For something festive to do I wanted to attempt a gingerbread house. I bought my ingredients mixed them up eventually got something that looked like gingerbread dough and stuck it in the fridge overnight to chill. I made a gingerbread house once as a child but it was a pre-made one with only minimal assembly and decoration required so this was an adventure for me. So last night I rolled out my gingerbread cut out the pieces with stencils and baked my house. Today I made my icing and attempted to assemble the house and it went less than stellar. I would show you a picture of the finished product but sadly there was no glorious gingerbread house to show you in the end just a pile of gingerbread and icing. So my gingerbread house making skills need a little work but it was fun to attempt. At work on Friday it was pretty empty with most people leaving for the holidays but there were a few of us to hold down the glasshouse. We got a shipment of butterflies for the butterflies in the glasshouse event occurring later in January. The butterflies arrive as chrysalis and they must be glued to canes and stuck in the puparium like an incubation chamber for butterflies until they emerge. They butterflies will take a week or two to emerge. The butterflies arrived in a box and were a little cold from being in the delivery truck to long but once they got warmed up they began to wiggle around. It was quite the site to see they would wiggle and wiggle moving the cane. It was been raining a lot lately and the river that runs along the edge of the garden and behind the house has reached a height I have not seen and with more rain today the water will rise even farther. The flower is just a gorgeous Tacca flower I saw in the glasshouse and had to take a picture of it to show to you.
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