Hi everyone. It's Super Bowl Sunday if you like (American) football, and it also would be my Dad's 101st birthday today. It's funny, my brother always thinks about my parents on the day they died, and I think more about them on their birthdays. Happier moments for me I guess.
My Dad's favorite cake was a plain pound cake with chopped maraschino cherries and walnuts added to it. When I was old enough to play around in the kitchen, I used to make this cake for my Dad's birthday. Now most years around his birthday I get the urge to make this cake, and you may have read me writing about making it before. I made this year's cake a little early, but that's OK.
He didn't like frosting, and the beauty with a buttery pound cake is that it doesn't need any. Happy Birthday Dad!
And since birthdays often are accompanied by a song, I made a journal page to go with this post.
I made this page's background with my dotty stencil and some paints and inks. The cake is from an old die I have. I cut it from white paper, and I used paint and glitter glue on it. The candles are stamped on acetate and colored with Sharpies. I then sort of fussy cut them and glued them down. The table under the cake is made with a Stabilo water-color pencil and also a lace die cut to make the covering/edge. The quote is an old Impression Obsession stamp. To add the music, I stamped a musical score image in blue on some lighter blue paper. I die cut the balloons, and then I used an old Penny Black stamp set and black ink to stamp the words.
I'm linking up today's post to Vicki's Music challenge at Art Journal Journey, and since it's Sunday, I'm also linking up to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.
At my house we're in the midst of another snow dumping which means I'll be out shoveling again later today. They say February is the snowiest month in New Hampshire, and that is definitely true so far this winter. ❄❄❄
That's all for me today. I hope you have a great rest of your weekend and start to the new week.
15 comments:
The cake looks really delicious. A good memory, no doubt. All the best - David
The cake turned out fabulous and doesn't need frosting at all! I would love a slice too :-))
It's great that you're thinking of your dad like that and with such a delicious cake. The journal page is fabulously designed. It looks beautiful!
Happy Sunday, Elke
My dad would have been 99 this year. He's been gone now over 20 years, it is sometimes hard to believe that in a perfect scenario that he could still be around.
...I can't remember what my father's favorite cake was, but he would be 108.
Nice slice there. Have a wonderful Sunday
Thanks for linking to SundaySmiles
Much♡love
I don´t like American Football, I LOVE it. Starts 03:30 a.m. Monday for us so... I´ll miss it.
I always have both dates from my parents. And I always have to remind my Brother (once did not - drama).
Bet your Dad´d love both, cake and page. If my Brother is right, you Dad sees or at least feels it.
More snow.... I sure would not want to live in your place, at least not in winder, hugs, to shoveling yourself warm!
Happy Birthday to your Dad in Heaven.
I love that you learned to make his cake. I think too of my mom's birthday because that is her one day that's just for her.
I think of my parents on their birthdays, too. Mmm, I love your dad's cake. I might have to make a storm pound cake later this week. We got about 3 1/2 inches of snow though it was wetter and heavier than I expected. I hope you didn't get a lot and the other storms predicted for this week fizzle
Erika, I also think of my parents on their birthdays more than the date they died. This cake is a delicious memory of your dad even without frosting. We also had snow in Nashua, NH, about 6 inches, which was less than predicted.
That cake looks fabulous. You had me at maraschino cherries. I think of mine on both birthdays and anniversaries - usually with different feelings, one more sad and the other with a smile.
What a great memory. The cake looks delicious. Happy Monday.
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Dear Erika, I also think of my parents especially on their birthdays. My father would be 101 years old on March 5, 2025. My mother would be 99 on June 7. And on July 7 they would have had their 78th wedding anniversary. (They missed their 60th wedding anniversary by a few months due to my father's death...) You celebrated your father's birthday very nicely with the delicious cake and the beautiful cake page.
You wrote to me that you compared the costs of the senior residence with those of your mother. Were the prices similar? (I don't know if you saw that in Austria the 2nd person in an apartment only pays just under 1000 euros. That probably mainly covers the cost of food. But of course you need a slightly larger apartment for two people.)
Good luck with shoveling snow. We still don't have one in our region. My daughter went sledding with our grandson at the weekend - on artificial snow...
All the best, Traude
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Yes, I too remember my parents especially on their birthdays, but other days as well.
This cake looks very nice, my parents always enjoyed a fruit cake.
The week here in the UK has started cold ... brr!
Wishing you a good week ahead.
All the best Jan
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