We tried something new this holiday season.
We skipped the gingerbread and used chipboard houses or wooden birdhouses.
The fam makes some spectacular cookie houses every Christmas, and they get fed to the chickens when we are done.
Using wood and chipboard gives permanence to their creations so we can enjoy them year after year.
We already got a chance to display these homes for our cocoa party on the 25th.
Some people used a gingerbread colored paint for a background, others used royal icing tones. I made my two blue, they are gifts for my sister and her favorite color.
On the back of hers is an “S” for Sissy and a heart for our lost sister, Bobbie.
The “icing” we decorated them with is tubes of puffy paint or glitter paint meant for tee shirts.
Sugarwings made polymer clay candy and cookie shapes to add to them, and I provided bowls of odd and ends I’d collected over time.
New tradition? I hope so!