If you want to make Christmas Crackers you will need to start collecting toilet rolls. I'm keeping mine on a string. This photo reminds me of a trip to communist Poland were I saw ladies with strings of toilet paper like this, grotesque pearl necklaces. Apparently one could take bundles of newspaper to a shop, they would be weighed and swapped for toilet paper. What a brilliant ecological solution. And no longer happens...
Anyway you'll need the toilet rolls and cracker "snaps" which can be bought at a number of online places. I bought a pack of 144 from this ebay shop. They were the cheapest I could find and arrived the next day. Last year I bought from this place, who were very good, but their prices seem to have doubled. Well I've got far too many (I need about half), so if anyone wants to just experiment making a few I'd be happy to post some. Because you really can't make a cracker without a BANG. It just isn't the same.
The top portrait wasn't taken today, or even in the past few days, because I do not look that healthy or groomed or with-it. I can't seem to shake this cold/flu although I'm a lot better today. Thank you for kind "get well" words. My preparations for getting well include lots of pomegranates; delicious, nutritious and such a beautiful ritual to eat. That and sleep and whisky. The plus side of having a cold is I'm contributing with great speed to the toliet-roll fund.
And finally preparations for my next craft fair, on December 16th at Lauderdale House in Waterlow Park (though the organisation is so chaotic I don't know if I have a place or not. And I'm not worried about saying that here as the lady who runs it definitely doesn't use a computer). The beautiful jumpers? No, not knitted by me. By my mother's fair hand, she grew up in the kind of household were you knitted your own swim-suit at the age of 7.
(The conkers were already on the chair, ready-styled. Finally an advantage to a messy house).
Any intentions on writing something about "value" will have to wait until I recover a brain.
4 comments:
Que lindo colar e que óptimas camisolas para as bonecas :) Deixo-te um link que se calhar já tens... Beijinhos!
Aha!!! Now I got it - "cracker" means JULKARAMELL! I read the text several time without having it make sence to me. I thought you were talking about those little salty crackers you eat. Why did you need the rolls for them? :D
You know they can be dangerous, do you??? When I was a little girl I had one in my hair at christmas and leaned towards a candle. It lit. My hair started burning. I don´t remember it now. An older brother wrapped me up kindly in a carpet and I was saved...
i am really enjoying coming here.
BLogger doesn't tell me I have comments any longer, so took me a while to find yo'll here..
hello Rosa, didn't have that link..it's great:-)*
Olga - what were you doing with crackers in your hair? Hello? or do you mean the paper hats? Glad to hear it all turned out well, but you Swedes run close to the wind...
Jude - How do you like your tea?
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