For her first Christmas at Adoro Cafe in Napier, baker Kerryn Taylor decided to do something special.
So from scratch she created a colourful lolly-adorned gingerbread house, impressing cafe owner Paul Greaves and the rest of the staff.
"And then we thought, what shall we do with it?" she said.
That was answered when someone from the Cranford Hospice shop in nearby Dickens St popped in for a coffee.
There was a chat and there was a decision made - the one-off gingerbread house would become a Christmas fundraiser for the hospice.