Hello Friends!
Happy December 20th! Only five more sleeps until Christmas!! Is everyone ready? Presents bought, wrapped, and under the tree yet? I know I’m ready and waiting rather impatiently for Christmas day to come so I can give everyone their gifts. This is why I usually wait until the last minute to buy and wrap my gifts. I have such a hard time waiting until the big day to hand out the gifts! But anyway…
If you didn't know already, every day in December I give my boyfriend a gift to open. It’s his own advent calendar of sorts made by me! If you want to check out that post I'll leave a link here and an update here.This morning when my boyfriend opened today’s advent gift, he was excited to find a little gingerbread camper kit. He loves to go camping and anything outdoorsy, so when I saw the kit when I was shopping one day, I knew he would enjoy it. So this afternoon, we decided to tackle building the gingerbread camper and we had so much fun!
We bickered a little bit as to how best to go about the decoration vs. assembly order. Do we decorate first then assemble, or do we assemble then decorate? We decided to try the first option and see how it went. We worked on it together, him doing one side while I did the other. We used the white, green, and black icing, and the little candy balls that came along with it. It was funny to look at the picture on the box and then look at our shabby icing job. I’m almost positive they used photoshop to achieve such perfect smoothness to the icing!
We drank some tea and had some nice conversation while we waited for the icing decorations to dry before we attempted to actually put the thing together. It was pretty difficult for us to get the camper to stand on its own the way the instructions wanted us to. We ended up creating a little teepee with the sides and piping some icing on the top to join the two pieces. It held it together nicely while also looking like snow on the roof.
We set our little gingerbread creation next to the Christmas tree on a table that houses a few other Christmas decorations, mainly of the Lego variety (I’m dating a man child!). It just looked so cute and festive! But I think our dog liked it a little too much. She kept staring at it and then looking at us like, “You gonna eat that? ‘Cause I will.” So now we can’t leave her alone in the room with it for too long! We will see how long it survives…
Have any of you made any gingerbread creations this holiday season? Do you make your own gingerbread, or do you take the easy route like me and get the pre-made ones? What other crafts do you like to do around Christmas? Leave some comments and let’s chat!
Hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas week! Stay warm!
xx J
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