There’s something special about spending time with friends during the holiday season. Given the shelter in place in the Bay Area again, we decided to host a mini get-together over Zoom. I’m thankful to our friends, Alan & Eileen who were up for this gingerbread greenhouse challenge and hung out with us on Zoom for 8.5 hours!

We followed the recipes and instructions from the following links. I ended up making 1:1 scale files we could print out for the shapes.

• Gingerbread Greenhouse instructions from Constellation Inspiration (Love her recipes and creations)

• Royal Icing Recipe (I ended up only needing about half)

• Bought the mini trees from Amazon here

• Molasses from here

We set up a webcam of our workspace and found sending each other photos of our progress to be pretty fun. It was a great remote activity as we each needed a lot of counter space, baking trays, parchment paper, and freezer space. There was enough for four people to constantly be working on something.

I love this mini fireplace my husband constructed. We placed this inside the house before installing the roof panels. I borrowed a few sprigs of cedar from our fireplace garland:

Several hours later, here we are! Tada!

Hope you find fun ways to celebrate the holiday season and connect with friends & family, however remote this year. Cheers!