T Stands for Weekend Baking

Hello ladies (and any gentlemen who stop by). I'm going to start my T Day post with my last dream piece for Eileen's challenge at Art Journal Journey. Thanks Eileen for the great inspirations this month.

These ladies are ready to head off to a party.

I did a bit of stamping and inking on my page. I wanted to look like evening/night, but not so dark I couldn't stamp this fun dancing couple, so I gave the page a little wash of waterdown down black paint, kind of the way night is slides in at this time of year. Then I added the hand doodled, painted and cut out flowers, as well as the 2 party girls. I put a pink background around the girls ( I glued them on some pink paper first and then cut around them) so they would pop off the page a bit more than they did otherwise. I also added some silver Stickles dots, but they don't sparkle too much in this photo.

I bet they are off to a birthday party, like I had this weekend for my husband and daughter who both celebrates birthdays this week. 

So for T this week, let me offer you a piece of birthday cake.

You'll have to wait until they blow out the candles first. (smile)

I can offer you either milk or water to drink as you can see them behind the cake. They are my T day drinks for this week.

I did a bit  of baking this weekend to make their cake. Those of you who have read my blog regulary for while know I love to bake, so this is a homemade treat. 

My daughter's favorite dessert is key lime pie so I made a key lime curd for the cake. 

And my engineering husband just likes plain straight vanilla cake, so that is the base of the cake. I finished it off with a bit of real whipped cream.

Which, sadly for our waistlines but happy for our taste buds, we managed to gobble down over a couple of evenings. Smile. (I will say it is not a huge cake, but big enough).

Stop by Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog to see what the T Gang has been up to. Or better yet, join the T party. 

I had a long day yesterday and it's off to work again, so I am keeping this week's post on the short side. I will probably not get by most people's entries until tonight, so don't think I am ignoring you. I just wanted to get this post up before I headed out.

Hope you're having a fabulous day.

And as always, thanks so much for visiting.