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we spent a night over at the Craft House last week before christmas.
we knew a storm was coming in so we thought getting snowed in at that Craft House sounded like fun.
and it was!
we ate dinner, made a fire in the fireplace and made the gingerbread houses.
i bought the kits from World Market…. so easy.
and i always get some extra candy too.
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then we watched a christmas movie by the fire.
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to quote annie while we worked on the houses (and snacked on candy)
“who would’ve ever thought of gingerbread to be made of art?”
round about way of saying she was happy to be creating… even with food!
Julia - One trick I learned a few years back is to hot glue the gingerbread house pieces together. It’s instantaneous so you don’t have to wait for the frosting to dry and hope the walls are aligned. We don’t eat our gingerbread houses after the holidays.
I bought some extra cans and tubes of frosting to use, too.
Interesting idea of blowing the gingerbread houses up with firecrackers- maybe a New Year’s activity!
Janna - Waiting to hear what your word is:)
For the first time I chose a word…or it chose me…and I am taking ali’s class and I can’t wait!
Nurture is my word for 2014
Iris - My word for 2014 is eucharisteo.
tara - they’re beautiful.
how fun that you guys hang out at the craft house when you feel like it.
we didn’t make gingerbread houses this year…i think i was more devastated than the kids, although they did mention it at least 1/2 dozen times!
the flu hit us hard, and most of our traditions just had to be let go…
except for snuggling while watching movies…that one stayed! And, we did it over and over and over and over.
happy new year, meg!
Sydney - Wow, those are some very fancy and pretty gingerbread houses. (Look tasty too!) That snow was pretty and it was about four inches, enough to make our Christmas white which was what my kiddos wanted. (We live in Eastborough)
andria - I use all the Halloween candy we don’t like ie) rockets, sweet tarts, skittles etc… for our gingerbread houses……. also, you can use regular cake frosting in a can for building houses and decorating – works amazing – holds the houses together no problem and tastes much better than royal icing or the stuff that comes in the kits….
Wendy - They are all adorable – being snowed in like that sounds fun! I’m curious…do you make extra icing? I never feel like the kits have enough icing. If so, what kind works best?
Barbara (WA) - Kids of friends of ours used to make gingerbread houses every year. Then after Christmas, they got to blow them up with firecrackers saved from the 4th of July!!! That was way more fun than eating them – a great idea, I think!
Meg - We made gingerbread men from the kits you can buy… pretty sure there was plastic somewhere in the recipe. They tasted HORRIBLE! Are you supposed to eat them? Probably not… even the dog wouldn’t touch them. It’s definitely a fun family event making them though!
tricia w. - You are such a great Mom!
Laura - LOVE how she phrased that…not that art can be gingerbread…but gingerbread can be art!
it IS all art…isn’t it?
food, family, creating, snow fall….
all of it art.
you are so smart, annie.
would be fun to get our kids together again and let them create, while we do margarita art!