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One of the enduring holiday traditions my family has [besides making three kinds of cranberry sauce available for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, which I didn't realize I was attached to until the absence of one of them over this Christmas made me cranky] is making gingerbread cookies. My parents cookie-cut the dough into people, chickens, stars, Christmas trees, Etc.  After they are baked and cooled, we all paint them using small watercolor brushes with different colors of confectioners sugar icing. Candy embellishments are used as well.

When we are finished, my father dutifully snaps a couple of pictures for the archives.

My personal crowing achievement for this year was a bull / devil-esque looking thing that was made with an upside-down bell cookie placed over a gingerbread man’s head.

Care to find it?

“…trying to search for the literal in literature inevitably kills the object of affection, murders the fiction stone-dead.”

From here