{"id":428,"date":"2009-12-21T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2011-11-29T00:43:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:43:16","slug":"our-third-annual-gingerbread-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.melissaetto.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Our Third Annual Gingerbread House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few more days until Christmas!\u00a0 I love this time of year.\u00a0 I love Christmas music, the decorations,\u00a0 It&#8217;s just a darn good time.<\/p>\n<p>I started our Third Annual Gingerbread House last Sunday, a week later than anticipated.\u00a0 I wanted to do a haunted gingerbread house for Halloween but didn&#8217;t get to it.\u00a0 When I was looking for inspiration for that I found plans to make a gingerbread\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"The phantom manor plans\" href=\"http:\/\/haunteddimensions.raykeim.com\/index506.html\">Phantom Manor<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 We love Disney&#8217;s Haunted Mansion&#8230;.Love It!\u00a0\u00a0 I thought The Phantom Manor would be a really neat gingerbread house to make this year.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t get done for Halloween but I used the pattern to make our Christmas gingerbread house&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_437\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_52751.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[428]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-437\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-437\" title=\"IMG_5275\" src=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_52751-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pieces of Gingerbread\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pieces of Gingerbread<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_438\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_52793.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[428]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-438\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-438\" title=\"IMG_5279\" src=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_52793-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"Building the Gingerbread House\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Building the Gingerbread House<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_442\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_5310.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[428]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-442\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-442\" title=\"IMG_5310\" src=\"http:\/\/blog1.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_5310-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"Getting Closer To Finished\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting Closer To Finished<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The patterns are good.\u00a0 My building skills are not so good.\u00a0 I had no problems until it came to putting the roof on&#8230;..it took 4 or 5 redo&#8217;s but I finally got it.\u00a0 My biggest problem is my impatience.\u00a0 I just can&#8217;t wait for the icing to harden then the roof would collapse and you just have to do it all over again.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how the gingerbread house stands as of now.\u00a0 I just got tired of cleaning the kitchen!\u00a0 I will\u00a0 be making sugar cookies until this week and\u00a0 when I make icing again I will put the finishing touched on the house and will post those pictures then.<\/p>\n<p>I am officially done shopping for the holidays and everything is wrapped and packages mailed!\u00a0 Now all I have to do is bake cookies and get my house clean before Christmas!\u00a0 I will post soon with more Christmas stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few more days until Christmas!\u00a0 I love this time of year.\u00a0 I love Christmas music, the decorations,\u00a0 It&#8217;s just a darn good time. 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