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Good-bye 2019!
Dec. 31st, 2019 08:40 pmI'll do that meme everyone seems to be doing right now a little later. At the moment, I just want to reflect on the last day of this year. It was a fairly quiet one, just the way I like it. I started the day with finishing the first full batch of the Russian paper dolls I'm working on as a gift for my main choir, for the theme ball on February 1. So far, I've made 16 of them (save the two that went to my dear friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lindahoyland), 20 to 23 more to go.
This is what the outer layers look like:
For the middle layer, I rearranged the dolls, so that just the patterned parts would be visible:
To show the inner layer, with the tiny little dollies, I rearranged them again:
When the dolls were done, we had lunch, and then I actually managed to translate a page or so for the ongoing project from the last![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
picowrimo session. By then, natural light was mostly gone, so I decided to re-watch an old Miss Marple DVD, from the series with Joan Hickson (my absolute favourite). Those episodes are fairly long, in two, sometimes three parts, but since there's been nothing watchable on the telly lately, I'm in the process to re-watch them all. Today, it was The Moving finger.
Then we had dinner - the party food that we'd be eating much later, if I wouldn't make that fasting diet. It's bad enough that I'd break my fasting for a glass of champagne at midnight, I didn't want to have food as well that late.
Our party food: mini sausage rolls and little puff pasties, the latter filled with a ham and a tuna filling, respectively. The cookies are so-called financiers; an excellent way to use up leftover egg whites.
I hope you all have a grand old time at New Year's Eve, whether you're going to a party or planning to spend it quietly at home. *raises imaginary champagne flute*
lindahoyland), 20 to 23 more to go.This is what the outer layers look like:
For the middle layer, I rearranged the dolls, so that just the patterned parts would be visible:
To show the inner layer, with the tiny little dollies, I rearranged them again:
When the dolls were done, we had lunch, and then I actually managed to translate a page or so for the ongoing project from the last
picowrimo session. By then, natural light was mostly gone, so I decided to re-watch an old Miss Marple DVD, from the series with Joan Hickson (my absolute favourite). Those episodes are fairly long, in two, sometimes three parts, but since there's been nothing watchable on the telly lately, I'm in the process to re-watch them all. Today, it was The Moving finger.Then we had dinner - the party food that we'd be eating much later, if I wouldn't make that fasting diet. It's bad enough that I'd break my fasting for a glass of champagne at midnight, I didn't want to have food as well that late.
Our party food: mini sausage rolls and little puff pasties, the latter filled with a ham and a tuna filling, respectively. The cookies are so-called financiers; an excellent way to use up leftover egg whites.
I hope you all have a grand old time at New Year's Eve, whether you're going to a party or planning to spend it quietly at home. *raises imaginary champagne flute*
