Christmas Food Serving Ideas

Hello my Friends!

I got inspiration for a few Christmas food serving ideas. They are three different "Christmas trees" snacks as Christmas tree sandwich, snack tower and Christmas tree platter.

 I am happy to show you my new  kitchen toys - a glass piramide for serving appetizers (Durobor.com) and wooden cutting board that I shopped at a local Christmas handmad fair (I felt in love with it. What a girl does need a cutting board to be happy :))

Oh I forgot about a tiny cutter that makes the tiny stars! Remind me to show you the gadget in my next post.



Christmas Tree Platter
Bell pepper, chees stars, olives, walnut, crab fingers.

Christmas Tree Snack Tower (Piramide)

Green green green bell pepper, olives and salad. Yum-yum.

Christmas Tree Sandwich
Chees, crab fingers, yellow bel pepper and olives. And a slice of bread for the platform.

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Christmas Tree Made With Potatos

What is this?

This is my Christmas tree made for the city Christmas Trees Event.

I used potatos and cocktail straws to build this art object.

Why potatos? Because this is my style.

Got a diploma and a gift certificate to a Spa

I am interviewed by a local media

caring for the tree

"Why potatos? How did you come to this idea?"

"Well, this is my style. I like working with the live materials. A month ago I did some decorating works, and been asked to create something special with using potatos. Then I created the potatos modules and used them for the table flower centerpieces. I thought that the construction units could be a cool idea for building the other objects. So I gave it a try, and here is the Christmas tree."

6 hours of work. 6 kilos of potatos. More than 200 straws used.

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Live Class 'New Year Fruit Arrangement'

The symbols of the arrangement:
lime for bamboo,
apple fans for the fan
pomegranates for Daruma eyes.



 

In December 2015 I participated in Ikebana exhibition in Yuzhno city. It was a New Year themed floral event with many wonderful ikebana arrangements made in traditional Japanese style. I gave a Live show how to make a fruit arrangement using the traditional colors of new year ikebana Kadomatsu.

Limes symbolize bamboo, pomegranates imitate Daruma eyes and apple carving in a shape of fan means paper red fan usually added to the traditional new year Ikebana arrangements.

 

Watch the video of my class where I show how to arrange the fruit Ikebana.

 

 

 

 



 

 



The exhibition's display of mine, with cabbage and flowers.

Ikebana arrangement with vegetables

 

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Long Fruit Gift Baskets

My new fruit gifts arranged in long wire baskets. Assorted fruits with floral décor look so adorable.

The fruit baskets were designed for a special client of mine, she has inspired me to create 'other'  things.

If you ask me to choose a favorite basket it is the pomegranates and red apples arrangements.

Like these fruit gift ideas? Be social and share with your friends!

 

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Xmas Fruit Tower

 



Say cheers to friends and family with the Xmas fruit tower of mandarins that makes a perfect gift for Christmas, or to say Happy New Year.

 

A box with chocolates makes up this tall arrangement.

 

 

 

 

 

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Fruit Santa. Christmas Themed Decorations Made Of Fruits

My Facebook friend Jørgen Vestergaard Nyhuus has made a cute Photoshoped picture with my Fruit Santa.

The Fruit Santa has been created for 1-year-birthday party,together with fruit tower and macarons christmas trees. Read more about those New Year themed edible decorations.

Fruit Santa

Christmas nad New Year themed decorations made od fruits and sweets

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Weekend In The City

Hi friends,

How it is going on?

I spent the last weekend in the city, and came across the amazing banana Christmas tree displayed in a market.

Have a nice week and enjoy your shopping!

More fruit New Year trees

 

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Christmas And New Year Soap Carving Crafts

A collection of New Year themed soap carving gifts made to order.

The set of 3 different designs as 2016, Happy New Year and a Snowflake, has been made for my Russian client.

Feel free to contact me for customized soap carving gifts. Worldwide shipping is available.
Mail me to selen15367@yahoo.com with "Soap carving to order" in subject.

Love to create beautiful things and make people happy with what they get.

Enjoy the New Year preparations!

 

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New Year Soap Carving Class - 2016

new year soap gift

 







 

In December we have met in a cozy café to carve new year soap gifts.

