Hello Gabi - I have wanted to reply, but hadn't had a moment to get the picture uploaded! My son and I attend a Community Ed "class" which sponsors gingergbread house making! This is his third year. His houses have lasted many months...of course we don't eat them, but he loves to look at them. They have the houses already put together for us, individual bowls of icing, and then a buffet line of candies and each child goes through the line and chooses what they want to use to decorate their house and "property"! They can go back for seconds too! Each child also has a tube of NECCO wafers. I think the key is to have everything all lined out ahead of time. We did buy a kit of cookie cutters for each piece of a house that also work well and have done our own, but going to the class is a lot easier and not as expensive (i.e. left over candy that we all don't need to eat!). My son's house this year...not quite as fancy as yours, but fun still the same! [Merry Christmas! Wendy

Well how cute is that!!!!??? I always forget to come check out the Gallery. I must make it my New Years Resolution to come here more often.

I love gingerbread cookies, but I loathe decorating them. For some reason, I always feel obligated to make them all look different which is a decorating nightmare. I think I have the problem solved for this year though - I'm taking what I like to think of as the "Jackson Pollock" approach. Instead of boys and girls, I just cut out rounds and my plan is splatter them randomly with icing. Could get a bit messy, but should be quick!

I especially love the one with the multiplicatous googly eyes. Is that the stay-wet minion? And also Maci's dada-esque interpretation of snow on the housetop. I kept looking for excuses to play with frosting over the holidays, but with sequestering, and requests for pie, I had no excuses. I don't really like eating it, so needed your kind of helpers, especially in the cleaning department.