birthday {giveaway} closed.

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hello friends!

it’s my birthday today and i am so excited to celebrate with you.

each of you is such a gift and i love connecting with you through this little blog.

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a friend of mine surprised me with birthday flowers

and i found that darling book above at a thrift store yesterday.

blue + green cover with yellow flowers. what a birthday treat!

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and our living room was asking for a coffee table,

but sectionals can be tricky.

but i found the perfect (ugly) maple coffee table at my favorite thrift shop.

a lucky birthday find!

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which i promptly painted cream

added a super soft rug from target

and a cream throw we already had.

i can’t believe how much it softens up the room.

i might spend a lot of my birthday in this room soaking it up!

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a giveaway seems like the perfect way to celebrate!

don’t you think??

one lucky winner will get $100 to spend at lisa leonard designs

AND $100 to target {yay!!}

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1. leave a comment telling us YOUR FAVORITE FLAVOR OF CAKE (yum.)

2. for extra entries… blog it, tweet it (@lisaleonard) and facebook about it.

3. make sure to leave a comment for each extra entry!!

4. we’ll randomly choose one winner a few days.

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i’m off to eat some chocolate chip cake with vanilla frosting!!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED. {thanks!!}

winner is nancy lefko. congrats!!

1,360 comments

  1. My absolute favorite cake is Rainbow Chip with Rainbow Chip frosting 🙂 Looking forward to some in about 2 weeks. Happy birthday Lisa! Love your living room btw.

  2. OH HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a beautiful room transformation, too! : )
    Oh my favorite cake is RED VELVET. YUMMY!

  3. I normally don’t like coconut on my desserts, but at the Kaanapali Westin Villa Resort, I had a delicious coconut cream cake. I had it twice, but I have to say that it tasted better the first time I tried it when it was chilled. Yummy!!! Happy Birthday! Love your designs!

  4. Happy Birthday! I love your jewelry and treasure my necklace.

    What a wonderful giveaway. My favorite cake…flourless chocolate!

  5. Happy Birthday!! I will eat cake in any flavor but my heart skips a beat for chocolate with butter cream icing. Hope you have a beautiful day!

  6. Happy Birthday! My mom always made a pistachio marble cake. To this day, that’s what I think of for my bday cake. Hope you have a great day!

  7. Mmmmm…. favorite cake? Cheesecake of course – (with fresh strawberries!) Happy Birthday Lisa! Don’t youjust LOVE Summer birthdays??? Yes….. enjoy!

  8. Happy, happy birthday! My favorite flavor of cake is cherry chocolate…no wait, German chocolate, or chocolate with caramel frosting!

  9. WOW…. you sure have alot of friends! And you are a wonderful decor person. I love that you shop the thrift store. I dont have a chance at this…but it was fun to look at your beautiful jewelry.

    jody in illinois

  10. I only recently started following your blog and probably don’t deserve to win, but I adore your pieces and would love to get one in my little hands so I’m going for it anyway! I love the simple things…vanilla cake with a light, fluffy frosting.

    Happy Birthday to a fellow creative Leo!

    Jami

  11. Happy Birthday Lisa!. I enjoy your blog and the pictures of your home decorating and wardrobe choices. FUN!

    My favorite cake is actually a cupcake called Black Bottom. Yum, chocolate cake with cream cheese and chocolate chip filling and no icing at all. They don’t need it! And they are even better the second day.

    I think I’ll make some tonight and share with friends to celebrate your sharing spirit.
    Jackie

  12. Fresh Strawberry extra moist cake, two layers held together with fresh whipped cream and topped with my mothers homeade vanilla icing.

  13. Wishes sent your way for a fabulously lovely Birthday!
    Absolute favorite cake is strawberry shortcake with REAL whipped cream frosting. Lots of fresh sweet strawberries mixed with whipped cream in the center. The cake itself is not sweet and is just oh so soft! We get it all the time from our favorite local bakery!

  14. Feliz Cumpleanos.

    I like chocolate chip cookie cake. But if I had to choose a non-cookie cake flavor I’d go with spice cake.

  15. Happy Birthday! I don’t think there is a flavor I do not like. =) If I must choose a yummy yellow cake with lovely rich chocolate frosting with dark chocolate shavings on top for decor.

  16. happy birthday! my fav is this pink lemonade cake (pink lemonade cake with yellow lemon icing) at this local bakery! so pretty and so deelish!!

  17. Happy Birthday!!! When it comes to cake….I will take any flavor!!!!!! My favorite tho is ice cream cake 🙂 Any kind of ice cream, any kind of cake 🙂

  18. And MANY MORE!!!!!!! I love eating carrot cake – I always get a big piece: I feel semi-healthy eating it b/c I have to say “carrot” in the same sentence as “cake” – I know my rational is waaaaay off 🙂

  19. Happy Birthday to you!! And thank you for the opportunity to win an amazing giveaway!
    I am a sucker for angel food cake with strawberries & whip cream…yumm!!
    Hope you’re having a great day!

  20. First of all HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA! Glad you had luck shopping. 🙂
    I enjoy shopping at thrift shops. You are able to find sooo many great things.

    My favorite cake would be “chocolate -moist of course -with chocolate frosting”. mmmmm.
    Okay, now I want to go bake one, LOL

    Thank you for the GREAT giveaway 🙂

  21. Happy Happy Birthday, Lisa! Hope it is a great one! Nice of you to give away on YOUR birthday! 🙂 My FAVORITE CAKE is my mother-in-laws absolutely delicious carrot cake with homemade cream cheese frosting! YUUUMMMMYY!!! (thank you for the giveaway entry!)

  22. Happy Birthday!! That coffee table looks great – I need to find one that works with our sectional!

    And my favorite flavor of cake is definitely red velvet! With cream cheese frosting. Yummmm!

  23. Hello Lisa,

    My favorite birthday cake growing up was a vanilla cake with a vanilla pudding filling and mocha frosting with chocolate sprinkles. Each year my mother would pick one up from our local bakery. Just delish!!

    Saw your necklaces for the first time last week when I went out to lunch. I asked the cashier and she told me all about you. Now another friend has mentioned you on FB. Very creative and fun jewelry!! I think I know where I will be doing my Xmas shopping this year!!

  24. Have a wonderful birthday! I love the table that you painted. Makes the room “pop”. My favorite flavor of cake would have to be red velet cake with homemade cream cheese frosting. Hop you have a great day!

  25. OMW!!!! 1200+ entries? I can’t imagine winning (but I’m still going to try!!!) I so love your style and to win a surcie like THIS on YOUR birthday? I dunno…an extra dollop of special.

    Ok…my favorite cake. A perfectly baked chocolate pound cake with fudgy/nutty icing and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.

    Too specific :)???

  26. Happy Birthday Lisa! and many more!
    FAVORITE CAKE? Banana with buttercream frosting, not cream cheese.
    and thank you for entering my name.

  27. Happy Birthday! Cheesecake with any fresh berries! Thank you for all your amazing ideas and inspiring me to be a little more creative.

  28. I am a big red velvet fan too, but white cake with white icing works for me too. My daughter turns 17 tomorrow. I think it’ll be chocolate with chocolate icing, vanilla ice cream, and hot fudge. I love cake. That is one of my main motivators for attending weddings.

  29. Happy Birthday Lisa! I love what you did to the coffee table and it looks great in your livingroom.
    My favorite cake is Red Velvet with the creamy white frosting. When I was growing up my mom always made it for gramma on her birthday.

  30. happy happy birthday! what a fun way to celebrate.

    my favorite cake these days is red velvet. but i also love classic yellow with chocolate frosting. and carrot with cream cheese frosting. there’s not much cake i won’t eat though! 🙂

  31. Happy happy birthday!! I just love cake and ice cream and it is a MUST on your birthday! I love funfetti cake baked in ice cream cones with vanilla funfetti icing! It is so delicious!! Kids LOVE it and it helps with the mess of cake! Enjoy your special day … with friends and family!!

  32. Happy Birthday !!! My favorite cake is homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting:), Love to you & Yours ~ Thank you for all you do !!

  33. I LOVE black forest cake from San Luis Obispo, CA
    so yummy!! It’s my favorite wish I could have every year
    but I live in TX now so I don’t get it 🙁
    Have a fabulous BIrThdAy 🙂

  34. Happy Birthday to you!! It is my sisters birthday today also!! I love my husbands grandmothers chocolate cake with chocolate frosting! HOMEADE AND DELICIOUS!

  35. Happy Birthday!! One of these days I’m going to try to buy one of these pieces! My favorite cake is white w/ white frosting. Boring…I know. 🙂 Hope your day is great!

    Crystal

  36. Happy Birthday to you! May your day be super wonderful! I loooooove cake, to pick a fave is hard!
    Strawberry shortcake – spice cake w/whipped cream – chocolate cake, homemade chocolate frosting w/sprinkles – german chocolate – the list could go on……. 🙂

  37. Happy Birthday!!
    My favorite is red velvet cake, but red velvet cupcakes are just as yummy! 🙂
    And PS: love your ‘new’ living room! So cute!

  38. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My fave cake is chocolate doberge. It’s a New Orleans favorie & Ima Nola girl!

  39. To be extremely specific, my favorite cake is Marbled flavored from Sam’s club because I LOVE the non-dairy whipped topping. It’s soooo amazing.
    Also Happy Birthday!

  40. Happy Birthday, Lisa! I hope you have a great day and a wonderful year ahead of you!
    My favorite is an ice cream cake….chocolate please!
    Have a great day!

  41. Happy Birthday! My very favorite cake is german chocolate with coconut pecan frosting mmmm…delicious. Can’t wait to have it for my birthday in October. Love your blog it is so inspiring!

  42. Lisa,
    Today is my momma’s birthday too! Happy birthday!!! My favorite cake is New York Cheesecake! But since that’s actually a pie, I’ll go for next best… Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting YUM!!!!

    I love your living room set up! CUTE! That table just made it extra cozy cute.

    Hope you have a lovely day!
    Lynnette

  43. Happy Birthday!! Love your new coffee table.

    My favourite cake is angel food with a dab of whipped cream and a heaping helping to fresh strawberries! Yum.

  44. Happy Birthday! Caramel Pecan Layered Cheesecake is my “official’ cake…another 9 months until my mom makes it again for me!

  45. Happy Birthday!! I love reading your blog!! 🙂

    My favorite is yellow cake with chocolate chips and chocolate frosting…YUM!! Hope you are enjoying your cake today!

  46. Happy Day!!! I personally think your day would be better celebrated with SPRINKLES on your cake! Sprinkles make any flavor cake the best!!

  47. Happy Birthday Lisa! Today is my baby’s first bday so its special to me too. I’ve gotta say I love ice-cream cake. 🙂 Have a fantastic birthday!

  48. Happy Birthday
    I’ve just discovered my new favorite frosting. It is creamy and oh SO not diet. You take 8 oz of cream cheese and blend it till it is smooth, beat in 1/2 cup of sugar, and then 2 cups of whipping cream! Not too sweet, but delicious~ especially on chocolate cake.

  49. My fav is chocolate cake with peanut butter/powdered sugar frosting!! Its so delicious and yet soo bad for you. Happy Birthday Lisa!

  50. Mmmm, just thinking about it makes me hungry…

    My grandmother’s dense yellow cake with homemade chocolate frosting (which forms the most perfect light “crust” when cooled.)

  51. Happy Birthday! My favorite is the chocolate caramel cheesecake my nephew and I made for his birthday last weekend! Gluten free too 🙂

  52. Happy birthday!! My favorite cake is vanilla wedding cake. Why does wedding cake taste better? I don’t know but I swear it just does.

  53. Red Velvet Cake is always my favorite, but from time to time I will make a Funfetti Cake with the Rainbow Chip icing! Yummy, I could go for one right about now!

    Love the room!

    Happy Birthday!!!!

  54. Happy birthday Lisa! How sweet & gracious of you to share 🙂 My fav. is rainbow chip w/ rainbow chip frosting..yum 😉

  55. Happy happy birthday! What an amazing giveaway. Hmmm…I am not a huge cake lover (I love love love pie) but as a kid I always asked for confetti cake and frosting for my birthday. Enjoy your day!

  56. Happy Birthday, Lisa!

    Way to score on the coffee table!

    My favorite cake is hard to decide because I am now a baker. But….Texas Sheet Cake (think chocolatey chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles like from school lunch when we were kids) is my FAVE. MMMMMmmmmm….

    Oh, I hope I win!!!

  57. my favorite kind of cake is Cheesecake…with rasberry sauce drizzled all over it…mmmm! Now I want a piece 🙂

  58. My favourite cake flavour is a carob cake my Mum has made since we were little – I love the taste and the memories!

    Happy Birthday Lisa, hope you have a beautiful day!

  59. I can’t believe 1,167 people have commented! You are a popular lady! Happy Birthday to YOU! I hope it is everything you dreamed of. PS- my favorite cake is in a colder, softer, form also known as: Ice cream! Love it!

  60. Happy birthday, Lisa! My favorite cake is either caramel cake or strawberries-&-creme cake. Oh, and cupcakes stacked together like a cake. LOL.

  61. YOUR FAVORITE FLAVOR OF CAKE: Is called Princess Cake – it’s a vanilla/champagne cake with cream cheese frosting. It’s simple but HEAVEN!

    I recently found your blog and your beautiful online botique…and I am almost as in love with your things as I am the Princess Cake. 🙂

    Have a Beautiful Birthday!

  62. Lisa, you and Chrissie share a birthday with COCO CHANEL! You have a similar flair. Nice work on the room. Happy Birthday. My fave cake is rainbow chip with rainbow chip icing. Laden with preservatives and 100% not on my diet, but, I love it!

    Heather

  63. Happy Birthday! I’ll take any cake with frosting:) Especially italian creme cake with raspberry in between the layers.

  64. Happy Birthday 2 u!!!! I hope your day was enjoyable. Carrot Cake w cream cheese frosting is yumm-ooo.

  65. Happy birthday girl. Lindsey just gave me your “bird on a branch” Sunday for my birthday, but I’d still love your heart necklace. My favorite cake is probably carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Cindy at [email protected].

  66. A very ♫ Happy Birthday ♫ Lisa! I hope your day is wonderful! My favorite cake is carrot cake with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting ~ love it! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway opportunity!

  67. Happy! Happy!
    It would not be a birthday for me without Angel Cake & Strawberries. Although, this past July, when I asked our 2-year-old what kind of cake she wanted, her reply was “APPLE PIE!” She would have eaten the entire pie. Got to love a girl who speaks her mind.
    Awesome giveaway… would LOVE to win!!

