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Autumn tea …

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Sooooo, I made a dachshund out of gingerbread this year. (Because I figured, what better for a distraction from this whole year and the prospect of spending Christmas alone, than getting involved in a project?)

So I bought a papercraft pattern on etsy (this one) from SofsPaperPlanet, and built it in paper. Then I adjusted the pattern pieces so that they’d fit better for making in gingerbread (gingerbread is less bendable and foldable than paper, who knew??). Then I spent 8 hours on Saturday baking individual pieces (one or two at a time, so I’d have time to bend them while they were hot from the oven = bendable, before they got hard), and then I’ve spent Sunday, Monday and Tuesday slowly putting it together! And what WAS 97 pieces turned into more like 110-115 pieces, because I dropped them and had to adjust the pattern and bake more pieces to fit it, because again - cookie is not foldable.

But it’s done! And it looks totally okay. I am pleased. It is put together with … icing? (egg white mixed with a lot of powdered sugar and a dash of milk and/or lemon juice and food colouring) so it’s 100% edible (although I’ll probably overdose on sugar if I eat it all).

Also, bonus. Because I love nonstop (Swedish equivalent of m’n’ms, but better), I wanted to cover the dog in them. I bought five or six bags and picked out only the black and brown ones. It still wasn’t enough … so this is how it ended up:

It looks okay, but not as impressive as I’d imagined. Oh well, it’ll be TASTY anyway!

(But please, someone - please remind me not to do this next year? Please? I don’t know why I keep doing this.)

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Chinese artist Shou Xin creates the most wonderful cats with just a few pencil lines

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I love this picture so much! Post it whenever I come across it.

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Plop

(via)

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The Shape of Ideas

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Shmol

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"PIC 🖼️ OF THE DAY 📷 🌳"

To be honest, it seems to me as the "Pic of the day". Do tell me if it looks good.

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Maybe you could post this, since this is my favorite pic I ever posted in my blog. If you like it, do reblog or post!

https://www.tumblr.com/shubhadeep385/766659103615549440/pic-of-the-day?source=share

Oh wow @shubhadeep385 that's gorgeous! Thank you for submitting it and also for being the first ask on my new sideblog! 🫶❤️ I am going to reblog that FOR SURE

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Clearly not

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Three C's First Post

Hey all, so I'm not sure if you, like me need a lil sanctuary away from ALL OF EVERYTHING but here is the little corner of tumblr where I plan to post and reblog the three c's: Things I find calming, cute or just plain cool! It might be pics, gifs, videos, edits or anything really!

The ask box is open too so please, feel free to send me things that you think fit the bill, I'd love to see and share them!

Here are a few to get things rolling

This is a picture I took on vacation MANY moons ago that I think is pretty calming. I STILL remember the sound of the waves rolling in! ❤️

This is the picture the animal shelter sent my partner and I of my dog before we could pick him up. He is MUCH bigger now