Happy Mid-Autumn everyone! A favourite Chinese celebration in yet another city. 
Happy Mooncake & Lantern Festival too. There's a full moon tonight.
The day started with this pretty box of mooncakes which friends have brought back from a recent Singapore trip. Thank you Chiara, Silke & Kalim.
These often takes the place of a birthday cake since my lunar birthday is also today.
Yes, the Chinese have two birthdays - lucky us! We really try to keep our Chinese lanterns intact, as we move from city to city.
On other days, the lanterns are displayed as part of our garden-trellis-headboard, in our guestroom & also by the kitchen windows. Too pretty to be brought out once a year.
Tonight, we make & eat these jiaozi. Then we'll stroll around our Dubai neighbourhood, with the lanterns.
And a homemade card from my Annika.
14 comments:
Sounds like a fun and pretty celebration. The butterfly really caught my eye and the food looks delicious! Welcome back Xue!!
In Japan they make such beautiful lanterns and I find it a pity their season is so short. Happy Lunar Birthday! I enjoyed the snow on this hot muggy day and the song too.
Xue, I love all the beautiful bright colors. Happy Lunar Birthday. The wall in the bedroom is very beautiful, can't wait to see it all when it is finished. Everything that you do shows off your talent so nicely.
Hello Xue .. Happy Lunar Birthday .. Fabulous celebrations :-) .. amazing.
I know there is a Full moon tonight.. for some reason I do get affected by the moon .. I am not sure why.
Your photos are brilliant .. feels like we are with you.
Happy Bunar Birthday to you!
Lovely, lovely lanterns--I'm sure all your neighbors enjoyed your stroll too.
It is soooooooo nice to see you blogging again after such a long absence! Everything is beautiful on your blog. I enjoyed your post so much! Happy Lunar birthday to you and Annika is turning out to be quite the little artist!!!
Yesterday evening we looked up to the Brazilian sky and saw a beautiful full moon and wondered: isn't it Mid-Autumn-Festival?
I hope you had a wonderful and special birthday in your new country with some yummy moon-cakes! Parabens!
Happy Lunar Birthday, Xue!
I took a few snaps of my mooncake boxes. I am not a huge fan of mooncakes BUT I am a huge fan of their boxes. This year saw me buying 2 way too pretty mooncake - just for the boxes, kiasu kan? But still no time to post any picture on the blog :( Birthday siapa tu? We still have the old lanterns with us, but didnt do any big celebration this year, no strolling around with lanterns, also no makan... I definitely love that room :) so bright and cheery. Chat soon.
Oh ya...sorry, its your birthday...Happy birthday Xue, I only remembers mine in the Western calendar :)
How lovely, Xue! Happy Lunar Birthday!!
happy birthday xue... a little late perhaps! I loved annikas card too. your jiaozi look delicious and i am getting hungry just looking at them...are yours made with meat or vegies? nice to see a post again.
happy weekend,
Very belated happy b-day! That card from Annika is precious :) And hope things in Dubai are fun and exciting!
I saw your comment on Bryan's blog The Japanese Textile workshop. When I read the world Dubai and have to come and check it out. We lived in Abu Dhabi for 7 years. Dubai was my shopping city. How lucky you lived in Tokyo, my Favorited city in the world right now. I hope you joined the Dubai quilters guild. Love your fabric stash! Hugs
Nat
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