Through The Keyhole

Do you remember that TV programme in which Loyd Grossman showed us round a famous person's house? And then at the end we had to guess who lived there? Well, imagine the strangled sounds of Mr Grossman's Irritable Vowel Syndrome guiding you round this property, and see if you can guess who resides in it.

A bird's eye view of the roof looks like this:

The 'tiles' and edge of the roof appear to involve decorative features including 'sprinkles' and slices of Cadbury's Fudge:

The gable end of the house is very pretty:

With detailing such as Jelly Tot highlights:

And snowy hearts with metallic pink balls:

The front door has a sugared green border, and silver door 'knob'

Who lives in a house like this? Over to you, dear Reader.

Come on then - you be the judges, who do you think lives in that house? A pretty house with the extremely pleasing aroma of ginger. Any idea?

This is who lives there:

The Jelly Baby Family!

We've had this gingerbread house kit in the cupboard for some time. I did intend to do it as an activity with the kids over the Christmas holidays, but we didn't get round to it. A couple of weekends ago, however, we decided it would liven up a quiet Saturday. This is how it ended up looking:

The kit was a gift brought back from a holiday some friends had in Sweden; when we opened the box, we found the chimney 'pieces' broken (I did try to cement them together with icing, but it didn't work) so it's a house with no chimney - obviously Santa would need to find another way in. The Wrinklets had a great time making this, especially No.1, who asked if anyone got to make their living from doing stuff like decorating cakes. You wouldn't believe the mess in the kitchen when they'd finished, it looked like an explosion in a Rowntree factory, and there was a horrible 'crunch' underfoot until I'd swept the floor, washed it, and then hoovered.

We'd never made a gingerbread house before, but I think we'll definitely do another one in the future. They slowly demolished the house all week - that's the gingerbread house, not the one in which we live. Although now I come to think of it, they have a pretty good go at demolishing that every single week.

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The monkey I promised Trash for her Bushfire Appeal raffle is now finished. I'll leave it to the winner to name her:

Socks in various shades of pink. The fabric for the dress was one of FQ's that WMK sent me for our Valentine Swap back in February 2008. When I went to our local fabric shop to buy the trim for the monkey's dress, I was seeking small ricrac in a cerise colour. They didn't have any, so I ended up with what you see. The lady serving was very helpful, and asked what it was for - when I told her it was for a monkey as a prize in a raffle for the Bushfire Appeal, she insisted I didn't have to pay for the trim. People are nice, aren't they?

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