fuchsia fragments

In the whirlwind that is December, it has been a crazy month of working, trying to bake and organizing a very short trip home for the holidays.

It started with what to get everyone in the office for Christmas (next year, I will be more prepared and get things when I am back in Australia!). I managed to make a few gingerbread houses and some gingerbread trees for everyone as well as safe bets of nuts and hand cream! Think it went down well...

Then there was the last minute decision to fly home for 6 days whilst supporting SEA at the same time! So short, so tiring but so worth it. There is truly no place like home with crazy family gatherings that seem to grow in size every time.

And every time that I come home, there is usually a flurry of the same announcements. When I was home from Japan, it was wedding invitations and this time, it was the "I'm having a baby" announcements. So far, know of 4 babies due in July and 1 coming in April... how exciting!

Then, as it is still a PH in Sydney today (not that I get Australian PH anymore), I came back to work to a whole bunch of gifts and warm wishes on my desk. Certainly makes coming back to work a lot easier! And got some pretty cool stuff (and lots of food).

cake day was mad because everyone liked my gingerbread men and melting moments. =D and clad's Portuguese tarts. yay to $5 all you can eat. lols.

that was the only thing good about work today. because people were literally at our door before we were even open. and the store went off today. the carpark was pretty much full before 9am. and the gates that weren't open had cars lining up back onto the traffic lights. mum and dad were like.. WTF!?

and i cut my hand on a cage. some skin came off. hahahaha ewww. but it didn't really bleed... i seem to bruise and cut myself heaps these days at work. =S

and i had to stay all day. but i wasn't complaining. $$$

but wouldn't people rather go to the beach than the shopping centre?

came home and decided to do a bit of building: gingerbread house. and i am so so so so pleased with out how's turned out. and i feel dumb because mum realised how to put together the would-be chimney and i had no idea how to (so there is no chimney this year... we will work on it next year).

i tried to make a gingerbread house today. it was good until it started cracking. guess i was too impatient and mentally tired for it. so i ended up binning about 3 bags of confec along with one batch of gingerbread. i might try again later on in the week pending time. it hurts more when your parents tell you theyre not disappointed. in need of some stability.