competitive gingering

Winner, Group 3: Kate & Company’s Ginger Mansion with 39.18% of the vote. Winner, Group 4: Hadley’s Three Little Piggies with 35.78% of the vote. (Narrowly beating out Paul, who had 34.25% of the vote. I was on pins and needles all night!) These two hardcore contenders will battle the winners from Group 1 & 2 in…

Here’s the final grouping of ginger masterpieces. Your Group 4 contenders are: . Paul’s Pied-à-Terre Paul, of  The Ossington Kitchen, sent the following real estate ad with his entry: Tired of those heartless, cookie cutter housing developments? This delightful pied a terre is the answer to your prayers. Perfect for the mature gal who needs…

Can you feel it? Thing are heating up! Here are your Group 3 entries: . Movita’s Pretty in Pink Cottage Pretty in pink. Just like movita. How do you think I won 2.0 over? I mean, once you’ve drooled on your pants on your second date, you’ve gotta wear a lot of pink crap to…

Winner, Group 1: Sydney’s Maritime Shout-Out Lighthouse with 49.67% of the vote. Winner, Group 2: Becca and Emma’s Wintery Ginger Mansion with 77.04% of the vote. These two hardcore contenders will meet in the final round of voting on Thursday, December 22, 2011. Congrats, ladies! Thanks to the other competitors for an amazing show of talent. I hope…

Are you sitting down? What we’ve got here is a student-studded gingerfest. Here are your Group 2 entries: . Ann’s Gingerbread Valley Life Sciences Building Yup. You read that right. Ann’s crew recreated the Life Sciences Building from their university campus, thus proving that you can’t keep a geek down. Ann’s entry came with the…

Okay, y’all. Brace yerselves. Here are your Group 1 entries: . Sydney’s Maritime Shout-Out Lighthouse  Sydney’s ginger lighthouse was the first entry of this year’s competition. It also marked my first mini-stroke of this year’s competition. Because when I saw it I thought: I’m screwed. I read Sydney’s blog on a regular basis, so I…

First off, I’d like to say that I’m totally stoked that so many of you took time out of your busy schedules to compete in Ginger 2011. I’m not sure what that says about the quality of your lives, but whatevs. So, here’s how the voting is going to work: there will be two rounds…

. . . Oh, hey. I just wanted to remind you that the deadline to enter Ginger 2011 (probably one of the most important competitive events on the planet) is next Monday. I mean, don’t freak out or anything, just think about getting started. Maybe take a day off work or something. Now, because I’m…

Do you like to compete? Sure you do. Do you follow movita’s annual gingerbread house competition? Of course you do. Do you want to participate this year? Hells yah, you do! Ginger used to be a competition between just The Rutherfords and movita. But now they have kids, and they are weak. Trying to organize…

Congrats, Kate and Jo-Anne! Your house took almost 41% of the vote. I officially declare you winners of Ginger 2010. Don’t worry that you beat out my sister, Hadley, who got 23% of the vote, and frankly, doesn’t have much else to live for. She’ll probably get over it. It truly is a beauty. Thanks…