[FreeTheHostages]

(I'm just trying to organize and create hyperlink judges threads for some of our entries to date, since we have so many good ones. Hoping to get a set of a dozen or so finalists for Mudboy Slim and me to mull over. Even that's a Herculean task!)

[WVNan]

Entry #1

Gingerbread Barn

[WVNan]

Entry #2

Granny's Candy Store

[tgslTakoma]

OK guys... I've been waiting for this thread. My house does not look a bit like I'm ready for Christmas. The outside lights won't light... the inside of the place looks like the Wreck of the Hesperus, or like two teenagers live here... I can't find my roll of tape so I can at least tape some lights on the upstairs windows... and I have a bit of a cold to top it all off.

I had great plans (I always do) to chop down a tree last weekend... but then AlGore showed up in town, so I had to go out and remind him that it was just regular citizens (organized on his internet) who protested at the Naval Observatory in 2000, and not bused-in RNC protesters.

And this weekend is the DC Chapter Christmas Party at Luigi's, so it looks like there will be no tree this year. Don't worry though, I have a plan. I'll just scavenge some fallen tree limbs, wire them together and string some lights on them and maybe hang a ball or two, and voila! A Charlie Brown tree!

So guys, as you can see I didn't have time to make my own gingerbread house. BUT!!! In just a few short minutes on the 'net I was able to steal several fairly impressive jpgs of other folks' hard work. So these will be my contribution to the thread.

[lodwick]

Great post at 395 - you and MUD! judge helped make yesterday a most festive and fun day here. Thank you.