I don’t recall where we found this pattern, but it might have been a combination of a few books or magazines. I’ve collected many books over the years and I’m always looking for more gingerbread books!
Here are the individual pieces.
Garrison spent some time with the dremel tool to make the sugar crystals just the right shape.
Most people don’t see the back of the gingerbread house, so sometimes we get crazy and add a smiley face, or at least add the date.
For a little joke we added strips of toilet paper to the pretzel tree to look like their house had been TP’d. A few months prior, “someone” had TP’d all the high school band section leader’s homes and no one knew who it was (until they got caught on the last night)!