Happy Holiday

I got a little sidetracked with my last blog; I was going to write all about our gingerbread house making adventure and wound up reminiscing about my childhood dollhouse! I guess it happens!

Each year, my little ones and I bake and bake until we pass out from sugar highs and then we bake some more. And each year, we go all out on our gingerbread house! This year was no different.

We made a Hansel and Gretel-themed witch house with bites taken from the roof and from the little ginger trees that were strung with miniature lights made from colored licorice pieces. Even the miniature black cat had a bite missing, poor kitty! It was a fun project, for sure!

Gingerbread house baking is so much like assembling doll house kits. You bake the walls on a flat sheet, cut them to size and glue them together with icing. Or just use graham crackers if baking isn’t your thing! You have to reinforce them while the icing dries. You make shingles from nonpareils or mini-chocolate bars. They’re basically little edible miniature dollhouses! Miniature shutters, next to miniature windows, with miniature decorations in all sorts of colors and flavors. So much fun and so delicious to eat at for a week!

It’s nice that one of our best family traditions is building together. Whether it’s decorating our big house, or Sarah’s wooden doll house, or even our little gingerbread house, it’s a delight to come together around something so simple and enduring. What are some of your family’s traditions? Have you baked a gingerbread house this year? What was it like? Reply and let us know!

And, of course, Happy Holidays from all of us here at The Dollhouse Company. May all your houses be warm and cozy this season!