#youle

[salixfragilis]

Hi there, my darling! 🎄✨ How are you today? Today’s tiny gift is a thought: if you could step into a time machine and attend any Led Zeppelin concert in history, which one would you choose, and why? (I know, it’s such a tough question!)

I hope this little question adds some sparkle to your day. Can’t wait to hear your answer! Sending you all the rockin’ Christmas vibes! 🎸

Youle 💚

Hello Youle!

Your message just made my day much better. Thank you ❤️

The concert question is one to ponder about for a long time or just go with my instinct and choose Earls Court 1975. Main reason is that the version of Bron-Yr-Aur- Stomp of one of these evenings is my most favourite one. The whole acoustic set is something I crave. Also Robert looked exquisitely that night 🫣

What are your favourite bands or musicians, Youle?

[teadrunknyc]

Pu er is named after locations. You Le is one of the six ancient tea mountains to the east of Lan Cang River where the teas show elegant and permeating qualities. You Le is particularly known for being sweet and tender. Long Pa is the name of the most sought after village in the mountain of You Le. There are two lots the villagers own, A Hei and Le De, with Le De being more prized. The locals also have access to a lot of wild tea trees about 2-hour hike away from the village. Wild teas are more intense and complex and in the hands of a skilled tea maker, balanced aromatic pu er with plush tannins is delivered. #puer not #puerh #youle #shengpuerh (at Tea Drunk) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7TwUeglamz/?igshid=19f1nglaysrbo

[salixfragilis]

Hi, dear! 🎄✨

Happy New Year to you! 🥳 What a wonderful gift to start the year with these recipes – they sound divine! 😍 The Linzer cookies are super inspiring; I love the idea of adapting them for Easter with themed shapes, genius! 🐰🍪. And the vanilla crescents… I can already imagine the heavenly smell in the kitchen! 😋 I promise I’ll try them, maybe I won’t even wait until next Christmas.

I can’t wait to hear all about our Christmas boy! 👀 But I must admit I’m a bit torn about revealing myself – there’s something charming about the mystery, don’t you think? 😅 However, technically our holidays end on January 6th (we also have our “special Christmas lady” 🎁✨), so I’ll probably let you know who I am then!

Congratulations to you too on having such a wonderful group of friends you’ve kept over time! 🥰 It’s truly special to share life with them and see the cycle continue – you’ve painted such a warm and tender image of your New Year’s Eve. ❤️

A big hug!

Youle 💕

Hello Youle!

One day more, another day anorher destiny it's never-ending road to Calvary...

Our holidays also officialy end on the 6th. I hope you will tell me about your special lady! Finally- women taking over💪

Have a great start of the new week 🤗

[salixfragilis]

Dear!

Oh, I love your Christmas traditions! Watching childhood TV shows while baking cookies sounds so cozy and magical. 🎄🍪 I can almost smell the scent of freshly baked treats and hear the jingles in the background.

Your Christmas Eve sounds like a wonderful celebration of togetherness. I absolutely adore the idea of singing carols with a musical family! It must feel like a heartwarming symphony of love and cheer. 🎶❤️ And now you’ve got me very curious about your “special guy” who visits instead of Santa Claus! 🤔

For me, my favorite parts of Christmas are the moments of warmth and connection. I love decorating the tree while listening to music (I bet you can guess the type of music... hint: lots of guitars! 🎸). I also enjoy walking through the city and admiring the lights and decorations—it always feels like stepping into a fairytale.

But most of all, I love spending time with family and friends. This year, it’s even more special with the arrival of a little “Christmas elf” in our family! I hope to pass on the magic of the season to him, and perhaps one day he’ll have his own favorite traditions to share. 😊

Oh, and before I forget—I’m terribly late with the reveal! Please forgive me; it feels like time has been running faster than Santa’s reindeer this season. 🦌 But I promise I’ll make it up to you!

What’s your favorite Christmas cookie to bake? I might need some inspiration to try new recipes this year!

Sending you lots of festive hugs and Christmas cheer! Yours, Youle ❤️🎅🎄

Hello Youle!

