...scents of christmas...or...dear Martha...

...ah yes

the wondrous scents of Christmas time!!

fresh pine...

warm cookies...

or gingerbread to be more exact!

every year,

i am bound and determined to make a gingerbread house

and every year,

guess what

yep!

not a ginger house to be found in my home

well

not this year...

okay

granted,

i did not bake these from scratch...

 as all of you,

 i have many,

MANY things on my Christmas "to do" list

so,

i took a little help from "those" kits that are out there.

you know the ones!

these are the results...

i bought 2 kits from Target

* the gingerbread mini village

and

* the pre-built gingerbread house kit

i tossed ALL of the candies inside

(yuck!!)

and keep only the white icing and coconut shreds

i did pull out a few of my pretty baking supplies

(yes! i LOVE baking pretty too!!)

silver dragees

and

sparkling white sanding sugar where all that was required

then i assembled my town

very simply...

pure, clean and white!

it couldn't be any easier than coloring in the lines

everything is pre-stamped where to lay your icing.

i wanted a ginger church so bad

and look for one HIGH and lo

but ~

yah no!

so i consoled myself

with making a steeple out of one of the tiny village houses

lol!!

i sawed my ginger walls with a serrated edge knife

to be able to etch a V shape out to fit on my roof...

what's a little ginger dust??!

once complete, i piped out an icing cross.

sure, you can still see where a window was supposed to be

but

from across the room

none the wiser!

as i was making these

i got to thinking of writing a letter to Martha

it would sound something like this:

dear Martha,

please, Please, PLEASE

design a gingerbread house kit

as only YOU could!

Filled with elegant shaped lines and clear candy windows.

~ and if you please,

a few, little tiny cellophane bags filled with silver dragees,

wisps of cotton candy for smoke stacks,

and iridescent sugar for the rooftops.

I'd be ever so grateful

and HAPPILY pay the price of such a kit!

For there are no others

 who bring us lovely, quality creating items

to embellish our worlds with.

I thank you for that, 

and hope that next year, 

I am putting together a ginger house

designed by you!

sincerely,

Rosemary

what do you think??

would she read it?

i know,

i won't hold my breath...

but a girl can dream

and even ask Santa!

LOL!!!

they do smell wonderful,

would you like to smell them??

come close

closer...

closer my dear!

 yum

you want a cookie now, don't you??

or maybe you were thinking about Hansel and Gretal?!

hahahahhha!!

no worries my dears,

no wicked witch lives in my ginger houses!!

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here's to the scents of Christmas and Martha!