Gingerbread House: Oops!

Newandimproved!

Here is a picture of my new and improved gingerbread house....it's new and improved because when I took a look at it the other morning I noticed that my once enclosed house had become a convertible style house.....

Brokenroof

yep, the whole back side of the roof slid right off! I am used to small losses, like icicles falling off and candies falling off- that's why I always keep a backup arsenal of icing to fix any mishaps but the roof falling off was kinda major. Luckily it fell off in one one piece! But wait.... then I noticed that all my sugar windows were falling off! They get kinda sticky and they just started sliding down the wall! Grrrrr..... I thought the windows were a lost cause but my dad suggested creating an icing "ledge" on the inside for them to sit on when they start melting again! Works great! To further seal them on I created "snow" on the front of all the windows which helped hide the windows that got broken. I figure with all that icing crammed on there it ought to last til Christmas! Then my dad and I re-glued the roof on with TONS of icing inside and out....and then I re-icicled the roof, filled in any holes and this is how it came out:

Fixedside

Actually, I like my new and improved gingerbread house better that before. You can't even tell where the "mistakes" are....I think the snow on the windows adds some nice detail and it make the lights on the inside glow even more nicely! Like i've said before, icing hides all mistakes!

Comments

[Goodies By Anna]

Im afraid the only available template is for the 2011 house

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[Denis]

Is there a template for this one ?? Help

[anna]

Hi LeendaDLL! We don't eat the gingerbread house, its been sitting out in the open since the first week of December, I think it might be a little stale and dusty... the tradition is that we usually just break it up and throw into the compost pile out back, I think the squirrels enjoy it though!

[Country By Design]

[this is good] Wow! I've never seen a two story gingerbread house before. Amazing!

[HapaLove]

[this is good] Wow, that is amazing!

[LeendaDLL]

i totally agree... the original was really pretty but the update is super uber pretty!!do you actually eat them? if so, is there a ritual or tradition to it? if not, what do you do with them?

[anna]

Thanks Katiebell!

[Katiebell]

just surfing about Vox and saw this. Your House is so nice! It's very classic! I love the decorative icing. I'm not very talented with stuff like this, so I really love seeing yours.