I'm not going to pretend my gingerbread house skills are anything to write home about. This stuff definitely requires the patience of a saint. But throw together a group of girls, some wine and bowls of candy and it actually becomes quite a laugh fest as the houses come crumbling down. At least a few times each.
My friend Ash threw together a festive girls night of gingerbread house building and we had quite the time trying to create houses that withstood the multiple "earthquake" tests.
Who are these gingerbread house building geniuses we see in magazines and on TV? Four attempts at graham cracker building finally resulted in a structure that didn't crumble...but oh the frosting mess. I covered mine in pretzels because I had to.
The church steeple that kept growing and growing.
This Christmas project is courtesy of Pinterest. Leftover Christmas ball ornaments, strung on a ribbon makes a hanging ornament decoration in 5 minutes flat. Who knew?
Is anyone else sad to think that Christmas will be over in a week and the tree and decorations will have to come down after that? I swear I could just sit and read by the light of the fire and tree (and okay--backlit screen of my nook) forever and ever. And ever.
8 comments:
I just love your red and aqua gifts and tree! So pretty! And gingerbread houses are such a fun activity for friends and wine!
Oh so festive and purty! Brooklyn looks so comfortable by the fire too!
Merry Christmas to you!
I LOVE the ball decoration and it's so easy! Definitely going to try that with the thousands of leftover ornaments we have laying around after decorating the tree each year. Very cute and so are the gingerbread houses. We love decorating them but my kids are scarily patient and focused. I can see my son wanting to create a log cabin too!
Girls nights are tons of fun. We decorated cookies at ours and we laughed alot too! Love your christmas decorations!
I think your pictures made my gingerbread house look better than it does in person! It was a fun night!
That's a fabulous Merry Christmas activity! My kids would eat all of the candy instead of puttiing it on the house so we haven't tried it yet but maybe when they are older. I does look like so much fun to do it in a party setting like that with all of the different kinds of candy! And what a cute dog!
Cute house Mare! Love the whole idea of a get together to decorate houses! I've never done one. Maybe this weekend????
,,,love them all but favs are the rocket and log cabin! merry everything and happy always!,,,
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