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Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html

Sunday, December 5, 2010

{Chocolate and Silver Alphabet Letters for Saint Nicholas}


In the Dutch tradition, today is THE DAY!
Saint Nicholas is being celebrated in my home country. Poems are written and surprise gifts are being made for a family member. Names are drawn before, and it's a lot of fun creating all this. One custom from The Netherlands I've integrated into the American life and all our American family and friends LOVE it.
Chocolate Alphabet letters! ←click it. Yummy...
Available here in the US too; click on the above hyperlink.
Also available in Canada at The Dutch Market Ltd.
Silver alphabet angels from Tuscany, Italy by Giovanni Raspini ,
available at my Zen Cart powered on line boutique:
Spectrenoir ←click it.
Have also a look at Madelief's blog Snowfakes and Crystals, she did describe so well  the time leading to the finale... when Sinterklaas finally delivers the goods. Saint Nicholas is thus Sinterklaas in Dutch. In my opinion, the Dutch way is far better and more pure, family oriented than the 'way too commercial' Christmas celebration here in the USA with Santa Claus. Christmas is a religious holiday and in The Netherlands it lasts TWO days! It is not as abruptly being amputated...
Let me show you our chocolate letters for friends; even if they will be given at Christmas time...
Most people do prefer milk chocolate and very few like the dark chocolate.
In my family it was only my Dad and me that preferred the dark...
You see also the silver alphabet angel letters together with the chocolate letters. Below I will be showing the additional silver alphabet angel letters that I have added. As with the chocolate letters, not all are available for purchase... You can always check with me if a certain letter is not shown, maybe I can obtain it for you.
For the photo session I dropped the box with my dark chocolate M and it broke; Murphy's law...
Pieter's P in milk chocolate... with the Giovanni Raspini silver alphabet angels from Italy. 

Since 1896, indeed a very old Dutch tradition!
And a younger Italian tradition with the silver letters...
 There are two sizes: 135 g and 65 g. Sometimes you have no choice...
This is how you order them, click on the image to enlarge.
Above you see some typical Dutch Sinterklaas treats from Chocolaterie Pierre.

Now I want to add some of the silver Giovanni Raspini letters that are available at: Spectrenoir.
Sorry the letter C is sol out...
The letter G is Sold out...
Sorry the letter S is Sold out...
The letter T is Sold out...
Sorry the letter V is Sold out...


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10 comments:

  1. Dear Mariette,
    what a nice custom with those letters,hard to decide which letters (silver or chocolate) are sweeter.
    And yes, Wiski has the heaven on earth with us. But he is so friendly and cute, I love to spoil him a bit.
    Greeetings, Johanna

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  2. Liebe Mariette,
    vielen Dank für Deine lieben Zeilen! Ich habe mich sehr darüber gefreut!
    Auch ich habe nach einer längeren Pause erst wieder mit dem Bloggen angefangen, es tut mir gut .... gerade weil ich auch so viel Verständnis und liebe Worte bekommen habe!
    Es wird auch bei uns noch eine Weile dauern bis der Verlust von Minka nicht mehr so schmerzt. Wir vermissen sie sehr, was sie doch Teil unserer Familie. Wir haben geglaubt sie viel länger bei uns haben zu können, aber seit Anfang
    des Jahres wussten wir, dass sie sehr schwer herzkrank war. Die Zeit wird uns zeigen, wie es weitergeht. Im Moment kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, dass eine andere Katze ihren Platz einnehmen wird .... aber letztlich entscheidet dies sowieso immer die Katze selbst ...!
    Da unsere Tochter Anfang nächsten Jahres Abitur machen wird und im Zusamenhang mit dem kommenden Studium auch auf eigenen Beinen stehen wird, ändert sich so einiges in unserem Leben. Insofern wollen wir all diese Änderungen auch erstmal auf uns zukommen lassen um dann zu
    sehen wie wir uns einrichten!
    Wie ich gelesen habe bist Du auch ständig beschäftigt und eingespannt, deshalb wünsche ich Dir, dass Du genügend gemütliche Stunden in der Adventszeit zum Auftanken und zur Erholung hast!
    Ganz lieben Gruß
    von
    Lilo

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  3. Lieve Mariette,

    Ik zie dat de Goedheiligman ook jullie goed heeft bedacht! Fijn dat jullie een gezellige dag hebben gehad en de traditie hoog houden. Ook bij ons blijf het vieren van Sinterklaas erin, al is het nu met surprises en gedichten!

    Een fijne nieuwe week!

    Lieve groet, Madelief

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  4. Leuk...chocoladeletters in Amerika! Moet eerlijk bekennen dat ik Kerst veel en veel leuker vind, zeker nu de kids groter zijn, doen we er nog maar weinig aan...
    GEniet van de Choco!
    GRoetjes van Nicole

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  5. Telepathie it is! How fun to read your story on Sinterklaas here. I didn't know at all the letters were available in the US. I read PUUR, are these really made in Holland and shipped to the US, Must be. You enjoy your letter, while I'm enjoying mine, sweet Mariette!! I do adore dark chocolate too!!!
    Have a glorious new week. xxxx

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  6. Ach wat leuk, dit heb ik gisteren gemist, mijn reactie is dus wanneer de goedheiligman weer op terugreis naar Spanje is!! :-))heerlijk hoor, chocolade letters, ik ben er hier in Engeland noch nier acheteraan gegaan!! Moet ik beslist.Groetjes,
    Bea

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  7. Oh Mariette,

    die heutigen Schmuckstücke sind SO wunderwunderschön! Ich liebe ja Engel und die Buchstabenanhänger sind wirklich etwas ganz besonderes!!

    Außerdem liegt mir etwas am Herzen, das ich jetzt unbedingt loswerden möchte: Jedesmal wenn du schreibst, ein Kommentar hinterlässt, freue ich mich riesig! Es tut mir so leid, dass ich es nicht schaffe, immer zu kommentieren, manchmal einfach nur hereinschaue und deine Bilder genieße oder deine Geschichten oder deine Katzen... aber deine Kommentare sind so voller Ehrlichkeit und Wärme, ich schätze das wirklich sehr!! Ich schätze DICH wirklich SEHR! Danke dafür!!

    Ich wünsche euch einen wunderschönen Tag noch!

    Nora

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  8. HELLO MARIETTE,

    LOVE THE IDEA OF CHOCOLATE LETTERS JUST YUMMY :) AND THE SILVER KEY CHAINS WITH THE LETTERS AND ANGELS ARE SOOO BEAUTIFUL :)

    XO~MARI

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  9. Mariette~

    First...BEAUTIFUL NAME! Love it!

    Second...So glad you found me through Miss Mari. Isn't she dreamy? What a darling lady...just love her!

    Here is the link to my website: www.GatherYeRoses.com. You can find lots of my work there but it's getting pretty wiped out so I need to restock this week. Also, my link to the Train Cases isn't on right now but it will be back on in a few days.

    Now...LOVE the idea of Chocolate letters. Truly charming. I'm off to look at MORE!

    Blessings to you my friend~

    Rebecca

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  10. Hi Mariette - a good friend of mine is from the Netherlands and she was kind enough to have her husband return from his last trip there with a couple of chocolate letters for me. They've been in the US for a number of years, but their children fondly look forward to Sinterklaas each year, and she looks forward to writing poems for them.

    :)
    ButterYum

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