Gingerdead

I have made my ginger dead house for Creepmas using a pre-assemebled house I purchased last year.  However, after a year in storage it was in a heap of about 10 broken pieces. Those were fun to put back together. 

As usual it is a bit of a mess due to my lack of planning and fine motor skills.  The additional cookies at the front came out well as I did them last and had a plan.  One day I will learn my lesson. So as to not keep you in suspense a moment longer, Creepmas Gingerdead 2022.

I like how the little ghost eyes bled into the icing.  They look particularly spooky. 

  

Creepmas Day 4

 

Why, it wouldn't be Creepmas without a Ginger Dead house, now would it?  This years model was made from a Haribo kit I purchased after Christmas in 2019.  Stale was not the word - downright petrified more like.  The gummy bears that came with the kit were so hard they could have been fired out of a gun.   However, the gingerbread was unbroken and usable as was the icing.  It was a very simple kit to put together. As I have said in the past, I would never eat this skanky frankenfood anyway so it doesn't matter how ancient it is.

Bone and skull siding and large knives, cleavers and axes give 2021 model it's unique essence.

It will go on display for the guests at this years Creepmas dinner party, the social event of the season. 

Creepmas Day 5

Would it be Creepmas without a ginger dead house? This year I used a kit I got on sale at Christmas last year.  Yes it is a little old but honestly folks - I would not eat this thing even if it was fresh as a daisy.  The ingredient profile reads like a can of paint - yech!

I kept with the Creepmas color scheme - decorating in candy gravestones, ornaments, bones, skulls, red hots, and gumdrops.  It is a bit of a mess, as usual.

 

If you have been following the blog for awhile, you are welcome to use that bored Jack Skellington voice and say "just like last year, and the year before that".  

Lady M's Gingerdead Offering

Last Christmas I got a Peanuts Gingerbread house on sale.  Needless to say, upon opening, the gum drops and gum snoopies were disgustingly stale.  It did not stop me from using the kit.  After all, I would have to be crazy to eat this thing.  The snoopies and gum drops were disposed of as were all the little peanuts cut outs.  It was easy to put it together.  Unlike the last kit, the gingerbread was not broken.  It is a neat, as in tidy, little house.  Here are some more photos.

Gingerdead House

The above picture is from my ginger dead house in 2015.  It was quite the cluster. If I am not to repeat history, I need  some inspiration.  I found a lot online.  Look at some of these amazing works of art.

Can you imagine making something like these?  The hours of meticulous work.  I am dizzy just thinking about it.

 Disney Land always has an amazing Nightmare before Christmas Display.  

This is more my speed.  Stay tuned for my 2017 creation!

Creepmas Day 10

What would Creepmas be without at least one epic fail in the craft department? I purchased a little gingerbread cookie house on sale at Cost Plus with such big dreams of the perfect gingerdead Creepmas house.  Something like one of the amazing structures below..

Alas, it was not meant to be.  Upon opening the box, I found the cookie walls and roof broken in multiple pieces. Any sane person would have just thrown it in the trash.  I am not sane.  I set about glueing the parts back together with the black frosting provided by the kit.  I let them dry about 5 hours. The instructions said to decorate before assembly which I gladly did.

Then came the fun part - actually putting it together into a house like structure.  I enlisted his Lordships helpful hands and we began.  1 wall up, then 2, then 3 - it looked like success might be ours.  But wall number 4 actually split back it two, pulling other broken pieces off and shifting the whole thing, giving it the appearance of a house with major foundation issues. 

"This thing will never support a roof!"  I cried as I stuck my finger yet again into the icing on the decorated sides.  Then I had the brilliant idea to glue the roof to cardboard so it would not crumble again. Finally, I put the roof on and over and over, watched it slide off.  Carefully,  I slipped my Tupperware freezer mates under the eaves and let it dry overnight.  I have to say it is a pathetic piece of crap, but if your still reading this I suppose I can let you see some pictures just for your perseverance.

This is what is supposed to look like:

Here's what I made:

See all those black lines? That's where I mended it with frosting.  From this angle you can see the cardboard, the uneven roof and the black smudges were I stuck my fingers in the icing a dozen times.  Such a sad little thing but I will be damned if it is not still standing!

Gingerdeads

 I was decorating some standard gingerbread cookies for my friends and neighbors and I got bored,  so I made these little guys.

 

 

then I photoshopped them to make them fun - looks like they are getting X-rayed!