Fannie is grateful to the Fijians for travelling so many thousands of miles with their water, having expended so much power and used so much plastic for bottles, just so that she can have a silica-laden cat beverage.
Elisavet created a transition from Christmas to the Theophany (Fannie’s name day) by making a cat-shaped bûdge de Noël. If you want to know what makes it a “bûdge” and not a “bûche,” you’ll probably have to marry into the family. Oh, and as for the absinthe glass in the background — Fannie’s sophisticated.