Gingerbread Lane

As a ParentMap employee I helped decorate a gingerbread house for Gingerbread Lane at a mall near us--it was a fundraiser for a great Children's Museum. ParentMap partnered with Treeswing (two ladies from Treeswing did most of the work on this) and Green Halloween.














These first pictures are examples of the very impressive competition!! LOTS of details and colors...

Hello, this one is three stories!!
















(this was done by professional chefs, thank you very much)


















A cool twist on gingerbread "houses"--these guys (the architects for the museum) did bird houses.

TA DA, here's ours!












Here's the deal. Ours isn't very colorful, right? That's b/c it is 100% (or maybe 99% is more accurate) organic! How cool is that? I love the mirror surface and check out the seaweed trees reflecting in that pond...
A closer-up view.












Believe it or not, we WON! There were four local celebrity judges and apparently we won "Best of the North West". To be honest, I haven't heard if everyone got some sort of a prize or if there were several catagories or what, but hey, we're pleased :)

This was a first for ParentMap, we've won lots of awards but this is the first award for a gingerbread house!