Victorian grace

Hello my dear followers, it has been a few weeks since my latest, but here's an new cake.

 

My mother celebrates her birthday tonight and I've made her a mini cake in white and lavender, finished with a brooche on a pearl necklace in gold and white. 

The inspiration was Ladurée, I just love their pastel colored boxes with gold details. 

This cake is one of my new favorites! The lavender matches perfectly with the white and gold....

Have a great week end!

My first pillowframe..

I saw pillowframes for the first time at 24Homes and they looked so cute and easy to make. 

Finally I've made my own pillowframe holding a picture from Paris, which I visited with a dear friend in august.

I used a beige colored fabric and some Paris stamps as it would be used for my Paris pictures. I used leftovers from my curtains for the large piece of lace. The ribbon was bought at Het witte luik,  the pearl pins as well.

This absolutely will not be the last pillowframe I've made. Can't wait to make a second one.. 

Have you ever made a pillowframe?

Be sure to watch the lovely tutorial by 24Homes: Tutorial.

Have a great evening and sunday!

Blanc et noir

A few weeks ago I was asked to make a birthday cake for a lovely lady. I had the complete free hand. 

I really wanted to work with SugarVeil again and thought, black and white would be pretty to combine with SV. 

With the weather is was hard to work with the SV, but with great help from Michele Hester, it turned out pretty good. Thanks for that Michele!

This is my second cake with SugarVeil and it has been a while, since my last cameo cake. But I still adore cameos.. 

I do love making a cake in black and white, once and a while. 

At the end of august I'm making a two layered wedding cake, also in black and white. 

The cake turned out to be a simple, elegant en chique cake. 

Have a great sunday evening!

Just because..

Have a wonderful day!

La Clé et la Rose

A nostalgic key and the rose... 

This mini cake I have made for the birthday of a dear dear friend. She loves getting cakes and this is the third birthday cake I've made for her. 

I can't wait to see her reaction... 

The combination of white lace and that old key next to a white, blooming rose, remembers of old times... Doesn't it?  

Have a great day!

French door blind

Two weeks ago I found these French door blinds as you may remember. 

Yesterday I've painted the bottom parts in a white chalk paint and sandpapered it. But I'm not so happy with it.. I think I will paint it again in a more cream color. 

But it's the perfect place for one of my French blinds. Photographed with the last pioenies of this year..  

Just some pictures..

Dried pioenies, aren't they pretty... 

My new teapot and cup and saucer, bought them yesterday. 

I love the little flowers on the teapot and the cup and saucer fit perfectly. 

Have a great evening!

Ivoire et blanc

A few moths ago Tim and Marijke asked me to make their wedding cake and I was delighted. Today is their wedding day. 

Tim, a former colleaque, told me ones; if I'll ever get married, I want you to make the cake. And so I did.. 

The bride to be loved a lot of my cakes and pointed uit some favorites. I made a design and with a few adjustments, their wedding cake was ready to be made.

The cake is in traditional colors, with a hint of gold and pastel pink. On top a pastel pink gerber, as the brides bouquet has pink gerbers. 

The top cake is carrot cake with a vanilla  cream, the middle one is vanilla cake with fresh, home made strawberry jam and the bottom cake is chocolate with praline cream.

The couple picked up the cake last night and were very happy with it. And  that's still the most important and beautiful thing about cake making.. 

Have a wonderful day Tim and Marijke! Wishing you all the best! X

My little corner..

Yesterday I bought a white flower table. A while ago i bought the small version of this table, that I use as a night stand now. I'm so glad the store still had this one. 

The corner next to my living room couch is still empty and I'm looking for a small side table, but I haven't find anything that would fit perfectly.. 

So, I've placed this flower table next to the couch with my new pionies. Probably the last pionies this year.. 

Doesn't it look pretty? 

Have a great weekend!

Just one more...

I just wanted to show you one more picture of these gorgeous peonies.. The color and how they open... I fell in love... <3


Hopefully they'll retain their color as I dry them.

