There were the sorts of things you might expect, to build a confectionery house - the graham crackers, obviously, and a bag of icing mixture for everyone to glue everything together; jelly beans and M&Ms and other sweets for decorating; marshmallows and candy corn and pretzels... but Kristina, being the creative type, had also supplied things like plastic army men, bugs and dinosaurs; feathers, scraps of fabric (see what else you can spot!).
What was fascinating was how different everyone's structures ended up:
As for me - I started conservatively enough:
- but quickly put Hansel and Gretel's witch to shame...
So much fun! (And no, I haven't been able to bring myself to eat the house yet; it's still wrapped in plastic on the kitchen table).
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I love this! What an fun experience to be invited to a graham cracker party.
The features of your house that I like best are the gables and attics, the shredded coconut roof, the pretzel windows, the enormous animal with the pink ears (dad says it is a rabbit but it could be Rudolph the pink eared reindeer)and the fat, white, little nazi storm troopers guarding the front door.
Teehee! the animal was originally supposed to be a dog, but he looked like a mutant with just the round brown eyes and the blobby head... so I gave him a nose, and then he looked like Rudolph, so I gave him the pink ears/horns ;)
And the left-hand fat little white Nazi storm-trooper is supposed to be a snowman; the right one is supposed to be a letterbox... no blame to anyone who didn't work out any of those things ;)
(PS to others who may not understand the 'stormtrooper' reference - it's from a great episode of the X-Files, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose ;) )
Well to be perfectly honest I did recognise one as a snowman (although not the letterbox) but it was too good an opportunity to pass up that great quote!! Happy Christmas!
Nice work - and here's an occasion where you can actually get to use the line "it was then that I started eating the wall..."
Andrew
mmmm...all you need now is eddie, seb and roo to demolish it in gulps
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dear kathryn, have a happy christmas, and i think your house looked beautiful, love eddie
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