CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY

I have managed to get myself organised in time and arrange a giveaway, hurrah!
So, to thank you all for your support of my blog, you could win some Amelie's House goodies.

First up is an Amelie's House calender, there is only one left in my Folksy shop here if you don't want to risk not winning.

Then a fabric picture made by me of...cakes of course!

A sexy Christmas stocking to hang on your mantlepiece.

There are also these two for sale in my shop.

 Six Amelie's House Christmas cupcake picks.

 An Amelie's House Brooch.

 Some magic reindeer dust, contains real magic, also for sale in my shop.

 And finally a beautiful cupcake tree decoration from Heartfelt Handmade.

Excited?

You would love to win this stash in time for Christmas?

You want to know how?

What that's?  You want me to stop asking stupid questions and get on with it because I'm begining to sound like Bruce Forsythe.

Cheeky!

Here is a sneak peak of my gingerbread house for this year and some of the inspiration that I used.

And here are two of the previous years houses.
 I seem to have a bird theme going on and can't stop myself!

Anyway all you have to do to win is follow this blog and leave me a comment telling me what your dream gingerbread house would look like.  If you tweet, blog or facebook about the giveaway you can also be in with an extra chance of winning.
I will draw the lucky name out of a hat on Monday 6th December.

Good luck!
Sorry the giveaway is closed now!

TREATS AND GOODIES.

Don't you love a giveaway?  

A few weeks ago I won a fabulous one from Torie Jayne.  She was giving away a £60 voucher for CSN stores.  I promised her I would let her know what I bought (I only went slightly over budget) . It all arrived this week and I have already made good use of some of my winnings!

As my family is getting bigger and eating more I needed a bigger pie dish so I got this lovely blue Le Creuset dish and it came just on the day I needed to make a chicken pie.

I also purchased two stacking cooling rackes which are fabulous!

I have read so much from Nigella about reusuable baking paper that I had to try some of that.

I also got two flat baking trays for my cookies.

 A tin of butterfly cookie cutters

And some square cutters which I shall be using later on today!

Anyway as a thankyou to Torie here is a pretty cake!

A good friend ordered it for a summer party and she wanted me to incorporate the bird house from a previous design.

I also used this trial which I found on Tories blog,(here), she does like a bird!

ps. Happy Birthday Mum

pps. If you live in the USA or Canada, head over to Haniela's blog for a chance to win a CSN voucher!

FIRST BLOG EVER

This is a gingerbread bird house I made for the Brighton open house exhibition.I painted the details on with food colours. I am in the process of gathering inspiration for a Christmas version.  Watch this space.