Time to get ready for our second Holiday season in living fulltime in the RV. Thanksgiving is just over a week away. Target is warning their employees that the COVID has entered into its ranks, so Natalie has just been tested for the second time. Thankfully, she has once again tested negative for the 'Rona.
Sadly, with the number of cases of COVID-19 rapidly increasing in the Bay Area, we have chosen to stay home for Thanksgiving. It was very sad to cancel out dinner plans with Ryan, Amanda and their families. This has been a very, very long and lonely year, indeed.
So, we are, instead, making another gingerbread village. Unlike our Haunted Halloween adventure, it is not 105 degrees, with melty frosting and sweaty sticky humans creating drippy ghosts.
Starting with several prepackaged house kits from Target, we added extra strength frosting. Five, sox, seven, tubes! A must!!! And many different candy varieties. Both for decorating and snacking. Nom, nom, nom!!!
I glued together the gingerbread camper with royal icing while Natalie built the supersized mansion. A few tubes of gel frosting and eatable glitter helped add dimension to our shingles and bricks. Almost as many gumdrops were used on our gingerbread creations as ended up in our BELLIES!!!
When creating in the 'tiny house' space of an RV, sometimes things may get just a bit messy. Frosting and sugars and empty gingerbread house boxes everywhere.
But in the end, it is all worth the effort! Holiday magic.
Seven hours worth of frosting and sticking and ticking and tacking. We created out glittering glowing holiday village, ready to get this crazy COVID pandemic season off and running. With everything cleaned up and put away, finally, Natalie and Luci settle down and relax.
Christmas Season 2020 has arrived!
After a bit of turkey and stuffing, anyway!
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