Gingerbread house - averting disaster

so we made a gingerbread house again this year and it was very nearly a complete disaster! i baked the dough, but must have left them to cool too long on the cookie trays, so they were stuck! glued rather. i managed to get 2 pieces off the tray without breaking. the roof pieces were completely shattered and so were some of the sides!! i managed to glue all the pieces back together with the icing and hoped the house would hold. as i was putting the house together, it fell apart! poor Skye, she was so nervous! well, we have what we call a Gingerbread Shack this year. there are white "glue" patches all over and even a hole that Skye made into a window. :) but Skye had fun with it.

Claire got to decorate her first mini house too this year. fortunately for her, her house was intact. :)

one of the walls collapse!








the roof sags a little, but you can't really tell that in the photo! :)