Cherry blossoms as food!

 Cherry blossom macaron trec chic!!

 Cherry blossom ice cream

 Cherry blossom painted marshmallows

 Petit Fours

 Chopstix, bien sur, what better way to eat your cherry blossom treats

Cherry Blossoms in aspic I think

Cherry Blossom Recipes and photos from Pinterest

Just a few ideas of what to do with the cherry blossoms that are so abundant right now! The Japanese have a festival around the blossoming of the cherry trees(Sakura) and have come up with some wonderful food ideas. So pretty and Pink! They also eat pickled cherry blossoms they they buy in jars and rinse and use in desserts and I gather just eat then plain.

My tree is in glorious bloom now and I want to visit Japan when they are having blooms.

I am joining in at Stone Gable for On the Menu Monday:

http://www.stonegableblog.com/

Have a Pink day!

Swan at Stone Gable and my swan

 Yvonne's swan at Stone Gable blog Yvonne's photo

 My swan at Pinkmas time

Swan at night

My swan obsession continues and today I read about Yvonne's swan at her blog Stone Gable. I had seen this lovely swan on her blog a few  years ago and contacted her about it-- you can read the story of her swan here:

http://www.stonegableblog.com/2013/04/the-swan-at-stonegable.html?showComment=1365015855431#c8601479200924550009

And I  kept looking for one like hers in shops and at flea markets. One day I found it-- on EBay! I bid and won and when it arrived it arrived broken! I was heartsick. I went out to run errands and my husband glued it back together! Pink Boy is amazing at fixing things and painting etc. So we can't use her for serving but we sure can admire her. 

I believe mine is same swan only a smaller version of Yvonne's.

I think both are sort of a version of the Meissen one and of the life size repro one shown below.

This one is life sized!! How wonderful that would be!

I am thrilled to have my small swan she is about 14 x 14 inches.

Have a Pink day!