Snowdrops for my Mum

Tomorrow's my mother's birthday. We all managed to take the day off but we didn't tell her... She's expecting us for the weekend after this one, and we'll make her a big surprise! I'll be at my parents' just after lunch and in the evening my brother and sisters will come too... We all planned the birthday dinner between us, and I said I'd bake the Birthday cake; as we're going to be quite a lot (we're four and we're all coming with our boy/girlfriends) I decided to make two cakes: an apple cobbler and a yummy, yummy chocolate cake. In France it's called a moelleux, meaning "soft"... it's the cake my Mum used to bake at our birthdays when we were kids, so I think it's her turn to be treated to one!

I didn't have time to create many gifts for her... So besides a DVD and a little crystal deer that I bought in the Alps, I merely embroidered and framed snowdrops - which are after all the flowers you can find most easily in the French (and probably many other!) countryside in February.

I'm happy with the way it turned out! But... this wasn't hand embroidered. Can you believe it? The design is by Ellen Maurer-Stroh; I believe she first creates the hand-embroidery design and only then converts them into machine-embroidery designs. Hence the high quality of her work.

That's all for tonight... I've got a lot to do before leaving for tomorrow... Although I'm going at my parents' to celebrate my mother's birthday, I can't afford not to work until Sunday evening, so I'm planning which books etc. to bring there...

Have a nice week-end everyone!