Lady Crazie visits the Gingerbread House

It is Epiphany, the Christmas decorations have been packed away apart from the crib scene as the Wise Men have come to visit.  However one item from Christmastide hasn't gone. In fact, I only made it a week after Christmas day - the gingerbread was cut and baked on 31 December 2014, the icing and assembly of the house was done on 1 January 2015.  This was my first attempt at a Gingerbread house (pretty messy) and Lady Crazie, all the way from Germany where these houses are very traditional, came to inspect our efforts, along with her new friends Clemence the bear and and Laura's Owl.

Owl and Lady Crazie perched on the Gingerbread house while Clemence enjoyed the rich smell of Gingerbread and icing

Owl liked his perch on the chimney, while Lady Crazie liked the roof

Clemence wanted to sample the house, but was afraid of upsetting the owner

Lady Crazie and Owl chirped and hooted to each other on the roof

Clemence tried the front door to see if anyone was at home

Clemence peered around the side of the Gingerbread house, was anyone there?

While the owl and Lady Crazie chirped and hooted at each other,
Clemence the bear went exploring round the house
to see if anyone was at home, he even looked through the back windows

Clemence peered around from the back of the house

Clemence was quite sure by this time that no one was at home,
Lady Crazie checked the front door again just to be sure.

Lady Crazie sat on the front door step of the Gingerbread house

Lady Crazie seemed to like the house, the owl came to perch on the roof

Clemence started to gnaw off some of the icing snow on the roof

The owl pecked at the roof icing

then flew with a piece of icing in his beak to the chimney perch

Clemence sat down to enjoy his piece of icing, with Lady Crazie

Lady Crazie with the gifts she brought from the Sasha Commoneos

The chocolates which Lady Crazie brought with her didn't last very long, my younger daughter (who helped me with this scene) ate the last one - the wrapper is shown in the photo above.  Also shown is a gorgeous little Christmas card, two beautiful miniature wooden reindeer and a photo card of the Sasha Commoneo family and Lady Crazie with her family whom she has left at home.  Thank you Anne for sending her to us, she has now gone upstairs (safely away from our dog), so who knows what adventures she will encounter next in our home.