  68. Happy Birthday!!!!

    My fav cake is what we had at our wedding. A citrus cake with raspberry filling with a citrus buttercream frosting! Will never be able to duplicate it – but she’s just 2 towns away! 😉

    Have a wonderful day!

    Oh, and I love what you did with the table – the rug totally completes it!

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  70. happy birthday and thanks for such a generous giveaway.
    cake? might sound plain or boring, but I have to say that a good vanilla cake can’t be beat, topped with berries, with fresh cream or ice cream. and if one can’t make it from scratch, i love Trade Joe’s vanilla cake box. Delicious!

  71. If it’s chocolate- I’m eating it! 🙂 Any kind will do!
    Happy Birthday! I love your style and your jewelry.

  72. I am a new follower and placed my first order with you yesterday! Favorite cake is Tres Leche with Coconut. Next would be my mom’s carrot cake with cream cheese orange icing.

  73. Happy birthday, Lisa! Messy-delicious-full-of-love homemade cake is always the best no matter what flavor it is. Nothing like the smell of a cake fresh from the oven to put a smile on everyone’s face 🙂 SCRUMPTIOUS! Enjoy your day!!!

  74. Happy Birthday! Have a fabulous day!

    And my favorite kind of cake… either chocolate or marble! And those were even my wedding cake flavors with some yummy butter cream icing!

  75. Happy birthday! I hope it is beautiful and wonderful!! There is a local bakery here that makes a fresh banana filled chocolate cake that is to die for! Defs one of my faves 🙂

  76. Beautiful room! Happy Birthday! Let’s see – my favorite cake ever was my mother’s Angel Food Cake with confectioner’s sugar sifted on top. Since I can’t have that any more, I would have to choose pumpkin or almond pound cake. Yum!

  77. Happy B day.
    carmel cake, when the cake is super moist and the icing is so sweet you have to have a glass of cold milk with it.

  78. favorite flavor? that would imply i’d have to pick one? really?! that’s not fair — its cake!! um, red velvet – but its a hard race against chocolate w/ caramel or peanut butter icing.

    your new abode looks great! love all the special touches you fill it with.

  79. Happy Birthday, Lisa!

    My current fave is a pink marzipan princess cake (my 5 year old loves it too!) Hope you feel like a princess (queen?) today!

    xoxo
    Lisa

  80. Happy Birthday Lisa! Thanks for sharing with us…the paint really changes the table 🙂 My favorite flavor of cake is chocolate. I like it with ice cream and/or strawberries 🙂 Yum!

  81. That’s such a tough question!!! The “adult” side of me wants to say Red Velvet Cake, but the kid in me wants to say Rainbow Chip Cake with Rainbow Chip Frosting… SO GOOD!

    Happy birthday, Lisa! I love your blog. 🙂

  82. Happy Birthday! Thanks for sharing it with us!! Ok, I like cake. Really any flavor will do. Depends on the season…but, I will have to say homemade chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting is always a winner!

  83. Happy Birthday!! I hope you were/are able to enjoy spending some time in that inviting living room today…with all three of your boys.

    My favorite cake flavor is snickerdoodle!! I just discovered it recently and have really enjoyed baking and eating it. 🙂

  84. Pioneer Woman’s Coffee Cake…it is a layer cake that is coffee flavored and has coffee Buttercream frosting…it is the most moist amazing recipe… So sweet of you to share the love…Happy Birthday!

  85. I am a white cake, white buttercream icing girl…LOVE it.
    Happy Birthday, hope your day is full of fun.

    btw, Love the coffee table, I never find anything at thrift shops.

  86. Just left a FB note, too. My grown up favorite is white cake with white buttercream frosting–wedding cake style. YUM! Thanks for sharing your birthday with us!

  87. Happy birthday! My favorite is angel food cake with confetti frosting because my grandmother used to make that for me when I was little!

  88. Happy Birthday Lisa! I hope that your bday is filled with lots of love, laughter, and blessings!
    My favorite cake to eat is cheesecake with strawberries. Corner Bakery Cafe lemon pound cake with fresh berries isn’t too bad either.

  89. Hi Lisa! Happy Birthday. I ordered my mom the family tree necklace for Christmas and it’s her favorite. EVERYBODY comments on it, so thank you! This is such a fun giveaway. My favorite cake is funfetti cake. How lame is that? Hope your day was great!

  90. Happy birthday! I love when life is celebrated. My aunt is Debra Parker and she posted about this on fb. So here I am. My favorite cake is yellow with chocolate icing. Homemade is best! Thanks for the fun!

  91. Happy Birthday Lisa! Have a great day!
    My fav cake to eat and to make is a dense chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. Yum!

  92. Happy Happy Birthday my fellow Leo sister! My favorite cake flavor is now Red Velvet. It used to be German Chocolate Cake… depending on my mood, it could be either, I guess. Happy Birthday!

  93. Happy Birthday, Lisa! Still loving your blog—it’s so fun to see your home coming together, and I LOVE What I Wore Wednesdays. As for my favorite cake flavor: When I was growing up, my Dad always loved an angel food cake with cherry frosting. In fact, one of my earliest memories of celebrating his birthday with him is digging into a yummy Cherry-frosted fluffy angel food cake together when I was seven. So, to this day, a birthday cake that can’t be beat—to me—is an angel food cake slathered in homemade cherry frosting. Yum!

  94. Happy Birthday to you!
    Mine is just 3 days away…and I am very much looking forward to my favorite cake – coconut!

  95. Happy Birthday! I love looking at your blog every day and I LOVE your jewelry!

    My favorite cake is funfetti from the box with rainbow chip frosting!

  96. Rainbow chip cake with rainbow chip frosting, hands down. A holdover from happy childhood memories. 🙂 Happy birthday!

  97. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA!!! (And may I also say, Happy Birthday to your sister too!) Thanks so much for the chance at an AWESOME prize!!!

    My favorite cake is definitely chocolate with cream cheese frosting. Simple but OH SO GOOD! I have a friend who swears that cupcakes can not be called cupcakes unless they are chocolate… haha. I don’t agree necessarily, but I understand where he’s coming from. I love chocolate!!!

  98. okay, you can delete my previous comment.

    happy birthday!
    thank you for such a generous giveaway in celebration of your special day. xo.

    i am not much of a cake person (since i love fruit, that tends to be in the form of pie-also love muffins, cookies, candy, ice cream) but i love carrot cake with cream cheese icing/frosting. 🙂

  99. Happy Birthday!! Cake, Jewelry, and Target?! Three of my favorite things. My favorite cake flavor is a toss up between my mother-in-law’s Sugar Plum cake or my husbands favorite Oatmeal and Coconut Cake (which we used as our wedding cake!)

  100. My favorite is red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Yum! I check your blog everyday and love your fun and creative pictures and messages. Happy Birthday!

  101. I love vanilla custard cake with berries. And if you are ever in Burbank or Glendale, CA, Porto’s Bakery has yummy desserts and cakes. Happy Birthday Lisa!!! I have enjoyed your blog for some time and find it uplifting. :)Mary A.

  102. Happy Birthday!!!

    Anything chocolate!! Cream cheese frosting, buttercream frosting, strawberry frosting, chocolate frosting…doesn’t matter 😉

  103. I love vanilla custard cake with berries. And if you are ever in Glendale or Burbank, CA, Porto’s Bakery has yummy desserts and cakes. Happy Birthday Lisa!!! I’ve been following your blog for some time and I find it uplifting. Thank you! Mary A.

  104. I facebooked about you! http://www.facebook.com/nfl99

    My favorite cake is definitely my mama’s homemade yellow cake with homemade chocolate whipped cream frosting. My whole family likes angel-food cake, though– I’m the odd one out.

    I hope you have a wonderful day with your all those boys (husband included) I hope it’s fun, exciting, full of joy and gross amounts of love. I hope God’s light shines into your life a little extra today.

  105. We share a birthday! What a treat. 🙂
    My favorite birthday cake is chocolate with raspberry filling.
    Hope you have a wonderful day.

  106. My favorite is a yummy lemon with lemon frosting! Although, in all honesty, if any type of cake was sitiing in front of me, I would totally dig into it!! 🙂 Have a wonderful birthday!!

  107. Happy birthday Lisa! What a sweetheart you are for giving us gifts on your birthday. 🙂
    I don’t know that I can pick one favorite type of cake. It just needs to be homemade, and if it has cream cheese frosting, that makes it even better.

  108. Happy birthday!
    mmm… chocolate cake with peanut butter and chocolate frosting… I made it for my brother’s wedding and it was such a huge hit they sent out the recipe with all of their thank you cards!
    LOVE your ideas and thoughts – what a great blog!

  109. happy birthday!!

    My favorite kind if my death by chocolate cake…I wait a whole year to have it because one piece makes you feel like you gained 20pounds LOL Thanks for the chance!!

  110. wishing you the happiest of birthdays!
    cake? is there one i don’t like?
    okay… favorite? red velvet, made by me, with cream cheese frosting. yum.
    thanks!

  111. THANK YOU for this great giveaway! my fav cake is the one my mom always made me for my birthday-homemade confetti angelfood with maraschino cherry icing! yummm!

  112. Paula Dean’s Japanese fruit cake. Its so good. Not your typical fruit cake. Its all homemade a type of white cake with pineapples, marachino cherries, coconut and a sweet sauce yum. Its in her mom and sons just desert cook book.

  113. Happy Birthday!!!

    Definitely homemade chocolate cake with buttercream icying….

    Have a wonderful day!
    Melissa

  114. My favorite cake would have to be what I call GRADUATION CAKE, you know the sheet cake that is ordered from the local grocery store for your special day! It is always vanilla cake with real vanilla frosting [with added sprinkles on my piece for some yummy color]! O how I luv sweets… 😀

  115. Happy Birthday Lisa. My favorite cake is flour less chocolate cake it is awesome. My cousin made it for my last birthday.
    Jo

  116. Happy Birthday! My favorite cake is Yellow cake, with banana pudding /whipcream and crushed pineapple filling with buttercream frosting 🙂

  117. Happy Birthday! A local bakeshop, Muddy’s, makes a Snickerdoodle cake which is my absolute favorite. If I’m making something myself, then chocolate with buttercream frosting.

  118. Happy Birthday!

    Anything with buttercreme frosting! My sister makes the BEST cakes and buttercreme frosting from scratch! yummyyyyy! Okay…now I want cake!!

    Ashley

  119. Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting YUM YUM….. Makes my mouth water! Have a super spectacular birthday and thanks for the give away!

  120. happy birthday! beautiful weather here on the central coast for you to celebrate your special day with 🙂

    red velvet, mmm!!!!

  121. Happy birthday! Hope you have a fantastic day!

    My favourite flavor of cake is tuxedo layer cake–rich rich chocolate cake. Nom nom nom.

  122. What a sweet treat to share on your Birthday! My favorite cake flavor is my Aunt’s homemade Strawberry cake. It’s absolutely perfect! Hope I win!

  123. I’m completely convinced that any flavor of cake is at least twice as good when it’s in cupcake form! 🙂 I especially love almond cake with raspberry filling. (which I had at my wedding) or a deliciously moist coconut cake with whipped cream and toasted coconut on top…Yummm! Happy Birthday!

  124. Thanks for being so generous on your birthday! I’m a peanut butter and chocolate fan… so chocolate-y cake and peanut butter frosting is my first choice!

  125. Have a wonderful, wonder-filled day!

    My fav flavor is Georgetown Cupcake’s coconut cupcake! (And I miss it sooooo bad now that I live in Florida!)

  126. Happy Birthday Lisa, hope you’re having a lovely lovely day! Not sure I can be included in your generous giveaway being from England but just wanted to say enjoy your day, birthdays are exciting and I love your sitting room, very cosy. And woahhhh, 939 comments!!!

  127. Happy Birthday! The new table looks fabulous!

    My favorite cake is butter pecan with cream cheese icing 🙂

  128. Happy Birthday! Hope it’s extra wonderful!

    How could I possibly choose a favorite flavor? Here are a few my choices:
    – Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache frosting
    – Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting
    – Tiramisu cake

    Thanks for the chance to win!

  129. Happy Birthday Lisa!

    Thanks so much for inviting us to join in your festivities!

    I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Chocolate cake with buttercream icing. My fave!!!

    I’ve tweeted about your b-day fest on my seraphimgirl Twitter page!

    Thanks – and good luck, everyone!

  130. Happy Birthday! Today my Son Gavin is 4 today also!
    Chocolate cake seems tames my inner beast 🙂 Mrs Milman’s chocolate frosting recipe shared on Martha Stewarts show and a good simple recipe, for Chocolate cake… There you go… Fabulocity!!
    Gavin is a ultra vanilla boy, oh and no sprinkles either 🙂

  131. Happy BDay, Lisa! My favorite cake is a tiramisu cake which was a Pillsbury Bakeoff Winner years ago. It’s delicious & easy to make.

  132. Chocolate cake with raspberry filling (which was my wedding cake!)

    Happy Happy Birthday! Your new table looks great! I am thinking of painting some cabinets cream with some distressing, need to convince DH though!

  133. Happy, happy birthday, Lisa! Enjoy your special day 🙂 I will be celebrating mine on 8-22 🙂 I love carrot cake with lots of raisins and thick, cream cheese frosting….it’s the best!

  134. Happy Birthday to you, cha cha cha!! My most fave cake flavor is red velvet with cream cheese frosting from Becker’s Bakery in Manhattan Beach. Yummmm! Have a great day and thanks for all that you do, Lisa. XOXO.

  135. Love the creative and fun things you have done in your new home. My favorite would have to be
    old fashion, made from scratch, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.

  136. Happy Birthday! Hope you have lots of fun doing all the things you love and NONE of the stuff you don’t love! (I hate the word hate…wait…oops!)

    My favorite flavor of cake is just plain white cake with white frosting! How plain am I?

    I’m curious as to where your favorite thrift shop is located? Wondering if you would ever disclose the name? I live in Paso and have yet to find a good thrift shop around here!!

    By the way, I would Luh-huv to win your giveaway! I just did the bills and got depressed. I just had a baby and so don’t want to go back to work yet.. I’m loving the time with my baby. I’m just having faith everything will work out.

