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I like them, very very much. Again Iceland. I feel so atracted.

More.

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”).

Christmas is wonderful to me this year.
I can take a good rest (without being in hurry for anywhere) and i can notice all my relatives.
I still didn’t greet anybody from my friends - not even on the phone or with text message or however - and we were two days without internet at home, so it was peace and quiet here.

But now we have internet again, so, for those of you, friends, who are occasionally passing by - greetings with this performance of one of the best and brightest people that i have the joy and honor to know — Enrico Trevisan:

Happy holidays, and don’t eat too much. (it could be worse than the hangover…)

It was about a month ago when I found and bought a wonderful poncho in amazing colors.
I fell in love immediately and got inspired for this *self-portrait*.

You just cannot imagine my pleasure when shopping fruits and vegetables in Saturday morning from the little local store and when all the people around start to smile at me unintentionally…