Home Sweet Home

Above is my cheater version of making a gingerbread house. Definitely worth buying the stuff pre-made, because I do not think that I would have the patience nor the time to actually make gingerbread and then make it into a house. Most likely something would go wrong before the assembly.




Pictured above is my fellow gingerbread house builder, Sief (pronounced safe). Here he is carefully mixing the frosting (aka glue) that will hold our lovely structure together. The frosting was extremely sticky!



3 walls up, one more to go and then the roof. We started building before thoroughly reading the instructions which tell us to wait a 2-3 hours after assembling the walls, before attaching the roof. I think they want the frosting to dry and set making the base stronger. Well, we started this relatively late in the evening with no time to wait. Sooooo.... we just threw the roof on right away. I was worried the entire time that our roof was going to come sliding off. I can confidently say that so far it has not fallen. (keeping my fingers crossed)



Construction done - now on to decorating.




Decorating was more fun than I remember from a kid. The best part about it is the more ridiculous, colorful, and gawdy you make it the better the gingerbread house it is! I love the colorful gumdrops and the snow icing!

Now.... the finale - a tour of the house


Front view with a beautiful purple wreath over the top with a lovely bow. A gumdrop flower garden and a candy lined walkway!




Skip around to the side to see the lovely candy lined base and beautiful icicles. Please note the random red wreath? atop the middle of the roof. This in true gingerbread house fashion is the coverup of a rooftop decorating mistake! :) Love it!



And the back with an exquisite evergreen tree under an arch of color and a lovely red heart (just in case you couldn't tell what it was)!



Ta-Da!!!!

Decorating the house was more fun than I expected. I don't think I've made a house since elementary school! It takes you back to being a kid again. The whole point is the colors, the sticky mess, and your imagination! I think this is a new wintertime tradition. Next year I have plans to use food coloring and dye some of the frosting different colors!