Ending this busy day...

We finish this busy day with the delivery of this lovely cake to the Vancouver Rowing Club where it felt quite at home actually... After that, we took some time for a walk around the park just in time to find Lord Stanley...

And our dearest Robi contemplating the city...

Happy Birthday, Vancouver!!!

Afternoon tea with Alice...

For all of you, who need something sweet this week, please have a look at this awesome video!   Thank you very much, Fatrimax, for sharing it with me...

And she wanted a unicorn...

Me too!  I wanted to make this cake for quite some time... with the Daisy Fairy and the lady bugs, and the daisies... and the bunny rabbit!  This Daisy Fairy is inspired by Cicely Mary Barker's classic Flower Fairy illustrations.

Our house has been taken over by flowers...

It's been a long winter for Vancouver, so I thought you might enjoy these beautiful flowers brought to you by the Craquelier house... For all the people of Vancouver, for whom spring hasn't arrived yet, enjoy these flowers from different parts of the world, put together by Beatriz...
May these flowers be your inspiration for those awesome sugar flowers you will be putting on your cakes...

Dance me to the end of love...

Dance me to the wedding now... laralara... This cake really makes me feel like dancing and singing...

Eat, pray and love...

How was your weekend?  Ours was quiet.  We didn't do much, mostly stayed home, made some goodies for the kids that are enjoying their spring holidays, relaxed... and somehow, I felt like praying...
My friend Melissa shared this prayer with us:
Prayer for Japan (translated from a prayer that circulated in Spanish for the people affected by the Chilean earthquake last year)


Lord, I want to say THANK YOU, because today I woke up and I knew where my loved ones were.
Because this morning my house is standing,
Because this morning I'm not crying for my children, my husband, my parents, my brother or sister who need to be rescued,
Because this morning I can drink a glass of water,
Because this morning I'm not planning a funeral,
and more than anything I thank the Lord I'm still alive and
I have a voice to pray for the people of Japan
Lord, I pray to You, the One who makes the impossible possible,
the One who transforms darkness into light,
I ask that you strengthen these mothers,
give them the peace that passeth all understanding.
Open the paths for help to arrive, You can provide doctors, nurses, food,
water and everything they need in a blink of an eye.
For those who lost their families, give them peace, hope and courage to carry on.
Protect Your children mightily.
I pray in Jesus name! AMEN.

Please pass this prayer on to others so that we may pray together for the people of Japan. We are truly blessed here!

Thank you, Melissa, for sharing your prayers with me!  Other people have been busy, also, doing things to show how much they care and to show support, too.  The people from the photography blog  Craquelier were busy making origami birds to send together with their best wishes to Japan.  This is the beautiful collage they came up with

To learn more about the people that participated in this creation, visit the blog Craquelier
My husband and I wanted to participate, and we made these origami birds thinking in particular of David, Mariko, and the kids...
We wanted to send you all our love... We are so happy to hear that you are all right, things are gradually getting better, and that you feel this crisis will be effectively overcome. 
For the people from Vancouver that has kids on spring holidays, the Vancouver Aquarium is donating $1, from each ticket sold this week, for the Japan relief effort.  So, there you are.  A nice place to take your kids while at the same time helping Japan.  See you at the Aquarium!