joe randel's art dump

Tonight I made the pieces for a gingerbread house that my kids are going to put together on Christmas.  My wife was making fun of me because I draw out my house plans at a reduced scale, cut my dough with a pizza cutter to get perfect lines and measure out everything so all the pieces fit together.

She would have had it all cut and baked before I even had my first pieces planned out.  That’s the fun part about us.  I’m all super planned out guy and she’s fly by the seat of her pants girl.  We balance each other pretty well in that regard.

Although I generally forget a step or screw up one thing during my whole process.  This time I over cooked some of the parts, didn’t roll out the dough thin enough so the cookie is a bit puffy and cracked the roof when I picked it up… sigh…

It seriously makes me want to make those pieces over again but I just don’t have the time to do it.  I’ll have to learn from these mistakes and try and remember them next year.

Did you ever make a gingerbread house when you where a kid?