Honestly, we’re all your fans here. We don’t care if it’s perfect or not. We love your style and your bravery in even attempting this project. Glad that this year was tear-free! Merry Christmas!
Hi SewRena, it was a great effort. Love the midcentury aesthetic! As for the windows, you might have not brought the isomalt to the "soft crack" phase or about 275 degrees F. Ideally you want to get to hard crack phase, which is 300 degrees F, but then the isomalt begins to yellow very quickly. For pipe and flood, using a thicker royal icing for the outlines and then letting it dry a bit and then flooding with the runnier icing, will keep your edges sharp. Another trick is to cut your shapes after baking. This will mean your shapes are the same size as the template and the edges will be crisp. After a piece comes out of the oven, you have about 10 minutes before it hardens too much to do this.
Love your dresses, your apron, your nested mixing bowl earrings, and the wallpaper in your sewing room!! That wallpaper really takes me back. Your gingerbread house with the camper parked outside is awesome! Simply beautiful. ❤
So adorable!! Gingerbread houses are not easy to make, in my opinion, and I know so well that frustration when things are not coming together. When I did my pastry chef training, we used melted chocolate to attach the walls, and I think that was the best trick ever. It sets faster than the royal icing, and I think it's sturdier. Next year I hope I'll be making a gingerbread house again (as this year with a two month old attached at the breast I'm lucky to catch a break to pee lol, let alone do any baking 😂)
A couple years ago I bought a set of blocks that spell out Christmas from the dollar store I painted it last year and it didn’t turn out the way I wanted so the next time I went to the dollar store I bought a second set of the same blocks so last Friday to keep myself busy while waiting for updates from my mom about my aunts surgery I glued the blocks together and to some craft wood and painted it in metallic silver and rose gold to me it looks vintage and it had a piece of the craft that didn’t have a block so I had mini wreath ornaments I bought thinking they were like the vintage ones my mom uses for the living room tree but they are smaller so instead of using them as ornaments I cut the string off it and glued it to the wood that was left
I'll bet your local grocery store loves it when you come into buy your groceries. They must absolutely love your vintage outfits, complete with hat and gloves! Years ago when I worked at a women's prison, the women (because they were incarcerated, and needed beauty in their lives,) learned to be creative in different ways. Some of them decorated envelopes with colored pencils, & hairspray) The hairspray diffused the designs beautifully. Some of the women taught others how to crochet. (Jailed inmates are the only ones who have that kind of time anymore.) Other inmates, (when they weren't busy trying to make bombs out of batteries,) pulled threads from their socks to make intricate earrings. But I was most impressed with the way the inmates made beautiful roses out of jolly rancher candies that they melted in the microwave. I wonder if a person could use the same technique melting jolly ranchers to make stained glass windows for a gingerbread house? I absolutely love every single video that you make. Hope you have wonderful holidays!
Lovely!!!! 😍 We don't have that tradition in Costa Rica because we have the Pasito or Pesebre that is a manger with Jesus Joseph Mary the three wise men and farm animals but that's a beautiful tradition too! I really like it!!! 😍
40 years ago we moved into our first house. I had the same range! I loved how the top could be pushed out of the way. Too bad they don't make them anymore.
I love watching your gingerbread house videos, they always turn out great! Just a word of advice when flooding cookies, use a thicker consistency for the edges, then flood with a thinner consistency icing.😉 The rice paper for the windows is a genius idea!
I love your gingerbread house!!! I like your fix of using rice paper when your windows began to "melt." I am not sure if you know this, but really old glass kinda melts with time (the bottom of the window is thicker than the top). Thank you for sharing all of this. Have a great and blessed holiday.
“Pro tip: chopsticks are a quarter inch thick. You can use those as gauges so you can use a longer rolling pin. You did a great job!!! It is so sweet. It is what a “Barbie Christmas” should be. I’ve been watching MyFroggyStuff talking about how the Barbie Xmas stuff isn’t very Christmas like, and this is house is exactly what that Xmas should be!!!
Omg, Christmas has now begun ❤ SewRena has made the perfect Gingerbread house, and as I listen to my Madmen Christmas, I am absolutely loving this vintage style 🎄💕
Omg how absolutely PRECIOUS...DARLING WHAT CANT YOU DO 😃 this is the first mid century gingerbread house ive ever seen!! Hope you have a wonderful holiday!!!
