After I was 22, I spent a winter employed in the wonderful Austrian village known as Kitzbuhel. I labored inside a little family run pension. My job ended up being to help prepare the meals in the morning and lunch for that hotel visitors. Within the afternoons, I had been off, off and away to the ski slopes until well following the sun had set. Existence am enjoyable!
On Christmas Eve, the couple of people who labored within the pension, were asked towards the proprietors home for drinks. The dog owner would be a wealthy Austrian also it was a significant posh affair. His house was magnificent what has remained beside me for many years, is the view of his Christmas tree. It had been probably the most spectacular Christmas tree I've ever seen. It had been a minimum of 10 ft tall and it was decorated all the way through in edible ornaments&... white-colored marshmallow garlands, golden walnuts, pink frosted snowflake cookies. I'd never imagined a Christmas tree to become so softly beautiful. I've considered it frequently since that time and have started to the final outcome that exactly why I discovered it so lovely was because each and every ornament was hand crafted.
A few of the lovliest ornaments were created with dried fruit. Dried orange and apple slices. So, inside a effort to provide our tree some Austrian loveliness, the kids and that i made dried apple ornaments similar to the ones I recall.
We cut apple slices and developed a little drying rack that people left outdoors for a few days. The elements continues to be cold and dry here, ideal for drying fruit, if your outdoors is simply too moist, you are able to setup your drying rack inside a awesome and dry place in your house.
When our apple slices were nice dry, we put up them after some raffia and added a stick of cinnamon.
They're so pretty, just like I recall from the magical time around the Alps.
Happy Christmas crafting,
Benefits and magic,
Donni