Butterfly Garden

Each butterfly shows off a signature MacKenzie-Childs pattern (look for your favorites). I'm getting a little excited about seeing butterflies flutter in the sunlight and flitting from flower to flower. It's going to be a while, so I brought the butterflies indoors on the table.

My mom gifted me with this beautiful teapot from the new MacKenzie-Childs Butterfly Garden Enamelware collection and I bought four salad plates. I filled it with white tulips, but you can see the cute lid in the picture above. We have a special love of butterflies just like they do at Mackenzie-Child's Aurora, NY farm. Looking forward to warm summer days when we can sit in the backyard and watch the butterflies in the garden.

While we were in Walmart, mom told me about the frozen Macarons she has been buying. 

They are very good and are baked and shipped by Looka Patisserie in California.

Since I wanted to serve you all a dessert that coordinated with my butterfly garden plates, I used a really cute cookbook to inspire my inner-artist that I received for a gift from my friend Pam. I was drawn to the dark brown and white striped Jaconde cake with strawberry mousse. I figured it would coordinate well with my Mackenzie-Childs dishes since the stripes were very dark in the cookbook photo. I followed the recipe exactly, and rarely have flops, but mine came out a really light brown. We loved it anyway, and I served it in jars.

I should have made my tried and tested cake with butterflies that I made last year for my sister-in-law's birthday ;o)

Thank you for stopping by! I have made so many friends through blogging, and appreciate and love your visits.

I am joining Susan at Naps Between the Porch for Tablescape Thursday, Rattlebridge Farm for Foodie Friday and A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday.

Debbie