This is awesome! I absolutely adore how committed you are to a style and an era. You have definitely peaked my interest in that particular era and you have it. Just give me a lot of fun watching you.. the occasional glimpses of your family is fun and I love how you include them without exploiting any of them. You cook and you sell, which are my favorite hobbies and you also design houses which has a special place in my heart for family reasons. I should totally subscribe to your patriotic. You are ticking all my boxes:) I am not a connoisseur of gingerbread houses, but I kinda like molasses color better than the Karo syrup color. I do appreciate that you showed us the difference because it would never even have occurred to me to think about that.
You always put your full energy into all of your Arts all of your Crafts! Ms SewRena, this mid-century modern gingerbread house is just wonderful! I love the colors the design, it was great watching you created, and oh my goodness, that range! I just like seeing you flip up the oven door! Thank you for sharing the experience with us today! You have every reason to smile with pride! It's Beautiful! Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas to you and your family! It's always a Joy to watch your videos! ✨🎄✨🩷💛💚🌹
Thank you so so much. I truly appreciate you all being here and cheering me on. I always look forward to trying something new and showing the rollercoaster until the end.
I kept looking at your gingerbread house and thinking it reminds me of something it’s the is a house not too far from where I live just like yours outside not as with pretty decorations but the the roof the overhang is just like yours. Oh my goodness ❤ i u se go past that house and look at it all the time t when my kids were younger and I would take them to school. We drive right past the house all I can said is wow
Do you have a house tour video? Would you ever make one? Your decor is so inspiring to me, and I'm an architecture nerd. 😅 Thank you for sharing your gingerbread house! 🖤
I’ve always wanted to make my own gingerbread house, but have been too intimidated. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Yours look awesome! The brick work on the newest one is such a clever, eye catching idea. 😊
How adorable are you wearing an actual gingerbread house dress while making this video!?!? Answer: outrageously adorable. Constantly recommending this channel to friends of all ages irrespective of gender. Constantly.
I have an autistic so shopping can be hard for him and me so I try and do as much as possible online but that can take a long time especially this time of year and more often than not I end up disappointed so I have decided to just make most of my decorations this year
I havnt done a gingerbread house since I was a kid and I can't tell you how many breakdowns I had, 90% due to trying to get the house to stick together while everything was melting bc of the summer heat with no air-conditioning 😅
WOW! I'm glad you feel good about this delicious treat because it looks amazing. So, when do we get too start eating it? 😋. I appreciate your tenacity. Thank you for sharing.
Just a question: you know how in the movies the location is on an equal level with the main star and the supporting actors? Well I was wondering if you ever thought of using your vintage house (with the spectacular kitchen) as the set for a movie? You might have to get a Hollywood agent for the house, but I am sure the minute they saw your personification of the 50s/60s (and your ultra - cool car) they would be crazy not to hire you on the spot as a consultant. (Or glamorous actress.) The filming would undoubtedly be a disruption to the smooth running of a household and young family, but the upside is, you could give me half of your first million, and never even miss it! Love your videos, and always look forward (with bated breath)to the next one!
I have a love/hate relationship with your videos 😂 you are absolutely amazing, creative & beautiful. Hence the hate part, makes me feel like a hobo 🤣🤣🤣
That wasn’t the issue with the house being so long/wide there is a huge void through the center. The roof needs more support in the middle. If you see the full length video on my page I manage to fix it with supports
Honestly, we’re all your fans here. We don’t care if it’s perfect or not. We love your style and your bravery in even attempting this project. Glad that this year was tear-free! Merry Christmas!
Thank you so much💕 I feel like I get stressed out trying to meet my own expectations.
*Hear, Hear!!!*
*a mid century gingerbread house is the way to my heart SewRena!!! this is so AMAZING!!!* 🍪🏡🥰
Thank you so much 🥰💕 it’s a huge improvement
Both year’s gingerbread houses look amazing!! I bet your kids love them!!
