King's crown

On this special day, January 14, 2024, our little wonderland is even more adventurous than usual. Queen Margrethe, who has reigned for 52 years, chooses to abdicate and hand over the throne to her son, Crown Prince Frederik. Although me and my family are not usually particularly royal, we can't help but celebrate this event, along with the rest of Denmark. Today we are proud of our monarchy and happy citizens in one of the happiest countries in the world. A community emerges when such events take place. In Copenhagen, people gather in the streets, many come from far away to experience this historic event and we all feel like part of a great adventure.

Out here in the country, there are other kinds of celebrations. Here at Kærby Mølle, we celebrate the day by having young and old meet and watch the change of throne on TV. The table is covered with fragrant "grandmother" buns, baked with love and tradition. The champagne is in the fridge for later and the chocolate mousse, which our son has "ordered" for our traditional Sunday dinner, is decorated with gold glitter for today's occasion, to honor the royal event.

I have been in the stashes, in our article archive and found this article where Janne (Anno 1808) made royal crowns. That must be a good reason to put it up for you. Maybe you can manage to make a few small kroner to decorate the dinner table with, later today. You can read under the pictures how to do it.

From here we wish His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik good luck on his journey as King of Denmark. Today we celebrate not only a new king, but also the community and the joy of sharing special moments.

A very good Sunday to you. Hugs from Vivian

You will need:

Flower thread/elephant thread, black, unglazed.
Flower winding wire on a roll, black, unglazed.
Various pearls, coins, jewelery parts etc., preferably in white colors or metal.
Plaster.
White paint.
Antique wax. 

Start by putting some pieces of elephant wire together by overlapping each other, then wrap winding wire around them to hold them together. Then form a ring of the thread around a tin or a vase of the desired size. When you have made your metal wreath, you assemble it with winding wire, preferably so that the winding wire is wrapped all the way around the wreath. For the tips of the crown, take a piece of elephant wire and bend it in a v shape. If you are making a larger crown, make several pieces of V-shaped prongs so you have enough to fill up your metal wreath all the way around. Whether you want pointed teeth or some in softer forms is up to you. The V-shaped prongs are now wrapped around your wreath so that they sit firmly and at the same distance all around the wreath. Now you decorate the crown by wrapping winding wire around the entire crown, as well as the branches. It doesn't matter if it's a little loose or sloppy, because it just creates a good effect. You can pull pearls on the winding thread and wind them randomly around as decoration on the crown. The crown can possibly be decorated with coins or old pieces of jewelry, and here you can try your hand at things that you have in stock or that you find at a flea market or in thrift stores. Now the entire crown is dipped in a thin plaster mixture, which must then dry. Finally, the crown is painted with white paint, followed by a little antique wax, which makes it look extra patinated. You can also paint it with gold paint or other colors of paint. 

Chocolate mousse.

200 grams of dark chocolate - I use a mixture of what I had left over from Christmas, so there was also a little orange chocolate and other good things in between.
3 Egg yolks.
3 tbsp. sugar.
1 tsp. vanilla sugar.
5 dl. whipped cream.
100 g almond slivers.
1 tsp. sugar.
Edible gold glitter

Beat egg yolks fluffy, with sugar and vanilla sugar. Melt the chocolate over a water bath. Whip the cream. Fold the egg mass into the whipped cream and then fold the chocolate into it. Put the mousse in a bowl. Toast the almond slivers on a dry pan, add a tsp. sugar. Sprinkle over the mousse when they have cooled slightly. Sprinkle with edible gold glitter. I had a single "summerbird" chocolate butterfly left, which I put on as an extra decoration.