With the hustle and bustle of Christmas behind us I can now share the Hillam Gingerbread House with you. 2010 was the first year we made our own gingerbread house and we were pretty pleased with our efforts. But we learned a valuable lesson that first year: gingerbread and humidity don't go well together and if you construct your house too early, it WILL sag! So with that lesson learned, our Gingerbread house is now a last minute Christmas Crafting project which we start just a day or two before Christmas. This year our kit came from Woolworths. We didn't use the decorations or icing that came in the kit, preferring to visit Tom's Confectionery Warehouse for all the lollies we needed to make it a sweet treat that no bought gingerbread house can compare to. It was a rather small house, more like a cottage than a house so the decorating was a little less extravagant than our last couple of efforts but we still managed to pack a lot onto that little frame. So here it is - fr......

Farewell 2011........... it was nice spending time with you.  But I am glad to say goodbye to you and to welcome Two Thousand and Twelve! Or is that Twenty Twelve? I have trouble saying that.... it just doesn't seem to roll of the tongue the same way. At some point we will have to switch to saying it this way..... we can't, after all, get to the end of this century still saying Two Thousand and Ninety Nine, let alone Two Thousand One Hundred when we begin the next century. I guess it will slip into every day usage without us really noticing the change. But right now it takes a conscious effort to say it. So here goes, (whilst I am in New Year's resolution mode!): Welcome Twenty Twelve.....  Happy New Year! And may it be a good one! Here's one of the last things we did before the end of 2011.... family and extended family all seated around the dining table ready to share our gingerbread house. I got to do the honours! Apparently I look mighty mean holding a rolling pin. ......