You know I've never made a gingerbread house before... at least not that I recall. Did you make it from scratch, baking and all? I kind of want to make one of these now that you've reminded me of my failure at being a child (first carved pumpkin: 1 was nearly 20 yrs old, and it was a tiny pumpkin at that, smaller than football)... I wonder if my architecture background would aid me at all? most likely would end up being a venture of over-complicated-uh...ness. Ugh. I'll have to find a recipe...
Yep, made it completely from scratch, the only thing we didn't do is grind the flour ourselves. Oh my goodness, not carving a pumpkin makes you a failure as a child? Then I failed hard because this is the first gingerbread house I've ever made and I've never carved a pumpkin.
Your architecture background would definitely help. Straight lines have never been my friend (as you can see from the front door on the above!), whereas I'm sure you could make a full on gingerbread mansion. I'm fully in support of you making a gingerbread house, share the awesomeness!
I made an honest attempt to attempt to make a gingerbread house but the day I planned to do it (the day after christmas) we got hit by a blizzard and I didn't have all the necessary ingredients. And I won't have more free time until sometime in late January and by then it may be too far past the holiday to feel up to it. Who knows, maybe I will be even more excited to do it then as it will serve as procrastination to the Project I will be commencing. Shrug. I wrote a post about said Project just now so if you are interested check it out. Anyway should the time be available and inspiration strike, I will post a pic of it.
Haha, now I feel like the gingerbread house monitor! A Boxing Day gingerbread house preventing blizzard sounds like a very worthy excuse. I read your post about the books you're planning to read and actually swore out loud when I saw the list. That's mammoth! Good luck, I hope you enjoy it and don't come to see it too much as a chore, there's some seriously awesome books awaiting you. Happy New Year!
haha, yes it is quite... daunting. I swore it was only like 30 books... and was not so pleasantly surprised when I started to pull them of the shelves and out of boxes and from under the bed... There are several in there that I have been trying to get too for sooo long and honestly im ashamed to say that I havent read, such as catcher in the rye (which this will be my third attempt at) and lolita. I am hoping that it wont become too much for me as I dont want that to affect my perception of what I am reading... Happy New Year!
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Your architecture background would definitely help. Straight lines have never been my friend (as you can see from the front door on the above!), whereas I'm sure you could make a full on gingerbread mansion. I'm fully in support of you making a gingerbread house, share the awesomeness!
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