Bake Your Own Christmas Decorations (Upecte si Vlastni Vanocni Dekorace)

22 12 2008

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Czech and Slovak Christmas used to be associated with simple decorations. Every family in a village would use just wooden or paper decorations to decorate their trees. Still, these simple items would make the holidays very festive. This year we decided to follow one of the Czech and Slovak traditions – baking our own decorations from flour and salt. The preparation was very simple and the dough was flexible allowing us to create many objects of different shapes. The dough became very hard once our pieces were dry.

 

We have to admit that our candle holder design was truly original and that we are not sure how the traditional Czech and Slovak centerpiece should look; however, we believe that the more imagination you have the more it will make your Christmas special.

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