8 gingerbread houses
stained glass windows
advent calendars from the 1940’s
licorice and bright white icing
a widow’s walk
lace curtains
echos of childhood laughter
a crystal punch bowl
candy canes and
3 cats
At a Gathering Recently
8 gingerbread houses
stained glass windows
advent calendars from the 1940’s
licorice and bright white icing
a widow’s walk
lace curtains
echos of childhood laughter
a crystal punch bowl
candy canes and
3 cats
spanishwoods 
sounds like a GREAT gathering! 🙂
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Yes. 🙂
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Really wonderful! You are blessed.
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Quite true. 🙂
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Okay, Sylvia, I am curious: What is a widow’s walk? I like the lace photo. It really pulled me in.–Curt
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The house that we are invited into every Christmas to make gingerbread houses has a widow’s walk on the outside. A widow’s walk is a walkway on the top of a house seen mostly in New England. The houses there typically had (Victorian Era) these small encompassing balconies called “widows walks”. As I understand it, these structures got their names from widows standing on them and looking out to sea for their lost husbands. Such architectural details here in Pennsylvania are rare. So this house is very unique.
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A gingerbread house party… what fun! Thanks for the reminder on widows walks. Now I remember. –Curt
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Also, that lace photo is from the actual house and the gingerbread roof, is my own creation. 🙂 I wanted to feature another woman’s house because hers was so very beautiful, but I didn’t get permission to do so before we left and felt a little awkward posting a photo of someone else’s house. 🙂
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My experience with gingerbread homes is ones made by grandkids. In fact I am looking at a gingerbread lighthouse right now. Your’s looks just fine. 🙂 –Curt
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M and Ms, mmmmm. That cake, double mmmmmm.
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Yes.
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