Happy new year!

I am happy to share with you some christmas cookies inspiration:

Vanilla crescents: 50 grams of grinded hazel nuts, 100 g butter, 150 g spelled flour, 30 grams of vanilla powdered sugar (it'easy to make at home), 1 egg yolk.

Make a dough, leave it in a fridge at least for 90 mins. Than make small...I don' know....things on the picture :D

Bake on a tray on 150°C for 15-20 mins. Powder them over with sugar while they are still warm.

Linzer cookies as I do it (not the austrian one!):

210 g flour, 140 g butter, 70 g powdered sugar (preferably vanilla one), 1 tea spoon of lemon zest and 2 egg yolks. Make a dough, set it in the cold for at least an hour, roll out the dough, cut out cirles or hearts or whatever. Bake cca 170°C (whoa, European!) for 10 mins. Then put the peaces together with rabsberry or red currant jam (or any other really!).

These two are my favourite...not so much to bake (linzer ones are a bit pain) but deffinitely to eat 😃 And I know I am late but maybe you will try them next year (or you can be cunning and make the linzer cookies over the Eastern- using cutting outs in a shape of egg, bunny or whatever 😅 )

I will gladly tell you all about our christmas guy in your DMs after you'll uncover yourself (can't wait!) :)

Many congratulations for the important addition to your family 🥹

I celebrated NYE with the same group of friends which I've known and loved since high school and it's so special and mind boggling that we went from drinking our brains out years ago to warming one drink all night and watching new generation running around these days. Life circle at its best ❤️

[salixfragilis]

Oh, Santa Klaus, forgive my delayed reply, but an elflet has just decided to be born and you can imagine how seriously we take births around here! 😂 It was a mix of panic and joy, with glitter flying everywhere and a spontaneous conga line forming in the workshop. Truly, a magical moment! 💫

Now, back to your question about animals in the village! Besides Santa’s reindeer, we’ve got a whole menagerie here. 🐾 The Polar Bears are our ever-watchful guardians, majestic and fiercely protective. 🐻‍❄️ Then there are the Penguin Postmen, scurrying around delivering letters with remarkable precision (and a flair for sliding into your mailbox). 🐧📬 The Marmots, on the other hand, specialize in ribbon curling—they’re masters of gift wrapping. 🎀

And last but certainly not least, the Seal Dancers! 🦭 Sure, they’re not technically useful in the production line, but their choreographies are so mesmerizing that productivity actually goes up after one of their performances. Who could resist a perfectly synchronized seal pirouette?

Speaking of traditions, how do you usually spend Christmas? 🎄 Do you have any particular custom or tradition that you love? I’m always curious to hear how others celebrate this magical time of year! ✨❄️

Wishing you a glitter-filled, magical day!

Youle 💚

Dear Youle!

It has never occured to me Santa's elfs must get born somehow 🤔

I love your descriptions of animal helpers! I'd so much like to see a marmot wrapping gifts!

As for christmas traditions....well, I don't have one concrete that I love. Just the whole feeling of Christmas. I bake tons of varied christmas cookies and while doing so I watch specific tv series from my childhood.

I usually go to a concert of specific Christmas mass some day before Christmas (I don't want to disclose my nationality and so I can't be more concrete 😀 ).

Our main thing is "Christmas Eve" od 24th December. I spend it with my family. We meet up in my place and have a festive dinner (again, can't tell you what exactly) and then we unpack the presents, sing the carols (musical family alert!) and eat those cookies... I never have the energy to wait for the midnight mass 😀

So in my country we do everything they earlier. Santa even doesn't visit us (we have our special guy 😀 ).