  137. Happy Birthday Lisa!!! Your house looks so homey and adorable. I love chocolate cake.
    I love your blog and have been collecting your jewelry for myself and as gifts, I just love it. Have a fantastic day and thanks for the endless inspiration you provide.

  138. I love vanilla cake with lemon curd filling. Or a chocolate with ganache!

    Happy Birthday!!! I hope you have a wonderful day!

  139. I love your pictures – your family is adorable. My favorite flavor of cake is red velvet. My late grandmother used to make it from scratch on special occasions. It is a tradition my mom and I have been trying to keep alive! Have a wonderful birthday!

  140. What beautiful jewelery! My favorite flavor for cake is Chocolate Mud Cake! It’s made with sour cream and is very, very rich!!!! Yummy! Happy Birthday to you! Karen 🙂

  141. My favorite cake is the devils food cake with chocolate buttercream from the America’s Test Kitchen Baking book. It is sooo good…probably due to the 2 plus pounds of butter that go into the cake and frosting. Happy Birthday!

  142. happy birthday lisa! i love chocolate cake! i also wanted to thank you for being a great friend to me!!! have a blessed day!!!!!

  143. Happy, happy Birthday, Lisa! Hope your day is filled up with happiness and love.
    I love your coffee table, the new color is amazing!

    As for my cake flavor goes, I love chocolate cake with some raspberry/chocolate filling 🙂

  144. Happy Birthday! I’m so excited for this giveaway because, guess what, it’s my birthday too! 🙂 My favorite kind of cake is red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Enjoy your day!!!!!

  145. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! My birthday is this week too! Yay for Leos! I have several different kinds of favorite cakes- but I do love Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!!! YUM!!
    Your coffee table is darling! Enjoy your day!! 🙂

  146. CARROT CAKE!!! yummy!!!

    And happy happy birthday lisa! I love all your jewelry & love your blog! my favorite is ‘what i wore wednesdays’. i copied one of your outfits from Wednesday that i’m wearing today 🙂

  147. Blueberry… my son has taken to asking for it every year on his birthday so it’s been my annual challenge to come up with the yummiest blueberry cake ever.

  148. Oh, its been lemon every year for as long as I can remember! Love your new coffee table. My sectional hates it round coffee table.

  149. Happy Birthday Lisa! Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate…with a little more chocolate, and some fudgey frosting to top it off!

  150. Happy Birthday Lisa! My favorite cake is anything with Lemon – lemon raspberry, lemon poppyseed, etc. I love the way it brightens the flavor of an indulgent piece of cake!

  151. Happy Birthday, Hope you have a great day. My favorite cake right now is a White Almond Sour Cream with a Homemade raspberry filling. It is so yummy!!!

  152. Happy Birthday! I have a snickerdoodle cake that I’m dying to make…and I’m pretty sure that it will be my favorite flavor. 😀

  153. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (It’s fun seeing a popular local blog– I’m from SLO county, too! Seen your stuff around.) 🙂

    My fave cake?…..

    Cake Batter ice cream cake from Cold Stone

    or

    Chocolate Molten Cake from Chili’s

  154. Happy birthday!

    My favourite cakes are flourless chocolate cake, or chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. I’m getting hungry thinking about them!

  155. Happy Birthday!!!
    My FAVORITE cake flavor is funfetti! Although Red velvet is a close second!
    Enjoy your day!!

  156. my childhood favorite is Betty Crocker Cherry Chip cake with strawberry frosting. I haven’t been able to find that cake mix in over 18 years!!!!

  157. Hey, sweet Lisa! Happy Happy Birthday! My fave cake right now is strawberry, can’t get enough. Of course, chocolate is right behind.

    So proud of you for thrifting & painting that coffee table. Didn’t know you were such a DIY gal too. YAY, your LR looks great.

  158. my favorite cake is butterfinger ice cream cake made by my darling mother-in-law. it’s a delicious family tradition that i feel so lucky to be part of!
    smiles and HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA!!
    🙂 Joni

  159. Happy birthday-what a wonderful gift. My fav cake is chocolate cake with aqua colored fondant with lime green and white polka dots. Too cute of you ask me!

  160. Mmmmm…red velvet cake. I love the necklace with the two initials and the pearl! How much is that??

  161. Happy birthday wishes!!!
    Have a wonderful day celebrating the very special blessing you are :0)

    My favorite cake is orange cake with chocolate frosting and M-n-Ms all over it :0) The memories of that cake are special!

  162. Ooops! Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LISA! LUV your jewelry…..and LUV your sense of style, too, girl! I’m just rockin’ over the gray flower dress w/cardie over your skinny jeans and flip flops! Way cool! Oh, and my fav flavor of cake is German Chocolate! Always has been since I first smushed it all over my face as a one year old, and I still love it today! (Though I did put the kabosh on the smushing part….) lol!

    xoxo laurie@heavens-walk

  163. Favorite flavor of cake?
    Pink Lemonade with fresh lemon buttercream.
    Followed closely by wedding cake with buttercream. : )

    Happy Birthday!
    xoxo,
    Becca

  164. Happy Birthday!! Most days I would say chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. But, today I am craving Hummingbird cake, w/ the traditional cream cheese frosting. mmmm.

  165. Happy Birthday, Lisa! I hope you have a wonderful day.

    My favorite caske is red velvet with cream cheese icing! Yummy, yummy!!!

  166. Happy Birthday Lisa! I love seeing your artistic creations. God has given you such a gift! 🙂 My favorite cake to celebrate with is by far chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. yum! Hope you have a marvelous day!

  167. Happy Birthday!!

    I know it’s not technically cake but for my birthday I like to make tiramisu and eat almost all of it. Unfortunately I have to share with my husband.

  168. My favourite cake is black forest cake! There is a bakery near my parents’ called the Black Forest Bakery and for our first anniversary my husband bought me a black forest from Black Forest. Deliciosu! Happy Birthday, Lisa!

  169. My favorite cake is rainbow confetti with cherry chip icing- but here’s the clincher….you MUST eat it for breakfast on your special day! Nothing is as amazing as eating as much cake as you want in your pj’s with tea/coffee Mmmm And I love your jewelry! Very simple but personal too. You have a gift 🙂

  170. p.s. (I have a feeling this is going to get lost b/c you have so many comments… but here goes)
    can you show a close up of the pillow on your couch? it has me intrigued… the one that has some sort of applique… maybe a bird on a tree branch? it looks super cute!

  171. Hi Lisa – Have a very Happy Birthday and eats lotsa’ cake! I love cake – all cake – but at teh top of the fave list is angelfood cake with lots of fresh cream and blackberries and raspberries on top! Just made some this past weekend for my husband and daughter’s birthday party!

    Have an awesome day!

  172. Well hope you have a happy birthday. My favorite cake…Red Velvet, my eyes roll back in my head with each bite, pure bliss. I am 28 weeks pregnant and have been craving it since we found out…still haven’t gotten any, how sad is that? Better hinting to the hubby I guess!

  173. Happy Birthday, Lisa! Hope your day was extra special!

    My favorite cake rum raspberry with buttercream frosting. I even had it as my wedding cake. Delicious!

  174. Happy birthday, Lisa! Our birthdays are close as mine is Saturday. Layered banana cake for me. My mom started making it years ago and it has remained a favorite for my kids too.

  175. Happy Birthday Lisa, I hope your day is great. I love the coffee table – you are right, it does soften the room. I would love to win one of your beautiful necklaces!
    My favorite cake is spice with cream cheese frosting

  176. My favorite kind of cake is white cake with chocolate frosting. Nothing fancy! I would prefer a strawberry cream pie, though!

  177. Happiest of Birthday Wishes Mz Lisa!

    My favorite flavor of cake is my Mom’s homemade chocolate cake w/ chocolate frosting. Old school but all the best memories come along with it!

  178. Happy birthday, Lisa!!!

    I <3 your living room!

    My favorite cake is chocolate with chocolate frosting. When I was growing up, though, my mom always made me something with strawberries as my birthdays falls at the beginning of strawberry season. Strawberry pie or strawberry shortcake are some of my birthday dessert memories.

  179. Happy Birthday! The best cake I ever had was a chocolate marble wedding cake – delicious! Also Mocha Chocolate cake is good too!! 🙂

  180. Happy Birthday, Lisa! My favorite flavor is chocolate. Oh, I love all the goodies on this page. I am off to retweet this on twitter. I already retweeted Heidi’s tweet about this. Have a wonderful day!!

  181. hope you are having a wonderful birthday, Lisa! My favorite cake: my mom’s pineapple upside down cake with little marshino cherries on top!!!!!!!!!

  182. My favorite cake is . . . Pound Cake – Add an accessory (berries/cream/frosting) and you have a different flavor experience with the same base. Happy Birthday!

  183. Happy, Happy birthday!!!!

    I am a simple girl. I love just plain old devil’s food cake with chocolate icing. YUM-O! I just love chocolate so I am easy to please. 🙂

  184. Wow, Happy Birthday! Mine was last week. Aren’t birthday’s fun?!?!? All of them but especially your own!!!

    My favorite cupcake has to be red velvet with that special cream cheese frosting, just thinking about it makes me salivate!

    In honor of your birthday I’ll make sure to wear my LL bracelet!

  185. I really have a soft spot for my grandma’s carrot cake with peanut butter frosting…all made from scratch. She makes an amazing Boston Cream Pie too…which is more like cake for me.

  186. Happy Birthday Lisa!
    I did not think I had an answer for my favorite cake until I started reading comments. Cake is not my favorite dessert. BUT I do love, ice cream cake, pound cake, chocolate cake with chocolate icing, and carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. My favorite cake is cheese cake with raspberry topping, yum. Thanks, I would love to win your giveaway on this my unbirthday. Hope your birthday is really special.

  187. My fave cake is cassata cake (but not Cassata siciliana which is apparently a whole different kind of cake)

    wikipedia says this:
    In and around Cleveland, Ohio the term “cassata cake” refers to a white layer cake filled with strawberries and custard and covered with sweetened whipped cream.

    Which is the one I like!

  188. Happy Birthday Lisa! I hope you have a very special day and year ahead!

    I just discovered your blog – I had googled Psalms 91; 4 and your blog popped up 1st on the list from Google so I check in and was pleasantly surprised to see that your a close neighbor! (I also live on the CA Central Coast!) And I guess I felt a sense of kindred spirits in the sense that I read about your boys – I have a 7 year old boy. This age range is so fun! But I was also sad to hear about heart problem. I wish him all the best with that & I will keep him, as well as your family, in my prayers.

    Anyways, the purpose of my post was not to enter your give-away, but to reach out & say hello, introduce myself, and wish you a very happy birthday! {{{HUGS}}}

  189. Happy Birthday, Lisa!!!
    My favorite is a boxed yellow cake with chocolate frosting made by my kids. I used to say my little sis made the best cake, but now my kids get that honor!

  190. My favorite is red velvet with cream cheese icing. Yummy!! Sounds like you had a great birthday. Happy Birthday!

  191. Love the table!

    My favorite cake is yellow with white frosting. What I really like carrot cake frosting, but not the carrot cake. My husband loves carrot cake so every once in awhile I get a bit of that yummy frosting!

    Happy Birthday!

  192. Happy Birthday to you!! I just love chocolate cake. Any kind of chocolate cake.

    I would so love to win this giveaway. I was just thinking this morning as I picked out a necklace, “I sure wish I had a Lisa Leonard necklace to put on!”

    Keeping my fingers crossed.

  193. Happy Birthday Lisa! I love a local bakeries cake called “milky way cake”. It is chocolate with chocolate chips and cream cheese. Then topped with chocolate buttercream icing, chocolate ganche and chocolate shavings on top!

  194. Have a wonderful Day! I am a simple kind of girl…yellow cake with chocolate frosting…at vanilla ice cream mooshed in and you have a perfect dessert!

  195. Happy Birthday To You….Lisa! My favorite is red velvet with cream cheese frosting. So yummmy!!!
    Have a beautiful day…may the sun shine your way all day.

  196. The room is gorgeous and oh how long have I been coveting your jewelry! My favorite is black forest but I also like a simple box cake with some coolwhip icing.

  197. Happy birthday! My favorite cake is chocolate carrot – we had it as our wedding cake and everyone commented how wonderful it was for a fall wedding.

  198. I actually love Cupcakes.. that counts right? lol… But it has to have chocolate.. ohhh might have to make some today.. Happy Bday 2 You!! 🙂

  199. Happy Birthday! What a sweet way to celebrate with your blog friends. 🙂 This is the first time I’ve been to your blog but I’m a huge fan of your jewelry. And my favorite cake flavor is chocolate!

  200. My favorite is vanilla! But, My 7 year old thinks he is Duff Goldman! lol So he decorates with fondant & icing & always makes the cakes for our family’s special occasions!

  201. Happy Birthday!

    I hope you are surrounded by those you love and those who love you!

    My favorite flavor cake is chocolate, chocolate chip with chocolate frosting and chocolate ice cream. See the pattern?

  202. Happy Birthday!!! I like all cake as long as it has lots of butercream frosting on it!!! Guess I am still just a kid at heart. Thanks for the great giveaway.

  203. I used to be a huge chocolate cake person, but I’ve really been sticking with red velvet these days. Simple red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting, so yummy!

  204. Lets see…My absolute favorite might not even be considered a real cake. Cheese Cake.

    I love your new table, perfect paint choice. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, I am glad you are having a great day.

    Thanks for the wonderful chance to win on your special day. You are amazing!

  205. Happy Birthday! Hope you’re having a fabulous day! And what a fantastic giveaway! I love the jewelry…oh my! And shopping at Target is always fun! And cake…I love chocolate….dark chocolate with MORE chocolate frosting! ♥♥♥

  206. My favorite kind of birthday cake is quite boring but that’s okay. I like white cake with a nice buttercream frosting. I don’t need the filling or anything extra. Just a plain white cake will do.

  207. Happy Birthday Lisa!
    I like Yellow Cake with Chocolate frosting and I also really like Carrot Cake.
    Oh and I always love fruit tortes 🙂

  208. Happy Birthday Lisa! Enjoy your special day and let yourself spoil a bit!

    I love a special Almond-Chocolate-Cake 🙂

  209. Happy Birthday! Your website is so beautiful and it inspires me everyday. I love birthdays! My favorite cake/cupcake is rich chocolate with bright pink icing. Every decadent bite makes me feel like a princess on my one special day!

