Gifted georgesness link up January 2020

Well here we are at the 15th of the month already and I have received a couple of gifts I want to share and joining in with Serendipitous Stitching's gifted-gorgeousness-sal-. feels like a good place to do it.  Even if both are not cross stitch or even sewing related.  But then I do tend to do a variety of things on my blog..and so

The first a Christmas themed Christmas gift from my pen pal

The carrot button for the nose is very cute and this hanging decoration will be coming out every year from now on.

And the second, well it is a fun little item from my BFF.

the tooth pick is to provide scale (LOL as in the size not the other kind associated with dragons)

So it did require an addition...chocolate.

Not a lot of chocolate as it is not very large.

A little pot intended for the melting of a certain brand of wax wrapped cheese came in handy.

I melted just two squares of chocolate, I think half a square would have been enough for this test of my gift, but then I would not have had the excess to eat.

pour it in the mould.

and wait....not a patient person...put it in the fridge and wait....

then

carefully peel it out of the mould.....

the claw on the wing I did manage to fill did not come out, well I had not got chocolate in the other so that evened out.

The tear drop area in the loop of the tail was being stubborn, would it snap?

And

dinky chocolate dragon.

a few air bubbles here and there, perhaps the chocolate needed to be a bit runnier.

So if I wanted to make decorations for a cake or cakes well it works but I would need to keep them chilled as it is so delicate it started to soften and melt just at normal room temperature.

So it briefly decorated my tongue, and then it was gone.

Me being me I am of course wondering what else I might safely use in my mould that might be of a more lasting nature! 

Still it was fun and I got to eat chocolate and it made a jolly accompanying gift to a book, The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burges which formed part of my gift.