 

A carved soap can be a very special present because you design it yourself. You can carve names, numbers, and you can add any images and signs to make your own design.

 



You don't need a mold, but a knife to create anything you like. So we did it at our evening class together with children and their parents.

 

Photos by Irina Nefedova.

 

 Christmas gifts DIY

 

 

 

Knives and tools for soap carving

                         



learn soap carving

 

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Soap Carving New Year Decoration

Soap carving New Year decoration

I just started with a home decorating. The exhibition took all my time the last weeks and gave me no chance for shopping. But it did not stop me. I got an idea for these adorable soap carving new year decorations.

The decorations are made very easy. The simple soap carving details are attached to a transparent file cover with a super glue. I am in love with the weightless design, the ornaments look so nice on my table new year tree. Do these ornaments sound homey and vintage? And tasty? :-)

hand made new year ornaments



new year decorations made with soap



Christmas and new year home made ornaments

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New Year Tree With Fruits

New Year trees with fruits

This is my last work in the passing 2013 year. Sale of New Year trees, all made of fruits, of couse ;)

Happy New Year!

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Christmas Fruit Garnishes

Today I was invited to Sakhalin TV to show how to make a Christmas fruit decoration.

I explaned how to make a fruit bouquet and a mini fruit garnish for drinks, using simple cut methods.

The class was taken at "Chocolate" cafe, a cozy place with warm interior and tasty coffee&handmade sweets.

a cameraman at work

The TV show will be on air later. But I prepared a photo tutorial for my blog on making a mini fruit garnish for cocktails. You can read it right now by scrolling the page down! :))

You can also watch the last year Christams TV show, where I explained how to do a Christmas tree of fruit and sweets. Though it's in Russian,  I am sure you will get the method.

watch the last year TV show "Christams Tree of Fruits and Sweets"

Christmas Fruit Garnish

Tutorial

mini fruit garnish for Christmas drinks

You will need:
small mandarin
red apple

Martini glass

paring knife, scissors, toothpicks.

Instruction (click the images to enlarge):
1. Cut a small mandarin in half
2. Gently separate the skin of the flesh and turn the skin inside out.
3. Don't worry about the broken skin. Just cut off the damaged parts or make a zigzag cut with scissors.
4. You will get a nice mandarin star.
5. Cut 4 thin slices of the red apple.
6. Insert a toothpick into the slices to attache all sclices together. Make a fan of them.
7. Pin the mandarin star on the top and insert other toothpick close to the first toothpick to secure the fruit garnish. Use the gap between the toothpicks to set the garnish on the glass.

Pin a small grape or a berry on to the final garnish to hide a sharp tip of the toothpick.
This fruit garnish perfectly fits a martini glass.

Step-by-step photos

step 1

steps 2-4 how to do fruit garnish

steps 5-7 how to do Christmas fruit garnish

The fruit decoratin perfectly fits a Martini glass. 

Check out more Christmas and New Year fruit displays and decorations

More fruit garnish ideas for drinks and cocktails here

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Papillion Method For Making Fruit Sculptures. Dragon and Snake Out of Oranges

I am writing this post to share some news in the world fruit carving industry. 

Mr.Paolo Pachetti introduces his fruit sculpting style named Papillion Method.
Paolo has DVDs for sale at his website. Now he is looking for students for his course on cocktail fruit decoration.

I purchased his DVDs in December 2012. I have 3 video tutorials on making a fruit dragon, a lion and cocktail garnishes. Paolo uses pomelo fruit for the big sculptures and small citrus fruits for cocktails.

As far as pomelo is a rare fruit in my place I used grapefruits and oranges for the sculpting.

The dragon on the picture below was made for the male's 60th birhtday party (the birthday guy was the Dragon according to the Chinese astrology) in 2012.
Material: grapefruits.

Fruit Dragon for 60th birthday party

Fruit Dragon sculpture, Papillion method

I found this method interesting and alternative to watermelon carving in winter (say 'no-watermelon-season'). The method allows to create various fruit models.

I did the Snake, a host of the year 2013, out of oranges for New Year exhibition.

Snake sculpture out of oranges

Paolo's website http://www.fruitsculpture.it/

The info about cocktail garnish course:

Enjoy carving art all the year round!

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