Yay, it's finally complete! After having the box (yes I cheated and bought a DIY ready cooked, flat packed gingerbread house.) cluttering my kitchen and getting moved from one place to another for the past 2 weeks, I finally pulled my finger out and got creative. What do you think? A few years ago my mum made me a beautiful gingerbread house which came out for a few christmas's, but unfortunately it got eaten and no we didn't get to enjoy it but the mice did! It use to get wrapped up in a towel and placed up the top of Piper's bedroom cupboard until the summer of 2005-6 when we had an invasion of mice (we can only assume they were looking for water?) It took me a while to trigger that the smell of the gingerbread house probably attracted them in the first place, and by the time I remembered that it was up there in the cupboard it was too late. Over half the house had been eaten which would explain why the mice we did catch were so fat. I'm pretty proud of my efforts but now that I think about it, I should have taken a photo of the mess in my kitchen as I had royal icing stuck all over my kitchen bench, lollies everywhere and those little silver sugar beads all over the floor :) I do have one tip for those thinking of making a gingerbread house in the future. DO NOT attempt to make it on a hot day as the icing doesn't want to set and you have to stand there for at least 10mins holding it all together and then you still end up having the 2 roof pieces slide off. Lots of swearing and cursing believe me.
Here is a picture of Piper who obviously enjoyed her bowl of ice cream as she had to lick the bowl clean. Hmmmmm, don't know where she learnt that one from??? Oops :)
Well I should probably get going as it is 12.45am and no such thing as a sleep in.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.
Caroline xxx
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