7 year old is winner in Abilene Gingerbread House Contest

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Brayden Campbell, in his 2nd  year to enter the Abilene Gingerbread House event, won the grand prize with a log cabin gingerbread house. Complete with a rock candy chimney and pretzels for logs. For the roof, Brayden used Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal pieces. He would place one, then eat one. Cute story…

Brayden and other kids and parents were interviewed after the Abilene Contest. It looks like everyone had a lot of fun, just as you would expect at anything dealing with Gingerbread.

Instructables.com Gingerbread House Contest

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I just saw this over at instructables.com!
Build a gingerbread house, and enter it in our Gingerbread House Slideshow Contest to win Instructables Pro memberships and Robot t-shirt gift packs!

The rules are simple:

  • Make a gingerbread house (a joint effort with friends or family is fine) and submit a slideshow with at least three pictures of your awesome creation.
  • Include at least one overview and one detail shot of the finished gingerbread house – in-progress pictures are optional.
  • So we all know that it’s your gingerbread house, at least one of the pictures must include something with your username written on it!

Contest Starts: Dec 4, 2009
Entry Deadline: Dec 20, 2009
Voting Starts: Dec 21, 2009
Voting Ends: Dec 22, 2009
Judging Starts: Dec 23, 2009
Judging Ends: Dec 23, 2009

Lorraine’s holds their Annual Gingerbread Contest

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Lorraine’s Inc. Cake and Candy Supplies of Hanover held its seventh annual gingerbread house contest this last weekend. Visitors to the store in Hanover were invited to vote for their favorites. Entries were put into four categories: children’s (up to age 10); youth (ages 11-15); adult (ages 16 and up) and the ‘pros’ (5 years experience or being a previous first place winner). The winner should be announced today (the 15th)!
Take a look at their picture gallery to see the many entrants this year. There is also a video of the fun on the same page.

Yearly Gingerbread Village – a must see!

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For the 10th year,the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in southwestern Pennsylvania has created their Gingerbread Village for all to enjoy. The folks at the ski resort posted that it took them 100 hours and I believe it!
The village looks to include more than a dozen gingerbread structures. Being made from 100 pounds of gingerbread, 5,000 jelly beans, 100 Ice Cream Cones, 500 Graham Crackers, 80 Andes Candies, and… well, the list goes on an on – take a look and see!

Old Fashioned Gingerbread Christmas Sugar Cubes

Gingerbread Sugar Cubes

These lovely sugar cubes would certainly make a pretty statement on your holiday buffet or as part of your desert bar or cookie swap! Festive Sugar Cubes designs decorated on brown and white sugar cubes.  Each sugar cube has either a Gingerbread man, Rudolf the red nosed reindeer, a candy cane or a snowman. Details here.

Gingerbread Tea Party Tea Room

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These lovely little Gingerbread ladies are all dressed up for the Holidays! Created on a 8″ x 8″ base, and standing approximately 5.5″ high, this Gingerbread cookie scene provides lots of detail.  You’ll see customers in the window along with the perfect high tea table settings. This is an amazing Gingerbread house. Details here.

Hard To Find Gingerbread Wrapping Paper

Gingerbread Wrapping Paper

We were at Cost Plus/World Market the other day and came across this Gingerbread wrapping paper. I have been searching for Gingerbread wrapping for many years and just found this! Gingerbread Wrapping Paper is part of the “Holiday Passport” collection. $4.99, 30 inches x 6 feet a roll. Super cute and sweet this is! Collection includes gift tags, tissue paper, gift bags, and Gingerbread bows.