Cajun Night Before Christmas House

by Carolyn Bowman
(Prairieville, Louisiana 70769)

Santa in his skiff pulled by Alligator

I've been making gingerbread houses since the 60's for my sons and now my grand children. Each year I try something different or I revisit old ones. They have grown more complicated over the years. I have built barns, school houses with outside slides and swings, Castles with turrets, Merry-go-rounds that actually go around with reindeer for horses, candy stores with bicycles outside. Last year I build a replica of Houmas House (an old southern mansion with white columns and oak trees with moss and a widows walk. Because its Louisiana I send my version of the a Cajun House Night before Christmas. Hope you enjoy. Carolyn Bowman