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Valentine's week starts today with "crafty Monday". You guessed it, this might be the first of many Valentine´s Day related posts that I am planning to do. Last week I have already finished these cute miniature cookie etageres but the things that I wanted to put on them were still missing. I think it´s kind of boring if there are cookies on a cookie etagere. So I had to find something else that would also relate to the overall Valentine`s…
This is the weekend, where even I have to admit that the Christmas season has ended. However since we still got some new snow yesterday, it´s a good time to make some baked apples, for old times sake, of course, with a little 'christmassy' rum flavored filling.
When my husband took this photo of cookies in front of Grandma's Pie shop all his good new year´s resolutions were gone. He thought he could stay away from sweets in Jan 2013.
Doing a gingerbread house is not the newest idea of course, but I am doing it every year on christmas with great fun. This year I had the (supposed to be!) glorious idea of baking a complete gingerbread village with many of tiny houses and deers and sweets around, without thinking how much efforts and time-consuming that would be. I had the idea of a village quite some weeks in my head already and was so eager of doing it.…
Today is the final afternoon tea before X-Mas. Everything is prepared and set up. It was so great to meet so many nice people, I am so inspired by all of you and overwhelmed by your cheerfulness. Thank you so much! The tray is waiting for the eggnog Magnolia is waiting to be served & eaten, of course I am looking forward to meet you all again, maybe for the upcoming Valentinesday Tearoom event in February? Merry Christmas to all…
The perfect Sunday afternoon: Snow, only 15 days until Christmas and we have some friends with us enjoying afternoon tea at our house.
In our area in Germany we have this tradition where kids make their own laterns and knock at doors of houses. When you open up the door, they sing songs that go back to a story of St. Martin, a guy who helped the poor by sharing his clothes. Well, today the kids do not want clothes they are in for a sweet treat.This year, I wanted to make sure that, our house is being recognized as a special location…
