Christmas Dino

We bought a dinosaur for Christmas. Her name is Emily Bront(e)y because she is a brontosaurus, of course. She is so happy to be with us; see the big smile on her face?

O Christmas Tree..

 We had a leaky pipe back in November. The leak was fixed quickly but the house was not back together until this week. We were not sure it would be repaired before Christmas. We usually put our tree in the dining room but it was full of stuff so we had to go with an alternate plan. We moved the furniture around in the living room and put the tree in the front corner. The living room looks so cozy with the furniture close together and the tree right there.

 ...and the stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

Gingerbread Event Dec. 2013

 My friend, Kathy and I attended the Gingerbread House Event held at the Umstead Hotel. Gingerbread houses made by local chefs were on display and we could walk around and look at them. They were amazing. Hard to imagine the creativity and patience that it took to make these houses.
This first one is a hot air balloon. Some people did not like the displays that were not traditional houses  as much but this one was pretty cool.











I like the gingerbread shoe house. How did they get the gingerbread to be round like a shoe? and the laces are licorice.
















































 I liked this house with the minions ( from the movie Despicable Me) all over the house. The minions were made of twinkies.















This last house was a bird house and it was beautiful. There was a good variety of gingerbread creations.Very impressive!