paper flowers and more blanket beginnings

My mom's birthday pavlova:

Made with the Joy the Baker recipe. Filled with fresh cut up kiwis, an orange and some chopped up canned pineapple as well as a heap of whipped cream. Topped with some whipped cream and a kiwi. 

I tell you, it was sooooo good, the 4 of us devoured it in one sitting. So worth the trouble of whipping up meringue! I'm drooling at the memory! :)

And what I was so excited about yesterday, this:

It's a butcher paper flower wreath for the front door. I used this tutorial from Alisa Burke. 

 I obviously couldn't have lived without glitter on it. Haha. 

It was really easy to make. And I did it the cheap and spontaneous way but cutting a ring out of cardboard and covering that in paper. I want to make more of these, perhaps as gifts since there seem to be so many birthdays and events coming up this month!

I'm intrigued by the idea of painting them with watercolors or something... 

I also ventured into tissue paper flowers with a friend today. She's getting married in June and she was toying with the idea of paper flowers. I, of course, got inspired and looked up everything paper flower related I could find and we tried some stuff out. It was harder than it looks! 

I did make these though. I am putting them on a little piece of covered cardboard as a door decoration for my mama. :)

 What else I was so excited about:

I got a big stash of yarn from my mom to make her a blanket! :) 

We settled on this granny square yesterday for simplicity's sake, but today I was having second thoughts. Maybe it should be an african flower pattern? Or a vintage flower design from this book? 

Either way, the border is going to be that gray (which doesn't look gray in the picture for some reason) in the middle bottom there. I have 3 more 100g skeins of that so it makes sense. 

I'm really tickled about a second blanket. 

I'm also really tickled about maybe painting before the week is over. I have some ideas a-brewing in my head. 

I suppose that bachelor's thesis plan is just not interesting enough to match up to crochet and crafts.  

(DUH!) 

Husband was also busy yesterday a-brewing, he bottled his beer!

Only about two weeks until we can taste it!

(Hopefully it's not gross!)

:)

Thanks for reading!