves to name a few.....

Now I wanted to show you what Beverly won at my Giveaway...Pink.....well...I CAN'T show you right now because she might be peeking...but I can show you the outside of the box and the PINK on it which will go into the mail tomorrow morning.  I hope you enjoy your cookies Beverly.

I hope you all enjoy your weekend....Judi xoxo

PINK Saturday

What a lovely PINK Saturday it is! Be sure to visit Beverly at HowSweetTheSound. I know you will enjoy all the wonderful PINK participants. Happy PINK Day!

I'm sharing some pictures from the cottage. These are actually our neighbours' Georgia and Bob's flowers.

Flowering close to the ground...

PINKyred and spikey..

Every year their flower gardens grow. The perennials get larger and more full of beauty and new plants are introduced in pots and in the gardens. Lovely to watch from where we sit.

On another day...thats not limited to PINK I'll share more of their lovely flower gardens.

Hope you are having a great PINK Saturday... Judi xoxo

PINK Saturday - Apple Fritters

Beverly is hosting PINK Saturday. Be sure to check out her site and look at all the other PINK Saturday participants. Visit her here http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ I hope she's feeling better and recovering quickly....

A couple of weeks ago I made some apple fritters. You can find the recipe here. Instead of using powdered sugar I mixed white sugar with cinnamon and after frying the fritters I rolled them in that. I also did not put the apples into rings but rather smaller sized chunks.

I had some very yummy empire apples that I put into the batter...

fried very carefully in a large pot....

I let them sit on a plate with paper towels for a moment and then it was time for the sugar and cinnamon.... and served on my PINK 2-tier plate.

This is a before and after picture of the plate...


Its a very yummy recipe... Enjoy... Judi xoxo

PINK Saturday

Happy PINK Saturday. Visit Beverly at HowSweetTheSound for all the blogging friends posting about the pretty PINKness in their lives.

The day before Valentine's we celebrated Marc's daughter Janet's 30th Birthday. I think these cakes are so neat having a picture right on the cake. See the PINK icing on the cake? She is having a good laugh over something in the picture.

This is a teapot I picked up a while back. You know how I love teapots (well now you know) and how I like to make something out of them? This one has pretty PINK on it. Well this one is just about ready. I just a bit of help from one of my guys then it'll be done. Knowing me can you guess what it will be?

These are a pair of PINK earrings I've made. They are in my Pinkdaisies Etsy shop. Everytime I look at them (even in the photo) I just want to eat them....they are so smoooooothh...

Isn't this a pretty heart shaped PINK box? I had to pick this up recently because I thought it was just so pretty. I having found a use for it yet...but I will....

I hope all the PINK in your day makes you happy.... Judi xoxo

PINK Saturday Broken Heart....China Heart...

Happy PINK Saturday and thank you to Beverly HowSweettheSound for hosting this PINKness day. You will have such a great day as you click on all the other PINK participating ladies linked at her blog. Have fun and don't forget to leave a comment.

Today I'm sharing a broken china heart I made this past week. It is on a round wooden piece. I used 2 different floral china and then some green tiles. It would be lovely for Valentine's Day I thought but seeing as I made it after that I decided it would be such a cute chic piece any day.

It was so fun to make I can't wait to make another one. I am sending this to someone who is special to me. I'm not going to tell you who she is because she apparently sometimes pops in and I don't want to spoil the surprise.

Have a very chic PINK Saturday... Judi xoxo

HAPPY PINK SATURDAY - MOSAIC Tray

Its PINK Saturday again hosted by the mostest Beverly from HowSweetTheSound. Be sure to click back to Beverly to see all the other PINK participants today.

Today I'm showing you the PINKness of the mosaic broken china wooden tray I have almost completed. I used 2 different patterned china. I have to say it was a bit easier doing the cutting and piecing this time, easier than the last, first time. I've finished up the mosaic part and I've

primed it with white paint. Unfortunately I just can't finish painting it right now so that I could show it complete for this Saturday. But I think you can imagine it'll look better with one more coat of white paint. This seems to be the kind of project that you work on sort of holding your breath and hoping at the end it will be alright. I haven't been able to tell yet while working on it.

