Hello World! (Again.) More on that later.
Happy Holidays! Just in time for Christmas, I’m pulling my Log Cabin Gingerbread House photographs from the photo archives. This is a relisting and showing (that’s real estate lingo) of the Log Cabin Gingerbread House I made in 2014. I’d been obsessing for years about doing a gingerbread cookie house from scratch and was loving ones I saw on Pinterest so I went for it.
I custom designed the simple gingerbread base with an egg-free structural gingerbread recipe, built it and then layered on the pretzel rods. The garden was the most fun though. My favorite thing in the garden is the Kit Kat Adirondack Chair made with Kit Kats and lots of royal icing. And patience. Lots and lots of patience.
Since then I’ve been collecting ideas for Modern Gingerbread Houses on my Pinterest Board that has both other Log Cabins as well as Mid-Century homes. Dream homes, but tiny and edible.
Close-ups of the Log Cabin Gingerbread House
I got the fox from Genki Crepes & Mini Mart on Clement. It’s from one of those Japanese toy kits that comes as collection but each toy is separately packaged with identical packaging. So you pick blindly and end up with 1 of 5 designs. It’s similar to the baseball card model. I had to look this up, but the year 2014 was an era when that song “What does the Fox Say?” was out so maybe he stayed in the photoshoot for that reason. I think I bought a few hoping for a squirrel, but ended up with this cute fox.
I used one of Tenkei Chocolate Pudding Marshmallows for the window. I freely admit that this project was an excuse to buy a bag of them.
On the blog again
I started this blog in 2011 and made about 10 posts on it before I puttered out, but I’m reviving it as a place to share things I’ve made and get in the habit of writing. I love Instagram but I can’t do as much with it as a platform for content.
To re-inaugurate the blog, I thought about titling this post “It’s My House” after the Diana Ross song, so in the spirit of that… Welcome to my new word home. It’s my house and I live here.
