This is my younger son and his cousins decorating houses before Christmas - probably around 1990. We did this together for two or three years. The first year, I actually baked the house pieces myself. After that adventure, I decided it was so much easier to buy the house kits. It's super hard to get those walls and roof pieces even and straight so that they fit together properly. I really wasn't meant to be a carpenter!
decorating the houses became a thing to do when school was finished and I needed an activity. Like all good cooks, they needed to do a lot of tasting while they created. I'm sure my sister was delighted to get her sugar-amped girls back at the end of the day.
This weekend Christmas can start in this house. All the outside busy will be ended today.
I never have decorated a gingerbread house. I bake every year, but nothing like this. I love that photo! I'm glad for you that your focus can be more internal now. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteAw, that is such a sweet photo! Like you, I made 1 gingerbread house, and decided the factory-made, even-sided, was easier to deal with! Ikea do a brilliant kit.
ReplyDeleteThe phots reminds me of when my kids used to decorate our Xmas cake; even with lots of eating, there were still always too many decorations for the cake top size!
Is this the son who became a chef?