South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity is in great need of people to build gingerbread houses for our inaugural Gingerbread Holiday Cottages Competition.

On November 29th and 30th, we’ll join with the Olympia Downtown Association to kick off the holidays in grand fashion - and we hope you’ll be right there with us! Here is an opportunity to display your creative talent. This showplace is for all lovers of gingerbread, frosting and candy - especially when you channel that love into building a “one of a kind” masterpiece. Join with your family or friends (a child or grandchild, your neighbor, a church friend, or anyone who has a flair with gumdrops!) to take part in this very community oriented activity. And in the process you’ll be contributing to the materials for another Habitat home.

If you have ever wanted to try and build a gingerbread house here is your chance.Visit the SPS Habitat web page for more info. 

Questions? Call Peg at 791-7487 or Susan at 239-1386.

Please join us for the 2008 Gingerbread Holiday Cottages Competition sponsored by South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity. The event is being hosted to support and bring community awareness to our organization, to join the Olympia Downtown Association in celebrating the holidays, and to tap into the creative magic that is abundant in our community. The event will be held Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 29-30, 12-5PM at the Olympia Ballroom above the Urban Onion, 116 Legion Way SE, Olympia.

This is the first year of the Gingerbread Holiday Cottages competition, and we have high hopes for the event. We look forward to seeing the magic of creativity that I know the participants will bring to the event. There are three divisions of competition: “Professional,” “Sponsored,” and “Community/Family.” There will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in all three categories and the entries will be judged at the opening of the competition by a delegate of the major sponsoring business. There will also be a “people’s choice” winner determined by the most number of tickets sold to the visiting public. That award will be named at the end of the competition. All judging will be based on overall appearance, originality, creativity, seasonal theme, craftsmanship, architecture, and adherence to the contest rules.