12.19.12-
Ok, a few funny & quirky facts about this Honeybee.
- I absolutely love the smell, taste & flavor of lemons BUT I don't like Lemon Bars.
-I am great at remembering phone #'s, birthdays, even some addresses BUT when it comes to helping my 5th graders & 9th grader with math uuhh.. forget about it!
-I am not a Black Friday/early Christmas shopper BUT I am getting so excited about the thought of shopping the day after Christmas, I can't wait!!
{I have a handful of stores that I just HAVE to go to the day after. Do you?}
-I love to bake. The scent & taste of Gingerbread is my favorite BUT I have never made a gingerbread house from scratch.
I've always bought the pre-made boxed up kind.
The girls decorate it each year & it's placed on a cake stand {of coarse} & tucked under a cabinet in our kitchen on the countertop.
The girls decorate it each year & it's placed on a cake stand {of coarse} & tucked under a cabinet in our kitchen on the countertop.
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| -The Quigley Gingerbread cottage 2012- |
This year we broke off with tradition a bit & decorated it completely different than ever before. We even used a different cake stand than we normally do.
{opened it up to lots of exciting possibilities- they had a blast!}
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| -Em putting on the Rice Square roof tiles- |
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| -The roof complete! Now to add some cinnamon gum sticks for the eves- No rooftop is complete with out a dusting of snow {or in our case Sugar} |
Miss Mace was in charge of the frosting & placing the stones & pebbles {Sugar babies & chocolate chips} onto the sides of the Gingerbread cottage.
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| -close up of the sweet little details of the G-Bread cottage. The clumps of snow hanging onto the roof tops, dusted with sugar & the walls. Too cute!- |
Audrey came up with the perfect door. She crushed up some oreos & glued them {using royal icing} to a piece of paper she cut out in the shape of a door. Good thinking Audj!
Then add a gumdrop lined walkway, sprinkled with sugar to make a wintery scene, place a few green leaf mint gummies & creme candies in the shape of evergreens & wah-lah- A SWeeT little Gingerbread Cottage. I love watching my girls have such fun, imagination & JoY!
It was a wonderful night putting this together.
Maybe one of these years I'll make a G-Bread house from scratch. I'd love to hear if you have a Gingerbread house on display in your home.
{M}
Cute little gingerbread houses and cute little girls who made it! Love the poinsettias in the previous post too. Mimi
ReplyDeleteWe always do gingerbread houses every year at Grandmas house . They never last. The kids have to pick the candy off of them leaving dried up frosting all over the place. It is a fun tradition though
ReplyDeleteYours turned out so cute
Angela L
We make them every year too. We use graham crackers houses that I hot glue together before turning my kids loose with icing and candy. In fact we are getting ready to do ours in the next couple of days. Such a fun tradition!
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