wiseheart | Advent 2024

This was a fairly successful day. I've managed to decorate my Almond and poppy seed biscuits and my Orangenbusserln, which are, basically, shortbread cookies with finely chopped aranzini, orange peel and orange juice in the dough.

I wanted to make them look a bit like the mandarin oranges they sell together with leaves (I never buy them because, honestly, they are expensive enough without paying for the weight of additional inedible parts, but they look pretty). Obviously, I failed. But it was a heroic attempt; not to mention fiddly.

At least the poppy seed biscuits turned out really pretty. This ready-made icing I had bought might have been outrageously expensive (well, it was), but it has the lovely metallic effect the package promised, so I don't mind the price.

In other news, LJ support answered my mail. They extended my paid account by 3 months and suggested ways I might be able to use to pay in the future, as they won't be able to make such gifts again and again. That's fair. I'll ask someone who's better versed in financial things for help, now that I've got 3 months to do so. I won't re-upload my deleted icons before the whole thing got fixed for good, though.

The rest of the day was spent with boxing the biscuits, cooking lunch, completely rearranging the flat for tomorrow's cleaning frenzy (after which I'll have to undo the whole thing again, but that can't be helped) and a nice, one-hour nap around midday. I even managed to write my obligatory couple of sentences half an hour ago, so everything is done for the day.