The wife of a friend makes these miniatures out of her own handmade crocheted lace and satin and sequins. She stiffens the lace in the old fashioned way with sugar. She handed me a little box of them tonight – they look like snowflakes. Along with these there was her home-made molasses bread, a dark fruit cake, marshberry jam and cookies to stagger out her door with. The casual generosity of Newfoundlanders still takes my breath away.
Those are some more keepsakes for you to hang on to and find a place for :o) The other goodies sound delicious. Will you be able to eat them all?
ReplyDeleteI love those Keepsakes. It is a long time since I tried the art of sugaring some crochet or lace. One of these days....!
ReplyDeleteNora:
ReplyDeleteNo I can't eat the cookies but I will offer everything to my guests here over the next week or so :)
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CC12:
ReplyDeleteAren't they though? We can never judge people by their "outers", this woman is particularly tough, but inside her is the soul of an artist.
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GM:
ReplyDeleteA nun at my high school would make baskets of such things and fill them with sugared fruit.
Get going, lady!
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