It's Monday again

        It's Monday morning as we all know and love...   I can't believe another new year is about to be, can you...  I honestly don't know where all the days went...  They, well most of them just seem all mushed together...  Well I nad made a wonderful Chocolate cake with peppermint frosting the other day, found in Victoria magazine... Christmas one 2015...  Everyone just loved it, they ate it all up gone 24 hr. Period...  I really wanted to make these lovely marshmellows as well posted in her magazine but did not have the chance...   the cake was so simple and to my surprise at the end you add a  cup of  hot water which thinned the batter out...  My thought was I don't know seems so thin...  But it was the most wonderful light and airy cake ever that I have tasted in my life.. Honest...   My post is a bit long today so I could not post the recipe but you can find it easily in the Victoria magazine if interested...

        I had a wonderful time making it the frosting had to be cooked over a double boiler then beated 

To loveliness...  I didnt have sugared mint leaves so I just used some apple mint ones from the garden...  I had some chocolate ones but the leaves where to small just coming up...

        I took it all over to my Mamas house where my daughter son and a few of my grandchildren were and I frosted it there and decorated there...  I also made some little Apricot galettes ... From a past Christmas Victoria magazine...  Well last year 2014...  They were great

        I added some white chocolate to them...   Loved them...  I spent the rest of the weekend doing some more crocheting finishing up some doilies I had started then made two more small ones...

        This is a re make of a vintage doily in Cream and a lovely deep Red...  

        Then yesterday and Saturday evening I made these, I call them my lace doilies...  Years ago I had purchased some in a little store and they were like someone made them by machine...  So later when I learned more about crocheting with fine thread I was able to copy them... ( as you may or may not know I crochet by eye, i struggle with directions from a book)...

        And Last week I made the heart hotpad pot holder...  I enjoy vintage crocheting very much 

And I'm learning more and more all the time...  

        Here is my vintage doily in use...  Along with my lovely Hall Cream Vintage teapot...

        A lovely vintage tea cup called Federal Shape Syracuse China that I a while back ago saw on Cabin and Cottage blog and fell in love with it's softness...  (By the way Cabin and Cottage is a beautiful blog ran By Jaclyn which many of you know...  I don't have the link at present...  But you can look it up) 

        There are tiny Roses as well all over the outter of the cup as well as the saucer... So sweet...

        This is a cake plate and server I have have had about six years maybe and I loved the 

Roses Red and Pink...  

        I believe the pieces even though are different makers go well together...

        Well with the tea pot and well with my new made doilies ...  

                               

     HAPPY MONDAY TO ALL...  I HOPE YOU HAVE A MOST ENCHANTING NEW WEEK...  

                               WITH  LOVE ... 

                                        JANICE...   I will be joining Bernideen's Party today...

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