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... because we had a visit from the chiropodist lady (the one who talks a lot but unfortunately can't work and talk at the same time), which ate practically the whole morning, and I also had to go to choir practice afterwards.

But I did work a bit on the Hello Kitty booklets. Three of the altogether five booklets now have a finished front page, with entrance door and windows and bushes on both sides of the door and the likes. The other two still lack the windows, but I hope I'll be able to do those tomorrow.

Even though tomorrow I'll start baking for Mum's birthday party, since the recipe says the hummingbird cake is better if baked a day or two before serving it. So, tomorrow I'll bake it - I hope -, and the day after I'll make the Lamingtons and the frostings for the cake and the blinis, so that the various tastes can grow together in the fridge. On Friday morning I'll make the blinis, the cheesy buns (which have to be absolutely freshly made) and the mince streusel traybake. The fruit mix for the last one has been ripening in rum for the last two days, so I hope it will taste fantastic.

Choir practice was fun as always. It turns out we'll have a concert in the National Gallery on February 19, which is grandiose. We've been there only once, some ten or fifteen years ago, but it's a unique experience: the surroundings, the incredible acoustics... I can't wait!

Oh, and it seems that my friend Erica will become a grandmother for the second time in May. So I'll have to make yet another baby book. No rest for the crafty!

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Date: 2023-01-31 06:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] meathiel
Good news about the concert.

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Date: 2023-01-31 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
I'm very happy about it. This was part of our concert 13 years ago:



I'm the chubby woman with the very wide collar in the middle of the first row.

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Date: 2023-01-31 07:00 pm (UTC)
artemis10002000: Don't drink water... fish have sex in it (Wen Qing)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000

Woah, loads of baking still planned for the next couple of days, good luck with that, may it all be delicious and nice-looking!

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Date: 2023-01-31 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Amen to that!

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Date: 2023-01-31 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beauty-forashes.livejournal.com
Sounds like you have everything planned out really well.

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Date: 2023-01-31 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Planning out things usually isn't the problem. Going with the plan, though... well, that's a different cup of espresso. *g*

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Date: 2023-02-01 11:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elwenlj.livejournal.com
Lol. What would you do with your days, if you were not crafty? I know I would be terribly bored.

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Date: 2023-02-01 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Perhaps I could persuade myself to start writing again?

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Date: 2023-02-01 01:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
The food sounds like a lovely selection.

And It turns out we'll have a concert in the National Gallery on February 19 — how wonderful, definitely something to look forward to.

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Date: 2023-02-01 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
It really is, and we do — very much!

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Date: 2023-02-01 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noadvertising.livejournal.com
A concert in the National Gallery- how wonderful! So please don't get burnout syndrome with all that baking and cooking and whatever else you have to prepare!

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Date: 2023-02-01 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Nah, I actually enjoy baking! Which is what I try to explain to Mum, who keeps worrying about all the work. I've told her several times that it isn't the baking that does me in — it is the rest of the dratted housework, which I hate with the passion of a thousand burning suns.
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