Choosing the Birthday table decoration.

Hello Friends,

First these are our Camélias in full bloom.

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And Hellebores 

I woke up at 6 and now it is 10 and I am having my morning coffee with a speculoos biscuit ( cinnamon biscuit) so good with coffee!

Yesterday, I was wondering what will be the menu for Saturday’s Birthday . (Our daughter Maud’s Birthday)

And I found! Like in the good old days! A crêpes Party 🎈. Salted ones and surgery ones with different toppings. Cheeses, egg, bacon… and chocolate, lemon curd ( I am going to make ) jams…

We use the electric crêpe maker in the middle of the table and each one is doing his own crepe. You may have such thing in your countries ?

 The table cloth is an old one I sewed long ago

And I decorated the middle with paper napkins tomatoes 🍅.

The flowers are from the garden.

Today the weather will be rainy and windy it is so dark that I must use the light !

Thank you for coming.

 

Baking, travelling and gardening!

(Source : Laduree book edt Chêne and Larousse edt)

These are the books I have been looking at last night and they gave me the idea of making Macaroons again.

This morning I had a look at the little scrapbooking I did when coming back from Japan.

I love this picture of a statue representing the family.

There is one on the wall in the entrance .

I went once to « Laduree” in Paris to taste it’s pastry

They are very good and very famous.

It was when my son and daughter in law were studying in Paris. We often went there , but I did not like to drive  in the traffic jams all the time!

Yesterday, I went for a garden tour and noticed the white Camélia was going to bloom and has so many flowers!

The first daffodil of the year

Hellebores. They have suffered from our last very hot and dry Summer.

 First pink Camélia flower.

This week I must get some nourishment for the peonies  they need some especially the new Japanese one I had for my Birthday last year. All our plants have suffered a lot even some died because of last Summer’s heat .

Tomorrow “Nono”the robot comes back from its wintering and will cut the grass before the mole come back. Next door all the sheep are gone we won’t have any cute lamb’s birth this year! It looks so empty!

Last night, I had a look at my “Laduree” baking book and had the idea of making some lemon Macaroons

I also made some salted caramel ones! 😋 

A Sunday in the garden.

Today is a real Spring day! Blue sky , door wide open and no heating !

It was nice to look at the garden and discover lots of violets,

Camélia flowers and new born lamb a white one and a black one.

Two Camélia bushes with many flowers.

Many bees in the trees 🐝 

The shy violet

I love this Camélia colour 

Pure white.

 And a bunch of daffodils 🌼 

I hope you’ll enjoy your week! ☺️