  210. Happy Birthday Lisa! Hope you have a beautiful day! My favorite cake is my Gradmother’s pink lemonade cake. I love it with fresh raspberries on top. :o)

  211. Happy birthday Lisa…your blog is one of the highlights of my morning….love to read it and start with the images you provide….my favorite cake is anything chocolate or with coffee flavoring….

  212. I LOVE my sister’s white cake with almond buttercream. She does cakes ‘on the side’ and has definitely spoiled me into being a cake snob. Doesn’t matter, if I only like her cakes, I won’t be wasting calories on others! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Love your designs!

  213. I love a good carrot cake, with cream cheese frosting. OR, a simple yellow box cake with chocolate frosting works, too. Really, really, really hope I win!

  214. Happy Birthday to you!! My favorite cake has always been yellow cake with chocolate icing, but I have a friend of a friend who bakes cakes out of her home and she makes a delicious chocolate chip cake which I also LOVE! Hope you have a great day!

  215. I LOVE white cake with white frosting…..I know…..boring!!! Happy Birthday…..mine is coming up in afew weeks……… Havea HAPPY DAY!!!!!!!

  216. Yay! Your birthday is just four days after mine! Isn’t being a Leo the best? 🙂

    Happy happy birthday!!

    I made tie dyed angel food cupcakes with cool whip topping, and had fruit salad with it. It was yum. 🙂

  217. Happy Birthday to such a creative spirit! Lisa, I’ve been checking in on your blog for quite some time now and it always serves as an inspiration and such a sweet escape from the hectic workday. I’ve read about your son’s condition and my heart goes out to you.

    I think its so neat that you’re doing this giveaway! I would love to win so I can buy another adorable piece of jewelry from you! I have to say my favorite cake flavor is Tres Leches. I live in San Antonio and this is a very popular cake here. It’s delicious!

    Blessings upon you, your family, and your wonderful business! I hope it continues to grow!

  218. I make this delish chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese icing – yummy! (but even better when someone else makes it because it’s a lot of work!!) 🙂 Or Red Velvet…equally delish!

  219. Happy Birthday! I love plain old vanilla cake but with some sort of fruit filling and a nice buttercream frosting. Yum!

  220. Happy Birthday to you! Hope this is the best one ever! My favorite birthday cake is German Chocolate Cake, and I so want to win your giveaway!

  221. oh my goodness!!!! look at the of the CAKE EATERS!
    i enjoy any and all cakes (will say CHOCOLATE to follow the rules), but the secret is BUTTER CREAM FROSTING!
    happy birthday, you cute girl.

  222. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA!

    My favorite cake is Lemon Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting! Yummy!

    LOVE the sectional & new coffee table! Can I move in?

  223. Lisa Happy Birthday to You!.. Sounds like you off to a good start to having a wonderful day. Hope you have a great birthday. I love Italian Cream Cheese… eeewwww soooo gooood!

  224. Happy Birthday!! My favorite flavor is probably chocolate, but only when super moist and paired with a yummy fudge frosting 🙂 Otherwise, a nice yellow cake is always lovely.

  225. Happy Birthday!
    My favorite birthday cake is chocolate with chocolate icing…shared with my family to make it taste so much better 🙂 Wishing you a fabulous day.

  226. Happy Birthday LISA!!!

    Enjoy the goodness of the day and the hugs from all your boys!

    My favorite cake is German Chocolate! YUMMM

  227. Happy birthday Lisa! I adore your jewelry and really think you should sell your photographs. I am from Iowa and the views you have are no where to be found in Iowa. I’d love to purchase some!!! My favorite cake is strawberry shortcake cake. Have an amazing day!

  228. Happy Birthday! It sounds like you are having a great day! My favorite cake would have to be chocolate with ganache. Yummy! Thank you for the opportunity to win, Lisa.
    Blessings

  229. Happy Birthday! Its my birthday too!!!
    My favorite is german chocolate cake!
    Hope you have a great day relaxing with your
    cute boys and sitting on your cozy couch!!!

    Have a blessed birthday!
    Patty

  230. Happy birthday!! My favorite cake is probably Rainbow Chip, from the box, with Rainbow Chip frosting, from the can. I know, original :). But I also love earthquake cake and tres leches cake. I just love cake!

  231. Dark chocolate, for sure! If I had the option, I’d add some raspberry filling and a whipped chocolate icing. It’s not my birthday but not I’m wanting some cake!

  232. Ok..so it is the” KID in me”, but I do like FUNETTI which is the cake that has confetti things in it. It has to be chocolate frosting though, but it rocks and is my guilty still a kid pleasure. They sell it at Target, so I could wear a Lisa Leonard design which cruising the aisle of the bigT looking for some funetti cake mix to make a big cake and treat myself!!!

    HAPPY HAPPY Birthday my dear favorite designer…..

    Hope ALL your wishes come TRUE!!!!
    Best Shauna

  233. Lisa, I don’t see my other comments. Just wanted to tell you a big Happy Birthday and what a super duper giveaway, my friend. Have a great day!!

  234. My favorite cake is my friend Bettina’s Red Velvet Truffles. She makes the cake rolls it into balls and dips them in chocolate. UMMMMMM YUMMY!!!

  235. happy, happy birthday, ll!! wishing you a GREAT day!! 🙂
    favorite cake flavor? not too original, but chocolatechocolatechocolate … with pink buttercream icing.
    mmmmmmm … 😀

  236. Happy birthday! Lisa Leonard and Target – two of my favorite things! Right now my favorite cake is deep dark chocolate with tons of WHITE frosting. But that changes on a daily basis.

  237. Best giveaway ever!! Happy Birthday to a woman who has an incredible eye for beauty of all sorts. I can’t tell you how often I get compliments on my teeny tiny initials necklace and I can’t stop checking the mail in anticipation of a by grace alone necklace that should be here any day!

    My favourite kind of cake is homemade toblerone cheesecake!

  238. My favorite is a triple chocolate amaretto bundt cake with homemade cream cheese icing. The combo of chocolate with the amaretto flavor is amazing. I just love your house and your decorating style. You always inspire me.

  239. happy birthday lisa! i hope you have a great day because you brighten the days of so many others through your life, your blog and your jewelry!

    my favorite cake is carrot cake. people always try to talk me out of getting it but i love it, and on my birthday i get to pick! 🙂

  240. My favorite cake would be chocolate with a cream cheese frosting! My favorite dessert is German Chocolate Cheesecake (but that technically isn’t cake right)? Many other cultures actually celebrate birthdays by giving presents instead of receiving them…what fun (for everyone else)! Thanks for the giveaway & HAPPY BIRTHDAY, to you!

  241. I have been following your blog for about 2 months now. Can’t quite remember how I stumbled upon it, but I find you and your designs so inspiring and I LOVE looking at your pictures. Happy Birthday! And the chance to win a Lisa Leonard Design has made me want to comment and leave you with my favorite flavor of cake…warm out of the oven plain old white! Mmmm. Thanks for sharing on this blog. I look forward to seeing what’s new every day.

  242. A very, very happy birthday to you, Lisa. As for cake, my friend, Diana’s, German Chocolate cake is incredible!

  243. Happy Birthday! My favorite cake is plain old yellow cake from a box! With chocolate frosting. Hope you have fun today. I love my one necklace I got from you last year. Would love to get another one! 🙂

  244. Happy happy birthday! You know you get three weeks to celebrate, right? One week before to talk about your upcoming birthday, one week to celebrate, and one week to talk about how much fun you had celebrating – that’s the Seeler family rule 🙂 My fave cake is banana with chocolate chips, and peanut butter frosting. Now I wish it was my birthday!

    Hope you have a blast.

  245. Have a wonderful birthday! I love RED Velvet cake from an amazing shoppe here in NC called Zest! My birthday is next week!

  246. Hi Lisa,

    Happy Birthday!

    My favorite cake is tuxedo…it’s chocolate and vanilla cake layered with chocolate mouse and white chocolate mousse and topped with ganache!
    YUMMY!

  247. happy birthday Lisa!! you are so sweet to have a giveaway on YOUR birthday!!! happy happy day!

    my fav cake is def mud pie – with LOTS of hot fudge!!! YUMMMM!!!

  248. happy birthday Lisa!
    i hope you have a wonderful day! my birthday was yesterday…august babies! : )
    my favorite cake is my mom’s plain white cake with her homemade buttercream icing…yum!

  249. Today is my birthday too!!
    Lemon or Chocolate Cake…yummy!!
    Feliz cumpleaños desde Puerto Rico!! Happy Birthday from Puerto Rico!!
    God Bless You!!

  250. Happy Birthday!

    My favorite is red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. Mmmmm. I may have to make a cake today in your honor!

  251. My mom makes this cake with fresh raspberries in the batter and whipped into a frosting also. It is so delicious.
    I am also rather satisfied with yellow cake from a box and chocolate frosting. :o)

  252. Wowzers! That’s an awesome giveaway! Happy Birthday, Lisa!! (Loving your living room!) I love white cake (I guess that’s vanilla?) and chocolate frosting. But let’s be honest, I’d choose frozen yogurt (chocolate/vanilla swirl with butterfinger pieces) over cake any day!

  253. Favorite cake is devils food, I used large pizza pans for thin layers and my icing is made from scratch, then top it off with candy goodies.however funny thing I’ve discoverd is when I make same receipe using cupcakes the grandkids and the adults keep coming back for more!

  254. Celebrating YOU… along with our daughter… today! Our sweet Jenaya Rhys is turning eight today and, in the spirit of her special day, we’ll say that our favorite cake is …
    ANYTHING WITH SPRINKLES☺

    Enjoy your special day!

  255. my favorite cake is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting….mmmm! yum! Happy Birthday to you Lisa. Never have commented before but I LOVE your site and your jewelry!

  256. Happy Birthday, it is my Daughter Sophie’s Bday today too! She turns five!

    Cherry Chip is my favorite. I went to purchase it at the store last night so I could make my daughter cupcakes but they did not have it. Maybe they do not make it any more!??

    Have a great day.

    Michele

  257. Happy Birthday! My favorite has to be cheesecake I think. Although a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting is also very yummy!!!!

  258. Happy happy day to you! Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is my cake of choice.

    And, thanks for the generous giveaway! Crossing my fingers….

  259. many happy returns! fave cake is coffee cake with coffee frosting with a walnut on top – my tummy is rumbling as I type….mmmmmmmmmmmm! plus I need a coffee to have alongside the cake, of course!

  260. Hooray – I just celebrated my 30th bday on Tuesday. I believe cake is a must so I had chocolate cake for lunch and lemon cake with dinner. Best of both worlds!

  261. Happy happy birthday, Lisa!!!
    My favourite kind of cake is a buttery-battered, fruit-topped, cinnamon-sugar-sprinkled cake. The best recipe I’ve found is the Plum Torte from Moosewood’s celebration cookbook. I’ve made it with every kind of fruit I’ve been able to lay hands on. I love it soooooo much!
    Have a great day 🙂

  262. I LOVE white cake, white buttercream frosting with vanilla custard and sliced bananas in the middle!

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you Lisa!

    Shyrl

  263. Well I just celebrated my 56th birthday Aug.2nd with my sons whos birthdays are Aug. 2nd and he turned 13 and my oldest son is Aug. 3rd and he turned 17. And we have lots and eat lots of birthday cake having three birthdays together. But our favorite is always chocolate with chocolate frosting, and I like mine with a good cup of coffee. Yummy! Have a fabulous birthday Lisa!!! You so inspire me and your blog really helps me get through those tuff days. Enjoy your day. Love and hugs coming your way.

  264. Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day…every moment…every blessing! Cake? Any kind. All kinds. Especially traditional wedding cake…white on white…pure bliss.

  265. Happy Birthday, Lisa. How generous that you give gifts on your birthday!! My favorite cake is carrot cake with cream cheese icing. Yum!!

  266. Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful day! I love me some chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Never enough chocolate for me!

  267. Happy Birthday Lisa! I love pretty much all cake, but my favorite is funfetti cake with funfetti frosting. The little sprinkles just melt in your mouth and taste amazing. Mmmmm!! Just thinking about it makes me want some. 🙂

  268. my favorite cake is red velvet cake… well red velvet cupcake from sprinkles would be personal choice. =)

    HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! i just LOVE what you did to the table it is sooooooooo gorgeous in creme!

  269. Mmmmmm, I love pretty much all cake, but what has been floating my boat (and love handles!) recently is Yellow cake with THICK chocolate frosting! mmm, so good!

    Happy Birthday Lisa! Enjoy it with your hubby and boys!

    PS. This is a fabulous giveaway! How sweet to give a present away for your birthday!

  270. Love the coffee table! great eye!!

    (2nd entry)Facebooked about your giveaway!
    (first entry favorite is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting)

    My second favorite cake would be white cake with raspberry filling and white frosting. Yum!

    Hope you have a great day!

  271. Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Lisa!!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday TO YOU!

    I love strawberry cake with butter cream frosting!

  272. My favorite kind of cake? Hands down…red velvet with cream cheese frosting. There is just something extra fun about a cake that turns your teeth red! 🙂

  273. vanilla cake with cream cheese filling and vanilla butter cream frosting…..YUM!!!!
    Happy Birthday to YOU!!!!

  274. I love spice cake! Yum. Maybe because I don’t eat it very often and cream cheese icing makes it over the top!

  275. Happy Birthday. Cheesecake. My girls just got their Faith Hope Amor necklaces…we sponsered two girls with their same birthday. We just wrote them our first letter. the necklaces were a great reminder to pray for our sponsered girls…thanks.

  276. Happy Birthday! I’m easy to please. I like to have just a plain white cake with white buttercream frosting! Mmmmmm! (With ice cream, of course!)

  277. Hope you have a great birthday!!! My favorite is angel food that my grandma used to make with the cooked frosting and sprinkles. I would look forward to it every year!! YUMMY! Love all your jewelry and photography:)

  278. Happy Birthday, Lisa! I hope you have a blessed day filled with lots of love and goodies, too! 🙂 My favorite cake is chocolate with vanilla buttercream 🙂 Your living room is beautiful…the light in there is amazing. Love your transformed thrift store coffee table! I hope you’re enjoying some bday for breakfast w/your boys in that wonderful room 🙂

  279. Happy Birthday!!! I love your style!! My favorite flavor of birthday cake is a chocolate cake with strawberry and chocolate mouse.

  280. Happy Birthday!
    I love homemade lemon cake with a lemon filling and light lemon frosting.
    Angel food cake with strawberries is always a top choice. 🙂

  281. I went to an open house for a new Pregnancy and Parenting Center two days before I had my daughter. I couldn’t get enough of the lemon cupcakes with lavender icing! The owner was so generous to give me a few to take with me. I can’t remember the last time I had cake that good.
    Wishing you a happy birthday!

