Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Gingerbread house

Today was gingerbread house decorating day....
Decorated by hubs and the kids
I left the decorating to the rest of the family this year.

I am writing a novella at the moment (30,000 words).  I'm planning to submit it to Entangled Publishing on 15th January as part of their call for Geek Girl stories.  So far I have a kick-arse story, but its only 10,000 words long. Which has turned me into a bad tempered headphone wearing individual who is glued to her computer - well, in between over-compensating the kids with lollies and movies, to alleviate a massive glut of mother guilt because I'm not rushing about with carols on full blast and the house smelling of frankincense and myrrrr.

Honestly, if I'd been left to decorate the Gingerbread house, it'd would've ended up looking a lot like Edenland's House of Doom...
This sublime gingerbread house has an accompanying blog post and vlog over on Edenland's blog, which if you don't know it already, is well worth a read :)

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Mel said...

Your gingerbread house looks great. 

Sam-O said...

Ours made it out of the oven, was assembled during which I burnt my hand.  Unfortunately when I went back to decorate it with the boys, some one had eaten the roof... Bloody Workaholic.  He was on the phone and as he does absentmindedly nibbled on it as he walked through the kitchen.  We are making another attempt tomorrow.  Yours looks great!!

Caitlyn Nicholas said...

Thanks Mel - the kids and hubs did a great job :)

Caitlyn Nicholas said...

Oh NO Sam!!  He ate it?? Is he still alive?? Commiserations about the hand, hope it wasn't too bad, burns can be so painful.