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These many moons ago - well, one moon ago, really - I dreamily conceived a list of themed teas that I could inflict celebrate with my friends, and lo! one has come to pass: today we had a Christmas tea.

We rather cut back on the projected menu: four people can't eat gingerbread and a roast goose and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. But we did have gingerbread and sugar cookies!



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I enlisted my friends to help decorate the cookies. They're not as beautiful as [livejournal.com profile] asakiyume's painted cookies (I intend to make painted cookies someday. Does the food coloring just come in a container with a little spout so you can direct the flow?), but they nonetheless have a toothsome charm.



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Date: 2012-12-28 01:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seascribe.livejournal.com
Your Christmas tea looks so charming!

Date: 2012-12-28 06:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athenais.livejournal.com
It may be the fault of my browser, but I swear those look like Halloween cookies. I love the tea service.

Date: 2012-12-28 11:54 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com
Merry Christmas-tea!

I can see that the goose might be a Goose Too Far. :-D

Date: 2012-12-28 02:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poeticknowledge.livejournal.com
I think I spot the other tea pot I sent you in the second picture (*big smile*)! Yay! :D What an awesome Christmas tea! :) Who did you invite over?

Date: 2012-12-28 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bogwitch64.livejournal.com
How wonderful! I love it.

Years ago, we did "painted cookies" with these special markers my mom got from a baker friend. Probably not as elegant as painting, but...
http://www.amazon.com/Gourmet-Writer-Edible-Markers-AmeriColor/dp/B0020ZURDI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356712468&sr=8-1&keywords=cookie+markers

Date: 2012-12-30 03:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
In answer to your question about the painted cookies--we use very, very fine painbrushes!

Your tea looks like it was *wonderful* (not to mention mouthwateringly delicious).

--If you come again to the Amherst-Northampton area, there's a place to buy tea I can take you. The people who run it travel all over the world buying tea... you know what? It occurs to me I can buy some and send it to you! (But it may be a while as I'm a lazy sort of person and Northampton is three towns away. But next time I'm over that way...)

But anyway--if you are ever out this way, I will take you there and you can choose from their tantalizing choices. Tea from Sikkim, Darjeeling, Nepal, Japan--all over!

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