Why?

I have hardly been knitting or crocheting since I started the course. Am I not able to deal with two things at the same time?

Half way

We are now more or less half way through the course. It has been interesting. Not only the baking but getting to know new people and learning how to deal with some of them...

There is another month and a little to "finish it all" before we start apprenticeship and exams...

And then what?

Theme Song

One of my favourite songs as a kid:

En sockerbagare här bor i staden,
han bakar kakor mest hela dagen.
Han bakar stora, han bakar små,
han bakar några med socker på.

Och i hans fönster hänga julgranssaker
och hästar, grisar och pepparkakor.
Och är du snäller så kan du få
men är du stygger så får du gå!

And in (free) translation:

"A pastry chef lives in our town,
he bakes cookies all day long.
He bakes big, he bakes small,
he bakes some with sugar on top.

In his window hangs christmas decorations
and horses*, pigs* and gingerbreads.
If you're nice you might get one,
but if you're mean you'll have to go!"

But I like the variation that ends "If you're nice, you might get a small heart* to nibble on."

* cookie shapes - of course ;-)

The Class

It can be very interesting when 22 people in various ages from totally different backgrounds (ethnic and educational and life experience and... you name it) meet to learn about the one thing they have in common.
And sometimes very frustrating...

Long Time No See

Or write, in this case...
Half a year? Too long!
But I did start the course :-)
And there are a lot of things to write about :-)
I just need to get started...

Dilemma. Or not?

I have the opportunity to study a pastry chef course.
It's full time for eight months.
That means that I'll hardly have time, or energy, to progress my own business very much.
Dream vs Dream...

Baking hours

It's about 3:30 am and I'm waiting for the shaped dough to raise before going into the oven.
Yossi's 'potato' challa and Swedish rye bread with malt.
Soft music on the radio.
I like.

The Dream

Windows on both side of the entrance door. Crocheted curtains of course. Bakery smell when you enter.

Two-three small coffee tables with chairs to the left. A counter with cakes and cookies. Freshly brewed coffee. Real porcelain coffee cups. And you get a free refill.

A rack and a few shelves on the right. Mix of dolls and doilies, tops and toys, soft shawls, hip bags. Maybe even a bedspread. All knitted and crocheted.

Yarn of all sorts. And all those needles and hooks and other equipment that you can't find anywere else.

Welcome to enter and be swept away!

Oh my!

Didn't write anything at all in December :-o
Which doesn't mean that nothing happened - on the contrary. I've been busy.
A lot of planning. A lot of knitting and crocheting. And more to come.
I really look forward to 2009!