Only Because I Said I Would
Here it is….our gingerbread hovel. We don’t think the ‘house’ designation quite applies. Although it is better than last year’s creation, which one family member described as resembling a bombed out church from World War II! Perhaps with about a decade more of experience, and maybe a better template to work from, we may be able to rise to the level of gingerbread shed. But we don’t really care. It’s a ton of fun. And yeah, I know, very late in arriving online. I’m notorious for leaving pictures in the camera until it’s literally groaning with constipation. And yeah, yeah, I also know Christmas is, like, over man! Can’t help it. I tend to revive it at least twice a year out of sheer love of the holiday. So beware. Sometime around mid-August I’ll probably be making you groan and roll your eyes once again!
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February 28th, 2008 at 11:08 am
LOL! It looks great. I wonder why they never stick together right… I spent so much time working on one a few years ago, and then it didn’t even taste nice. I think I would have lost half my teeth in an attempt to eat it.
*steals a candy cane for the way, hoping the house won’t fall apart*
February 28th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Now you’re just being nice! Hansel and Gretel would take one look at that place and run the other way!
February 28th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Ohh my teeth hurt just looking at that. YUM!
February 28th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
My favorites are those little sparkly green candies. I wish the trees showed up better. We made them out of those pointy ice cream cones slathered with icing and then covered with sprinkles. They look so laughably bad!
February 28th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Oh wow, gimme! We never made anything like that. It looks like you had fun making it.
Also, I’m crewing at a sci-fi convention all weekend and I’m gonna have to go without breakfast, so thinking about this really won’t help!
February 28th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
It’s a lot of fun if you come to it with lots of patience and a willingness to eat the roof if it caves in! We got the recipe and all the tips off the Internet. Which may be why it’s such a questionable looking building!
Your weekend sounds fab! Mine looks busy as well. Playing piano for some singers on Saturday and shopping for prom dresses on Sunday. Oh yeah, and writing. Must make progress, because the rewrite’s going to be extreme in places, I can already tell!
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
LOL! My family makes a gingerbread house every Christmas as well. This year one of our gingerbread men (who was supposed to be santa) fell into the house, so instead of a lovely little house our gingerbread house soon became the new and improved version of Alcatraz.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Har! Lola, I think you’re onto something there! Edible prisons–I’m sure the inmates would be all for it! If I can find the picture I’ll show you the gingerbread men we made. We decided to honor the Boys of South Park. They were adorable. And delish!
March 30th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
i love south park! hehe. awwwsies we never made/make anything like that iun my family. we’re just plain boring.