This year our gingerbread house started with some serious internet research. I’ve an entire pinterest board that I’ve started in years past. But I wanted a really original shape, and I found this lovely cottage, and decided it would make an excellent gingerbread house shape.
And, yes. I modeled it in SketchUp to get the right dimensions.
Annnnnd, yes, I made a cardboard model to make sure I had everything right and to make the stencils for the dough.
I made the dough with my mom
while Nick hammered jolly ranchers for stained glass.
The assembly. Even after all that planning it turns out that we made all the pieces in mirror image of what I had imagined, and it threw me off a bit. It still throws me off looking at it.
My parents planned on making a forest:
Here I am using tweezers to place holly berries.
The mess of candy:
I was all concentration, but at some point (when Nick conveniently had a camera in his hand) I heard something that I evidently found entirely startling. This picture makes me laugh and laugh.
And here’s the finished house:
Look at Nick’s weathervane!
And our duck pond:
I like the shape of this house, but I think we needed another day of decorating. More snow under the eaves, an awning over the front door, and a fence maybe. And a snowman. I miss the snowman from 2010. Each year I hope to get better and better, so check back next year.
My mom said she saved this house in a box! I guess you can check back next year for its condition as well. Will the weathervane duck still stand? Only time will tell.
