The Gigerbread House...

Before I became deathly ill on Saturday I picked up a gingerbread house kit from Target™. I thought “how fun!!” I have always been intrigued by these houses. The depth and difficulty and time it takes to master this craft is amazing. I have always wanted to give it a try. Target makes it easy! For 9.99 you can pick up your very own kit. The kit comes complete with everything you need to assemble and decorate your house. Even the ginger bread is cooked and ready to go. I get home and immediately start to work. There are some adjustments I would have made to the directions but I decided to follow them. Ron and I assembled the walls and then added the roof pieces. We held the roof in place for 1 minute and waited 10 minutes after that to start decorating. Well the roof began to separate so I added more icing. So far so good. Then the decorating began. This where I should have altered the directions. Adding the décor should have been done before setting up the walls. The windows look like they melted and the candy added just seemed to droop. Again the roof began to slide. I wished I had some glue at this point but that would have been cheating. The icing, which came in its own bag turned out to be messy. Ron was icing a portion of the house and I guess was squeezing too hard with his muscular arms and the end of the bag exploded and icing went all over him. The kitchen was an absolute wreck. Over all it turned out just ok. And from a distance you can’t tell that there is anything wrong with it. It is like a Monet painting. It looks great from afar but up close it looks like crap.