Sunday, December 29, 2013

houses of gingerbread

There is no Sunday Stamps this week, but as I can't sleep....
I thought I'd share these delightful stamps of gingerbread houses that I was thrilled to get this week.

I looked up the story behind these stamps and from the USPS website I found that there are two other gingerbread houses stamps (featuring red and blue doors!)



'These stamps feature four different gingerbread houses set against a bright blue background. Made with gingerbread and royal icing, each house has sugary fruit slices for shingles, peppermint sticks for support beams, and round, candy-coated chocolate for doorknobs and holly berries, and yet each is unique.'





I didn't grow up with the tradition of making gingerbread  houses and was an adult before I even knew this was something to be done.  I guess the cookies were enough for my mother to handle. Anyway, I was never really fond of gingerbread. or icing. or candied fruit. or peppermint. I probably would have just eaten the Smarties and been happy with that.
A few years ago, I was in Rochester and stumbled on a gingerbread house display at the Eastman House. I have searched and searched for my photos from that trip and cannot find them. The houses were magnificent as I recall (you'll just have to take my word for that). There is a bakery near me that makes hundreds of these houses every Christmas and I often wander in just to look at them. I quite like gingerbread now that I am older. I don't really want a house to eat, but I do want those other two stamps.

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  1. There is a lot of detail in those little houses...I'd like to see the other two as well.

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    1. with my luck, any postcards I get from the US will have these same stamps! but I'll post them if I get them.

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  2. They are delightful! I wonder what will happen to postal services in the future.
    I enjoyed your hotels, too!
    Cheers from Cottage Country Ontario , ON, Canada!

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    1. thanks. Canada Post is certainly making things challenging for itself!

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  3. I didn't grow up with gingerbread houses either. They are fascinating. aren't they? I wonder if we happened upon the same gingerbread house display at the Eastman House. Or maybe they do it every year.

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    1. we keep almost running into each other!
      I think they do it every year.

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