30 December 2006
Hooray, I've managed to upload some photos (thanks to Rob!). This first one is from my living room, looking into the kitchen, so you can see how the two colours work together (with the footstool/coffee table and Minnie's toys in the foreground). You can also see my expensive Christmas decorations (I did actually manage to find one lone Tord garland at my new local Target). What with the long nights and only a radio for entertainment, a lot of paper craft went on around here. I hung six of those red and green 'balls' in each of the two open doorways from my living room, and they spun around whenever a draft caught them.
I'll have to do a proper before-and-after post about my kitchen, but it's still a work in progress. As I mentioned before, I'm painting my china cabinet (you can see the bottom in that photo above, with green presents on top). The first two pieces of art I hung on my wall were the postcards Camilla and Mav collaborated on -- I'll have to get a photo later, because they look so pretty, matted and framed in white.
I thought I made a lot of ginger biscuits last year, when I made the seasonal Snowcookies, but I clearly didn't know the meaning of 'a lot' back then.
I decided to give my extended family these ginger biscuits as presents, so I baked them in advance, froze them, and then iced them the day after I moved in. It took forever. The icing was a lot thinner than what I made last year, so they have a very different look to them, but they taste darn good! For most of my family, I just wrapped five or six of them in little plastic cookie bags, but I made these jars for my grandmothers:
I'm not usually big on traditional 'glue gun crafts', but I thought these turned out quite pretty. And everybody seemed to enjoy the biscuits. Phew.
Anna! Wow, what a great house! Congratulations! I can imagine how much fun you're having, getting everything painted and things put away!
posted by Jennifer at December 30, 2006 02:31 PM
The house looks great - very calm and full of light. And the biscuits are amazing - I love the 'sea' of stars.
Hope you are very happy in your new home.
posted by Jane at December 30, 2006 03:53 PM