How I LOVE Christmas and all the preparations and build up. Having grandchildren is wonderful as I can re-live the fun that we had with Claire and Gareth a LONG TIME AGO!
I cheated this time and bought the gingerbread house parts from Ikea. Assembling it was a nightmare but icing is good for glueing broken bits together. For Hope and Grace the best bit was buying all the sweets needed to decorate it and we got stuck in. I had icing bag failure which caused chaos but finally it was finished, just in time to share with their friend Chloe, who is back here from Singapore for a couple of weeks!
It is still fun to make the REAL stuff so here are a few shapes Grace cut out before they were baked.....
Grace is only just 7 but really enjoyed playingg with the icing....
and here is Hope's little man. She got bored very quickly and spent the rest of the time licking her icing bag which popped!
Clean up is Hope's favourite part
Grace was on a roll....squiggling icing on all the shapes.... including the little iced biscuits she was eating at the time!!
She even decided this armless old lady was worth decorating....
Her piece de resistance was this heart. LOVE it! I'm so pleased she enjoyed using the piping bag...the saddest part for me was the pain in my thumbs after I had decorated one gingerbread lady:(
Right...now I am off to make CRACKERS for Christmas day! Whoooopppeeeee!
Right...now I am off to make CRACKERS for Christmas day! Whoooopppeeeee!
3 comments:
Dearest sweet Moira, such fun and i love your gingerbread house! Wishing you a wonderful festive time with your friends and family! Love to you!
Love the gingerbread house, and the girls icing on the gingerbread shapes is fabulous.
Hope you have a Very Merry Christmas with family and friends.
I'm so glad you are back blogging, I'm looking forward to seeing some of your studio design work for the cards. How is the card biz going?
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