Gingerbread and Breakfast

On this rainy day, Georgia College's Habitat for Humanity hosted a gingerbread house contest during the Hanging of the Green's event. My suitemate Oliver and I participated in it. We worked for days putting together a masterpiece that is our "Gingerbread and Breakfast."

The front of our little house.

It took hours of work rolling out fondant pieces to adorn the roof and walls. We even created a little fondant chimney to look like it was made of rocks. From pretzels, to fondant, to royal icing, to sugar lights, and grass made of cake frosting, we worked on our little house. It is one of the best gingerbread houses that I have ever helped build, and we are so proud of what we accomplished.

The back of the house with the little fondant chimney.

(Photo creds: Oliver)

(Picture used with permission. Photo creds: Oliver)

(Photo creds: Oliver)

However, we did not win the contest. We are really sad to have lost after putting hours of work into it in the midst of the end of the semester. It was a really nice break to have been able to spend time working on the house though, and I want to say that we could try again next year and maybe we would win. Even though we lost, I am happy to have participated. It is always fun to work together to build something as cute as our little house. I only wish that it had not have rained today to allow more people to come out and see the gingerbread house that we worked so hard on. All in all, I'll keep my chin up even though we lost. Sometimes I know I can be a bit of a sore loser, and in this case, I'm taking the loss pretty hard. It is never fun to work so hard on something only to lose in the end. But I suppose that it is a lesson to learn. A lesson in trying your best to accomplish something, even if you don't always succeed.