Hello lovely girls, Happy New Year to all!
I've had a lovely few days, full of smiles. I have HomeExchange visitors from the UK staying in my upstairs flat and they are a lovely couple.
I had made a beetroot potato salad, like I do every year:
I get on very well with the English couple and have invited them to celebrate New Year's Eve with me. That was very nice.
This post is going to double as Second on the second, and after that I will post some funnies.
The following post is from January 2015:
Happy New year everyone!
This is the potato salad I make every New Year’s Eve. (The pink colour is due to the beetroot.) We had it at midnight with a glass of champagne.
It’s Wednesday so that means we bloghop from one desk to the next (See Julia’s blog if you don’t know what I’m talking about).
I’m sure we’ve all got hopes and expectations for the new year, even resolutions and targets. My promise to myself is that I’m going to have a go at mixed media! I’m taking the plunge and I’m going to get messy.
I’ve joined The Original Documented Life Project™ and here on my desk is the start of my first art journal page, which is drying. The theme for January is: How to face a blank page, and the art challenge this week is: use book paper.
My whole desk looks like this:
I’m doing a scrapbook page for the CSI challenge which is due in a couple of days.
Spot the out of place item....
baby bottle teats. Someone (I can’t find who it was... sorry...) had written about using baby bottle teats to cap glue bottles so that they don’t dry out. I watched a video too and it looked like a brilliant idea, so I went out to buy said teats. (see photo) But I got a shock when I saw the price! 7.50 Euros! That’s more than the glue! So I won’t do that again (and I’m too shy to take them back, besides it’s half an hour’s drive into town).
Yesterday was Three Kings (Los Reyes) festival here in Spain. Important for the children as that’s when they get their presents. Wise men brought gifts to baby Jesus. Popular legend have us believe it were three kings although this is not biblical. There are usually parades with ‘kings’ throwing sweets to the children in the streets. In the bigger towns the parades are really spectacular, but here in our village it is all a bit more modest....
That’s it for today folks, thanks for visiting. I’ll try and visit as many as I can over the course of the week.
Lisca
And now for some funnies:
5 comments:
Nice you had such great visitors and that cake, yum.
Hehe, "be positive!" Need to put Ingo´s in my blood donation pass!
LOL. I once parked my car in the dark and rain... long story short: It was two weeks old and taken away as "I parked wrong". I did not, but, aw, well. It was gone!!!
Yes, Ingo really needs these pill containers (now still in his head, but this is a good idea).
Fun how non-mother-tongues sometimes (!) do better.
YES to the last one! Once I... oh, it was fun! (I had a huge car)
To a happy 2026.
Good morning, Happy New year, I'm glad your visitors from the UK have proved friendly and that you were able to share your new year together. The beetroot salad always looks amazing. I hope you have a great day.
Hugs
That's an interesting potato salad. I've never had one with beets but I love beets so I bet it's tasty. And I love your look back. Did you have fun getting messy. And I must say you had some great funnies today too. I hope you continue to have a wonderful 2026 with the weekend ahead Lisca.hugs-Erika
Your potato salad is very different from the American and German versions of the dish, which use slices or cubes of boiled potato, not mashed. I’m a big fan of anything with potatoes, so I’d like to try yours too.
Have a good year in 2026…mae at maefood.blogspot.com
What a delightful photo of you Lisca with your 'home swap guest' sometime we just 'click' with people don't we? I love your potato salad - looks so yummy! Happy New Year to you and Ronnie!! Love, Di xx
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