When I was a little girl I always thought it would be wonderful to live in a Gingerbread House when I grew up. The air would smell like Christmas every day and I could nibble a corner of the room if the cupboards were bare. There would be pink love hearts around the door and a little path of sugar balls that crunched delightfully under your feet when you walked to the front door. Every day would start with a fall of sweet snow that covered the chocolate roof tiles and fell on the window ledges. It would make every day magical.
Wouldn’t you know that the people at Sykes Cottages have recently calculated how much a Life-sized Gingerbread Cottage would cost to make: £66,037.05, which seems like a good deal in today’s housing market. On the assumption that it could cope with so much rain.
They also sent us a Gingerbread House making set so that the girls and I could create our very own pink gingerbread cottage on a smaller scale: perfect for two little girls and a dog. Just like our home!
Disclosure: we were sent the aforementioned set for the purposes of making our house, which has been entered into a competition. No payment was received.
most impressed with your house. we did one last year it wasn’t so pretty. practice makes perfect??
Definitely HPMcQ.
Oh how cool is that – wouldn’t be very warm in the winter after I’d scoffed it all mind.
What an excellent idea! I love the infographic – I can just see you mixing the buttercream in a cement mixer!
Wouldn’t that be fun @Keynko? Remember the Skoda Fabia advert years ago, made from cake? Loved that!
Yum, I’d totally move in 😉
to be honest, the state of my house this week, I would too @carolin
Ahhhh your house looks so cute and terribly yummy. Imagine a whole house that was edible *daydreams on*
You should daydream @annie and get well soon x
That gingerbread house is AWESOME!
I can’t however stop thinking about Lloyd Grossman and who lives in a house like this!! Great post, hope you win xx
Deliberated, cogitated and digested is the Loyd Grossman phrase that I always think of Donna!
Oh I love it! I’m off to Ikea today to see if they have any of their gingerbread house kits left xx
If not try Lakeland @alice!
Ha! Imagine having a real life size house! Love your gingerbread house. So cute! And clever to only have 4 parts. I am making one with 6 and it is so tricky!
The kit is great @redtedart: from Lakeland I think. Even has a base with slots so you can’t mess it up!!
1995 chocolate fingers? Heaven. Imagine being able to lie in bed and eat your own archway into the bathroom. Genius.
And I love your house! It has to win, surely.
Thanks @mummybarrow. It occurred to me that I have a pack of chocolate fingers in the cupboard….
That gingerbread house is AWESOME my dear – hope you win. As for the life size one, we might actually be able to live in that, as one child isn’t a fan of Gingerbread, so possibly may manage not to eat the windows and doors 😉
My kids like the icing @helen
Your gingerbread house is ADORABLE.
Room for a little one?
always @missielizzie
Ha! Puts a new turn on the phrase “eaten out of house and home” which is what we’d be if we lived in a gingerbread house!
I know @actually mummy. Me too I fear. Bet gingerbread scales are very kind. And gingerbread mirrors.