This year has been a far cry from last year’s adding French knots and framing on Sunday morning. For once, I actually came prepared for Mother’s Day.
Besides the towel that I posted last weekend, I stitched up a little card for Mumsie:
It was a free kit that came with a recent issue of Cross Stitcher magazine. The kit included googly eyes that looked freaky-deaky (the mama koala looked merely surprised; the baby looked like a strung-out Keane kid), so I added French knots to give a somewhat more natural look.
And you can’t have Mother’s Day without dessert, can you?
This is a variation on the raw strawberry cheesecake from The Post Punk Kitchen. I made the filling as per the recipe, but used the vanilla cookie crumb crust from Vegan Pie in the Sky instead. I’m not normally a cheesecake fan, but this wasn’t bad – light and mousse-ish, with a nice strawberry flavour.
The cake, incidentally, made a lovely finish to our breakfast of cocoa-Kahlua pancakes from Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites. Dense and chewy, they were like eating brownies for breakfast. Yum!
Happy Mother’s Day, everyone!
The Witty Child 
Good decision with the French knots – I made up the koala kit too, and did the same thing. There’s a time and a place for googly eyes!
The googly eyes looked….kinda cute…at first, but the more I looked at them, the creepier they got! 🙂