Gingerbread House Ornament, Part 2

Whew! Exams are finally done and now I can focus on making gifts for the holidays. Here's my progress so far:

I'm using the bright colored beads to simulate gum drops and the various white beads to simulate sprinkles., like they might use on a real gingerbread house - I've never made a gingerbread house before. The white beads are a combination of clear, frosty, and pearlized and both they and the colored beads were attached with white floss to the snow on the roof and chimney. I piped the door and the windows in brown floss to make them stand out, accenting them with the colored beads and the green button doorknob.

Next, I'll finish the snow on the back of the gingerbread house and then attach the two halves together. I haven't decided what color floss I'll be using to attach them together - should I use the same brown on my windows and doors, go with the simple white floss that I used on the snow, or go with a completely different (but complimentary) color? Decisions, decisions... I hope to finish the ornament this weekend sometime, maybe tonight, to show you  all :)

Meanwhile, I've been doing a little decorating around the house. Since we're in the middle of renovating, cleaning, and everything else we don't really have the space to put up a Christmas tree or go all out in our directions this year. We've hung a long strand of shiny silver tinsel around the door and hung our stockings with care.

Mine's the bigger red one, of course. I've also set up a little Christmas display on top of the electric heater that we have. It looks like a little black stove, has fake glowing logs and what looks like flames in the background. The only heat coming from it is the warm air being pushed out of the bottom. Perfect for cold toes and safe to boot. The fact that there's a Christmas tree and nativity set on top of this little stove makes me smile for some reason. Maybe it's the cheery flames and the sparkle from the ornaments.

The Lego Christmas tree was a present that I have one year as a stocking stuffer and decided it needed a more festive home with our darling little nutcracker and the nativity scene my grams gave me. The snowflake and the red ornament were crocheted by my mom, just like the adorable stockings. (I'm not the only one in my family who is crafty - all I learned, I learned from someone in my family!)  Here's a close up on them: