Gingerbread and Stuff
I was all rarin' to post this yesterday, but instead found myself embroiled in what became an entire evening of trying to get a few packages ready to mail out and in the mean time dig through the pile of crap that had once again overtaken my desk.
But here I am tonight, and the pictures and memories are still fresh enough. Everything worked out yesterday afternoon so that after lunch we were able to decorate our gingerbread house. Sophie got a front-row seat in her high chair, and Julie pulled up a stool.
I had all the candies set up in little bowls and ready to go. The girls were SO excited to eat candy. I know I've mentioned this before, but my girls have had almost no candy. This Halloween was a big break in the candy-eating dam, but there is not candy available in our house on a regular basis.
But still, Julie did a great job putting the candies on the house, and did so in an impressively organized fashion.
Sophie watched and worked her way up to a sugar high.
Julie wanted to try her hand at the icing bag, so we got out a sheet of waxed paper and she went to town. I'm glad she accepted this compromise over practicing on the house. I enjoyed watching her practice with it, and simultaneously assuaged my obsessive-compulsive need for a well-decorated gingerbread house.
Sophie said, "This is fun! I'll have some more sugar, please!"
Julie's icing tube came open at the top, and she ended up with a big glob of it on her hands. So I told her she could lick it off, which she started to do. Sophie saw Julie licking the icing, and wanted in on the action. So Julie, bless her little heart, let Sophie lick some of the icing off her hand. It was hilariously funny and cute.
I was having so much fun decorating that I started pulling things out of the cabinets to add to the house - remember those Honey Bunny cookies? Now they're hopping all around the place. I found some stale Swedish Fish in the back of the cupboard, and made a little pond for them to swim in. I pulled out some mini marshmallows and made some smoke coming out of the chicklet-gum chimney. The trees are the only inedible part - I made cones out of construction paper for lack of something better.
Gotta love the timer function on the camera.
Here's Julie's work of art. She said it was the forest. I don't have the heart to throw it away, so it's still sitting on the counter with the house.
And oh, hey, look! Finished object!
I thought these were going to be four-year-old size, but instead after felting, it looks like they will be just right for the almost-two-year-old. This is Malabrigo worsted weight, knit on size 5 needles with a cast-on number of 36. Just your basic generic in-the-round mitten pattern, with a couple of stripes thrown in for fun. Now it's time to go start the second pair.
But here I am tonight, and the pictures and memories are still fresh enough. Everything worked out yesterday afternoon so that after lunch we were able to decorate our gingerbread house. Sophie got a front-row seat in her high chair, and Julie pulled up a stool.
I had all the candies set up in little bowls and ready to go. The girls were SO excited to eat candy. I know I've mentioned this before, but my girls have had almost no candy. This Halloween was a big break in the candy-eating dam, but there is not candy available in our house on a regular basis.
But still, Julie did a great job putting the candies on the house, and did so in an impressively organized fashion.
Sophie watched and worked her way up to a sugar high.
Julie wanted to try her hand at the icing bag, so we got out a sheet of waxed paper and she went to town. I'm glad she accepted this compromise over practicing on the house. I enjoyed watching her practice with it, and simultaneously assuaged my obsessive-compulsive need for a well-decorated gingerbread house.
Sophie said, "This is fun! I'll have some more sugar, please!"
Julie's icing tube came open at the top, and she ended up with a big glob of it on her hands. So I told her she could lick it off, which she started to do. Sophie saw Julie licking the icing, and wanted in on the action. So Julie, bless her little heart, let Sophie lick some of the icing off her hand. It was hilariously funny and cute.
I was having so much fun decorating that I started pulling things out of the cabinets to add to the house - remember those Honey Bunny cookies? Now they're hopping all around the place. I found some stale Swedish Fish in the back of the cupboard, and made a little pond for them to swim in. I pulled out some mini marshmallows and made some smoke coming out of the chicklet-gum chimney. The trees are the only inedible part - I made cones out of construction paper for lack of something better.
Gotta love the timer function on the camera.
Here's Julie's work of art. She said it was the forest. I don't have the heart to throw it away, so it's still sitting on the counter with the house.
And oh, hey, look! Finished object!
I thought these were going to be four-year-old size, but instead after felting, it looks like they will be just right for the almost-two-year-old. This is Malabrigo worsted weight, knit on size 5 needles with a cast-on number of 36. Just your basic generic in-the-round mitten pattern, with a couple of stripes thrown in for fun. Now it's time to go start the second pair.
posted by Shelly Kang at 8:54 PM
5 Comments:
Cute gingerbread house! BTW, upside down ice cream cones (the ones with the pointy bottoms) make great trees. Andes Mints make great window shutters. We also used to cut the bottom half off of a foil-covered chocolate Santa and adhere him to the top of the chimney so it looked like he was half way down the chimney.
Hey ! you should have a contest on best gingerbread decorating ideas. Maybe I could win !! :)
If you ever want to try your hand at scratch gingerbread (for building houses and making cookies) let me know. I have a great tasting 'no-lump' recipe.
We test ran our version of fulled malabrigo mittens yesterday in the unseasonable early snow. Waterproof? yes. Snow magnet? yes. The fuzzy surface left them caked with snow in no time. They may become walking to the car on really cold day mittens, while another pair gets made for snow.
Looks like a really fun day. Your're making precious memories.
Your gingerbread house is so
beautiful and clever.
I like the mittens too!
Looks like you guys had a great time!
Like you we have very little candy in our lives so when my kids get it they go nuts. OTOH, since they don't get it often they don't beg for it. My question is - do you think you might be creating 'forbidden fruit'?
Looks like you all had a wonderful time. Memories of days like that will be priceless to your girls as they grow up.
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