Thank you yes my daughter saw it the next morning and freaked out 😂 she was blown away
Oh my gosh this girl is just too adorable!! 🥰 🥰🥰
Thank you
Hi SewRena, it was a great effort. Love the midcentury aesthetic! As for the windows, you might have not brought the isomalt to the "soft crack" phase or about 275 degrees F. Ideally you want to get to hard crack phase, which is 300 degrees F, but then the isomalt begins to yellow very quickly. For pipe and flood, using a thicker royal icing for the outlines and then letting it dry a bit and then flooding with the runnier icing, will keep your edges sharp. Another trick is to cut your shapes after baking. This will mean your shapes are the same size as the template and the edges will be crisp. After a piece comes out of the oven, you have about 10 minutes before it hardens too much to do this.
I love it even without the windows. I love how you give 100% to everything you do, and look fabulous doing it!
Thank you so much 💕 I would love to have you over to make one! It would be so fun.
Your Gingerbread House is so 1950’s adorable. You have such a sweet household. Thanks for inviting us to your festive home!❤
Thank you so much! I’m so glad you like it 💕🥰
Love your dresses, your apron, your nested mixing bowl earrings, and the wallpaper in your sewing room!! That wallpaper really takes me back. Your gingerbread house with the camper parked outside is awesome! Simply beautiful. ❤
Thank you so much I really appreciate it
So adorable!! Gingerbread houses are not easy to make, in my opinion, and I know so well that frustration when things are not coming together. When I did my pastry chef training, we used melted chocolate to attach the walls, and I think that was the best trick ever. It sets faster than the royal icing, and I think it's sturdier. Next year I hope I'll be making a gingerbread house again (as this year with a two month old attached at the breast I'm lucky to catch a break to pee lol, let alone do any baking 😂)
Omg i know the feeling congrats on the baby. I hope you get to make one next year too. Thank you so much for the tip
A couple years ago I bought a set of blocks that spell out Christmas from the dollar store I painted it last year and it didn’t turn out the way I wanted so the next time I went to the dollar store I bought a second set of the same blocks so last Friday to keep myself busy while waiting for updates from my mom about my aunts surgery I glued the blocks together and to some craft wood and painted it in metallic silver and rose gold to me it looks vintage and it had a piece of the craft that didn’t have a block so I had mini wreath ornaments I bought thinking they were like the vintage ones my mom uses for the living room tree but they are smaller so instead of using them as ornaments I cut the string off it and glued it to the wood that was left
Thanks for sharing I hope your aunt is ok.
I'll bet your local grocery store loves it when you come into buy your groceries. They must absolutely love your vintage outfits, complete with hat and gloves!
Years ago when I worked at a women's prison, the women (because they were incarcerated, and needed beauty in their lives,) learned to be creative in different ways. Some of them decorated envelopes with colored pencils, & hairspray)
The hairspray diffused the designs beautifully.
Some of the women taught others how to crochet. (Jailed inmates are the only ones who have that kind of time anymore.)
Other inmates, (when they weren't busy trying to make bombs out of batteries,) pulled threads from their socks to make intricate earrings.
But I was most impressed with the way the inmates made beautiful roses out of jolly rancher candies that they melted in the microwave.
I wonder if a person could use the same technique melting jolly ranchers to make stained glass windows for a gingerbread house?
I absolutely love every single video that you make. Hope you have wonderful holidays!
Great job 🎉
Lovely!!!! 😍
We don't have that tradition in Costa Rica because we have the Pasito or Pesebre that is a manger with Jesus Joseph Mary the three wise men and farm animals but that's a beautiful tradition too! I really like it!!! 😍
I love how the whole kitchen smells of gingerbread when doing this.
40 years ago we moved into our first house. I had the same range! I loved how the top could be pushed out of the way. Too bad they don't make them anymore.
I love watching your gingerbread house videos, they always turn out great! Just a word of advice when flooding cookies, use a thicker consistency for the edges, then flood with a thinner consistency icing.😉 The rice paper for the windows is a genius idea!
Thank you so much! I’m gonna try and do two consistencies in the future I just get so nervous that I’m not working fast enough 😂
@@SewRena That's understandable!
I can barely make the pre made ginger bread houses from the store stay up when my kids do them. 😅 Yours is beautiful!
Thank you so much 😂😂. We made a little premade gingerbread camper to go with it.
I love your gingerbread house!!! I like your fix of using rice paper when your windows began to "melt." I am not sure if you know this, but really old glass kinda melts with time (the bottom of the window is thicker than the top). Thank you for sharing all of this. Have a great and blessed holiday.
