#SentimentalSunday

sen·ti·men·tal
/ˌsen(t)əˈmen(t)l/
adjective
of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.

It's my Mama's book originally and starting with my one year old birthday party I grew up with cakes from this book. Not every year but enough that they are weaved into my memories.

For my first birthday party my Mama made not one but TWO of the cut out cakes to celebrate.

It's laying flat but if you look closely you can see it's an angel cake.

And once I got my hands on it I started making cakes from it for my own children and was inspired to try a few other cakes not featured in the book but certainly inspired by it. I also made a cake or two from the book for different baby showers.

My oldest daughter had a butterfly/spring themed 3rd birthday party.
This cake from the book was perfect!

My youngest daughter is obsessed with kitties.
For her 4th birthday I made her a kitty cake from the book.

When my oldest turned 5 years old we did a royal themed party.
This cake didn't come from the book but I was inspired by the book to try it.

My youngest is all about the music.
For one of her birthdays I made the guitar cut out cake.

My oldest was into art and so for one of her parties we did an art themed party.
It goes without saying the cake had to be an artists' palette!

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

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