  282. what a great room 🙂 lately strawberry is my favorite.. if I have to absolutely pick just ONE! Happy Birthday to you! Seems like your day has started off nicely.

  283. My favorite cake flavor comes from a little bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area, called the Prolific Oven. They have an amazing orange-almond cake with cream cheese frosting.

    My hips are so thankful we live in L.A., 8 hours from such deliciousness.

    Happy Birthday!

  284. Happy Birthday! I can not believe you are giving gifts on your birthday. What a kind person 🙂
    I LOVE chocolate and lemon dobash cake! Mmm, I am hungry just thinking about it! Thanks!

  285. Happy Birthday! Mine is tomorrow! 🙂

    I’m all about chocolate–the darker and chocolatey-er the better… ideally with ganache involved!

  286. Happy Birthday! My favorite is chocolate, always chocolate! With a hint of cinnamon and buttermilk, made with the best quality cocoa I can find, and frosting that tastes like fudge.

  287. Happy Birthday! Hope you do get to spend some time relaxing on your comfy couch, next your pretty painted coffee table~and of course, enjoying some cake! Red Velvet with buttercream/cream cheese icing is my all time favorite- but nothing beats a beautiful white cake with simple buttercream frosting either…or chocolate sheet cake…or carrot cake….or apple streusal cake….or…. 😉
    Enjoy your special day!

  288. I love a homeade cake that my grammy us to make me…It was called a Lazy Daisy Cake and had a coconut lemon glaze over it. Super Yummy. I miss her.

    Happy Birthday!

  289. Happy birthday!!! I would have to say my favorite cake flavor is red velvet hands down. Best paired with a yummy cream cheese frosting! Thanks for giving us gifts on YOUR birthday! 🙂

  290. Happy Birthday!!

    I really like confetti angel food cake with vanilla frosting. Strawberry swirl ice cream on the side makes for a perfect celebration.

  291. Happy Birthday!! Have a wonderful day. My favorite cake is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!! Add a little vanilla ice cream… Yummm!!!
    PS.. I just love you’re jewelry. I bought my daughter your “beautiful” necklace. She wears it all the time. Thank you!!

  292. Happy Birthday Lisa!!! As you already know I bake cakes for people.. so it would be hard to choose just one. I think a chocolate and vanilla swirled pound cake with vanilla bean buttercream icing would be just yummy!

  293. Happy day to you! I’m not a big cake fan, but I love apple pie for my birthday and if it has to be cake, then I would say chocolate! I hope your day is great!

  294. Happy Birthday! My favorite is angel food cake with 7 minute frosting – has been since I was a little girl. Now my boys make me a cake every year – always my favorite but with a twist – one year they coloured it pink with soft yellow frosting (girlie) and the next it was red inside with camo frosting (very boy!) – I have had a rainbow cake and an Italian/Canadian flag cake – it is amazing what you can do with an angel food cake and little boy imagination. Hope you have a lovely day!

  295. Oh my goodness! What an amazing giveaway! I love all cakes, but I’d have to narrow it down to 2–confetti cake (from the box, with confetti frosting), and earthquake cake (nuts, coconut, gooey cream cheese….it’s delish!). Happy Birthday and hope I win!

  296. Happy Birthday to you cha cha cha….

    I don’t have birthday cake… mint chocolate brownies is mine. But I do like cake… devils food (or any chocolate) with chocolate buttercream frosting. (Maybe I will top it if it is german chocolate with home german chocolate topping).

  297. Have a very happy birthday, love your new coffee table!!! Choosing a favorite flavor of cake is hard–I am pretty fond of just plain white cake with the bavarian cream filling–not very creative, but oh so delicious! Gift certificates to Lisa Leonard & Target is like my dream come true!

  298. happy birthday, lisa! i actually share my birthday today with you…i’m turning 30 – yikes! my most favorite cake is banana chocolate chip. i’ve only had this from sweet mandy b’s in chicago. if you’re ever there, you MUST go in and have a cupcake. they are absolutely to die for. 🙂 eat lots of yummy cake today!

  299. Happy Birthday Lisa! Today is my Mom’s birthday too. I’m going to make her mini brownie bites with chocolate and buttercream frosting. They are so yummy. My favorite cake flavor is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.

  300. Yah! Happy Birthday to you! What a great day to be alive, right? I hope that your day brings you lots of smiles, hugs, love and happiness that you deserve. 🙂 Here’s to many more birthdays to celebrate!

    P.S. I’m a sucker for a good, vanilla cupcake loaded with frosting. Or a chocolate chip cookie cake (my birthday tradition.) 🙂

    Love from OKlahoma!
    -Lindsay

  301. Happy Birthday! I love your style – your house looks beautiful!

    My favorite cake is the richest, darkest chocolate cake & icing you can find.

    Thanks for the fantastic giveaway!

  302. happy birthday to you! since i am vegan, and have been for 13 years, my cake choices are pretty limited. but i don’t mind. i love a simple cake, yellow or chocolate cake with vanilla (vegan) buttercream frosting! yum! i hope you have a very lovely day <3

  303. Happy Birthday, Lisa! Enjoy “YOUR” day!!! My favorite cake flavor is strawberry with cream cheese icing!! 🙂

  304. Happy birthday! Your blog always makes me smile. Thank you for that 🙂

    My favorite flavor of cake? Probably German chocolate, the way my mom makes it. Yum, yum, yum 🙂

  305. hey friend! happy birthday to you! i love cake (a little too much!) and i love all flavors. i’m way too indecisive! no matter what flavor i almost say ‘oh! i love that kind!” … because i do! ha! have a great day and an amazing year. you are loved.

  306. happy birthday!!! good job on your coffee table. It was my bday too this month and I bought something to redecorate too on that day. A antique iron baby bed that I’ll turn very shortly into a seating. Fingers crossed about how it will turn up.

    My favourite cake is the tiramisu but done the traditional way…savoiardi biscuits and real coffee with now alcool…they are so much better!

  307. Happy Birthday! Your blog and designs are wonderful!! Such a breath of fresh air 🙂
    I love red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting..yum!

  308. Very tough question, i would say chocolate cake with peanut butter mousse or just plain homemade yellow cake no frosting…. depends on my mood… 🙂

  309. Aw! Happy Birthday, Sweetie! 🙂 My favorite cake is either carrot cake with HOMEMADE buttercream frosting or butter pecan cake with cream cheese frosting! 🙂 I hope you have a fabulous day!! XOXO

  310. Happy Birthday Lisa!! Love reading your blog and drooling over your jewelry!! I also love carrot cake with cream cheese frosting!!! Hope you have a great birthday!!

  311. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope you have a lovely day and how sweet of you to think of others today. My favorite birthday cake is a homemade chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. My sweet sister makes it for me every year!

  312. German chocolate cake! It was the official birthday cake in my house growing up…and with a family of 10 that means we were guaranteed to have it 10 times per year! Delish!

  313. Happy Birthday! Love the room and all the decorating tips!
    Favorite cake: LEMON, we chose it for our wedding cake 17 years ago and it is still my favorite.

  314. My favorite cake would have to be pumpkin roll, cake and icing all rolled into one ball of heavely goodness. I’m celebrating school starting by going to my favorite thrift stores on Monday I hope I’m as lucky as you!! Happy Birthday!!

  315. I love Chocolate Cake with Chocolate frosting – yum! I love your jewelry – I get so many compliments when I wear the necklace I bought from you!

  316. Happy Birthday Lisa, you are so talented at everything you do! I don’t turn down any desserts, especially cake. But my most favorite is white or vanilla cake with buttercream frosting, I may even make one today because my mouth is watering right now. I will think of you when I’m eating it. ( just my slice not the whole cake, ha, ha) Happy Birthday and have a great day!!!!

  317. Happy Birthday! I’m actually not really a cake person but, if I had to choose a favorite, it would probably be yellow cake with butter cream frosting. Yum!

  318. Happy Birthday Lisa!!!! How sweet of you to do a giveaway on youre birthday!!! I must say i love all youre posts! The what youre wearing is my FAV! I just love the way you layer diff pieces of clothing!

    Also youre style in youre home is to die for! One of these days, you should do a giveaway where you come help one of us readers redecorate our homes! haha

    Onto my favorite cake-i must say i like yellow cake with chocolate icing. But my boys fav is confetti cake and thats seems to be waht we mske the most of around here!

    Have a wonderful birthday!!!!

  319. Happy birthday to you! My favorite cake is always chocolate cake with chocolate frosting! A girl can never have too much chocolate!
    Joanne xo

  320. Happy Birthday!!! As for cake flavours, I have a recipe that I make for coconut cake, which is pretty much the best cake I’ve ever eaten, bar none. But then, anything with coconut makes me happy…..

  321. I’m not really a “cake person,” but I do enjoy a slice of chocolate chip pound cake every so often. Thanks for the opportunity to win such a great give-away!

  322. Happy Birthday Lisa!!!!

    I adore all cakes, but I would say angel food cake with fresh cream and berries tops the list!

  323. happy birthay lisa!! my favorite cake is yellow cake with chocolate frosting…yummmm…
    thanks for the chance to win a gift certificate to purchase some lovely things from you.

  324. Happy Birthday Lisa, Just getting ready to place an order for me and my daughter-in-law who just hand her first baby on July 7. Love your line and can’t wait to get our items. Now on to my favorite cake. I don’t really eat cake I’m a diabetic so I only eat a bite but I will go with my husbands favorite which is Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting. Have a great birthday and enjoy the day and many to follow

  325. Happy Birthday to you….It’s my husbands birthday today also so happy Birthday to him to. I have found a gal that makes the best cakes ever in a very small town near us. Mable cake with chocolate fudge filling and buttercream frosting.

  326. Blessings on your birthday Lisa! I love your jewelry! My favorite cake is yellow cake with homemade mocha frosting…yum!!

  327. Happy birthday, Lisa!
    My favorite flavor of cake would have to be Red Velvet. (My SIL makes awesome Red Velvet cupcakes – when she brings them over to our house, other people are lucky to get any!)

  328. this is difficult because i really feel that i could live on cake and cake alone! my favorite would have to be plain old white cake with white frosting. buttercream, whipped cream, doesn’t matter, just white on white!!

  329. oh happy happy birthday to you! i hope you have a fabulous day!

    i love me some chocolate cake – flourless chocolate cake is my absolute favorite! yum!

  330. happy birthday! i absolutely LOVE cake! any and all kinds. i’m all about equal opportunity cake eating. i especially love what tops the cake though…ICING! yum. bring on the buttercream!

  331. Happy Birthday!! Enjoy your day! Today is my sister’s birthday too.

    My fave cake is yellow cake with chocolate/peanut-butter frosting. Mmmmm.

  332. That’s an easy one – Coconut Cake!
    My mom always made it on my birthday and now my husband has taken up the task as we don’t live close to my parents! LOVE IT. Perfect combination, not too sweet. When I was young, my mom always made it in a different form – one year a doggie! LOVE IT! And my birthday is in one month so I get to look forward to it!!!

  333. There’s a cake made by a bakery where I grew up called a dream cake- vanilla layers with raspberries in between and cream cheese frosting! Happy Birthday!

  334. Birthday Blessings to you!! At our house every birthday boy & girl loves and requests rainbow chip cake made from the box and to top it off rainbow chip frosting – baked in a bundt pan it looks so delightful! When counting calories, a fave treat is chocolate cake from box mixed with a can of diet coke….moist and surprisingly delicious!

  335. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Thanks for sharing your creativity & life with us! May God bless you even more this year! I love cake, period. 🙂 It depends on my mood what flavor. I’ve recently discovered red velvet but any cake with fresh fruit is up there too!

  336. Happy Birthday!!! I hope that you have a WONDERFUL day. I have to admit that I am as plain as it comes – vanilla cake with vanilla frosting is my favorite. To be perfectly honest, however, I love ANY cake. It is my one sweet tooth weakness. Thanks for the giveaway! P.S. I love looking at pics of your house. Keep ’em coming. You have a fun, quirky, yet calm decorating style. Love it!

  337. Happy Birthday! My favorite cake is yellow with chocolate buttercream frosting. So yum! I hope you have a beautiful day with your family!

  338. Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Lisa, Happy Birthday to you..and many mmmoooooorrrrrreeeee!! Homemade red velvet cake with homemade white icing…not cream cheese. I hope you have a great day.

  339. happy sweetest birthday to you! i hope you spend it relaxing! celebrate you! there is much to celebrate!
    i love birthday cake…..any flavor really! but in place of cake…..mmmmm…..whoopie pies!

  340. Happy Birthday!!!!!!! Hope your day is wonderful and your boys spoil you!!
    What a generous giveaway!! My favourite cake thesedays is black forest cake…. Yum!

  341. Good German Chocolate is my very favorite, then it would be dark chocolate with dark chocolate frosting and I love red velvet cake…cake is my favorite. I hope you have a fabulous birthday and a blessed year:)

  342. Happy Birthday Lisa!
    Make lots of wishes and may all your birthday dreams come true!*~*~*~*~*~
    Our small town bakery (now closed) used to make a graham cracker cake with lemon and walnuts in between the layers and white frosting – mmmm. . . it was so good!
    Thanks for your generosity! Love the new touches in your room!
    ~Pamela

  343. Happy Birthday! I love Italian cream cake and wedding cake. Yummy! Think I need to find a reason to celebrate today!

  344. I made a sour cream banana cake recently with about 1 inch of thick cream cheese frosting you could have swam (swum?) in. It was out of this world delicious!

  345. Happy Birthday, dear friend! My favorite flavor of cake right now is red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Have a great day! Hugs to you.

  346. Happy Birthday! I wish you a fantastic year with all the blessings God has for you! I love cake and since I have to choose I will say a lovely vanilla sponge with lemon cream inside and a fluffy frosting with a hint of lemon. I love lemon.

  347. Happy Birthday! Hope all your wishes come true! I love birthday cake! My favorite is the traditional yellow cake with loads of buttercream icing!

  348. Hope you have a wonderful birthday!!! I just love your blog and read it everyday! You are so inspirational!! My favorite cake is vanilla with vanilla icing. Sprinkles usually make it taste much better!

  349. Happy birthday!! I hope you have a wonderful day.

    My favorite cake is just a plain yellow cake with chocolate icing. Simple and delicious!

