Post-Christmas and a seasonal collection

Yesterday's Christmas celebration was great and I did have enough energy, after simplifying and getting a lot of help from Handsome Son.

Paper plates on top of the regular ones, serving ourselves from the stove instead of fancy serving dishes, saved work and cleanup. The food went over fine, despite its episodic cooking, freezing, reheating. 

He brought cheese and crackers as always to start, ginger ale and egg nog to continue and Christmas cookies and candy, German from Aldi, very good.  

I made my seasonal collection of foil candy wrappers

At Easter he brings Aldi bunny chocolates, so there's a bunny collection then. This collecting I do is probably along the lines of fruit wrappers and banana stickers. 

He also made the tea, absentmindedly making builder's tea -- leaves into the kettle and boiled.  And it turned out to be the best tea I've had since my youf. I remember my mom had a metal teapot, Pico ware, and maybe that's the secret. I use china and porcelain.

So all went well , lovely day,  And now the table's cleared, and when I get to the library, I can borrow a puzzle. Maybe I can reborrow the cat one I never got to, if it's in. 

And today's Ukraine salute, instead of combat and battle, is about the force of art, seen in this lovely hardanger and reticello piece by a Ukrainian embroiderer. If you don't read French, continue, there's a translation

Happy day everyone, do something you like to do today, stitching, collecting bits of tinfoil, whatever pleases you.