Butter - in a finished quilt and a birthday treat

I finally got around to binding my Butter Churn quilt.  I originally posted about it HERE.

Until I tried to write the title of this post, I didn't even think about a quilt called Butter Churn having so much butter yellow in it!

In case you're wondering, the pattern is by Sherri K. Falls from "This and That".  I used both Portugal and Prayer Flag fabric lines.

   

Although I quilted it a few months ago, it took a bit for me to finish, because I had a binding fabric all picked out and ready to go, but I just couldn't bring myself to add it to the quilt.

The color was just too dull.

 The fabric went with the quilt well, I was just afraid I would always wish I had used something else.

So as much as I wanted to put the binding on and have this quilt finished up, I waited until I found something that made me feel like it was ready to go.

This polka dot fabric was the one!

I'm glad I waited.

I know there are lots of pictures of this quilt.

I was just so happy to have it finished that I got a little carried away!

And for the birthday treat part, here's a picture of the cupcakes we made my youngest son for his birthday recently. 

This little guy is a minion from the movie Despicable Me 2.

My son likes the funny little minions and all the trouble they cause, so this was a great surprise for him.

It's a tradition at my house to surprise the birthday boy with a fun, specially decorated cake.

Every birthday brings out our creativity and makes us figure out something new!