Halloween Cat, baking and Halloween reading

It's the last Halloween video of this season and to celebrate Halloween we are going to prepare some little biscuits called Langues de chat, cat's tongue biscuits. Many European countries have their own variations of this biscuit. It's a very simple and very basic biscuit but really tasty. And in France this simple biscuit which doesn't have chocolate or anything is served as an accompaniment of a dessert like a flan, a cream, a mousse or a compote. They don't have a perfect shape but they look really nice. And you will see a recipe linked under the video. I'm going to try Ao Long De Sha, I'm definitely not an expert in cooking and I have the skills of a child, but I've already tried them and they are pretty tasty with a tea or a warm beverage that you can drink them with. So we are going to try one, they are supposed to be very thin, mine they are not exactly with the texture of the ones you can find when you buy them, you can buy them actually in supermarkets. And we are going to try one, I have some small ones, some are a little chewy, some are thick. Slightly drier. So maybe I'm going to try this one. They're very simple. They don't have tons of different tastes in your mouth but I like them. They're very simple and they're perfect for a little tea time with your cats. So Clocher didn't want to join me for the tea time, this pre-Halloween tea time. And I talked about a Halloween contest in the previous video, it was the first time, I wanted to organize one to see if it would inspire and motivate people to complete their decors maybe, well at least the year they would purchase the workshop. So I received a few photos but I wanted to extend the possibility to join the contest till the end of October, so October 31st. So you have till October 31st in case you have finished at last one of your deco you had started in September or at the beginning of October. Orietta from Italy has almost finished her cage, she enrolled in the Ghost Birds in their cage and she has already finished her cage and she needs now to complete the Ghost Birds. But her cage is really pretty and she has just joined at the beginning of October so I think she has been really good and really efficient with her And there is also Wendy who has finished her Her white owl, that's a big work, so she also did really well, she joined this year, this autumn and she already completed it. So I can show you here her beautiful owl. So we will see after all who wins and I will email each person of course who has sent me their photos and their little videos. So of course those who joined the new Halloween autumnal workshop which is the witch cat and Pumpkin tassel, they can't take part to the contest because they've just joined and you need a little more time than one day to finish something, even if it's a shorter workshop than most of my workshops. You still need a bit of time to complete your decor because you have some drying time, you need to let things dry. At least one night here, a few hours there to make progress in the workshop and in the creation. So this workshop is open now, you have the link under this video. If you want to take advantage of the offer, there is 30% off till November 5, so it's pretty nice and it makes it a really really Soft introduction to paper, it's a workshop I have created especially for beginners, for people who have no experience with paper or even with sculpting and I want to try something not too intimidating so I have crafted this workshop just for you if it's your case and we are creating a pumpkin tassel that you can decorate a lot of places with. You can decorate your doors. I have it right now in the balcony door because I can see it really well and I only have one I plan to make others so I could have them hung on the curtains you can have it hung to a candelabra or chandelier you can have it hung to a doorknob there are a lot of possibilities and it doesn't take space it's easy to to store and it can decorate any place really well. The witch cat, a little witch cat which is also a beginner creation I didn't want here for this cat to do something too complicated with an entire body, with all the challenges which come with the body, the hands, the foot, the costume and all of that. So it's more simple so that you can only focus on the head and the head only and we have a hat which makes even the work a little easier because doing a hat is pretty easy and pretty fun and it's the same, you can decorate a lot of place with, it can turn and now I have it near my window. So I tried many places, I tried in the kitchen. on the wall with something which hangs which can be also nice to have if you live in a small space you can find them online pretty easily The one I have, I couldn't find them. I wanted to see if I could find them again. I didn't find them but you can find some similar ones on Amazon and all the other websites. They have baroque, sort of baroque style hanger. I don't know how they call that. Yes, wall hanger or something like that for lantern and you can of course use them for lantern or to hang a cat. So if you want to join this little workshop especially for beginners to start and to explore some paper techniques to create a cat maybe to adapt it to your own cat if you want to do the portrait of your cat you can do that too. It's really a witch cat here and we work with rather dark colors but You can you can definitely adapt and the workshop will be open till the middle of November but