I did not know that but thanks so much for sharing it makes this “not that bad” 😂😂
Haha i learned this fact at the Winchester Mystery House ❤ it is strange to understand that glass is a liquid....
One year I did Santas sleigh with all the reindeers. So fun!
I flippin love this wallpaper
Saw Rena makes me feel so good, as I can vicariously be a perfect housewife.
Thank you I’m certainly not a perfect housewife not even close but I do love being in my home 😂
I meant SewRena. I apologize for this error, as I was dashing out and I was not going to leave without finishing my comment.
I would be deliriously proud if I had made that! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Thank you so so much
This is the freaking BEST! You did such a great job! ❤
Thank you so much
Fantastic gingerbread house,thanks for sharing 💜😊 13:53
“Pro tip: chopsticks are a quarter inch thick. You can use those as gauges so you can use a longer rolling pin.
You did a great job!!! It is so sweet. It is what a “Barbie Christmas” should be. I’ve been watching MyFroggyStuff talking about how the Barbie Xmas stuff isn’t very Christmas like, and this is house is exactly what that Xmas should be!!!
Thank you so much for the tip! I love a pastel Christmas
Omg, Christmas has now begun ❤ SewRena has made the perfect Gingerbread house, and as I listen to my Madmen Christmas, I am absolutely loving this vintage style 🎄💕
Thank you so much Merry Christmas🫶🏾🫶🏾
Darling! Amazing that you put it together all alone!! An amazing amount of work. Well done!!
Thank you
Nice work!!! You have a great imagination. 😊❤😊❤
Thank you 💕💕
You can use a thicker frosting at the edges to hold the thinner flood frosting
It turned out so cute! Glad there was no crying this time
Thank you 💕 same
Omg how absolutely PRECIOUS...DARLING WHAT CANT YOU DO 😃 this is the first mid century gingerbread house ive ever seen!! Hope you have a wonderful holiday!!!
Thank you so much! This year world market has some MCM kits. We actually bought one of their MCM camper kits to pair with my design
So adorable 💖 Really hope you will make another next year. So you can have 3 pictures, which can print and frame for your kitchen decoration ❤
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Thank you that’s actually a really good idea!
Excellent job on the build!🤩
This is awesome! I absolutely adore how committed you are to a style and an era. You have definitely peaked my interest in that particular era and you have it. Just give me a lot of fun watching you.. the occasional glimpses of your family is fun and I love how you include them without exploiting any of them. You cook and you sell, which are my favorite hobbies and you also design houses which has a special place in my heart for family reasons. I should totally subscribe to your patriotic. You are ticking all my boxes:)
I am not a connoisseur of gingerbread houses, but I kinda like molasses color better than the Karo syrup color. I do appreciate that you showed us the difference because it would never even have occurred to me to think about that.
It looks amazing! I love your creativity! I would miss this if you stop making them...but I also completely understand! 😂😊
Thank you! I just feel like I get too emotionally invested. My expectations are higher than my skill level 😂
Fantastic.....so much attention to detail. Great job, Madam and happy holidays‼️‼️💯💯
Thank you so much I really appreciate it
Absolutely adorable!! 🎉🥰
Thank you💕
Omg. I love this so much. The brick stencil is extremely cool. Amazing work. Piping icing is so hard.
Thank you so much! It is harder than the professionals make it seem
So sweet, both of them. I always seem to get cheered up when I come to your site. Happy Holidays to you and your family!!!
Thank you so much I’m so glad you feel that way 💕 Happy Holidays
love the mixing bowl earrings!!
Thank you
You always put your full energy into all of your Arts all of your Crafts!
Ms SewRena, this mid-century modern gingerbread house is just wonderful!
I love the colors the design, it was great watching you created, and oh my goodness, that range!
I just like seeing you flip up the oven door!
Thank you for sharing the experience with us today!
You have every reason to smile with pride!
It's Beautiful!
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas to you and your family!
It's always a Joy to watch your videos!
✨🎄✨🩷💛💚🌹
Thank you so so much. I truly appreciate you all being here and cheering me on. I always look forward to trying something new and showing the rollercoaster until the end.
