The Holidays are Upon Us

Hi. As you very well know, it's the holiday season (for most of us at least). Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, New Years. It's so exciting. Personally, I celebrate Christmas. However, in my home, it is about the act of giving gifts, not "the birth of Christ".
I love giving gifts to people. It's a wonderful feeling. Today, I spent an hour wrapping presents.
And, for the first time in my life (of what I can remember), I built a gingerbread house with my dad. A German tradition that somehow brought it's way over to the United States. I have to say ours turned out absolutely gorgeous.

The story of Hansel and Gretel in a nut shell (according to Wikipedia): "Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister threatened by a cannibalistic hag living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake and confectionery. The two children save their lives by outwitting her."
To be honest, I thought the story ended poorly. Doesn't the witch put them in the oven and bake them?
Here's the link to the actual story if you'd like to read it.  HAHA. I just read the summary. Wikipedia was wrong. Nice. Nothing new.


Anyhoo, being the lovely, humorous human being that I am. I decided to make my gingerbread house a little more barbaric than most children do theirs.

We have the witch standing on the roof watching Hansel and Gretel suffer. a cat/dog broken in half on a tree. Hansel hanging by his feet. Gretel sideways over the doorway.

Yes. Those are indeed goldfish crackers. We like to pretend that the witch is drying her fish on her roof.

A beautiful close up.

I was laughing once I finished. Does that make me inhuman?

St. Andrew's Day

"St. Andrew’s Day A deep-rooted Polish tradition - the celebration of Andrzejki is celebrated on the night of the 30th of November."

What you do: Pour hot wax into cold water and then after the wax cools, you take it out and put a flashlight behind it to create a shadow. Then you say what you see in the shadow and you explain what you think that could mean about your upcoming year.

Can with hot wax. Into bowl with cold water.

For example, for this one: 

I saw the tree from the Lion King. When I turned it, I saw an elephant and a butterfly. I figured that it meant I would be doing a lot of traveling this year (WHICH IS VERY TRUE) I should have taken a picture of the shadow to show you.

For this one:

 

I saw a man wearing a turban smoking hookah. I have no idea why. But I did. from EVERY angle, no matter which way I turned it.

The End.