gingerbread houses are hard.

Leave it to my good friend Marissa to host a gingerbread house-building event! Little did we know cookie and frosting construction would be so challenging. I have a new-found respect for all of the parents (and teachers) who endeavor to make these structures with small children. Crumbling cookies and frosting avalanches followed by an inevitable sugar crash must be quite a chore...

After much experimentation and several glasses of wine, we did manage to build solid cookie homes without the use of Gorilla Glue.

Following are not the most amazing photos, but they are really an adequate representation of the event:

So it began, just a simple home. Spray icing, some trees, a spice drop roof, peppermint doors--


And then, the dinosaurs attacked!


My partner-in-crime's wintery pterodactyl home.

The finished products, side by side; a tiny community rooted in high fructose corn syrup and multi-colored sprinkles.

And somehow secure enough to survive the car ride home. And now, my home is twice as decorated for Christmas as it was yesterday morning.