Of Jamie, Mince Pies & Log Houses

The title says it all and so do the photos.

Mini Ginger-bread Houses

We now have seven (no, your hearing isn't failing you) ginger-bread houses. Only I have a little secret to tell you... mind that you don't let anyone else know; it's very confidential. Four of them are mini Nice biscuit houses. There, it's out!
However, there is a reason for this: the little children wanted to do their own houses, but it would have been too stressful to make individual batches, so we bought Nice biscuits and lollies and this afternoon they assembled them. Anyway, I had to help Lily and Daniel, but Rob and Jord did their own.
Their results were very cute :)


Daniel icing his lollies to put on his biscuits.

Holding it together; the icing was a bit too runny :(

Lily putting her lollies on.

:)

Lily and Daniel's houses. Jordan's house fell apart and I didn't get a photo of Rob's because he took a long time in making it. It was a Little House on the Prairie cottage.

Ladies Gingerbread-House Afternoon

On Saturday our Church ladies hosted a ladies gingerbread-house gathering. We four girls and Amy went. Karli did her own gingerbread-house and Bek and I were to share one (I was in charge of the camera so she ended up doing it on her own), and Jess helped Amy with hers. There were about fifty women there and fifteen children, so the church was quite full! We had afternoon tea, Lynette did her talk and we handed out the kits. Then everyone got to work!

Karli and Amy serving tea.

Filling the icing bags.

Lynette giving the talk on "Home, sweet home".

All the listeners.

The assembling starts!

One of the completed houses.

Everyone marveled at Jess and Amy's pipe work; click the photo to get a better view.

Jane is the gingerbread-house queen... her work was naturally going to be the best of the best, however simple the design!

I really liked this house; you have to see the whole thing though, not just the front or back, which, unfortunately, I couldn't get a picture of :P