Now that the cinnamon burn from glueing 110 pieces of Big Red gum to the floor of our project is out of my nose enough to write, I have to give a HUGE thank you to all the people who made our adorable Gingerbread Home to be displayed at TPAC for Gingerbread Homes for the Holidays happening this weekend.

For a second year in a row, Greg and Sara Myer have been kind enough to lend us their creative abilities to build a detailed home for display.  They are such valuable volunteers at TCTA.  I don’t know what we’d do without them!  If only Greg would have sang with his beautiful voice while we worked, then it would have been the ultimate experience! 

The gingerbread home will be displayed at TPAC as part of their annual fund raiser where thousands of people come to see the homes on display, shop for homeade local goods, and build their own gingerbread homes to take home.  It’s a fundraiser for their youth programming.  The people who come through the doors of TPAC to see the displays are people who also support TCTA. So, it was a great opportunity for us to promote our current shows.  So, this years display called for a design promoting both Annie Warbucks and A Year with Frog & Toad.  …doing that, however, created a new challenge…making the characters for the show!

Because everything on the home must be edible it was a challenge to find materials to make the characters.  But, we found handy marzipan to use and even better we incorporated the talents of Janet Rees to do the sculptures for us.  They were absolutely adorable!  We are so lucky to have her join our building team this year.

Since Janet was helping us out, we also recruited in her daughter Dorianne “Doe” Rees to also help out, run get things from the store for us, sculpt flowers, and generally make us laugh and keep the late nights fun!  Thank you to both of the Rees ladies for their help.

And, once the masterpiece is built, it takes a lot of delicate care to deliver the final project to TPAC, so thank you to Stacy Myers for the help with that.  It’s so nice to have her back in Topeka.

If you have a chance to go see the homes this weekend, I highly recommend it. It’s a great event and it’s something great to do with the whole family.

And, speaking of family…make sure to bring them to see the final weekend of A Year with Frog and Toad and Annie Warbucks!  Both shows are terrific for the family!

Tags: Annie Warbucks, christmas, Frog and Toad, gingerbread, TCTA, TPAC, Volunteers

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