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 Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:16 pm
Mostly for the Naughty or Nice Custom Contest in December, 2010, but if her design is liked and her components are okay'd, I might continue questing her past this point!
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:20 pm
OilGingerbread Gingerbread is a term used to describe a variety of sweet food products, which can range from a soft cake to something close to a ginger biscuit. What they have in common are the predominant flavors of ginger and a tendency to use honey or molasses (treacle) rather than just sugar. They probably also share a common history.
Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger. It then referred to a confection made with honey and spices. Gingerbread is often used to translate the French term pain d'épices (literally "spice bread") or the German term Lebkuchen (whose literal meaning is unclear).
The harder German-style Gingerbread is often used to build gingerbread houses similar to the "witch's house" encountered by Hansel and Gretel. These houses, covered with a variety of candies and icing, are popular Christmas decorations, often built by children with the help of their parents. This form of Gingerbread houses is also popular in Norway. For the last 19 years (2009) Bergen have tried to make the world largest gingerbread house city. It's free for every child under the age of 12 to make their own house with the help of their parents.
Another variant uses a boiled dough that can be molded like clay to form inedible statuettes or other decorations. Medieval bakers used carved boards to create elaborate designs.
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:24 pm
EssenceMistletoe Mistletoe is the common name for a group of hemi-parasitic plants in the order Santalales that grow attached to and within the branches of a tree or shrub. Parasitism has evolved only nine times in the plant kingdom; of those, the parasitic mistletoe habit has evolved independently five times: Misodendraceae, Loranthaceae, and Santalaceae, including the former separate families Eremolepidaceae and Viscaceae. Although Viscaceae and Eremolepidaceae were placed in a broadly-defined Santalaceae by Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II, DNA data indicates that they evolved independently.
According to Christmas custom, any two people who meet under a hanging of mistletoe are obliged to kiss. The custom may be of Scandinavian origin.It was described as early as 1820 by Washington Irving in his "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon":
"The mistletoe is still hung up in farm-houses and kitchens at Christmas, and the young men have the privilege of kissing the girls under it, plucking each time a berry from the bush. When the berries are all plucked the privilege ceases."
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:57 pm
Name:
Gender: Female
Oil: Gingerbread
Essence: Mistletoe
Stage: Lantern+
Hair: Long, green, thick and wavy.
Eyes: A pale evergreen
Skin: A lightly toasted brown like baked ginger
Markings: Swirled white marks like frosting accessories
Clothes: If she should reach the Elder stage, probably some sort of revealing holiday clothing like a Naughty Mrs. Claus deal xDD
Personality: A trickster at heart but generally well meaning, she knows she's pretty and is going to use it to her advantage. One of her most favorite past times is looming and tricking people into a kiss but if she doesn't like you expect the kiss to give you some uncomfortable stomach problems. She can be as sweet as sugar or bitter as ginger whenever it suits her but deep down she's just in it for a good time.
Other:
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