Happy Holidays … From Our Poorly Constructed House To Yours
by Jenners • 12/23/2009 • Life • 3 Comments
During our first Christmas together, Mr. Jenners and I built a gingerbread house completely from scratch. We didn’t use one of those fancy schmancy kits. We designed it ourselves. We made the gingerbread pieces ourselves. We picked out the candy ourselves. And I have to say, it was one of the best gingerbread houses I’ve ever made. Sure, it took about 40 pretzel rods and three tubs of icing to keep this sucker upright, but this house had personality and charm to spare. Allow me to take you on a brief tour — a holiday house tour so to speak.
The Side ViewNotice the open air ventilation in the roof.
The colorful Chicklet roof tiles.
The little snow man.
The Back YardThis place was top-of-the-line and
included a swimming pool
complete with a gummy shark
and a gingerbread diving board.
(Too bad, the “water” was only .0001 mm deep.)
An Aerial ViewWe hired the Gingerbread Man to fly over the house
and photograph it for us.
Notice the Big Red gum roof tiles — creating a Southwestern feel.From Our House to Yours…
Wishing you a very relaxing and peaceful holiday!
Thats an awesome gingerbread house!!!
I made one this year with my daughter and what a pain in the butt it turned out to be!! lol We used a kit, but getting the actual house up with the icing for glue was driving me nutty.
Once the structure of the house was up, we stood back and laughed…it looked a hot sloppy mess…lol. Nothing like the photo on the box of the kit. But we had lots of fun anyway.
another golden oldie! where was i when you were writing all these gems? thanks for posting links–you keep me laughing.
my sister and i made gingerbread houses 2 weekends ago and it was 5 hours of hell. we ended up using a glue gun to hold our respective houses together because the icing wasn’t cutting it. i also got the brilliant idea to cut out windows (from a pre-made gingerbread house KIT, mind you) and add sugar and melt it to make it look like glass.
fun times….NOT.
this weekend it was all about cookies and gumdrop trees.
Aren’t they terribly difficult? Every year we think we can do it, and every year we are proved wrong. And the idea of making “glass” windows is completely bonkers!!! I imagine your “fun” experience was pure hell. It makes you admire those people who do manage to build those elaborate ones though.
And all these “golden oldies” were on my personal blog. I discovered the “Featured Content” tool so now those old posts are going to get to shine.