House building

For some reason, I never thought that building/decorating a gingerbread house with Isabel would be a fun thing to do. For one, the first time I every built one, was for school and it was from scratch (no pretty premade pieces here!). It was so sad…the pieces were all lopsided and uneven; so the whole house leaned. Very sad. Miserable little house. Second, I just never thought of it…until my cousin Tear-a (Tera) mentioned to me. So I purchased a home and tonight we constructed it and decorated! She had so much fun! Enjoy…and thanks T for the idea!

The walls and roof are on; now we just wait for the “glue” to dry.

All the decor!

Gino and I added the icing and let her do the decorating. She was very neat about the whole thing; Gino and I walked with icing all over! I never dreamed it would be so messy…but it was fun!

Her house.

Side view.

Back of house.

Front and side.

Gino and I did the work on the tree, snowman, and gingerbread man.
Otherwise it was all Isabel.

Note to self for next year: Do this project AFTER dinner not BEFORE!