  350. Happy, Happy Birthday, Lisa!
    I am a cupcake lover! Any kind of cupcake and I’m sold!!!
    I turn 30 (yikes) this week, too! I have been aching for the dewdrops necklace! Hopefully my birthday wish will come true (hehe)!

  351. Happy Birthday Lisa! My favorite cake flavor is just plain vanilla and NO icing. I know icing is most people’s favorite part of cake (espcially my daughter), but I just don’t like it! When I was younger my friends used to think I was so crazy for requesting cake with no icing for my birthday!

  352. Happy Birthday Lisa!
    Hope it’s filled with great memories and fun stuff with the family.
    My all time favorite birthday cake is a RUM CAKE. My mom would buy me one every year for my birthday. Since I only had this cake once a year I really looked forward to my speical day.

    Pam

  353. my favorite cake? hands down – red velvet cake with buttercream frosting (my mom’s recipe made completely from scratch, of course).

    glad to hear you enjoyed your day!

  354. Happy Birthday! I am a sucker for the chocolate chip cookie cakes with buttercream frosting. Does that count for cake? As for cake-cake…I love angel food cake with homemade frosting.

  355. Happy Birthday Lisa – hope you have a great day.
    It’s not really a birthday cake but I love a caramel upside down apple cake.

  356. Happy birthday! I am more of a pie girl, but a French bakery near us has a wonderful chocolate mousse cake – yum!

  357. Happy Birthday!
    My favorite kind of cake is pretty easy….marble cake. Chocolate and vanillla mixed together…..how can you go wrong? 😉 And I don’t care what kind of icing goes on top…..as long as it’s full of sugar, lol!
    BUT…my favorite type of dessert? Chocolate brownie heated up with vanilla ice cream. Mmmm…….

  358. Happy birthday! Thanks for your creativity and your inspiration to make every day ‘ordinary’ finds extraordinary.

    My FAVORITE flavor of cake was a cake they used to make at Jamail’s in Houston – they are long gone and I haven’t found it since but it was a chocolate cake layered with a hardened cream in the middle and then chocolate ganache on top. In the cream there were sliced and 1/2 strawberries standing up. So it would look like a thin brown layer on the bottom, a super thick cream layer with sliced strawberries upside down and right side up (always looked like hearts to me – probably why I LOVE the cake) ..then a think layer of chocolate cake on top of that and topped off with chocolate ganache. I have never found it again but I still dream of it!!!

  359. my birthday is next week and what a lovely gift this would be for myself! Oh and duh…HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you LISA!! My favorite cake is oatmeal with coconut frosting…yummmm

  360. Happy Birthday Lisa!! My favorite cake is COFFEE CAKE…yummy. Growing up I always asked for it on my birthday morning.

  361. Happy, Happy Birthday to you!!

    My favorite kind of cake is by far devils food cake with white icing. SO good!

  362. Happy Birthday, Lisa !
    My favorite cake is Red Velvet w/ Cream Cheese Icing.
    I rarely get it. I guess I need to live in the South. 🙂

  363. happy birthday lisa!!
    your home is looking great &the table makeover , fab!

    my mother in law used to make us yellow cake from scratch that was the yummiest cake ever.
    with homemade chocolate buttercream frosting, ofcourse! xo

  364. Happy HAPPY Happy Birthday Lisa!!!
    I LOVE angel food cake (cupcakes) topped with Nutella & Blackberries!
    Have a wonderful birthday! xo

  365. Happy birthday Lisa and Chrissie!

    I love the simple changes to your living room….very, very inviting!

    My favorite cake is one my momma has made me for my bday for years….strawberry cake w/homemade frosting w/fresh strawberries added to it! YUM-O!!!

  366. Happy, happy birthday! My favorite cake is spice cake with cream cheese frosting. Although I really could eat any kind. I hope you enjoy yours 🙂
    ps: your living room looks amazing – do you want to fly to WI to re-decorate ours?

  367. Happy Birthday Lisa!
    I am a white cake girl, with whipped icing and fresh fruit. …excuse me, I need to go make a cake!!

  368. Happy Birthday! Your living room looks amazing! I love mocha cake with homemade buttercream frosting. Delish. 🙂

  369. Happy Birthday Lisa! I hope your day is special and that all of your birthday wishes come true especially regarding your little boy. My favorite cake is red velvet. YUm YUM!

    I also have you linked on my blog 🙂

    {hugs from arizona} Rachael

  370. Happy Birthday!! I love chocolate cake of any kind, but my favorite is actually red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Yum!! 🙂 Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day!!

  371. First, Happy Birthday.
    Second, My fav cake would have to be strawberry cake with strawberry or cream cheese frosting.
    and Third, love the room. I would spend my birthday in there too

  372. Happy Birthday Lisa! I found your website thanks to Gussy’s tweet! I’m loving what I see so far. I will definitely be adding your blog to my “must read” list! It’s so hard to choose a favorite flavor of birthday cake, but I think I would have to chose red velvet with cream cheese frosting. Yum!

  373. Happy birthday! I hope you have an amazing day and much success! My favorite cake is probably white with white icing. I’m simple 🙂 Oh, and a little bit of sprinkles to add some crunch.

  374. I’m more of a cookies and bars kind of girl but I won’t turn down cake. Especially carrot cake with really yummy cream cheese frosting. Mmmm, mmm, mmm!

  375. I love the changes you made in your living room – what a beautiful room!

    I love cake – vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, lemon….my favorite recipe comes from the Magnolia Bakery cookbook, it’s chocolate cake from scratch. AMAZING!

    Happy Birthday, Lisa. Wishing you a day surrounded by peace and love and a ridiculous amount of laughter! xoxo

  376. Happy Birthday! I’m more of a fruit pizza kind of girl, but if I had to choose it would probably be tres leches. Yum.

  377. Happy Birthday!!

    My favorite is probably yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Although it’s hard to beat a truly good white wedding cake.

    Great job on the table! Very cute.

  378. We are almost birthday buddies (mine was yesterday) — and I love white chocolate raspberry bundt cake. Amazing! Happy birthday to you!

  379. Happy Birthday! Hope it is a great day!

    My favorite cake is chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and what could make it even better is some type of chocolate candy on top! LOVE my chocolate!

    P.S. Can you come redecorate my house?

    Thanks!

  380. Happy Birthday! Sounds like a good one. Nice find on the coffee table. I think my favorite is chocolate, but I wouldn’t turn down cake of any flavor.

  381. Happy Birthday Lisa! Love your livingroom it is extremely cozy looking. Perfect for napping! I love Chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting. Homemade by my Mama!!

  382. Happy Birthday Lisa!! you deserve a great day!! And my favorite cake is definitely strawberry with cream cheese frosting! 🙂

  383. Happy birthday!! I’ll eat chocolate cake with vanilla whipped frosting on my birthday, but the rest of the year I prefer pie, particularly apple.

    Love the table!

  384. happy birthday! your living room looks so very inviting! my favorite cake flavor is chocolate with milk chocolate frosting.

  385. Happy Birthday!!
    I love Lemon cake…my favorite. You did a great job on your living room. I love your blog, style and jewelry:)

  386. Today is my dad’s 81st birthday. My favorite cake is carrot cake but my dad LOVES peaches so the kids and I handpicked peaches and are making him a big peach pie for his birthday.
    Happy Birthday to you friend!

  387. Happy Birthday, and nice job on the table. Even more, nice job on your enthusiasm for life and creativity. The true and beautiful are contagious! As I am a savory girl, a disgrace to my gender, I would prefer a good “cake” of Manchego cheese on sourdough. BUT, if my husband makes me our family recipe of Ugly Chocolate Cake, I can be won over!

  388. Happy Birthday, Lisa! I love your new home, so cute! My favorite cake is red velvet with cream cheese frosting… followed closely by carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I guess I really like cream cheese frosting! haha

  389. Happy Birthday to you!!!!!!!! I’m hoping my husband will keep catching the major hints I’m leaving about wanting one of your necklaces for our anniversary next month.

    My favorite kind of cake? I’m a purist… chocolate cake, chocolate icing. But I can be persuaded to eat chocolate cake w/german chocolate frosting or cream cheese frosting w/m&ms.

    Thank you for your continued inspiring work and words!

  390. Lisa; HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You share your Birthday with my beautiful little Grand Son – Dane. I just LOVE your living room, so inviting. ENJOY YOUR DAY!
    My favourite Cake is Lemon with Coconut Cream Icing.
    Jackie.

  391. oh Lisa, Happy Birthday darling! :] I think this birthday is as much of a celebration for US as it is for YOU — you bless so many people daily. xoxo.

    my favorite flavor of cake is cherry.

  392. First, Happy Birthday! Hope you have a blessed day! My favorite cake is a devils food chocolate kahlua cake… been a family staple for years and it is my weakness!

  393. Peach Cobbler, all the way!! It’s sort of like cake, right? 🙂 Happy Birthday! What a fun giveaway! 🙂

  394. hands down, funfetti cake. ie, The Best Birthday Cake of All Time. only…

    the trick is.

    rainbow chip icing *instead of * funfetti icing. because, really…pastel sprinkles? on top? when i can have colorful chips that actually *match* my cake throughout? such a no-brainer.

    duh.

    my little sister and i have a tradition of making funfetti cakes for every birthday. i don’t know why. i know there are better and fancier cakes in the world. i love a mad hatter cake. but, when it comes down to it, funfetti tastes the sweetest to me because of my sister.

    xo

  395. Happy Birthday! My favorite cake is devils food cake with white (homemade) frosting and coconut sprinkled on top. HEAVY on the frosting. Yummm!

  396. Happy Birthday! Enjoy your special day! My favorite cake is a simple classic: vanilla cake with buttercream frosting. Nothing like keeping it simple!

  397. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

    I do not discriminate when it comes to cake………I will eat EVERYTHING. White, chocolate, marble, cheesecake, carrot cake, spice cake…..ANYTHING! I don’t care about frosting either ….any kind, any flavor, ANYTHING! :o)

  398. Happy birthday to you! My birthday was yesterday. My favorite is angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream. Yum! Hope your day is great!

  399. Happy Birthday Lisa!
    My favorite summer cake is tarte aux abricots, in fall it is tarte tatin (baked caramelized apple cake with calvados!), my winter favorite is tarte au chocolat with little espresso bean flakes in it and in spring I love a strawberry tarte with almond paste.
    I hope you have a wonderful day.

    Susanne

  400. Happy Birthday Lisa!!!! What a generous giveaway! My favorite flavor cake is banana with honey cinnamon frosting! Delightful!

    Oh I hope I win!

  401. Have a blessed birthday, Lisa! My favorite cake has to be whatever my girls surprise me with. Usually it means piles of princess shaped sprinkles and tons of icing. When they recruit Daddy to help them shop, there’s no limit to what might be on the cake!

  402. Oh my goodness…that looks like a fun room to sit down and relax in! And, Happy Birthday!!! I always enjoy seeing the way God blesses us in ways only he can on our birthdays, especially.

    Favorite cake…cause, boy, would I love to win this (!)…homemade carrot cake and cream cheese frosting…so delicious…and totally healthy too with all those carrots and raisins! 😉

  403. Happy Birthday! You need to buy a lottery ticket. Your luckiest day of the year is on your birthday. My favorite birthday cake is confetti angel food with pink frosting. My mom always made it for me and that’s what made it extra special.

  404. happyybirthday lisa! love reading your blog! i am partial to carrot cake with cream cheese frosting MMMM! 🙂

  405. Happy Birthday Lisa! My favorite birthday cake is red velvet yummmm! I think i am even going to try to make it my sons favorite so I can have it more often!

  406. Happy Birthday! My favorite cake is not really the question 🙂 I love mostly any flavor but what makes the cake for me is the frosting! Any cake with Betty Crocker rainbow chip frosting is bliss! Mmmm 🙂

  407. Happy Birthday! I just blogged about your blog! : ) Your site always makes me smile and I’m grateful for all of the time and effort you put into it! Have a wonderful day! Tricia

  408. Happy happy birthday!! I’d have to say carrot cake is my fave (although red velvet is pretty darn good too…..and spice…..and vanilla……and lemon….and, well you get the picture =)

  409. Oh my word! It’s a dream come true! Target and Jewelry! As boring as this sounds, my favorite cake is white with white icing and a HUGE cup of coffee with it. Happy Birthday Lisa! Love your blog….

  410. Happy Birthday, Lisa! I hope you have a beautiful day celebrating your life as well as all of your blessings!
    I’m pretty sure chocolate cake is my favorite. Although, I don’t think I have said ‘no’ to any piece of cake. They’re all just so yummy!

  411. happy birthday! my absolute favorite cake is banana chocolate chip cupcake with a peanut butter frosting. and coming in a very, very close second is a coconut cake with coconut cream cheese frosting…and a very close third is red velvet with cream cheese. guess i like cake 🙂

  412. Happy Birthday! My favorite cake is chocolate cake and chocolate frosting. Thanks for the great give aways!

  413. happy birthday to you!!!!!…red velvet is my favorite and always will be…its just pretty to say as well as taste just like it sounds…what a super giveaway!

  414. Happy Birthday Lisa! I love your photos…
    My favorite cake flavor is Red Velvet… especially if there is cream cheese frosting to go along. YUM! 🙂

  415. Happy Birthday Lisa! Today is my son’s birthday also! His “Golden B-Day” 19 on the 19th. My favorite cake is Texas Sheet Cake. Very chocolatey! Yum! Enjoy your special day! I’m going to enjoy my son tonight. He leaves for college on Saturday.

  416. Happy birthday! I could eat carrot cake with cream cheese frosting every day for the rest of my life and never get sick of it… wishing you tons of fun on your birthday and thanks for the inspiration!

  417. Happy Birthday to You!
    I love how a little spray paint and a beautiful hard cover book can change your outlook.
    I wish I liked cake but unfortunately I do not! From time to time I do enjoy angel food cake with whipped cream and fresh fruit. YUM!

  418. Happy Birthday Lisa! I love carrot cake with cream cheese icing..yum.
    I LOVE your jewelry and your beautiful, cozy living room

  419. Happy Birthday, Lisa! My favorite cake is a chocolate chip pound cake – no icing. The cake is so moist and chocolatey that it practically melts in your mouth! Not so good for the hips–but, a treat for the tongue!

