Good Morning :)
Hey! How's everyone doing :) No, I was not bored of Steemit, just been busy with life, family, health, and also experiencing a rather strong earthquake and its aftershocks - did you hear Anchorage, Alaska, got hit by the earthquake as well? Yeah we got hit only within hours one another but they had it worse than us, their buildings and roads collapsed and it triggered their tsunami alarm :-/
During my absent, I was busy baking gingerbread cookies for our annual competition in town, and this year, again we brought home a winner ribbon, YAY :D
It's been 3 years in a row now that we participated with vegan gingerbread house AND vegan royal icing, and always came as a winner, so we are pretty stoked.
Hai Teman!
Pa kabar nih? Pada lesu yah aku baca-baca, mulai jenuh nge-blog dikarenakan penghasilan kecil. Sayang sekali deh. Semoga kalian tidak berlanjut putus asanya, dan kembali memeriahkan Steemit. Anggap saja begini, kalau teman unggah apapun di Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, kan ga dapat apapun tuh, kecuali fans wkwkwkwk Jadi yah, sedikitnya, Steemit lebih bagus kan?
Aku sempat tidak ngeblog beberapa saat karena disamping sibuk ama kehidupan (ceile bahasanya), kami kemarin diguncang gempa bumi yang lumayan bikin rumah dan tempat tidur egol-egol seperti lagu dangdut. Kota tetangga kami, Anchorage, Alaska, bahkan lebih besar skala gempanya, dan rumah serta jalanan mereka pada runtuh, kasihan sekali, namun beruntung tidak ada korban jiwa sepertinya.
Our 2018's theme was actually an APARTMENT, rather than a house, inspired by our apartment in downtown Montreal (in my opinion), but my husband said it looks more to our apartment in Ottawa hahaha - needless to say, it was one of those cookie cutter apartments then :)
We saw great entries this year, which made us pretty excited to see as more talents were shown.
In 2016 my then 6 years old participated with an igloo which many people questioned why an igloo instead a traditional looking house, he lost and was sad thinking his creation was a bust because it was not "a house". However last year and this year we saw more varieties, so he said he would want to compete again next year :D
Tahun ini merupakan ke empat kalinya kami berpartisipasi dalam lomba membangun rumah-rumah kecil menggunakan kue kering jahe, dan alhamdulillah, tahun ini kami pun kembali menjadi juara, asiiiikkkk.
Anakku yang sulung demi melihat anak seusianya ada yang menang, semangat mau ikutan kompetisi tahun depan, jadi dia sudah ga sabar untuk kompetisi berikutnya hahaha, padahal 2019 aja belum tiba yak.
Tahun ini, bangunan yang kami ikut sertakan berbentuk RSS (rumah susun SEMPIT wkwkwkwkw). Bahasa kerennya si apartment, tapi yah sebenarnya itu dia, rumah susun hehehe
I took some pictures from the other participants, but not all as there were a lot and I had to pay attention to my youngest to not touch nothing :P
The houses were displayed at a gallery and there were expensive paintings and whatnot there, so yeah, only some houses I was able to snap the pictures of.
Peserta tahun ini lumayan banyak, namun karena rumah-rumah yang dibuat dipajang di galeri seni, kanan kiri banyak pernak-pernik mahal dan aku kudu selalu mengawasi anak-anak biar ga nyenggol benda-benda tersebut. Kalau patah, jatun pecah, berabe kan, dompet bisa tipis hahahha
Nih beberapa foto rumah-rumah yang bisa kuabadikan kemarin :)
What about where you reside? Any gingerbread competitions you participated in, going to participate, or even just building one or two with the family at home? Share your picture on comment below if so :D
Gingerbread house making is one of our favorite things to do whenever Winter and/or December is here :)
Banyak yang bagus-bagus deh pokoknya.
Sebenarnya bisa menggunakan kue kering rasa lainnya sih, namun kue kering jahe sangat khas setiap musim Dingin ataupun menyambut Natalan di luar negeri, jadinya sudah mentradisi, penggunaan kue kering jahe ini :)
Come play the video to see our rotating apartment :)
Nih video untuk melihat RSS kami dari depan, kanan, kiri, belakang :D
Thanks for looking and see you tomorrow again :)
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