Hello Sweetpea,

ya, I just received a response from Anhton on my mail. So everything should soon be fixed. As I hoped it was all a matter of work and RL, for which everyone should have some understanding.

As for the gifts in the Market, this is what I planned by creating the first market stall ever :-) I just didn't tell everyone :-)

See you all soon again in Holiday Traditions, be safe and well you all, divi

Hello everyone,

Today I would like to get a little more personal, and a little more detailed. Because what I want to give you today comes in three parts, which I can hardly make clickable on the respective Christmas market stand. However, the whole ensemble can be clicked on the stand in question. If you click on it, you will get a recipe on how to prepare this dish yourself at home.

And now let me get personal and talk about "candied apples", without which no Christmas market in Germany would be complete without. In a nutshell: I love them and for me, enjoying at least one of these apples is as essential as a cup (boot) of mulled wine when I visit a Christmas market.

In general, you should know the following:

Candying (also known as confit) is a method of preserving fresh, edible plant parts (usually fruit) in which the sugar content of the fruit is increased to at least 70 percent and the water content is reduced.

By pouring a boiled lukewarm sugar solution of initially 500 grams per liter of water over the fruit, the fruit is sweetened considerably and the water is removed by osmotic processes. After a day, the solution is boiled again with additional sugar and poured lukewarm over the drained fruit. This is repeated several times so that a sugar crust forms. The fruit is then allowed to dry thoroughly and the candied fruit is stored with a sugar coating.

To make it easier to remove the water, prick the fruit several times with a needle or cut into slices.

Cherries, pineapples, plums, strawberries, tangerines, kumquats, slices of lemons, oranges and kiwis, chili peppers, cedrat and pomelo peel, pieces of melon, pears, pumpkin, papaya, coconut slices, but also lotus seeds or roots, ginger, angelica (angelica root) or violets and some types of flowers are suitable for candying.

The best-known candied products are candied lemon peel and candied orange peel (Austrian aranzini) as well as cocktail cherries.

Nowadays, candying is often used to improve the color or taste of food without the intention of preserving it. This applies, for example, to candied fruit, such as that available at (Christmas) markets.

And this is what they look like on a Christmas market stall and how I once photographed them:



Once again, I'm taking a methodical approach. First you have the baking tray that you need as a bed for the apples.

For this, I used the "Pill Serving Tray" prop at the stand in question and gave it the size of 1.0 x 0.5 x 1.8 in the X, Y and Z axes. Then please give it this texture:



Tomorrow I'll add the apples for you, the day after tomorrow the wooden sticks and your apples are ready.

Have fun, enjoy the Christmas season,

your divi

Hello everyone,

I still owe you the wooden skewers today, so that the arrangement of your apples will look something like the Christmas market at Holiday Traditions.



You'll need the "Pole Dance Pole" prop, which you should first scale down to 0.1 x 0.05 x 0.1. Then just give it this wood texture:



Stay healthy, have a nice Sunday and remember to show your gratitude and appreciation every now and then, because there are many other donors in the forum besides me who do a lot for you,

divingA

Hello everyone,

I've already opened the door for today in the Advent calendar, now I have to work off my debts here. Looking through what I've already posted here, I noticed that I've already made at least one gift clickable at all the stalls, just not at the snack booth.

That has to be changed, you are surely hungry after all the searching and wandering through the market alleys.

If you stroll through a Christmas market in Germany, especially in the East German states, you will not be able to avoid one specialty, the Thuringian Rostbratwurst (grilled sausage). Now you might be wondering: what the hell is a Thuringian Rostbratwurst?



In most cases, you will be served this bratwurst at almost all stalls in a roll, a light-colored wheat roll that has been slit open lengthwise plus some mustard added.

And so you can now find it lying on a prop "Empty Plate" at the Holiday Traditions Christmas market. For the sausage you need the prop "Velvet Rope" in a size of 0.11 x 0.25 x 0.25.

For the bread roll you need the prop "Primitive Sphere" in the size of 0.09 x 0.18 x 0.13.

Bon appétit, enjoy your meal, stay healthy everyone, have a good time in peace and with lots of fun,

divingA

Hello everyone,

at the Holiday Traditions Christmas Market, today's clickable little gift is made for prop "Sign_01". The best way to use it is as follows:

Install a "Hanging Chain" in the center of a window, scale it down to 0.2 per axis and then hang the Sign from it.

Have fun, have a good time, see you tomorrow, divingA

cool, any more additions in the near future?

Hello everyone,

Do you sometimes think: "Whoa, I'm so hungry I could steal a dog's bone?" And just then you pass a stall selling all kinds of delicious pancakes, both sweet and savory.

Now it's easy for you to find what you need, either a "Cast Iron Frying Pan", in which a golden yellow pancake steams, or a "Cast Iron Frying Pan", in which 4 crispy slices of bacon sweat merrily away.

Have fun, have a good time, stay healthy, see you tomorrow, divingA

Hello everyone,

it never ceases to amaze me, every day I am online in RLC, I can learn something from the conversations that take place. Yesterday I learned something that deeply affected me. There is no such thing as a Christmas market in the USA, it doesn't happen there. At least that's what an American woman who lives in America told me. Is that true? I believe her, of course, but does her statement apply to all states? For me, that is unimaginable, a deeply saddening thought. If this is really true, it gives me all the more incentive to delight you with my little replica.

As of today, the next prop is clickable. It reveals its texture after a click, a texture whose development particularly amused me when I was building it at the Christmas market. Have the same fun:

May bug flying fuel

which is best applied to a Whine Bottle 4 that has been scaled down to the size of 0.80 x 0.50 x 0.80. Texture Translucent should ideally be set to around 50.

Just so you know: "Maikäferflugbenzin" is the most popular herbal liqueur from the Wünnenberger Kräutermanufaktur. It is made from 16 local herbs according to an ancient Benedictine recipe. The name also has to do with an old monastery story that tells how the people of Bad Wünnenberg got their nickname "May beetle".

And with that, I wish you all a wonderful Sunday, have fun, stay healthy, divingA

Hello everyone,

the Holiday Traditions Christmas Market is once again a little more generous today. All your gifts clickable there today, four in number, are made for the Prop "Alpha Pine Tree". But beware, two of them will show you an icon with three gears instead of a magnifying glass. This is because the pine trees in question rotate at a speed of 0.30 in the Y axis.

Incidentally, this is a more or less realistic speed for what the tree prop is supposed to represent. The script "Rotate Object" is used for this as second script, there you set the speed to 0,3 in the Y axis, but please delete the value that is always preset in the Z axis, there must be 0. Then check "Activate on load" in the State tab.

Have a good time, have fun and above all good health, divingA

Hello everyone,

I've already been to the Advent calendar, so that leaves the Christmas market at Holiday Traditions.

Four more props have just been made clickable there.

All four are made for the prop "Whisky Bottle 3".

Have fun searching, stay healthy, divingA