Initial plans:
The gingerbread:
The candy:
The before:
The after:
Lydia’s grave: (the sight of so much sugar was too much for her)
(j/k – she actually had 1/2 of the decorating ideas and had a lot of fun doing it)
The front:
The back:
The side:
The garden:
From the top:
The gate:
All in all, we had lots of fun, despite working with all that “poisonous material”.
Except for the first three: photo credit goes to Daniel.
~Lena
As some people know since last May my life has mainly been focused on school courses – and yesterday I finally took my last exam and can say that “I’m done”! Needless to say, I’m happy and so looking forward to Christmas break!
This evening Lydia and I (and others) are celebrating by making a gingerbread house, which is one of our Christmas traditions – I’ll post pictures tonight or tomorrow: and at least, if nothing else, they’ll be proof that vonderLufts do indeed use candy!
For now, here is a picture of one that we did in 2007: 
~Lena