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Since I moved to Australia, I have missed having a winter holiday. Christmas in in the middle of the summer here which is very different, but I do love that New Year’s Eve is warm! The only problem is when it is winter there is no holiday to brighten things up. Then I learned about a bunch of Japanese holidays. One I really like is the Star Festival. This is based of a Chinese Holiday about a girl and boy who are separated all year because they were distracting each other from getting their work done. The girl weaves a net and catches stars. The boy herds cattle. For one day a year (Tanabata) they get to be together. People tie wishes onto trees written on colorful paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Star cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Decorations are hung on bamboo fronds. I crocheted mine because I don’t have any bamboo. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some of the decorations on the bamboo are little pouches. I attempted to make a hat, but it kind of turned into a purse. \ud83d\ude42 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Star food. In Japan parents make their kids long noodles with vegetables shaped like stars. I used a pastry bag and cake decorating tip to pipe out mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes. The little star picks on the cupcakes are from Daiso. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I moved to Australia, I have missed having a winter holiday. Christmas in in the middle of the summer here which is very different, but I do love that New Year’s Eve is warm! The only problem is when it is winter there is no holiday to brighten things up. Then I learned about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[39,10],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-craft","category-food","tag-crochet","tag-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3209,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions\/3209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}