It's A a Happy Birthday

I usually have trouble buying gifts. I change my mind a million times trying to come up with the perfect gift that the receiver will love. I make myself crazy. It's just not intuitive for me. EXCEPT, for my DIL. She has so many interests and is so passionate about many of them. She is Martha Stewart mixed with Carter Oosterhouse (from HGTV) mixed with Bear Grylls!

She built this table and benches using discarded wood from a store.

I found this very funny tote bag on a weekend trip to NYC from this wonderful store called West Elm. I couldn't resist.

And I just loved those Wecks canning jars. She made apple butter and a bunch of other canned items last year.

And then to appeal to her handy woman side, I found a great tool apron. A little embroidery made it special for her. Can you see the Shop Fox label?

I had to do a bit of a repair job myself. I sewed over the belt on the back side when I was doing the embroidery. Oops! I hope she doesn't notice.

Happy Birthday Loren!

 

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Happy Birthday

We got together for my new DIL's birthday. 

 She loves to cook.  I mean serious kind of cooking

.This was one of the gifts that her new husband (aka my son) gave her.

Can you guess what it is?

It's a truffle.

He said it was quite a production to buy it.

Loren made a Baked Alaska for dessert.  It was gorgeous.

She even brought her own "weapon".

This is what it looked like on the inside, with 2 flavors of  sorbet,

vanilla ice cream and a layer of confetti cake.A great dessert for the summer.

Happy Birthday Loren!