There are many reasons for my lag. All personal, but we'll delve into that later :)
It was my mom's birthday a few days ago, so I woke up around 5 am to decorate our dining area and to bake a cake. I wanted to make her a Victoria Sponge and expected the result to look a little something like this:
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Haha, joke. The cake that I made didn't have enough volume for me to create the layered cake effect. It came out of the oven looking sadly deflated.
As you can see, my result was NOTHING like the perfection seen in the first two images. I used a buttercream topping instead of whipped cream because my mom hates whipped cream. I made the buttercream from scratch and it was delicious...except I spread the icing on too thick. So clearly I overestimated my baking skills, but at least the taste was still there :D Better luck next time, haha *monkey covers eyes emoji*
I enjoyed decorating a lot more than I did the cake-baking. I wanted to create a space that was very English cottage/shabby chic, so I bought a few things from Michaels to make that happen.
These are the items that I bought.
Shabby chic chalkboard sign - $19.99
Chalk - $1.99
Valentine Pennant Set - $2.99
Glass Test Tubes (2) - $1.99
Our house's interior has a very antique feel because my dad likes to collect antiques and little knick-knacks from swap meets, garage sales, thrift stores and the like. He's always bringing home the randomest things, and it's a good thing I share his interest in oddities because we end up fan-girling together. I wanted to play that up a bit and add a touch of "femme" with the chalkboard sign. I also thought it would be cute if my family and I left little notes to each other :)
I decided to add a bit of my own flair to the gift that I bought her. The bottle with "pills" you see above was something I bought a while back in a shop called Morning Glory. The reason I used quotations is because they're not actual pills - they're little rolls of paper in disguise. The capsules are easy to pop open, and once you do you see a slip of paper rolled up and secured with a metal band. I filled one of the test tubes with these pills, with each pill containing a handwritten note of love or encouragement. So the idea is that whenever my mom would feel lonely or tired, she could bust out her handy dandy test tube full of love letters just for her. Medicine for her heart *again, the monkey covers eyes emoji*
I don't think Morning Glory exists anymore, but if you search "secret letter pills" or "pill messages", these pills are available online :) These are super cute as gifts for literally everyone - family, friends, and significant others. Careful how you use them though, because they can be quite conspicuous and people can mistake them for actual pills. Yeah, I've gotten many a weird glance for slipping these pills to people.
I hope you enjoyed this post as much as I liked writing it :D
Ciao for now~
xx Cece
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