Gingerbread house decorating contest

Happy Friday, my festive Festers! Ready to get your gingerbread house on? This project has had a lot of ups and downs since we last spoke. Or downs and ups, as things kept falling off, hehehe. That's the slightly unhinged chuckle of a woman who is one more mishap away from renting a flamethrower, btw. BUT WE MADE IT. And so far, knock on gingerbread, the Gingerbread House still stands. Our battlefield of candy carnage. So now that we've learned absolutely everything the hard way, let me show…

If you're planning to make Gingerbread houses this year, (or perhaps having Gingerbread house parties with your kids) these Gingerbread house designs will get your creative juices flowing! These Gingerbread house decorations ideas are so much fun! Cool gingerbread houses to make this year

This gingerbread house tutorial is easy to follow and gives you step by step photos so that you can make one yourself. It's easy to do and so cute when it is finished.

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Make your Christmas extra magical this year! Learn How to Host a Gingerbread House Party that really rocks! I started our Gingerbread House tradition 7 years ago. Paul and I had just met and this

I'll admit that I have done zero holiday decorating thus far (Bad Blogger Award™ 5 years straight, thank you very much!), but I do have some fun holiday inspiration to share from last year. We threw a Gingerbread Decorating Party for our daughter's 6th birthday and it was a total blast. An insane kid sugar fueled rave kinda blast, but a blast none the less. We purchased gingerbread kits from Ikea ($4 each) and loads of extra candy. I made the gingerbread houses the night before so they would…

Continuing our tradition, this year our office teamed up with Reid Middleton Engineers for our friendly gingerbread house competition. The two teams brainstormed strategies for two weeks to come up with designs that would impress our guest judge Mark Davis...

This post may contain affiliate links, but all opinions are 100% mine! Sometimes I think I am kind of crazy with the things I take on, but then it all works out and I remember, once again, that crazy is okay. Like when I made sixteen gingerbread (okay, graham-cracker) cottages and had fourteen children over to decorate them...at first I thought I'd lost my mind. But then we had such fun that I can hardly wait to do it again next year! To pull this off, I pre-assembled the cottages the day…