Our Valley of Happiness

I am one of those people who are extremely lucky to have the love of their life with them. I always look forward to his birthday, the best husband ever deserves the best birthday he possibly can get! This is the time of the year i invest most of my time and thoughts on how to make it special. This year I am giving him a crocheted scarf with some simple monogram and baking an Opera cake.Super excited! The cake of the day was one of my favorites, Opera cake . Though its such a time consuming one i think its all worth it. I love the different layers of colors an textures with spongy almond cake. Needless to say it was a super hit with my hubby ;) For the scarf I started with a chain of 340, its 70+ inches.The basic pattern i followed is from here . I modified the pattern to add new colors and to make it symmetric. I love the chain spaces stitches and the x stitches and the texture it creates. Even before i completed the scarf i was so in love with the textures i was getting:D ...

Done at an artbarn by my hubby and me. We had great time making it :)

A pair of smocked pillow!

Pillow done with small level of  smocking and fabric flowers! Pillow done in honey comb pattern.

Skewers painted in silver and gloved together on a mirror. Didn't turn out as i hoped, but still worth the time.

This is one of my absolute favorite! Painted pine cones!

This is done by spiraling the magazine pages and painting on it. Its rolled into circles after.

Birthday gift for hubby, knitted hat and a shawl, with crocheted heart. This was my first time using a loom for knitting. For a basic shawl and a hat, this seemed not bad! The cake was Black forest cake- Thanks to joyofbaking.com. It came out so well! I waited until 12 AM pretending to be busy and when the clock struck 12, got him to the living room to this: