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YOW! Advent Calendar

YOW! Advent calendar – the 9th door

Cheers!

  1. Create your chosen design on the computer and print it onto sublimation paper.
  2. Stick the printout onto the mug.
  3. Sublimate the mug in the transfer press.
  4. Peel off the sublimation paper – and you’re done.
Print dialogue on the screen: Preview showing four mug designs – ‘Merry Christmas 2009’, a red star and a fir branch – for printing on sublimation paper
The Ricoh Aficio GX 5050N printer produces sublimation paper featuring a Christmas motif of a red star and a fir branch for printing on mugs
A white mug, wrapped all the way round in printed sublimation paper and secured with green adhesive tape; the design shimmers through
A hand places a white cup with green adhesive tape into the cylindrical transfer press for sublimation; next to it is a red control unit with a digital display
A white mug clamped into the silver heating sleeve of a transfer press; a view from above as the adhered design is being sublimated
A hand peels the sublimation paper off the mug, revealing a Christmas design featuring stars and the words ‘Merry Christmas … from Hansi’s Mulled Wine’
A white mug with a star, a fir branch and red lettering reading ‘Merry Christmas 2009 … from Hansi’s mulled wine stall’, ready-printed using the sublimation process

To make sure your mugs don’t stay empty, here’s our mulled wine recipe:

1 litre red wine, not too full-bodied
1/2 – 3/4L black tea
freshly squeezed lemon juice
freshly squeezed orange juice
Rum
100 g sugar
2 cinnamon sticks; 4 cloves; lemon slices, orange slices

Mix all the ingredients together, heat them up but do not let them boil, taste and adjust the flavour or add more sweetener to taste. As soon as a white foam forms, strain the mixture and taste again. Serve as hot as possible in a personalised mug. Do not let the spices overpower the flavour of the wine!

Here’s a non-alcoholic version:

Children’s punch

1.5 litres of fruit tea
3/4L grape juice
3/4L apple juice
1 litre orange juice
Sugar, honey or maple syrup
2 cinnamon sticks, 2 tsp whole cloves, 1 pinch of cardamom

Mix all the ingredients together, heat them up and leave to infuse well. Strain and season to taste.

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