  420. Happy Birthday, Lisa! Thank you for letting us be a part of your life. We have been both inspired and blessed by your compassion and creativity! My favorite cake — chocolate with chocolate frosting! 🙂

  421. Happy birthday! Love the cream coffee table, adorable. Chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting and chocolate shavings and the thought of that makes my cereal seem really sad.

  422. happy brithday hon! ohhhh how I love reading your blog and learning from your taste! your room is beautiful as are you 🙂
    my favourite cake flavour is definatley lemon….mmmm..mmmm…good!

  423. Happy Birthday 🙂

    My all-time, will never change, favorite cake is Cherry-Chip Angel Food Cake made by my grandmother. We all request it for our birthdays. It’s light and sweet and so moist, it doesn’t require icing (which I dislike anyway, so don’t miss!). It is a special treat and one that we all look forward to!

  424. Happy Birthday! I hope that your special day is filled with beautiful surprises! My favorite cake is good ol’ yellow cake with chocolate icing! Take care, Tricia

  425. Happy Birthday to you (& your twin sister, too!!) Hope you have a great day:-) One of my current faves is red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting…mmmm! Thanks!

  426. Happy Birthday, Lisa! My bday was on Monday and we had a cookies & cream cake with sweet vanilla frosting and oreos on top. YUM!

  427. Chocolate–with buttercream frosting:) What an amazing giveaway–probably the first two places I’d go to spend $200 anyway!

  428. Happy Birthday! Hope you have a healthy and joyful upcoming year.
    Strawberry shortcake is definitely my fave, especially in the summer!
    Love the living room!

  429. Happy Birthday! My favorite type of birthday cake is an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen….yum, yum, yum. I can’t get enough of the hot fudge on the bottom layer!

  430. Born and raised in Ms, and after a 10 year stint in San Francisco I still call my favorite cake Red Velvet! YUM!!!
    Happy Birthday fellow August Birthday girl, enjoy the day!

  431. Happy Birthday Lisa! Birthday cake and Target, not much better than that! My favorite is chocolate on chocolate.
    I hope you have a great, relaxing day.
    Amy

  432. Happy Birthday Lisa! I love following your blog, amazing pictures!! I am very boring with my choice of cake, but if I had to choose it would be vanilla cake and chocolate frosting…traditional and yummy!!!
    Have a great birthday!

  433. Happy Birthday! I am always so inspired by your blog–it is always so refreshing…and really makes me want to journey from Alabama to California and see all these gorgeous places you take pictures!

    My favorite cake is strawberry with strawberry frosting! Love it! Thanks for the generous giveaway!

  434. Happy Birthday!

    My favorite cake flavor is a true white cake with a raspberry fruit filling and an almond frosting. Delicious! Have a wonderful birthday, and your living room looks so cozy!!! I would want to spend a lot of time in there too!

  435. Happy, Happy Birthday, Lisa!!! My favorite cake flavor is caramel chip with cream cheese icing….makes my mouth water just thinking about it!! Hope your day is absolutely glorious 🙂

  436. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Cakes – especially birthday cakes should be a collaboration of all your favortite things – i’d go with:

    1. Bottom Layer: Crushed Vanilla Double Stuffed Oreo Cookies
    2. Follow By: White Pound Cake
    3. Slap on: A layer of Vanilla Pudding
    4. Layer In: Some Fresh Cut Stawberries
    5. Pile On: The Coolwhip
    repeat steps 2-5 & garnish with some white cholocoate flakes!

    Grab a spork & enjoy (all without having to turn on the oven!)

  437. Happy Birthday!!!! My favorite cake is white cake with buttercream frosting. I know boring, but I love it!!!

  438. Happy Birthday, hope your day is beautiful! And what an amazing and generous giveaway! I love cake…my favorite is chocolate with buttercream frosting or is it red velvet with cream cheese icing. It’s so hard to choose!

  439. Humming bird cake with cream cheese frosting, yum! Homemade is best but Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor, MI close second.

  440. Happy Birthday! And thanks for offering another wonderful giveaway! Favorite cake is ice cream cake- any flavor!

  441. Happy Birthday!!! What a FANTASTIC give-away on the day of your birth. I have been eyeing so many of your necklaces leaving them up for my husband to “find”.
    Cake? So hard to pick just one. I would go with Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.

  442. happy happy birthday lisa! love how you saw the possibility in the coffee table, it looks great! my favorite cake has always been my mom’s coconut cake that is my grandmother’s recipe…but i also love white cake with chocolate frosting with TONS of sprinkles (applied by my girls!) which is what we always make my husband on his birthday and the girls always look so forward to making their daddy’s special birthday cake!

  443. Happy Birthday! I so love reading your blog, it’s a bright start to my every day. I think my favorite is the yellow cake with chocolate frosting that my mom always made us for our birthdays growing up – never from a box and always a bit lopsided but totally delicious.

  444. Wow, happy birthday! I hope you have a wonderful day.

    I like pretty much any cake, but if I had to choose one flavor it would be chocolate with chocolate icing.

  445. Happy birthday! It’s hard to choose a favorite cake flavor, but today I might have to go with a red velvet cake with a light frosting.

  446. happy, happy birthday lisa! what a blessing your blog and your designs are; may you be equally blessed on your birthday, and then some! my fav cake is a vanilla bean cheesecake that a friend makes. from. scratch. absolutely delish!

  447. I have 2 favorite flavors—white chocolate liqueur and Scandinavian Almond cake! I think I’ll go make one right now…

  448. Happy Happy Birthday Lisa! I always get such inspiration from reading your blog (& often keep your family in my prayers). I’m not much of a cake eater, but when I do, I like plain ol’ yellow cake with chocolate icing. Although I do like a good piece of carrot cake as well. Maybe I’m more of a cake eater than I thought… *smile*

  449. Happy Birthday! Love the new look of your living room. I’ve never had a piece of cake I didn’t like but chocolate would be my favorite.

  450. My mom always makes me a yellow cake with white icing for my birthday and its without a doubt my favorite sweet treat for the whole year….the old fashioned icing, none of that light whipped stuff for me…the old school, Crisco, thick as can be icing. She loves to do it and I love to it….even though I am 47 years old, every year when I bite into that cake I feel like a giddy six year old!!

    Happy Birthday, Lisa!! May you feel six years old all day today!!

  451. Happy Birthday!

    What a wonderful giveaway!

    I love white or lemon cake with buttercream frosting! I always try to snag the piece with the most frosting!

  452. Happy birthday, Lisa!!!
    My favorite flavor has got to be carrot cake with cream cheese frosting … YUMMY!!!
    Blessings on your special day and the days to come!!!

  453. Favourite cake would have to be my great-aunts passionfruit shortcake!!! Yum… Hope you have a wonderful birthday filled with lots of love, sunshine & laughter

  454. Happy Birthday! I hope it’s a wonderful one.

    I think my favorite cake flavor would have to be carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. YUM!

  455. happy birthday lisa! it is my sister-in-laws birthday today too, and she just had her 2nd little bundle yesterday {right at noon on his due date . . . punctual little bugger!} so there’s lots of celebrating going on in our family {her little guy Schaffer was their 2nd and my parents 7th grandkiddo . . . my husband and I are expecting the 8th one in october — our 6th}.
    my very favorite cake is a toss up between angel food with almond glaze or white cake with peanut butter frosting . . . and, thanks to you, i’m totally craving both now! {and it’s 7:30 in the morning!} yummmmm!
    have a really, really wonderful day!
    blessings,
    shana

  456. ♫ Happy Birthday to you! ♫ My favorite cake cake would have to be a chocolate pound cake with chocolate cream cheese icing. After that it’s cheesecake that’s my real favorite!! 🙂 Love the chocolate brown sofa.

  457. Happy Birthday Lisa! I would have to say my favorite cake is cannoli cake. The only problem is nobody else in my family likes it – so I end up eating the whole thing =) Hope you have a great day!

  458. Oh, Happy Birthday!

    My favorite cake is ice cream cake! But if I can’t have that, then I like vanilla with whipped ice cream with a side of mint chocolate chip ice cream.

  459. Happy Birthday Lisa!!! I love your beautiful living room. I would have to say that my favorite cake is classic chocolate with cream cheese frosting. Yum! Oh I could so go for a piece right now.

    Enjoy your special day!

  460. Lisa, hope you have an awesome day! My favorite cake flavor is chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate and if it has a little espresso in it all the better! Thanks for the giveaway and your daily inspiration – you’re so generous today and everyday.

  461. Happy Birthday Lisa!! You have been such an encouragement to me! You always seem to find the good in any situation and stay positive. Thank you for that.

    My favorite kind of cake is yellow cake that is super moist with chocolate frosting. Yum!! It’s only 5:30 am and I am already wishing I had cake! 🙂

  462. I love chocolate cake with a cream filling. Chocolate frosting with shaved chocolate on top. Yum! Happy, happy birthday!

  463. omg…how awesome is this giveaway! Happy Birthday!!! Thanks for this opportunity. My favorite cake flavor depends upon my mood….i really love the triple chocolate cake mix with dark chocolate frosting….mmm…..i also love wedding cake….and every now and then strawberry with cream cheese frosting or rainbow chip cake with rainbow chip frosting….mmm….:)

  464. Happy Birthday Lisa! I hope you have the best day ever!

    My absolute favorite cake flavor is coconut. Yummy! I would love to have some right now for breakfast.

    Have a fabulous day!

  465. I love coconut cream cake, but rarely have it since my family doesn’t like coconut. Believe me, I could eat the whole cake myself, but wouldn’t risk it! Happy Birthday!

  466. Amazing giveaway! Happy birthday! I am honestly more of a pie person, but carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is my favorite cake. 🙂

  467. I love coconut cupcakes, does that count as a cake flavor? But, although many think this is gross…I love funfetti with funfetti frosting! YUM!

  468. I love german chocolate cake with vanilla bean ice cream. Hope you enjoyed your birthday and those boys of yours spoiled you!

  469. Happy Birthday Lisa! What an amazing giveaway! My favourite cake is any kind of dark chocolate cake with royal frosting. Yum!

  470. Happy Birthday to you!! Enjoy a day of celebrating your sweet, creative, giving self! I would have to say my favorite cake is almond with buttercream frosting.

  471. I love buttercream frosting more than life, okay not really, but I do love it a lot! As for the cake part of the delectable duo, I would have to go with carrot cake! It has always been my fav, even as a child.

    Your living room is so sweet. I have been working on a new house that my family just moved into and I seem to be purchasing a lot of things and not putting them up. I think I’m so fixated on making it look homey and not store bought that I second guess my purchases and they just end up in a pile in the hallway!

  472. Happy Birthday Lisa!! I have to tell you that my very favorite cake is Burnt Almond. It is from this bakery in Willow Glen called Dick’s. So incredibly yummy. We were just in the Bay Area over the summer and I had to have a piece. Creamy, custardy with these little slivers of carmelized almonds..a little piece of heaven! Have a blessed day.

  473. Happy Birthday!! Love the coffee table and room – I need to work on mine – there is something wrong with my coffee table too. I’m a simple chocolate girl with chocolate chips – don’t love the frosting but a little ice cream would do – how about some mint chocolate chip to go with it?!

  474. Happy Birthday. Spend the day taking care of you. As moms, we sometimes come last.
    Treat yourself – you deserve it. My favorite cake is carrot cake, which was my wedding cake with
    cream cheese icing. Yum ! Love your jewelry and love Target !

  475. Happy Birthday to you! Loving the LR updates. The table and rug just make it!
    My favorite birthday cake is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting…YUM!

  476. Today’s my wonderful father’s 70th birthday! It’s a good day for birthdays!! My favorite flavor of cake is carrot cake with lots of nuts and cream cheese frosting……ooooooo yum!

  477. Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting…cold from the fridge!
    Runner up: Yellow cake w/ chocolate frosting
    Happy Birthday!

  478. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
    Cheesecake is my favorite.
    The new house is looking great, btw!
    Your sweet David remains in my thoughts and prayers as you anticipate surgery~Heather

  479. My favorite cake is a special strawberry cake I created for fun when my son was only a couple of years old…He will turn 21 in October. The cake became a tradition in our family 🙂

    Lisa, best wishes on your birthday. I hope you have a blissful day! I love, love, love your jewelry! Thank you for creating such beautiful things!

    Love and blessings!
    Kathy

  480. Happy birthday!
    Funfetti cake is my favorite. Something about little confetti in my cake always makes me happy!

  481. Oh! I forgot to answer about the cake: I like yellow cake with Hershey’s milk chocolate icing.

    Since this is already comment #2 I will add here that I tweeted about this.

  482. Happy Birthday Lisa! 😉

    My favorite color cake? Hmmmmmm. Chocolate chip, with a creamy buttercream frosting, sprinkled with more chocolate chips!

    I’m salivating just thinking about it! 🙂

  483. Happy Birthday!!!! I love the way you decorate!! It makes me want to live there!!!
    My favorite cake is Red Velvet with my Grandma’s Famous 20 minute icing it has become a long tradition for my birthday the only problem is I have to make it for myself!!! Have a great day!!!
    You are an inspiration!!!!

  484. happy birthday! my favorite kind of cake is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I hope you enjoy your day!

  485. Happy Birthday to you, Lisa!! Hope you have a fabulous day!! My fave cake is PINK LEMONADE from Dewey’s in Winston-Salem, NC. If you have never tried it, you should! It’s so moist and delicious!! I’ve tried to make it myself, but it never turns out as good as Dewey’s!!

    It’s a pink cake with yellow icing and it is soo yummy!!

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! Treat yourself today, you deserve it!!

    Jennay

  486. Yay for Birthdays (and for giveaways)! It’s my birthday today as well. And also my Great Aunt’s! What a special day for all of us!

    Be a neat contest for me to win considering I share the big day with you.

    Happy Birthday Lisa!

  487. Oh, wow! Happy Birthday, Lisa!
    I am a new reader of your blog, and I just want to tell you that you are such a beautiful and inspiring person. (Love all of your jewelry, too!) Thank you for sharing your story with us. Your kids are also adorable and so full of life. I hope you have a lovely day with your family.
    My favorite birthday cake is “too much chocolate cake”…a devil’s food mix doctored up with all kinds of moist chocolatey goodness, with a chocolate glaze over the top. Yum.

  488. Hope your birthday is great!
    I can’t celebrate my birthday without my mama’s homemade Mississippi Mud cake….yum!

  489. Woo hoo! Happy Birthday to you!! I Love birthdays-it’s mine tomorrow.
    My favorite cake is a spice cake with some kind of caramel frosting. Yummy!

