Finally my Awsome Aprons gift arrived, in a Cafépress bag: a big white apron with an aikido print on it! I practice aikido and I wrote on my profile how much I love it! There is a design of two people performing an aikido technique on the background of a classic red sun like the one on the Japanese flag. It's nice that the apron is big, arrives nearly at my feet, so I'm full protected while using it... I took a short aikido-themed photoshoot with my bokken and banana for scale, to fully honour the theme of my apron, and I plan to use it for the first time in a few days to bake some themed cookies! Stay tuned for a pictures update, folk!

There was a short message included, but with no username, so I shall thank my misterious apron santa and will answer here to his question: yes it's this that I meant with aikido! Thank you! :-)

Update! Apron in Action! I uploaded some pictures to show my new apron in action, as promised. I wanted to do something themed with my new aikido-apron, so I thought samoa cookies can be vary similar to tsubas (samurai sword guards) and I tried to do some. I uploaded also a picture of some of my tsubas so that you can understand why I did the strangely shaped hole in the cookies... The cookies became a lot bigger and the hole closed after baking, but I carved it out again, and I'm very satisfied with the result, with the taste especially! The apron was perfect and very long, and in the end no stains of flour, chocolate, or extra-dangerous-super-sticky caramel-coconut topping reached my clothes! Thank you Santa! I can't send you the cookies to taste, but here is the authentic italian gesture for "mmmmm! That's good!" :-)