the offer is only available till November 5 and of course once enrolled you can follow the workshop at your own pace and continue at your own rhythm so even after the doors of the workshop close. So the witch cat we are doing in the new autumnal Halloween workshop is now hanging. on the living room window because he has more space here and i can see him better and this way he can move. i usually keep my autumnal halloween decor till a little after mid-november so i really keep it pretty much until i put in place the christmas decor and i really like it. i just remove a handful of very very halloween pieces like the ghosts on the balcony and one or two things but otherwise i keep everything Welcome Penny for Halloween and the beginning of November. I wanted to share with you two books which I think are perfect at this season. The first one is of course as we are all about cats in this kingdom and witch cats and witches. It is Gobolino the Witch Cat by Ursula Moray Williams which has been probably the most important cat in my childhood. I think this author is the first author who mixed The Christmas world with the witch world. I don't know if someone has done that before her, not that I can think of, really many, many years before Harry Potter and all of that because there were several Christmases with Gobolino and there is the little horse too, the little horse on wheels, the wood horse, the story of the wood horse. Thank you very much. Yes, they're just wonderful, I used to listen to them on tapes, it was a time when there was of course no internet and audiobooks, all of that, so it was on your tape and you had the little booklet which goes with it which was so beautiful and the drawings were wonderful and the storyteller was excellent and there was the music of Gobolino, this little harp. I will put the link below of the story, the exact recording I was listening to and it It was a famous book in England. In France and in Italy, I don't know if other European countries had the very same tapes, the very same booklets that you had to go to your newspaper shop every two weeks to get one and it was wonderful and I used to spend so many hours listening to them and especially during the winter season. It could be gently scary sometimes, at least when you are 6, 7, 8 years old, it could be a little scary. The only thing here in this edition, the drawings, I don't like them very much, they're not too much my cup of tea. But the text is really nice and beautiful, and it's quite special that it was written exactly during the middle of the Second World War, not in the most zen and serene... A context we could say, peaceful context for sure, yes this story is wonderful and perfect for this season, for the entire winter season because I used to listen to Gobolino especially at Christmas because there were several Christmases but they were always a little haunted, there was always something a bit scary with other cats because he's a witch cat. And now as an adult I have my own Gobolino, my own witch cat which has a bit of white and a bit of black and it's half nice and half witch. The second book I wanted to recommend is the book by my friend Sarah Chrisman. She has published that I think two years ago but you can still buy it and it is still available and it is a collection of haunted stories which are not known that she had found and collected from her old magazines, her collection of old magazines. You are about to embark on a merry journey to the world of the spirits. Every story in this collection was written by someone who has long since passed on into the unknown realm which awaits us all. These tales were carefully saved from yellow volumes of brittle pages and are presented here to give you shivers of delight. Draw close to your candles or oil lamps to read these pages. Just don't look too closely into the shadows behind you Or you may find yourself with an expected company. After all, ghosts love to read their own work, but they need a living hand to open the book. Thank you very much for joining me today and I hope you will have a magical Halloween. Let me know what you are doing for Halloween, if you are preparing something special, if you are receiving, doing a dinner, doing a party. Or are you watching films or reading a special book that night or creating a nice atmosphere in your own home even if you don't go out or you don't receive anyone, if you have some special practice you like to do, I would love to know that. A lot of children will come trick or treating in your door, we don't have this habit unfortunately here, I wish we had but we don't have it so for me it's not going to be that, I'm going I'm going to prepare for November 1st because November 1st is more... Quite important moment here in France, but not only in France, I think it's only in historically Catholic countries that it is celebrated, this habit of celebrating your relatives and going to the cemetery, all that. So this is what we do on November 1st. It's a family time, it's peaceful, it's quiet, and you think about your loved ones who have passed away and it's just something yes reflective and an important moment during the the year i think to slow down a bit with our modern fast life and take the time to spend this time with those who passed away so this is what i'm going to do on november 1st and don't forget to subscribe if you don't want to miss all the nice videos coming thank you very much much and I will see you very soon I have many more videos coming next week