Lapel Stick Winners

I apologize for being late with the giveaway winners. Some unexpected events changed my schedule. Congratulations to Linda K. (no blog) and Darlene from the blog Quilting Daze.  Congratulations, Ladies! Please send me your mailing address.

Easter Sunday

In the Kitchen

 This morning, I did my favorite kind of cooking - baking. For our Easter celebrations, brunch with neighbors and dinner with DH's family, I volunteered to BAKE. For our brunch after Mass tomorrow,  one of our family favorites  -banana bread with lots of pecans.

 Baking an Angel Food cake is one of my favorites. I don't know what I did differently, but this one baked wonderfully. (Do you know how hard it is to find a "real bottle". My handy Red Hot sauce bottle is a treasure in our kitchen)  In the morning, I will layer the angel food cake, vanilla pudding, diced pineapple, sliced strawberries and whipped cream into another one of my favorites, Trifle.

 Dear Son is home from college. He'll return to take his exams, but he is basically back from school. Since the oven was "humming", I had to make him some cookies. These are loaded with oatmeal, wheat germ, nuts, chocolate chips. Oh yes, I love chocolate chip cookies, too.

My main reason for baking was to make the Coconut Cake for dessert with DH's family. It's called Three Day Wait Coconut Cake. The fresh frozen coconut, sugar and sour cream were mixed 3 days ago. The yellow cake layers were baked this morning. I can't remember when I've baked such ugly layers. It's probably time to purchase new cake pans. Luckily, the filling and frosting will cover most of this up. Dh is now baking a ham. He does the real cooking:)

Giveaway Around Blogland

Quilty Pleasures - The Quiltmaker Blog - has a giveaway for a box of items from a Quilter's Garage Sale. Ends April 25th.

Jackie at Canton Village Quiltworks has a giveaway for the book The Quilter's Bible by Linda Clements. Ends April 28th.

Kelly at I Have a Notion has reviewed two new books from Martingale. More Loose Change and S is for Scraps. Ends. She has a giveaway ending April 30th

Lisa at The Quilted Pineapple is giving away a pattern and the 3 charm packs to make it. Ends Sunday, April 24th.

Adrianne, blogger at Little Bluebell  has a giveaway for a fat quarter bundle of Denyse Schmidt fabrics. Winner selected on May 5th.

Happy Birthday Week

It's birthday week at our house.Don't you just love the LSU Garden Gnome. I didn't even know they existed. It is a gift to  DS to his Dad. Thursday was DH's day and Saturday is our oldest son's day. Since this week was a bit wild for both of them, we celebrated last Sunday. Sorry, I forgot to take photos, but the  meal and cake were fabulous:) Today, the landscapers arrived to do the work in our front yard. A tree needed to be removed, shrubbery replaced and sod added. DH was in his element. For years, we've done all the work ourselves. His treat this year was to hire someone else to do the work. 

A finished job!

Giveaways around Blogland!

Mary at Quilt Hollow has a copy of the book Country Comfort by Cheryl Wall. Cheryl has a second book coming out in the Summer of 2012 with Martingale & Company. Enter the giveaway, visit Cheryl's website. If you need a long-arm quilter for your quilts, Mary does AMAZING work.

Pat Sloan is hosting a Blog Hop for her new book, What A Novel Idea. Visit Pat's post on Monday. There is still time to visit all the blogs, but Friday is the last day.
Tuesday – 4/19/11       Carrie Nelson: - lavieenrosie.typepad.com

Wednesday  – 4/20/11
Victoria Findlay Wolfe – bumblebeansinc.blogspot.com/ 
Amy Ellis –amyscreativeside.com/

Thursday – 4/21/11
Amanda Herring – thequiltedfish.typepad.com/the-quilted-fish/ 
Barb and Mary at Me and My Sister – meandmysisterdesigns.com/blog/

Friday – 4/22/11
Gudrun Erla – gudrun.typepad.com/
Erin Gilday – http://patchworkunderground.com/blog/

Please remember to enter my giveaway for a Lapel Stick.