  490. my favorite flavor of cake is llllllemon! that’s what we served at our wedding last week (truth: it wasn’t very good, especially after the sprinklers got it)..but i also love pineapple-zucchini cake!

  491. HBD!!!! Hope it is fantastic!!! Sounds like it! “What cake will you have for your birthday?!” It’s the most important question of our bdays around here! Any cake made by my husband and sweet kids (one boy, two girls) is such a treat, and definitely my favorite!

  492. Happy Birthday, girl!!!!!!!!

    Love the coffee table makeover, it really changes the look, it’s beautiful!

    Fav birthday cake… hmmmm, I’ve never met a cake I didn’t like. If I had to pick one, maybe lemon or cherry bits… see, I can’t pick just one.

    Celebrate big!!!!!!!!!!!

    JD

  493. I love chocolate cake and carrot cake but not together. I’d love to try red velvet too!

    Have a great birthday!!

  494. A very Happy Birthday to you Lisa! love your blog,i check it out every day while drinking my coffee in the morning. Chocolate cake is the best! love the style you have in your room. I live not to far from the coast of Maine,so i love the ocean and the shells too !!! Enjoy your day!!! 🙂

  495. Happy Birthday!!!

    While you can’t go wrong with chocolate or a great slice of cheesecake, my favorite for summer is a nice big piece of Angel Food cake with a tall glass of homemade lemonade. Enjoy your special day!

  496. Happy Birthday to you …
    While chocolate is ALWAYS my go-to cake, we had mint chocolate chip for our wedding cake and it was just as fun (and yum!) as it sounds!

  497. My favorite cake would be my grandmother’s coconut cake…3 layers of yum! Hope you have a great day! Squeeze your babies give, your hubby some love and enjoy your day! It’s not how old we are, it’s what we’ve done in the years we’ve been here!

  498. Every year my mom makes me an angel food cake with cream cheese frosting for my birthday — I’m 32 — I hope I never get too old for my mom to bake me a birthday cake =)

  499. I love your blog and am always inspired by your pictures!

    My all-time-favorite cake is my mom’s chocolate cake with chocolate icing. One time the cake fell apart so we just put all the pieces in a big bowl and poured the icing on top – doesn’t matter how it looks it still tastes delicious!

  500. Cheesecake, but I’d eat just about anything sweet.

    Hope you have a fabulous birthday! Oddly enough, my birthday is August 20th! 🙂

  501. happy birthday, lisa! 🙂 my absolute favorite cake is carrot with cream cheese icing, yummm!
    have a delicious day!

  502. Happy, happy birthday! My very favorite cake is red velvet with buttercream frosting. I’m in my mid-30s and my mom still makes it for me every year. 🙂

  503. I’m a sucker for a simple, plain vanilla cake. I love the icing to be the star of the show, but am perfectly happy when it’s vanilla, too.Happy Birthday!

  504. My favorite cake is devil food chocolate with homemade powder sugar frosting and a glass of milk. Hmmm. . . maybe we can have birthday at our house to help Lisa celebrate.

  505. You sure have a big turnout here, Lisa! I wish you a very wonderful, relaxing Birthday! Though being a mom those can be hard to come by. LOL!

    My favorite cake would have to be Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake with fresh whip cream on top. Absolutely delicious!!!

  506. Happy Birthday to you!!! Aren’t b-days fun?! Love the giveaway, of course! But, oh, I just love cake. Period. Any cake will do and my favorite is whatever is already made and sitting there waiting to be sliced! 😉

  507. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! My favorite birthday cake is angel food cake with fresh strawberries and whip cream….heaven. Only one candle, lol! Have a great day!

  508. Happy Birtday!
    I love cheesecake, but actually any would do :).
    Love your “style-guide” (wiww) by the way!!

  509. First, your living room is gorgeous! Looove the colors! For the cake flavor, chocolate is my all-time favorite! Thanks for this wonderful giveaway!

  510. I’ll give my vote to cheesecake, although in my youth, my mother would get up early and have a fresh hot apple pie ready for me for breakfast as my birthday was often shadowed by Thanksgiving (and I didn’t like cake!).

  511. Happy Birthday! Love your blog :-). Such gorgeous colors in your living room – it’s so inviting! I want to dive right in with a favorite book or magazine.

    Favorite cake? Let’s see . . . . . I do love chocolate. White cake is great too, with berry filling, or berries on the side. I’m a huge frosting fan, so chocolate or vanilla cake with a brown butter frosting – – yum!

    I also have a recipe for an Oatmeal cake with coconut frosting – it’s so simple and so good. You asked for a favorite and I can’t decide!
    Sweet wishes for a wonderful day!

  512. Happy Birthday! How nice of you to give presents on your birthday. I LOVE ice cream cake. I used to buy it but now I make it. Oh it is so good. Maybe I’ll go make one now. Well after my morning coffee.

  513. Happy Birthday Lisa! Thanks for your great blog. Hope all your birthday dreams come true. Favorite summer cake would be Key Lime Cake .. so refreshing…

  514. Happy Birthday!!!
    I love chocolate cake! I have an amazing recipe that includes chocolate chips & sour cream – makes it so creamy & yummy!

  515. Happy Birthday, Lisa! Lovely photos as usual! And, what a fun giveaway – your work is just so beautiful!

    Favorite cake? Does brownies and ice cream count?! That is always my b’day choice!

  516. Mmmmm ice-cream, yum. When we lived in CT there used to be a homemade ice-cream place just a mile down the road from us and their triple white chocolate chip flavor was my favorite. Boy do I miss it.

  517. Hope you had a wonderful birthday! I would choose a moist double chocolate cake (chocolate with big chocolate chips) plus fresh whipped cream.

  518. Happy birthday!
    Favorite cake would have to be angel food with strawberries and fresh whipped cream.
    Yum!

  519. Fav cake…hmmm….ahhh….. Strawberry Shortcake ….moist pound cake, piles of fresh strawberries, cream between each layer……and oh….Vanilla Bean ice cream…..so hungry now!

  520. Hands-down: dark chocolate cake with mocha cream frosting. It’s really just another way to sneak more coffee into my day.

    Happy birthday, Lisa!

  521. hi lisa, happy birthday hope ur having a g8 day. my fave cake is chocolate with sour cream icing from nigella lawson’s how to be a domestic goddess. it is the most moist chocolate cake and very decadent. i am making one today in fact for my friend’s 21st tomorrow…………….special request. hope u enjoy ur cake
    Jo xxxx

  522. Lemon. No, angel food. Well, maybe coconut. Gosh, I think vanilla. However, almond. No, German chocolate. Golly, why should we have to choose?
    Happy Day!

  523. Best wishes for an amazing birthday full of family, friends and love!

    My favorite cake ever is carrot cake made by my Gram. If she’s not available (because I’ve moved to a different country and all…) then I’m a sucker for angel food cake with strawberries and lemon glaze.

  524. Happy Birthday!
    Devil’s food cake!!! (rich chocolate with strawberries and cream)
    I hope you had a lovely day

  525. Facebooked this great giveaway! (Hope a lot of people come check out your amazing jewelry and fantastic blog…but really hope I win!! ) 🙂

  526. Happiest of brithdays!! So glad God gave you some simple birthday blessings that brought you so much joy!!

    Not a big cake fan…rather sink my sweet tooth into some pie! Banana cream or boysenberry ala mode!

  527. golden vanilla cake with my mom’s *awesome* caramel icing, of course!
    [wish i could share a slice with you. happy birthday!]

  528. Hmmmm, can I only pick one???????

    I would say that if right now I were going to make or buy a cake, I would look for a vanilla cake with white, super fluffy buttercream frosting– that sounds summer-y enough!

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LISA! It’s amazing how perfect that coffee table is after a little paint… inspires me to see what I need to “spruce up” around my house!

  529. I love a white cake with fresh strawberries in the middle. Yum.
    Or anything chocolate. Chocolate is always good.

    Happy, happy birthday!!
    I love the cream in your room. I agree it softens it up, and it looks so peaceful.

  530. Happy Birthday Lisa!!!

    I love birthdays, mine is tomorrow 🙂 Oh I hope I win. I have always wanted one of your pieces of jewelry. My favorite birthday cake is Chocolate with chocolate frosting. Yummy.
    Love the new table and rug. Enjoy your special day
    deezie

  531. Happy Birthday Lisa! You inspired me to go and bake some cupcakes tonight, my favorite cake is yellow Duncan Hines box cake mix with chocolate frosting. I know, it just doesn’t seem right. But I love it.

  532. Happy Birthday Lisa! I hope you have a very special day! My favorite cake….well I prefer cupcakes with vanilla icing and of course. loads of sprinkles! I like the funfetti cake and iceing too…..yummy!

  533. Love the table and super comfortable yet stylish look of your room. It just begs for putting your feet up and hitting the relax button! Favorite: Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. Happy Birthday!

  534. i’m so not a cake person…isn’t that WRONG?! i guess i’d choose carrot cake with cream cheese icing, though!

    happy birthday, lisa! wishing you a beautiful, joy-filled year!

  535. My favorite is German chocolate…….oh so yummy!

    Happy Birthday Lisa! Hope you have a truly blessed day! 🙂

  536. Happy Birthday, sweet girl!! And yay for great, easy to fix furniture finds!

    Wow, so this is the ultimate giveaway here–Lisa Leonard Jewelry AND Target?!? Lovely.

    Favorite birthday cake: rainbow chip with rainbow chip frosting. I’m a five-year-old at heart, what can I say. 🙂

    Blessings to you this new year, Miss Lisa!

    Love,
    Mis

  537. Happy Birthday Lisa! My favorite flavor of cake is chocolate with raspberry filling and fudge frosting!

  538. Happy Birthday! I love the new coffee table 🙂 My favorite kind of cake is vanilla/vanilla. I’m a pretty simple gal. Thanks for the chance to win such a fabulous prize!

  539. Happy birthday Lisa! Hope you had a great day with lots of treats!

    As a wedding planner, I eat a lot of cake (woo~hoo for a great job perk!). I will never turn down red velvet, or a great vanilla with fresh strawberries and chocolate. The best wedding cake I ever had was banana with chocolate fudge and peanut butter (YUM!). But I will always have a spot in my heart for the good ol Funfetti from a box.

  540. Wishing all the best birthday wishes to such a strong, brave, and inspirational woman.

    While I adore cheesecake, my favourite flavour of “cake” cake is carrot cake with cream cheese icing. Can’t get enough. 🙂

  541. Hippo birdie two ewe! LOL

    I love chocolate cake with marscapone cream and whipped cream on top…I wonder if I have any left in the freezer…you got me craving it!

  542. Happy Birthday! Or Gratulerer med dagen, as it is in norwegian. 🙂
    hope this day finds you well and gives you lots more joys! I love the books and your finds on the thrift store!

    My favorite flavor on a cake has to be the frozen cheese cake my mom makes. with fresh cut strawberries on top. 🙂

  543. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! My favorite flavor of cake is silly, but yummy. Gotta love the Pillsbury (I think) Rainbow Chip with Rainbow Chip frosting. Perfect, yummy cupcakes every time. Anyway, hope you had a great one! LOVE your new coffee table. 😉

  544. Lisa you are a blessing! I love to read your blog daily, you inspire me. Hope your birthday was full of unexpected pleasures & moments that took you breath away. God bless you, Christie
    fave cake red velvet with sweet cream frosting, Yummy yum!

  545. Happy Birthday! The table looks great – the legs and the paint job give it that vintage feel. I love it!

    As for favorite cake…RED VELVET! Duh! 😉

  546. Happy Birthday! We just celebrated my son’s 4th birthday yesterday! I LOVE chocolate cake, especially dark chocolate with chocolate frosting! And some vanilla ice cream to top it off! Your living room looks so inviting, how fun!

  547. thanks for all the blog inspiration! you inspire me to improve at photography! my favorite cake is red velvet with buttercream frosting – wish i had some with a cup of coffee right now!

  548. Happy birthday!! You have the coolest necklaces! I agree with the very first post…chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. MMMM. Cheesecake is my next fav.

    The living room and table are very nice too.

  549. I love all of your thrift store finds!

    Happy birthday to you. I hope it was lovely!!

    My very favorite flavor of cake is: Death by Chocolate Bundt Cake (It is a really dense, rich cake full of chocolatey goodness drizzled with a chocolate ganache frosting and topped off with mini chocolate chips) – can you tell I love chocolate :).

  550. Happy Birthday! Little else is more satisfying than finding something great at a thrift store.

    My favorite flavor of cake is… ice cream cake!!
    It’s hard for me to stomach frosting of any kind — even the frosting top of one small cupcake is too much! So, ice cream cake is my friend. Cookies n’ Cream ice cream cake, to be more specific. 😉

  551. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

    i like cheesecake with strawberries! i just love me some gram cracker crust!!

    shot- now i’m hungry and craving cheesecake 🙂

  552. I LOVE Baskin Robin’s Chocolate Chip Ice-cream cake! But (blushing)… I don’t eat the cake! Just the crazy good frosting and ice-cream! Happy Birthday!!

  553. Here’s hoping your birthday was super fabulous! My favorite cake varies a bit with the season. I can hardly wait for pumpkin cakes, cookies and muffins yum…….

  554. Happy Birthday. Love the new table.

    My favourite cake flavour ….carrot cake with vanilla frosting (yes please … 🙂

    Holding thumbs.
    Karen Lamb

  555. Yeah, for birthdays! They are my favorite. I love the Alice in Wonderland Idea of ‘unbirthdays’, as my birthday is Dec 20th, being so close to Christmas it loses some of it’s specialness. None the less birthdays are GREAT!
    Favorite cake, Homemade – Funfetti, vanilla frosting. At our local supermarket – Tuxedo Cake. At our local bakery – Carrot cake with oh so yummy cream cheese frosting. One cake is just to hard to decide on. Happy Birthday!

  556. Happy Birthday to you!! I love chocolate cake – the chocolatier the better! I also love that sweet Todd & Kelly necklace in your post. My husband’s name is Todd so, it just made my heart leap when I saw it! Hope you have a wonderful day and a blessed year! Kelly

  557. Happy Birthday!!! Have a fabulous day! The difference made by painting that table and adding the rug, etc. is AMAZING! You have such a great eye!
    As for the contest … my favorite cake flavor is carrot cake … or apple cake … or spice cake … but definitely one of those (hmmm … they all have cinnamon … I think there’s a theme!) ! 🙂

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