"O Christmas Tree..." - A Different Kind of Tree

I like Christmas.  A lot.  Especially the Christmas baking and food.  I'm sure you do too :)  Anyway, a few years ago, my friend and I entered a Gingerbread house contest.  It was super fun building and decorating the house.  I can't remember if we won or not, (this was a LONG time ago :D)  but I still remember all the fun we had putting it together.  At that point, winning didn't really even matter.  We just liked having fun

together.  I haven't done anything else like that since... until this year.  A lady at my church gave me a little gingerbread kit for building a Christmas Tree.  Pre-baked, Pre- everything.  Except put together.  And that's the fun part!  Yeah, I like the baking part too, but the best part is putting it together.  So that's what I did.  I built... A Different Kind of Tree.  

The kit.

The "taken apart" kit :)

This is what it will look like... sort of... just prettier...

Step 1 - Apply WHITE frosting to each cookie, then stack them, alternating the points to create the effect of a tree.

Applying more frosting.  To more cookies.

So far, so good.

It's a little taller now...

Done!  (It took about 30-45 mins just to get this part done... yeah)

I like photography, so I took this pic.  It looks pretty cool!  Oh yeah, and after you put the frosting on, you sprinkle sugar all over it.  That's what the sparkly stuff is :)

Next step (2 I think)  - Use the GREEN frosting to go around the edge of each cookie.  This makes it look like a tree.

Working my way up... (this was the super tedious part :) )

All done!

The top view... again.

Next - Use these little edible pearl candies to "decorate" your tree.  I think I put enough... what do you think?

The final touch - The Star!

I added a "little" more sugar too... can you see it?  :)

The star on top.

The "top shot" again.  :)

And that's my Gingerbread Tree for ya!  Coming up soon.... Christmas candy!  And cookies!  Or, in other words, my BAKING PAGE!  :)

It's been a while...

So I know it's been a while... but we finally got a new charger for the computer!!! Yay!  Now I can get caught up with posting.  I will finish up the Nail Challenge soon - I think there are 10 days left (yikes) but in this post I want to share some pics of projects I've completed with my new favorite hobby... Crocheting!!!  At my co-op (school) this year, I am taking a crocheting/knitting class.  During this semester that we just finished up, I learned to crochet.  And next semester, I am going to learn how to knit (hopefully! :D)  There have been a lot of fun projects I want to share, plus some that I just decided to do on my own!  Hope you enjoy!

My first hat... well, actually, I made one like this before, following the pattern, but it was way too small so I did it again (the one above) and just kept adding until it actually fit right :)

The second hat...  I don't know if you can tell, but there is a spiral pattern all around the whole thing.  It's also really warm and soft!

Gloves!  Well, fingerless gloves, but still they were really fun to make and I really like wearing them!  And yes, I know, my nails aren't done... shame on me.  :)  But they are still taking a break from that Nail Challenge!  lol.

Another hat!  I kind of just made this one up.  It's really easy to make one once you know how to get it started, because they all start the same way.  Unless you want to do one like the spiral pattern, then you need to either have the pattern handy, or just have a really good memory :)

There are a few more, but I don't have pics right now.  So I will post them later!  It's good to be back :)