Pa Rum pa pum pum! This is what I am hearing wherever I go! Christmas music! so beautiful! You know when it has arrived because the over- indulging is just inevitable- and so is the gym actually!
Christmas started a little earlier for me this year, it started even earlier in the QVB (October) with the gorgeous and tall Swarovski Christmas tree! so shinny and mmm expensive... Lucky in Australia Halloween is not very popular so we get the chance to enjoy more Christmasy stuff!
I had a demonstration at Borders book store in Macquarie Shopping Centre. I was displaying my Gingerbread house and my Christmas cookies. The demo went really well- specially with the little ones! they loved the biscuits, they all wanted to buy them and join my course to which their parents answer to their request was a dry "no" :( sad for them but any way I got to run the gingerbread workshop early November and that was very fun and for 5/6 of the class -->rewarding! the remaining 1/6's house fell apart due to poor construction skills- not the trainers fault ;) A lovely lady who has already taken two of my classes emailed this: "Thanks for the lovely class on Saturday. We had a good time bonding and we loved our houses." ~now, this is what it is all about! people having a great experience and learning how to make beautiful food!
The Christmas cookies were so cute, I made honey cinammon and original gingerbread flavour. I decorated them both with RTR and royal icing- they were packaged very festively in clear celophane and tied with gold, red and green ribbons! A lot of people have asked me if I could sell them- truth be told is not very good business unless you do it commercially and then you loose the point of decorating them individually! they are very time consuming, as gorgeous as they are I only make them for pressies~ why are we such a time poor society??
Speaking about Christmas it started to warm up here in the Souther Hemisphere! It is either very hot or very cool- there is no average temperature. Sleeping is not fantastic but Oh they joy of spring/summer! Beautiful sunny shinny days, the birds sing, the cicadas try to keep up with the latter. There is so much time to play in the afternoons! Outdoor cinemas, wafer cone gelatos, woodfired pizza, buzzing food in Chinatown, late cups of tea, fish and chips at the beach, picnic dinners, sunscreen, fly spray, beach towels, skirts, sandals, stone fruits-mmm yum mangoes, cherries, apricots, nectarines, BBQ smell, pool parties and laughter. This is summer summarized very quickly for me~
Happy Summer & Merry Christmas to you!!
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