Glutten Free Gingerbread House: Part 2 Decorating

Dad-bot and I finally got the gingerbread house decorated.  It took a lot less time then putting the house itself together.  We tried to balance a lot of color and candy with a fairly simple look.  I think we did an excellent job for our first Gingerbread house!

The Front - you can kind of see the smoke coming out of the chimney

A close up - note the tiny gingerbread marshmallow men

Side with a snow man

Other side with candy cane trees

Back with a candy log pile!

I'm very pleased with the whole look.  Can't wait to pick a project for next year!

Christmas Tree!

I came home for winter break early for my grandmother's funeral.  Because of this I was able to pick out a Christmas tree with my family and help decorate.  So, we have a silver lining of sorts.  We also had a blizzard the day I was suppose to fly in so I made it home for Christmas without staying overnight in an airport because I came home early.  It did snow the day I came however so I was still delayed around 6 hours for a 40 minute flight. Crazy right! Here is the tree with lights

Putting the ornaments on took all day.

Facing the door

Left side

Facing the living room

Right side

Close up!

It looks pretty good! I think. It was nice that the whole family got into the holiday spirit.

Ynnep-bot does not like hats . . .

The house is still being decorated.

Arrangement in progress . . .

Overall, it was pretty fun.  Hope everyone is having a great holiday season!

Fun with Origami

In another effort to decorate the house and use up crafting supplies that were building up I made some Origami art.  I am no origami expert, but I think on a whole it turned out well.  First, I made a hole bunch of cranes . . . the only thing I kind of knew how to make already.

I then strung them on a thick thread with some nice beads. And then I hung them from the ceiling.

My roommates seem to enjoy them so it was a successful project.  Due to the fact that these were displayed in the house.  I found that I got more origami papers for Christmas and needed to determine something to do with them.  I hate wasted craft supplies.  I didn't want to do the same thing.  So I searched the internet for something interesting looking that wasn't too difficult to actually do.  As I said I'm no origami expert.  I found these things called Sonobe units that make interesting shapes from origami units.  I then picked a patterns that would allow me to make two chains with the amount of paper I had avaliable to me.  I made two Stellated Octahedrons and four Diamonds.  I then strung them together with some beads and presto!  More cheap artsy decorations!

They are actually the same size, I just take bad photos!  So, even with my basic origami skills I was able to make some cool cheap decorations that everyone seems to enjoy.