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We’ve made our eggs yesterday…They look nice, even if only few, but initially I thought they were a bit… too anonymous. So, finally, most of them received personality. Happy Easter!:-)

As a kid I tried few times to make candles by myself, with some help from my Dad. Well, they were never very good, mostly because I couldn’t make a good wick.

Last two years me and Michel didn’t throw out the remains of the candles we are using at home /and we use many candles ;-)/ and he always says that one day we can make new candles from them.

I decide to try last Saturday and, armed with Google, I found many different advices for making a good candle wick.
Of course, I didn’t have all that I need for it, so I just improvised, but the good news are that it was very successful try.
The candles are just fine and not only they look nice, but they burn well. Our big joy and pride is the fact that the wicks are ok and candles burn better than some of the originals we ever bought.

If you decide to make your own candles at home, there are many places in the net you can find useful advices. Anyway, that’s how I made our wicks:

1. Thick cotton thread for doily;

5. Dip it in some molten wax and hold it under running cold water for a while, to harden.

I guess you’ll find the making of candles at home very pleasant, just like me.
And its surely useful, as you can use the remains of all candles, instead just throwing them.

Here you are, my Christmas cookies.
Sorry, only this picture left, we ate the models.

I spent two unforgettable days in the kitchen of my own home with my parents, magically turned on to be kids again.
Hours and hours we spent with sugar-coated hands and I was watching my parents, funny quarrelling who is supposed to decorate this or those cookie and why it’s made like this and not otherwise. It was…fairytale. Homey and Christmas-like. The way it always should be.
This Christmas I miss my grandma again. I often miss her, but on holidays I feel her absence in particular.
I am sure she would love these cookies.

I wanted to send this picture as a Christmas card to all my friends, but anyway, I didn’t, so I am showing it here.

Feel satisfied this way, or if you are not, better wait for remake till next Christmas.

I am obviously culinary addicted lately Indeed, I had a particular reason to make these cookies last Sunday, but then the reason was canceled and only the cookies left.

Maybe I have to admit that these ones were not so tasty as the previous, but they were good, too. In their own way.
I wondered if I have to decorate them and with what, but then I found some fluid chocolate in the refrigerator and I used it.
(It wasn’t very delicious and that’s why it was still there)

It looks fine and makes better taste, only next time I will use some really good chocolate, a kind that stays hard when cooled.

Well, they were beautiful at least, that’s why I am showing them.

2008is the year of the rat and is the first sign from the Chinese zodiac.
The rat is a creative problem-solver, imaginative, hyperactive worker respected for its resourcefulness.
It is intuitive, with ability in acquiring and holding on to things it values.

“Rats” are people born in 1900, 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996.

Personally, I like the mice. So much that I made one from plush as a gift for Michel:

Here again, in full size

I do hope that 2008 will be one lucky year.
An year in which things will go right and well and won’t fail despite of all the efforts.
Eight is my favorite number - it’s well-balanced and promises eternal harmony.

I wish “happiness for everyone for nothing and nobody to be neglected”*.

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* Arkad and Boris Strugatzki, “Roadside picnic”).

Did you ever heard about this:

Angels-from-pasta

It’s wonderful!

And here one wonderful girl posted a picture today.

And then, I liked the idea so much, I wanted to try it soon and make a few angels from pasta… And today, we started to make the Christmas tree.

This year it is artificial, a gift from two American friends, and they left us with the tree and some toys for decoration, and suddenly, in the plastic bag, on the bottom, we found a little angel from pasta just like the one here.

Well, our angel was a bit broken, so I had to glue the head to the body and also the crown is not intact, but whatever - it came to us the same day when I saw him for the first time!

What a strange coincidence!
Happy, happy me now:) Isn’t this magic?