wiseheart: (Uhura_tribble)
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Today I finally got around to finish a long-planned stitched card with the baby Jesus under a church window. It wasn't a particularly different pattern, save for the fact that I stupidly decided to do it with metallic thread on black paper. My poor eyes didn't thank me for the idea. But I think the card turned out quite nicely. What do you think?



Also, my second attempt to make fondant-based Christmas candy was successful. Here can you see the candies still drying on a grid:



Here are they gift-wrapped, in a decorative cardboard vessel:



And here are the same candies in simpler wrapping - that is how we are going to sell them on the charity fair before Christmas (because I don't have enough of the festive wrappings, basically):

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Date: 2016-10-22 05:51 pm (UTC)
artemis10002000: (Padme)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
All of that looks fantastic!

These are some delicious-looking Christmas cookies.

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Date: 2016-10-23 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lindahoyland.livejournal.com
What a beautiful card!

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Date: 2016-10-23 03:19 pm (UTC)
ext_422737: uncle hallway (Hallway)
From: [identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com
The card turned out beautifully!

Are those rum candies by any chance? Lecker!!

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Date: 2016-10-23 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
This is traditional Hungarian Christmas candy. We hing. Them on the tree. As far as I know, no other people have it which is funny, considering that its original name - Salonzuckerl - came from German. Probably because only the rich could afford it during the good old Monarchy.

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Date: 2016-10-23 06:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Well, I made them with rum-flavoured baking aroma. I rarely use real alcohol, simply because we don't keep any in the house, except eggnog.

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Date: 2016-10-23 06:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Thank you. It does have small faults, the frigging metallic thread tends to tear at the most inconvenient times, but all in all I am well pleased. The colours are more even in real life, I'm just a lousy photographer.

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Date: 2016-10-23 06:59 pm (UTC)
artemis10002000: (Padme)
From: [personal profile] artemis10002000
Oh yes I think I remember them from your previous Christmas tree pictures, could that be?

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Date: 2016-10-23 10:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com
Actually, we just placed them under the tree in a bowl for easier access in recent years. But these I will put on the tree, since I worked with them so hard.
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