Holiday Horsiness: Gingerbread Unicorns (and Baby Yoda, Too)

Craig and I have our tree up in the living room, but we haven't decorated it yet. Still, there is one ornament already hanging.

A pink pom pom pony with bead hooves and googly eyes that Pony Pal Mila made for me a week ago.

I returned the favor yesterday. I am making all my grands and children ornaments on my embroidery machine as early Christmas gifts. It's been taking forever as there are 30 people on the list but I am nearing the end. 

I found this sweet gingerbread pony for the Pony Pals, but when I finished it, I thought that the blaze made it look more like a unicorn than pony. 

I started experimenting with gold and silver thread and even changed the body color so that it was no longer a gingerbread pony or unicorn.

Local Son Curt and his family got unicorns for the gals and Baby Yoda for the guys. Each one of my children also received Santa's magic key - a reference to the (very) old holiday special, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. In it, Grover and Kermit ask kids how Santa gets down the chimney, and one little boy responds, "He uses his keys, his Santa Claus keys." That is quote is still heard when my family gathers.

I dropped by Curt's Saturday afternoon and gave everyone their ornaments. Their response was worth the hours and hours it took me to make them.

December 6 advent calendar surprise is a bag of little Mini Whinney sized grain bags!