See all the prettyness PINKness in the plates even though they are broken?

I've added a new picture today because I decided to put my Target birdies into it along with my napkin holder. They are sitting at the table so proudly in their new tray....

The Draw for my Giveaway will be tomorrow morning....See Sidebar to enter....

Happy PINK Saturday...have a great day! ... Judi xoxo

Happy PINK Saturday - Precious Moment

****I'm having a Giveaway...see my Sidebar****

Thank you Beverly from How Sweet The Sound for hosting PINK Saturday. Be sure to click on her name to visit all the other PINK participants sharing so many different PINKnesses...


I should be saving this post for Mother's Day but I'm having a precious moment right now so I'm sharing on PINK Saturday. My 2 sons were 20 and 16 when their father and I separated and we moved out. My sons and I were always very close however that time was difficult for us all and when Richard was 18 he moved out. He was 19 when he moved to the west coast to British Columbia and lived with my brother. When he was 20 he came back for Geoff's wedding and he stayed home... *big smiles*.

On Mother's Day while he was away he emailed me a card he had made. I will always remember how I felt that moment as I read his beautiful words to me. It touched me very deeply and I wished I could have given him a big hug that moment.

Now 9 years later I've pulled the card from my treasures and placed it in a frame tonight. I'm going to decorate the outside of the frame and show it to you another time. You can see the pretty PINK flowers in the picture part of the card.


I've put a recent picture of us (before losing my 20 lbs). Richard is the son on the far left Geoff is in the middle. Click on the first picture so you can read Rich's words.

Happy PINK Saturday...may it be a precious one for you too.... Judi xoxo

Pink Saturday - PINK Lady and Blue Boy

HAPPY PINK SATURDAY

On BLUE Monday I posted about the BLUE Boy framed embroidery I just put up. I told you about the lovely gift I received about 23 years ago (yikes I was hardly born!). Read that post to find out more about the story.

Today on PINK Saturday hosted by Beverly from HowSweetTheSound I'm showing you PINK Lady the pair to the Blue Boy. Isn't she beautiful. Hard to imagine someone could take all the necessary time to embroider something so lovely.

She made the face features much finer. She almost looks painted doesn't she?

I'm so happy I took the pair out of storage and finally hung them up. I'm loving them.

Now be sure to click above on Beverly's name to take you to view all the other PINK Saturday participants.

Have a lovely PINK day... happy... Judi xoxo

PINK Saturday - Santa Clause Parade.....Madeline and her Dad

Today is PINK Saturday hosted by Beverly from HowSweetTheSound. All kinds of pretty PINKnesses happening today. Be sure to click on her site to visit all the other Participants.

Last Sunday was the Toronto Santa Claus Parade which is held in downtown Toronto. We live about an hour north but Madeline my granddaughter was able to go watch it with her mom and other grandparents.

Geoff my eldest son, Madeline's dad was working the parade and was able to spend a moment with Madeline. Madeline is wearing a happy smile and her PINK jacket. It was a lovely bright, sunny warm day and not at all the weather we could be having that could very well have included snow. This was a nice moment for both.


I hope you have a very lovely day too... Judi xoxo

PINK Saturday - English China Lamp and Donny

Today is another PINK Saturday hosted by Beverly from HowSweetTheSound. Its a fun day to show off and visit other PINK participants. Be sure to click on her site and visit the other PINKness. Enjoy.

Remember a few months ago I showed you some of my English china finds?

The lovely English teapot with the deep PINK and red roses and the sugar bowl with PINK and yellow roses and the cup and saucer with PINK roses? I showed some of you that I had put them together, wired it and added a shade. How the lovely pieces became a floral lamp? I had intended on putting it into my etsy shop right away and I finally remembered it set aside in a box. It needed a nice home to love it. So it went into my shop this week. Here it is for those who didn't see it before.

