Miss Spenser's Blog

Happy Birthday to Charlotte Brontë!  She would have been 198 today! She wrote quite a few juvenile and 2 poetry books. However, she is probably best known for her work as a novelist:  Jane Eyre  Shirley  Villette  The Professor Emma ~ was not completed Have you read any of them? Jane Eyre is one of my most favorite books of all time!  I've read it a few times and love it more and more each time I read it!   This is my favorite movie adaption of Jane Eyre - the 2006 version from BBC:  (don't tell my dad, but mom is secretly in love with Toby Stevens as Mr. Rochester - heehee)  It's slightly rainy outside today... sounds like a good day to pull out some Brontë books and enjoy a good read! With a pot of tea of course! 

We've been admiring the fun Easter Cake ideas that have been circling around online. There are some really creative and charming cakes out there. We've put a small collection of them together to share with each of you!  Bunny Cake from  SheekShindigs Blog Perfect for a Teaparty ~ Easter Egg Cupcakes from  Bella Bobbin Blog Kit Kat Easter Cake (source unknown)  Bunny Cake Retro Style from  McCormick Recipes CakeBlog has quite a few fun Easter Cakes:  Bunny Cake  Easter Basket Cake  An Easter Cake from our British Friends!  Do you have an Easter Cake tradition? Or are you making anything special this year? Please comment below, we'd love to hear about it! 

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,  She wore her greenest gown;  She turned to the south wind  And curtsied up and down.  She turned to the sunlight  And shook her yellow head,  And whispered to her neighbor:  "Winter is dead."  A.A. Milne - When we Were Very Young Look at these charming daffodils that our sweet tea friend brought us at our tea last weekend. They were the first of her garden! We were so touched she gave them to us! They've last all week, just in time for ours to awaken in the garden! 

I'm sure you all have seen pictures of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their darling Prince George on their Royal Tour! However, I couldn't resist sharing some of my favorites with you!  Yes, yes, Prince George we think your mommy's hair is pretty too! Snuggle time!  Does he look like a Windsor or a Middleton?? It's not only Kate who charms the world now, but this Little Prince too!