Today, Bingo and Whirl came over and we attempted to build Cinderella's Castle and part of the Magic Kingdom. Unfortunately, our tri-level castle collapsed when we attached the turret to the roof of the second floor and we had to go with a single-level castle. Also, bands of hungry wolves invaded and some princesses got eaten.


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I'm very late with posting the gingerbread pictures, but I have had to work a lot of weekends recently. Bingo and Whirl came over. We made gingerbread. The kids had a sugar frenzy. Here are the pictures:


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The gingerbread shark tank is complete. The cookie cutters that I ordered did not arrive in time, but I found a fish cookie cutter in my stash that was a suitable substitute.

This year's gingerbread construction is going to be an aquarium, so I am in search of Shark Cookie Cutters. Yesterday, I called A.C. Moore, a craft chain with local stores ( Read more... )

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I gave Bingo my cold. He got pretty sick. He has also taken the plague back with him to Chicago, to infect the whole city ( Read more... )

Poll All the pictures that's fit to print

Oh, and I should note that we had to put a cage around the bombed out Iraqi gingerbread house to prevent my mother-in-law's cats from eating it. I took a picture of the house in the cage, but I don't know if it will turn out. It was the last shot on the roll.

Every year, I make a gingerbread house, or at least I try. Some years I am subverted by friends and family and forced to make something else, like the gingerbread graveyard, the zoo under attack by velociraptors, the castle under seige, or podracers. This year, due to illness, the great gingerbread construction event did not occur before ( Read more... )