Do you watch Dancing with the Stars? Donny Osmond has been very busy practising and performing on the Show while travelling back and forth to Vegas to perform at the Flamingo Hotel. We took this picture when we were there in September. See all the PINKness on the outside of the hotel and the PINK sign? Thats a big Donny and Marie Osmond sign.

Have a lovely PINK Saturday! Judi xoxo

PINK Saturday in CA again....

Guess how I know its Saturday today? Well...apart from the fact I don't go to work today and I did yesterday? and don't tomorrow making it a Saturday? Because if you click on here (after you are finished here) you'll be at Beverly from How Sweet The Sound and you'll see so many other PINK Saturday participants!






These pretty flowers were in Monterey. See the pretty PINKs among the blues? What are they called again?























I hadn't realized that the grass would not be lush and green as it is here. That the yards wouldn't have to be mowed because of the grass. While we were walking to our car in Monterey I spotted a totally bare, uncared for front yard (not at all like the rest of the yards) but in the middle stood this beautiful PINK lily. I was afraid of leaving my footprints on the barren, dry earth as I walked to take the picture.

These beautiful hydrangea were growing in a little spot on Alcatraz Island of all places...

What a pretty colour PINK is. Flowers look so femininely, delicately gorgeous in PINK don't they?

I sure hope you are having a really lovely day today... Judi xoxo

Crown and Crumpet ... In Person

Thank you Beverly from How Sweet the Sound for hosting PINK Saturday again for us today. Be sure to click HERE to see all the other PINK participants.

In the March 2009 issue of Romanic Homes - Color Issue I read about this wonderful Tea Salon called the Crown and Crumpet.

I would love to own a sweet place like that. Love love love too! One of those cute little shoppes with tea and crumpets and little sandwiches and scones and biscotti and cute little teapots and napkins and pretty colours and lots of cute little shelves with cute little things for sale. I "in my sparetime" would love to put some of my crafts on some of those pretty little shelves. I would love it.

Marc listened patiently while I shared the pictures in the magazine with him and about all my "fantasies" about it...once again.

While on vacation in SanFrancisco in Girarrardelli Square I took a picture of Marc. I didn't notice at the time but do you see anything familiar on the sign to his right?

mmmmhmmmmmmm...CROWN AND CRUMPET!!! It was THERE from the MAGAZINE ... there in person. When I'd read the article I didn't even know the store was in California never mind San Francisco I just knew it wasn't close to me!

Now do I look excited as I tell Marc to come inside!! A very nice gentleman and I didn't even ask, but it must have been one of the owners lisened as I told him blah blah blah and seen it in Romantic Homes and blah blah ... always wanted a lovely place like this...blah blah...and could I take pictures??!!! He said yes I could. I told him it was for my blog. Can you already see all the PINK?

Look how sweet it is. See all the lovely PINKNESS in there? I love the square red/PINK and white tiles on the floor and the pretty PINK wallpaper and polka dotted PINK tablecloths.

There are shelves are pretty bottles goodies....

They do indeed serve up different menus for Breakfast, Lunch, Afternoon Tea and Evening. The menu looks delish and includes quiche and lovely little sandwiches and scones with jam and of course tea.

There are for sale pretty aprons, cloths, and seeseeteapots and cups and well you can see for yourself. They also had lovely wrapped candies and treats of different kinds and wrapped so brightly and displayed so attractively in cups and pretty dishes. It was such a fun and colourful place.

All the shelves are painted in pretty and dainty colours.... see the pretty PINK candle that looks like a cake? There are all the cups and saucers with their PINK Crown and Crumpet emblem on it. Now why didn't I purchase a set for myself???

Isn't this a wonderful idea for an overhead lighting? So many sparkling crystals hanging down inside a large lamp shade. I loved this idea in the magazine also....

In case you couldn't tell I was so excited to actually see the Crown and Crumpet in person. If you go to SanFrancisco you must stop there for a visit.....

Hope you are having a lovely day... Judi xoxo