Gingerbread house exterior

To recycle is one thing but to "upcycle" is an entirely new way to look at items already in your garage and make them useful again with a new purpose. These creative geniuses gave us 20 more to consider!

Explore creative gingerbread decor ideas for a festive season! DIY techniques, exterior/interior inspirations, and gingerbread figures. Make holidays joyful!

Happy Friday, my festive Festers! Ready to get your gingerbread house on? This project has had a lot of ups and downs since we last spoke. Or downs and ups, as things kept falling off, hehehe. That's the slightly unhinged chuckle of a woman who is one more mishap away from renting a flamethrower, btw. BUT WE MADE IT. And so far, knock on gingerbread, the Gingerbread House still stands. Our battlefield of candy carnage. So now that we've learned absolutely everything the hard way, let me show…

Every neighborhood has that house that goes all out for Christmas, the one that requires a special drive-by to see the latest collection of…

An easy recipe to make a gingerbread house from scratch! Build your own gingerbread house, then decorate it with fluffy icing and candy!

See how I decorated my front porch to look like a gingerbread house. I used oversized candies, trimmed the roof line with "frosting" and even made a candy wreath for the front door. This is so cute and such a fun way to decorate your home's exterior for Christmas!

Time to show you guys our second big build for the coming Hogwarts slumber party! (If you missed the giant stone fireplace build, you can check that out here.) The last few years John and I've put up a fake brick entry to our back room, like this: After two years we wanted a change, though, and wracked our brains for an appropriate entry to the Hufflepuff Common Room. Eventually I narrowed it down to basic 'Puff priorities: fun and food. Throw Christmas into the mix, and of course you get a…