I've never made one, but my understanding is that the appeal is having a house made of gingerbread by the end.

it's messy because the materials are not easy to work with in a standard kit. if you get more expensive one or follow a recipe online, the materials (icing, candy, gingerbread) are easier to work with. but then you've spent $70 on an activity you may or may not like. My suggestion is to meet in the middle and get one of those kits but make your own icing.

I haven't made one in a long time because I'm gluten-free now and I can't enjoy it when it's done but I think for me mostly the appeal is in architecture. finding the right balance of placement where everything doesn't fall over and the creative process of "home decorations" with the candy. another way to make it fun is to buy candy you actually like.

Yes, out of a cheapo kit and to my surprise it turned out alright. My sister's did not. We called it a gingerbread crackhouse.

If you're an icing eater it can be worth it.

Maybe just gingerbread people instead? that seems like it would be easier and more fun to me

I have to say this is absolutely not making me want to make a gingerbread house lmfao

as someone thats been making even the dough from scratch (but never made a house yet), this makes me want to attempt to hilariously terribly freehand a gingerbread house or a few small ones. Experimental Architecture

yes, please do this and let us see!

I remember making a gingerbread house a few years back, I think it stood for a day or two and ended up collapsing... If I made one today I'd probably make a faux one with cardboard, paint, hot glue and whatever little scraps and trinkets are floating around my room

good idea! i do worry about what to do with it after it's served its purpose. it's easier for me to consider sliding a gingerbread house into the trash (where, arguably, they belong), but a trinket-filled cardboard house?? what to do with it?

i hate every second of updating this stupid page and yet i cannot seem to stop. counting down until the end of 2025.

AI in tennis??? lmaoooo

soon all tennis pros will be out of work.

sending good vibes and hope you felt some relief at writing this!

the knit sweater looks amazing

OBSESSED with the sweater

*"raises my hackles" has been added to vocabulary*

Thank you! I am so proud I'm showing everyone haha

i choose to share cones

And we thank you for doing that

Um Halloween sweaters are year round sweaters, I see no problem here.

23th lol :D as a chronic internet oversharer, i just type and then wish later that i hadn't said anything at all.

once again incredibly real posts lol, i love the strawberry fields=transcience of life thing so much

i have tried to start a "journal" type page on my website several times and struggled so much just on deciding what to share and not share that i ended up removing the page entirely.. ultimately i'm satisfied just having pages dedicated to things i like rather than anything else personal. i also find that writing about my life for an audience makes me way more self critical and i don't like it

despite that i still like to read personal blogs from other people tho haha

i struggle with what to share all the time. when i'm writing blogs i think, why would anyone care about this? but then i go back and re-read and i'm glad i wrote it just for my own sort of documentation of my life. but i still struggle with how others are perceiving it.

In the vein of "23th", my local Little Caesars for years had "TRY OUR 4-8PM" on their readerboard. I regret not photographing it.

I think my main worry is that someone from work will somehow find this and finally they will see beyond the mask I Gorilla Glue in place every time I have to be perceived by them. But now that I think of it, I'm not sure it really matters all that much given that I am not interested in sharing rated R or super emotional personal information anyway.

I really wish I could reply directly to people’s comments. But @projectc190 and @bigbrat, I find that writing about my life in bullet point helps me share things about my life that others might find amusing or interesting (which I guess is my goal in writing for an audience).

Like, you don’t need to write some big essay with an “important” theme. You can just mention something random that happened and leave it at that. Personally I find that type of mundane, silly observation to be very interesting as a blog reader. Just saying, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel to blog. You can just write something you’d like to read.

(And if you do that, people probably will find it interesting. But even if no one is reading, the process of writing can still be fun for you. Hence why I generally only write when I'm in a good mood. If I'm going to cry about something in public, I at least want it to be entertaining for people. Lmfao.)

yes, i totally get you!! blogging can be whatever we want. i feel like we've all been substack-pilled lol. blogging can just be fun, no need for a thesis! also i def understand the worry of someone you know IRL finding your blog in the wild, hence keeping it semi-anonymous and why probably a lot of folks make neocities pages in the first place!

Finally watched Halloweentown, did not disappoint. Also saw Watcher in the Woods, an older Disney halloween flick, and was mostly impressed though English accents annoy me

glad you liked it. :) I haven't heard of Watcher in the Woods - adding it to my list!