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Welcome to my Blogmas posts! This year I am going to take you through advent into Christmas and the New Year with a new post every day. I am going to share with you the best things of the festive season, and get you firmly into the party mood. I hope. So here is the 2nd of December in my Rose Tinted Advent Calendar.
2nd of December
Where is the Elf?
Aw look, theres our lovely little tree that we decorated yesterday. But hey! The mischievous elf decided she was going to climb up, and now she is hanging from the branches. Better get her down before she falls!
She wanted to hang the advent bag on the tree, so she says…
The Advent Bag
The advent bag today has a small sugar figurine, because today we are decorating our gingerbread house.
I would love to say that I make and bake my own gingerbread pieces, but I don’t. Maybe one day, when I can make them without burning them like I did with the Halloween cookies! So this year I tried this gingerbread house kit that you can assemble, ice and decorate.
This is what comes inside the kit that I bought this year. The only thing needed is egg white and a few drops of lemon juice, as the kit already comes with the icing sugar and decorations needed to assemble and decorate.
You whip an egg white, add the icing sugar and lemon juice, and it becomes the cement to assemble and decorate the house. It was really easy to put together. I assembled the house and let Elizabeth decorate it once the icing had hardened enough. I used some extra tubes of coloured icing from my baking cupboard.
Elizabeth really enjoyed decorating the house with the sweets. A few did get eaten along the way, but there were still plenty!
Our Gingerbread House
I think that she did a great job decorating! And she was counting the sweets and telling me the colours all the while. I love our little gingerbread house, and it has become one of the traditions that I like to do each year. It’s lovely to share this activity with my little girl.
Music Of The Day
Today’s music is one of my absolute favourites, and also one of the favourites of fellow blogger Cat from PushingTheMoon.com . It was recently used as a John Lewis advert (which is also a great version) but nothing really beats the orchestral original of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. And the video is perfect for the first Sunday of Advent.
I hope that you have had a lovely 2nd of December? Do you have a gingerbread house this year? I’d love to hear your comments, or do holler at me on social media.
Enjoyed this? Why not read about how I made some of my other decorations in Christmas Pom-Pom Crafts, or A Festive Rag Wreath?
The gingerbread house decorating is outstanding! Love your elf hanging on the tree too! #MMBC
Thank you. She really enjoyed the decorating. The elf loves to climb!
That gingerbread house looks so cute and yummy X #twinklytuesday
Well, E already has tried the decorations and she thought that they were yummy too!
This looks a great kit – I love making a gingerbread house each year #triedtested
It was a really easy kit to assemble. And very pretty too!
We’ve never been brave enough to build our own Gingerbread house
These kits are brilliant. No mess and very easy to do. I would certainly recommend!
I do remember making a gingerbread house one year – bit of a time taking job. This kit looks much better. #TriedTested
I would certainly recommend a kit over baking from scratch!
That gingerbread house is epic #TwinklyTuesday
Thank you so much!
My children aren’t fans of gingerbread so luckily I’ve never had to face the frustration of building a festive gingerbread house!
I doubt this one will get eaten to be honest, but it was fun to make!
Loving the gingerbread house! There’s only one of us that likes gingerbread so we’ve never got round to making one here. Thanks for linking up #twinklytuesday
Thank you for reading. I don’t think it will be eaten, currently E is enjoying playing with it too much!