While looking for an item in the studio, Monet and me came across a project I had done a long time ago. I had made a box of chocolates. The original box I made was crushed, but I had a small box from the treats I bought from the candy house when I went looking for the gold elastic I needed for a project.
The chocolates are made from shiny brown paper and folded into a small folder. When Ma was 16 she worked at a candy factory. She could read the swirls on the top of fancy chocolates which told whether the inside was a cream, nut, nougat, jelly, etc.
I made swirls for the chocolates using Elmer's glue and walnut ink.
The filling inside the chocolate was/is an accordion folded, strip of Arches Text Wove. A chocolate saying was written with walnut ink. You can see the back of the folder in the photo.
Today's chocolate saying is: Nobody knows the truffles I've seen
.....groan.......(I'm a big fan of MASH! LOL)
ReplyDeleteGroan? That was a great pun! 🤣
DeleteTruffles!!! Whenever I open up truffle-butter (or anything else with truffles) I have to wait till Ingo leaves the kitchen. He has to gag from the wonderful smell.
ReplyDeleteOnce had carrot-salad with truffle-oil. Colleague: "what´s the smell of motor-oil?!"
Not truffles as in mushrooms! Truffles as in Chocolate Truffles. Delicious chocolate ganache balls dusted in cocoa or enrobed in chocolate. I think this makes us even in the shooing/shooting the devil 🤣
DeleteYes, I was pretty sure you speak of chocolate. My truffle-idea is different ;-)
DeleteLOL ... with a little groan :)
ReplyDeleteHave a good week.
All the best Jan
Fun quote. Are you still in Maine? I hope you had some warm days and weren't there just over the cold weekend.
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