I kept looking at your gingerbread house and thinking it reminds me of something it’s the is a house not too far from where I live just like yours outside not as with pretty decorations but the the roof the overhang is just like yours. Oh my goodness ❤ i u se go past that house and look at it all the time t when my kids were younger and I would take them to school. We drive right past the house all I can said is wow
Oh my goodness I would love to see this in real life 🤩😍😍 that house sounds wonderful
Do you have a house tour video? Would you ever make one? Your decor is so inspiring to me, and I'm an architecture nerd. 😅 Thank you for sharing your gingerbread house! 🖤
This was classic! Like a visit in time!
Thank you ❤️❤️
@@SewRena Of course
i love it! The colors you chose are so happy and the little mug next to it was perfect! 💛
Thank you so much 💕🥰this one really makes me happy
Omg I love it , you are so talented ❤❤❤❤
The house turned out so cute!
Congratulations 🎉
Thank you so much 🥰🥰
@@SewRena you are welcome 😃
loved this! you did such a great job. your vids are always great
So adorable! I love the color scheme.
Thank you 🥰
Liked, shared and commented! Up the algorithm! I’m so excited for this episode.
Thank you so so much I really appreciate it💕
@@SewRena You do such great work! I love your videos no matter the content!
I’ve always wanted to make my own gingerbread house, but have been too intimidated. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Yours look awesome! The brick work on the newest one is such a clever, eye catching idea. 😊
Thank you so much! It’s absolutely worth a try. I think if you go with an average size house you shouldn’t have to do all the extra reinforcing.
TIL construction grade gingerbread dough.
Love it so time consuming you did a great job !!!
Thank you it really is but also really fun. More fun than when I rushed
I love your outfits going to the grocery store I always love your outfits though!!🥰
Thank you 💕🥰.
How adorable are you wearing an actual gingerbread house dress while making this video!?!? Answer: outrageously adorable. Constantly recommending this channel to friends of all ages irrespective of gender. Constantly.
You are so kind thank you so so much 🥰🥰
THIS LOOKS AMAZING!
Thank you 💕💕
You are SOOO creative!
Thank you
So cute & creative!
Thank you 💕❤️
I have an autistic so shopping can be hard for him and me so I try and do as much as possible online but that can take a long time especially this time of year and more often than not I end up disappointed so I have decided to just make most of my decorations this year
Beautiful
Thank you 💕
This is too cute!
Thank you 💕🤗
I havnt done a gingerbread house since I was a kid and I can't tell you how many breakdowns I had, 90% due to trying to get the house to stick together while everything was melting bc of the summer heat with no air-conditioning 😅
WOW! I'm glad you feel good about this delicious treat because it looks amazing. So, when do we get too start eating it? 😋. I appreciate your tenacity. Thank you for sharing.
Haha nobody is gonna eat this lol.
adorable!
Thank you
Just a question: you know how in the movies the location is on an equal level with the main star and the supporting actors?
Well I was wondering if you ever thought of using your vintage house (with the spectacular kitchen) as the set for a movie?
You might have to get a Hollywood agent for the house, but I am sure the minute they saw your personification of the 50s/60s (and your ultra - cool car) they would be crazy not to hire you on the spot as a consultant. (Or glamorous actress.)
The filming would undoubtedly be a disruption to the smooth running of a household and young family, but the upside is, you could give me half of your first million, and never even miss it!
Love your videos, and always look forward (with bated breath)to the next one!
Great job.
Thank you
incredibly cute!!
Thank you
I have a love/hate relationship with your videos 😂 you are absolutely amazing, creative & beautiful. Hence the hate part, makes me feel like a hobo 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you lol we all start somewhere you just missed my come up 😂 I’m still learning as I go
Lindo ☺️🌺😍
Would baking popsicle sticks or skewers onto the backside of the dough help stability?
That wasn’t the issue with the house being so long/wide there is a huge void through the center. The roof needs more support in the middle. If you see the full length video on my page I manage to fix it with supports
Oh nvm I thought this was a short 😂 but yea I didn’t need sticks or skewers for this build I did use them last time
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I know you mentioned the gingerbread dough you used wasn’t very good for eating, but my curious self would still try to taste it 😂
Hahaha if it’s still warm it’s good because it’s soft 😂. If you let it cool it’s like eating a rock
You are so creative! Do you and your family actually eat it or is it just for display?
Just for display its construction dough so very hard
What lipstick do you use?
Thank you so much 💕 it’s cranberry stiletto lip whip, from beauty bakerie.
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Thank you
@@SewRena the pleasure is all mine. ☺️