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| love the playhouse lit up at this time of year |
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| heart-shaped stone finial on a birdhouse |
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| Mom sent me home with my own bottle of home made advocaat...too bad I am the only one who likes it here! Whooooo! |
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| Mom also sent us home with a bag of oliebollen....she only made 250 this year! |
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| made some poffertjes for lunch with homemade jam |
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| thought it was time to melt down the bee wax cappings.... |
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| we don't have a solar melter, so I simmered the cappings in water in a large pan. The wax floated to the top, I skimmed it off and put it in a smaller container. Adam has a friend who works in encaustic painting, and I told her we would have WAY TOO MUCH WAX as it was in a 20 Litre pail when we started.... |
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| ....little did I know the HUGE PAIL would melt down to a 4 litre tub, or not quite 3 3/4 lbs. of wax. Here Adam is straining the last bit of wax through a nylon (I told him it would build character) |
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| the finished product--smells great & looks good. We'll be giving it to Sierra so that she can create something beautiful with Cobourg beeswax |
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| Dorothy & Nigel bought this sweater for Archie for Christmas & today was a great day to wear it.... |
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| .......it was frigid on the beach this morning! |
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| One of our greatest traditions--Brian throwing the Christmas tree out the front door. This might be the first year without snow to throw it into in many years! |
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