Stars shown in 2013 but unfortunately the original post was lost. I still love them a lot and therefore thought it worthwhile to publish it again. Stars – the symbol of Christmas time. Today we’ll sew some of them. The advantage is the numerous fabric designs allowing to match them with your table decoration, the […]
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A cooling rack, cooking ingredients, some kitchen tools and the corresponding recipes. All this makes a lovely advent calendar for all those who love cooking. I printed a recipe for Christmas cookies and one for cupcakes and packed up the necessary ingredients (except eggs, milk and butter) in small cellophane bags.Cookie cutters, small cake moulds, […]
Autumn – time to make your garden winterproof and to cut the hedges. If you have a conifer or yew tree hedge you can use the cut branches for Christmas time. If you leave them outside so that they will get some rain from time to time they’ll really last until Christmas. We will take […]
Yum, yum, delicious chocolate cake. The recipee was found at Dr. Oetker’s but the reason to look for it where lots of last year’s still edible chocolate Easter bunnies and Santas. Pastry: 200g dark chocolate (bunnies and Santas) 125g butter 125g caster sugar 1 bag vanilla sugar 3 eggs 1 cup of soured cream (150g) […]
Looking out of the window we feel like having spring time but a look at our calendar just tells us it’s only three weeks until the 1st of December i.e. only three weeks left to finish one or maybe even several advent calendars. I’ll start with one that is done rather quickly at least if […]
