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Sorry

Installed wordpress 4.4 – since then things go wrong. First my translations were recorded but not published, now the gallery’s out of order. So if you’re looking for any special post you  have to take the search button because pictures don’t show post’s name and actually don’t link to the corresponding post. I’m working on […]

Dancing angels

Christmas without angels, can’t imagine. My this year’s version seems to dance arount the vase. That’s probably due to the lovely pleated dresses. For making them you’ll need some nice Christmas papers, wooden balls mesuring about 1,5cm in diameter and some ribbon to hang them up. I found these angels on cchobby.de but instead of […]

Roly-poly Santas

Looking for Christmas cookies I found a wonderful video instruction for these roly-poly Santas on the site of Better Homes and Gardens. I really like them and must admit that I couldn’t add any further explanations.  Instead of the bhg recipe  I took the one of my Santa cookies. Decorate them as you like and […]

Fabric stars

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 […]

Black and white cookies

Sweet and very tasty twists with chocolate and vanilly pastry – they’re very easy to do. both pastries are rolled out to the same size and placed on top of each other. To give them a better hold spread some beaten egg white on top of one of the pastry. I took some raspberry jam […]