Wednesday 18 December 2013

Gingerbread past and present!

For the last few years, DH & I have been having great fun, making a gingerbread house, each Christmas eve. This year, we decided to make one early! So On Sunday, I baked the gingerbread. Still have to do the icing e.t.c. I just love the creative aspect of anything, to me gingerbread is simply a medium, through which I can express myself; like yarn! Plus, my gang of Woolly Clucks JUST LOVE golden syrup! (They always help in the festive baking process!).
 LOL! Not the best thing, if one has a woolly beak.....

Our wee creations over the past few yrs.

This one is from last year! LOL! I decided to make coop... complete with rickety little candy cane legs and a ramp! And no coop is complete, without a flock of chickens! Then they decided, they wanted chicks, who wanted scarves... and so on and so forth! LOL! Well, that is my excuse, any way ;)
                                                 





                                                                             

                                                                           
                                                                         

                                                           





Here are all the woollies helping with the baking! Rocky ( a handsome but shy gentle-rooster, visiting all the way from my friend's house in South Yorkshire) is manfully (roosterfully?) opening the tin of golden syrup for me!

                                                        Cecily is beating the mixture
                                                                       
                                                                       
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                                          Sharing a beater (best part of baking!)
                                                                     
                                       
                                       
                                                                             
                                                                               
                                       
                                                                             
                                                 
                                                                         
         
                                                                         
                                                         
                                                                             
                           
                                          The net result of all that hard work! (BTW, all this baking led to a romance between dear Rocky and Sweetie, the pale green/chocolate cluck, with a lilac comb and bright red wings! Their romance will be documented soon, so keep looking!)

Here is our wee cottage from 2011


                                       
                                                                             
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  1. Marta18 December 2013 at 13:31

    What fun! Even little fishie helps licking the beaters! Can't wait to see this year gingerbread mansion.

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    1. Woolly cluck19 December 2013 at 02:11

      Thanks dear pal! That is Osmodion, he is Tristan & Cecily's fish! Being woolly, he can survive out of water and eat cookie dough!!! ;) LOL! It is hardly a mansion, more of a cottage, I'm going to ice it today. Then DH can take some pics :)

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