Thanks. You can definately see the progression of skills in decorating if you line up all the photos of gingerbread houses we've assembled over the years. You can also see quite clearly which year the boyfriends got involved. lol.  DD2 and I were trying to help our Christmas spirit along since our house is so empty these days. We had fun doing it. We also were able to use some of those left-over fondant pearls from DD1's wedding cake (as snowballs)....

Just lovely Karen! I never would have thought to put it out for the birds - great idea.