What are your favourite parts of Christmas, Youle? ❤️

[salixfragilis]

Oh, my Tumblr must be acting up again! It totally messed with my translation system! I had actually written in Elfese—the official language of Santa’s village—but somehow it morphed into Italian…I have no idea why! 🤷‍♀️

Though… who’s to say I don’t have an opera tenor vampire somewhere in my ancestry? 🎭🦇 Fairy family trees can be very, very, very (did I already say very?) intricate! Unless, of course, you're purebred Christmas! 😉 Speaking of messes, just to give you an idea of how tricky glitter can be—some years ago, the glitter machine (oh, it’s such an old and temperamental contraption!) exploded, covering Santa’s reindeer in about a million sparkles of every color. Blitzen still looks like a disco ball, but he insists it’s a new fashion trend. I suspect it’s because the glitter is so deeply stuck in his antlers that he just can’t get it off anymore! Wishing you an absolutely magical start to your week!

Youle 💚✨"

Dear Youle.

I can see Blitzen as a main trendsetter of the Village. Maybe he's just letting his possible queerness out. ❤️

Are there any other animals except reindeers in the village?

[salixfragilis]

Hello, my dear! 🌟✨

Non preoccuparti, mi piace davvero inviarti questi piccoli regali 🎁. A meno che non ti mettano a disagio (nel qual caso, per favore fammelo sapere!), voglio solo che questo sia un momento felice per entrambi, non un peso 💖.

Mi dispiace tanto se ti ho turbato in qualche modo 🙏 A volte mi lascio trasportare dall'eccitazione o dalla stanchezza 😅 e non ci faccio abbastanza attenzione. Grazie per avermelo fatto sapere così gentilmente, lo apprezzo molto!

As for my role as an elf... well, my official title is Official Supervisor of Enchanted Glitter and Keeper of Luminescent Magic in Santa’s Village ✨. Sounds grand, doesn’t it? 😏 In reality, my main task is to stop glitter from taking over every corner of the village (spoiler: I fail miserably 😂). I end up spending more time cleaning up glitter than spreading it, but hey, someone has to do it! 🧹✨ It’s a mission of utmost importance, as you can imagine 😉.

I hope this made you smile! 🌟

Youle 💚

Oh wow Supervisor of Enchanted Glitter. Big function! Important one. Glitter is a bitch. Especially when it gets in your underwear.

(For real, these little imaginative interludes play on a right strings in my brain and heart ❤️ )

And now another brainer- the Italian 🤔

There is so many possibilities of why!

You could obviously be an Italian. Or! Your ma is Italian and that is why you are bilingual.

Or you needed to pick a language on high school and thought "meh...Italian" 🤷‍♀️

Maybe you studied opera singing and decided Italian is a must

Or most likely you were part of Borgia family and somehow ended up vampire... 👍

I hope you will have good start of the week Youle!

[salixfragilis]

Hello, my darling! 🎄✨

I’m so sorry I didn’t get a chance to send you a message yesterday! We had a bit of a… situation at the toy assembly line. A small hiccup turned into full-blown chaos—imagine elves panicking and starting a candy cane duel with the gingerbread men, which somehow escalated into a snowball fight where snowmen heads were the projectiles. Total mayhem! But don’t worry, we’ve restored order and everyone is back to work (mostly). 😅

I’m so glad the little image I sent helped you feel calm—it truly warms this elf’s tiny heart to hear that! ❤️ And thank you for your sweet patience; I’ll be sure to share a little more about myself when the time is right. For now, let me send you another small gift: a little chill playlist (and a tiny clue of my musical taste)! I hope you like it:

Green Is the Colour - Pink Floyd

The Zephyr Song - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Corner of the Earth - Jamiroquai

Fee Fi Fo - Cranberries

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Beatles

God Only Knows - Beach Boys

Going to California - Led Zeppelin

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

Sending you all the calm and cozy vibes! Youle 💚

Hello Youle.

I am glad all is back in order in Santa's village 😃 There is no need to send me gifts every day!! This should be fun not a chore 🙂

Thank you for a hint to your music taste! We have some favourite songs in common (the last four 👌👌).

I didn't know Green Is a Color and it brought calm to me, Zephyr song brought memories of when I was nine and carefree, Corner of the Earth brought gratitude for being alive.

I stoped Fee Fi Fo after first few verses- I avoid this theme for personal reasons and will do so in the future.

Sending back this gem which perfectly sums up my melancholy in a melody.

What is your exact position among other elfs I wonder?

Have a jolly night 👋🫶