Happy Mother's Day in London and Paris

Happy Mother's Day!

We are celebrating a week early as we will be

in London, and then off to Paris, so when I 

saw this cake on Pinterest, I had to have my

friend Annie make me one for our Mother's Day

dinner.  

This table is all pretty, feminine and French

to celebrate three generations of mothers,

and another generation coming up.

My daughter and I made French macrons in

the colors of the cake, and I found enough of these

adorable mini cupcake pedestals for the whole

table at Stein Mart.

 The cake starts with a scooter parked by

a lamp post, with a pink striped hat, purse, fresh

flower bundle and a tiny macaron.  More fresh flowers

are ready to take home to my Paris apartment, on  the

front of the scooter.

Surrounding the cake are famous Parisian icons.

The table is set up in the living room with

18 chiavari chairs.  The table is covered with

a cream pinch pleated tablecloth and 

French script runners.  The chairs are

tied with netting and topped with pink peonies and roses.

My white crown plates are layered under the new

cupcake pedestals.

I let some beautiful roses dry naturally, and they

fill little creamers on the table.

The other new item on the table is one of

my Mother's Day gifts, rose gold flatware.

Lucious Pink Brazilian Fruit Punch drinks

line up down the table.

The French Macarons are filled with

Amaretto, Princess Cookie, and Nutella Cream.

We are seated on The Great Hall again, and all of the

goblets are from Dollar Tree, so that the grandkids can

freely drink from them.

Everyone has a handmade cookie on their pedestal.

I also got an edible printer for Mother's Day and these are the first ones

that I have tried.  It worked beautifully.

The images were free from

A Night Owl.  It worked like a dream.  I

will blog about it when I get back.

The edges were dusted with disco dust.

Setting the table, and having my bags packed,

has got me all excited.  I am also wondering

if having Mother's Day one week early isn't

a great idea, when there are so many mothers'

homes to go to.

The hit will be the cake Annie made for me!

I lost my mother 26 years ago to cancer, when I was a young

mother.  It was a very hard thing, but I think she would love

being invited to sit down to this table to celebrate the

love we share for mothers everywhere.

One of my best "mothers" wasn't even a mother herself,

my aunt, but she mothered all 17 of us nieces and nephews

and let us have opportunities that our parents couldn't give

us.  I honor her on Mother's Day too!

Share the love this Mother's Day.

 I will be posting this with

Tablescapes Thursday