Advent, Day 1

[wiseheart]

I've finally hung up my Advent calendar. Behold my Christmas Elves in tight formation:



My Good Things of the day:

- I baked three different sort of cookies, namely ginger-cranberry meringues with roast almonds, ginger-walnut cookies and chocolate-peanut cookies; they all turned out quite well. Pictures later, when I had the decorating done.

- I talked to Elise (who's completely healed and is working again) and Eenie, which was nice.

Not much else happened today. I was baking from 9am to 2pm and was pretty much drained afterwards. But Mum liked the cookies, and a good bunch of them I'll put in tin boxes and save for Christmas, so it was totally worth the effort.

Comments

[meathiel]

Hmmm ... Christmas cookies. ;-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They make up half the Christmas fun, don't they?

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Your elves are cute! And great baking! Well done!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) The elves took a couple of months to make, but I think they were worth the effort.

[bk_forever]

They're so cute!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. They're not new, actually - about four years old or so - but I needed a bright spot in my bedroom, so I dug them out of storage. *g*

[bk_forever]

They certainly add a splash of colour!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They cover the horrible wallpaper nicely, which increases my festive mood one hundred per cent.

[bk_forever]

That's never a bad thing.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I hate that wallpaper - and I chose it! But in the shop it looked differently - must have been the difference of illumination or whatnot.

[bk_forever]

The difference between artificial and natural light can really affect how something looks.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Cool.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Your elves look great.

I really must start baking. I have written a shopping list for ingredients...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

How long is it? *g*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Pretty long... :)

It starts with

dried mixed fruit
pecans
dried cranberries
white chocolate
plain flour
cooking butter
soft brown sugar
ginger
mincemeat (sweet-mince)

And then sort of drifts...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sounds familiar... ;))

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

And I will have to go to Tesco; the local supermarket didn't have any pecans or dried cranberries :(

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Love the Advent elves! Can't believe it is that time of the year already.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

True. I wonder endlessly where the time has gone.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

“ginger-cranberry meringues with roast almonds” - now I have the worst craving. They sound absolutely delicious.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So this picture perhaps won't help?

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/a2/26/99a226a06fe9a0cea7d83d5f6bbbf211.jpg)

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Mouth-watering. I want to try one, so much.

[artemis10002000]

So good to hear Elise has recovered well! The cookies sound delicious.