Wednesday Post

 Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday.

Today I have a couple of things to share with you. I'll start with a feminine page for Valerie's spring challenge at Art Journal Journey.

In my scrap bin I had a couple of pieces of wallpaper, but neither was big enough to cover my whole page.

I decided to layer them because the spring flowers on both pieces of wallpaper worked together.  Then I used this paper doily I had and a square of Dina Wakely printed tissue paper I also found in my scrap bin.

To finish off my page, I had a printed vintage photo of this woman. I cut away a lot of the background behind her so not as much of the doily would be covered. I finished off my page with a couple of vintage style dogs surrounding the lady.  The dog on the left is even in a very spring looking bucket. 

It was actually a pretty simple page to make, and it was fun to work a little bit out of my usual style because I usually don't go quite so feminine. I should have posted this page  yesterday for International Woman's Day, but better a day late than never I guess. 

For Kathy's  Food Wednesday  this week, I am going to share my birthday dinner. In our house the birthday person gets to pick out dinner, and as I hadn't had Mexican food for a very long time, that was my pick.

We did take out, because Friday night the restaurants are just too crowded, especially with my husband who (as many of you know) is immune suppressed. I had a steak chimichanga with rice and beans. The hubby called in and picked up the order though, and it was great not to cook on my birthday, nor to even have to go and pick it up. We also made home made margaritas to celebrate.

I did make my birthday cake though, which was a fun thing to do as I enjoy baking. I made a modified Victoria Sponge.  

Don't you love how my daughter decided to put on the candles? Last year she put 61 individual ones on the cake, but this year she didn't, only because of  the whipped cream and how she didn't want it to melt.

I made an easy vanilla cake (not a sponge) that requires no sifting or special ingredients. (Here's the recipe: Golden Vanilla Cake.)  I baked two 9 inch layers. Then I sliced those 2 layers in half, which only went well on one of the layers because I tried to slice the other one while talking on the phone. (Lesson learned, I can't slice and talk at the same time-smile.) I put strawberry jam in the sliced layers, and then I made whipped cream to fill the center layer. I was still on the phone when I put some powdered sugar on the top, which didn't go so well either.  I ended up with too much so that when I blew out my candles powdered sugar went all over the table. Oh well, it may not have been the prettiest cake, but it tasted yummy.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. 

Thanks for visiting.