Monday, 25 September 2017
From Harvest to Christmas
People often complain, that cooking Christmas food for several days in a roll before Christmas makes them exhausted. The best way to avoid it is to prepare some food in advance. For example, delicious pickles, crispy sauerkraut, savory vegetable spreads, marinated mushrooms, sweet homemade jams&berry syrups. And harvest period is the best time to do it! These three months, which are left to Christmas Eve, are exactly enough for some good old-fashioned preserves to get into their best shape! Because, you know,- many of them has to "mature" naturally in order to become really delicious! So,- get inspired&and roll up your sleeves. And when you need a towel to dry your hands, while cooking,- because, you know, preparing the conserves require ideal hygiene and therefore lots of hand-washing in the process,- choose something with a spicy vegetable print for extra-inspiration. Like, for example, this harvest-themed kitchen towel from HM, which we find absolutely adorable! By the way,- HM has a matching apron as well.
These items will match the canvas panel from Cellbes with the gifts of nature depicted on it.
In addition,- having such a painting in the kitchen, reminding about juicy colorful vegetables, usually stimulates people to eat real greens&veggies more often. Which is very good for health always, but especially,- in the cold season, when organism needs extra vitamins to fight away viruses of common cold and influenza. This is a basic rule of advertising&promotion, you know,- if you often see a billboard with a beautiful&colorful picture of some product, sooner or later you will start craving this product. Why not to use it for your health benefit?
Saturday, 16 September 2017
Soon the bells will start
"Time flies, when you have fun,"- is a popular saying. And so it does, when one works or studies. Just recently we were taking off the ornaments from the Christmas-tree, - and ops! - here is a spring already with its light-green grass and pale-rosy flowers, followed by the summer with its seashells and starfishes, and then... then you find yourself planning a "harvest casserole" with aubergines and bell peppers as a next meal,- and realize, that autumn is here.
By the way,- regarding taking down the Christmas decorations. When we have finally taken down the last ones (as we thought 😏 ),- that is somewhere in May,- the next day it started snowing again,- probably, as a protest against our shameless action. It was both strange and beautiful! And no, - the "last ornaments" were actually not really the last ones,- later we have found a little golden bell in the hall - and decided to let it stay there awaiting for "tis the season" to come. As we have heard from the jolly old lady from the tiny souvenir shop, this behavior is far away from abnormal.
Anyway, now, when nights are getting dark and cold, we have the right to start preparing ourselves for "the most wonderful time of the year". And it is both pleasant&sensible, because looking at bright pictures of Christmas clothes and tableware helps us to avoid not only seasonal autumn depression, but also "Christmas stress", which is striking people in the middle of the December. What is the point in waiting till the last moment with buying Christmas gifts and decorations and staying in long queues? It is much easier to spend some spare time in September, October and November, searching for the good presents online or in stores. And you can be sure, that the shops are already prepared for that!
Here are just few Christmas-friendly items, which we have found recently online. So,- brew the fresh organic tea, pour it in your favorite mug, sit in the bed under the fluffy comforter (that one, which is a quilt), with a soft comforter (another one, which is warm scarf) around your neck,- and let's enjoy the preparations for "the season to be jolly"!
By the way,- if you would like to start gradually watching Christmas movies, we strongly recommend you to find on Youtube "Petticoat Junction - Canonball Christmas",- 25 minutes of this sweet 50-s comedy is a good start! Aaaah, what a lovely dresses they had in those days! Well one could find something a bit similar even now...
By the way,- regarding taking down the Christmas decorations. When we have finally taken down the last ones (as we thought 😏 ),- that is somewhere in May,- the next day it started snowing again,- probably, as a protest against our shameless action. It was both strange and beautiful! And no, - the "last ornaments" were actually not really the last ones,- later we have found a little golden bell in the hall - and decided to let it stay there awaiting for "tis the season" to come. As we have heard from the jolly old lady from the tiny souvenir shop, this behavior is far away from abnormal.
Anyway, now, when nights are getting dark and cold, we have the right to start preparing ourselves for "the most wonderful time of the year". And it is both pleasant&sensible, because looking at bright pictures of Christmas clothes and tableware helps us to avoid not only seasonal autumn depression, but also "Christmas stress", which is striking people in the middle of the December. What is the point in waiting till the last moment with buying Christmas gifts and decorations and staying in long queues? It is much easier to spend some spare time in September, October and November, searching for the good presents online or in stores. And you can be sure, that the shops are already prepared for that!
Here are just few Christmas-friendly items, which we have found recently online. So,- brew the fresh organic tea, pour it in your favorite mug, sit in the bed under the fluffy comforter (that one, which is a quilt), with a soft comforter (another one, which is warm scarf) around your neck,- and let's enjoy the preparations for "the season to be jolly"!
Villeroy&Boch Christmas Toys 2017 Gobelin pillow
Villeroy&Boch Christmas Toys 2017 Gobelin gift bag
Villeroy&Boch Christmas Toys 2017 Rocker
Villeroy&Boch Christmas Toys 2017 Christmas train with children
HM, cotton
HM, satin
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