Just because...

Just wanted to wish you a wonderful week!

I just love the combination of white, green and pastel pink..  

Cake Chic

My sister turned 25 last Wednesday and celebrates tonight. This is the third time already I'm making a cake for her birthday. The first time, was also my first cake ever.. 

This year she wanted something else than a cake in sweet pastel colours. 

For my own birthday I wanted to use beige and white with black, but as I decided to do a high tea, I made a cake in pastel colours.

Manon liked the combination of beige with white and black and a detail in antique gold. From then on, I could think about a pretty design. 

I recently bought a SugarVeil lace mat and this was the perfect moment to use it on the cake. It wasn't easy and it took me several times untill it came out right, but doesn't it look gorgeous on the beige?!

The letter was also made with SugarVeil, this workes perfect. I printed the letter in a pretty font and piped it with the SugarVeil on a baking sheet. 

What do you think of it? Do you prefer pastel or more neutral colours combined?

I though you might like to see the other two cakes I've made for my sister. 
The first one didn't look like the cakes I make now.. I still had to find my own thing, my own style. These two were made in in May 2010.

The second cake I've made for her was, as many, inspired by Marie Antoinette.. This one was made last year.   
                                            

Have a great weekend!

Je t'aime Paris

This cake I made for a 18 year old birthday girl. She's celebrating today and her mother asked me to make a cake as a surprise. Inge, her daughter, loves vintage and pastel.

So I suggested to do a cake with a charmed necklace. She loved the idea and was sure her daughter would love it as well.

I have made a few cakes with it, but I still love a pearl necklace on a cake. 

The colours of my scrapbook that I made a few weeks ago, off-white, white, vintage pink and silver, looked so pretty together and I chose to use this combination. 

The Eiffel tower mold I have had for a while and didn't find the right moment to use it. Now I did!

I painted it in a antique silver. A big challenge was to mix the colour of the ribbon. I love that colour and it would be perfect for the bows. The doilies are a big favorite and had to be on the cake as well.


The mother just picked up the cake and loved it! Happy me :) 

Have a great weekend!

Lovely Lace

I saw this lace tape on the internet and I had to have it.. 

These glasses love the lace as well and look great in it ;)

Have a great evening!

Scrapbook

I've been walking around with this idea for quite some time.

For years, I've been collecting pictures of pretty ideas to decorate my future home. A scrapbook is the best way to keep them in one place. At the time I bought a Pip Studio scrapbook, in dark pink with flowers.

But it isn't white... So I decided to change it. The paper I used to cover it up, is a gorgeous, but see through gift paper from Jeanne d'Arc Living. So the book had to be covered up, so I wouldn't see the pink anymore. 

Before it's completed, I finished it off with off white lace, a pastel pink ribbon (Thanks to H&M clothing ;).), a doily, a tiny clock image with buttons and a small birdcage.   

Almost finished, but there was something missing in the middle... 

...so I glued tiny buttons on the clock.

Have a great weekend!

Lace is the answer...

Here is a small sneak peek of one of my sunday projects.

I'm turning my old scrapbook into a pretty white scrapbook to hold all my decoration inspiration. 

It just needs a tiny bit of finishing touch...

Have a great sunday evening!

Shabby chic with lace

A few weeks ago I bought a book about the Shabby Chic home. 

Besides beautiful pictures, they showed some decoration ideas, such as this one. 

Lace glued on a glass jar. How simple, but what a gorgeous result..

Have a great week!

My favorite things combined...

My second cake, made in 2012. I've made it for my girl friend Anouk. We celebrated her birthday today, with eating cake and shopping in Liège.. What do girls need more?? 
For this birthday present, I combined my favorite decorations; lace, bows and pearls with rose gold and peach... 
It's a carrot cake filled with vanilla cream. 
She was very happy with it and also loved the taste. So, I'm happy also :)

Have a great weekend!

Weekend...

I just love these pastel coloured pink roses combined with white ones...