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Gingerbread House Contest Beckons Bakers
Get ready to pre-heat the oven, pull out the cookie sheet and pastry bag and enter the 10th Annual Gingerbread House Contest and Show sponsored by Darnall's Chance House Museum. The contest is divided into two categories - adult and child (ages 8-16). The Gingerbread House Committee will award ribbons for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and Honorable Mention in each category. Ribbons for the Most Creative will also be presented. The Viewer's Choice Awards (which are given to one adult and one child entry) will be selected by viewer voting and each winning entry will receive a $250 gift card!
 Entry form for the 2009 Gingerbread House Contest
Rules and Regulations for Contestants
Photos of Winners from 2008 Contest
Photos of Winners from 2007 Contest
Photos of Winners from 2006 Contest
GINGERBREAD HOUSE PHOTOS - 2008 WINNERS
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2008 Viewer’s Choice Winners
 Child Category
Santa’s Spa at the North Pole by Brian Holt
 Adult Category
Home for Christmas by Mary Elliott
Adult Division
 First Place Award
Santa’s Favorite Ornament by Ami Hazell
 Second Place Award
Reindeer Loft by Pat Cranford
Third Place Award and Viewer's Choice Award
Home for Christmas by Mary Elliott
 Honorable Mention
Showplace Arena by Joan Ridgley
 Most Creative
Curious and More Curious… by Diana Hugue
Santa’s Tree Toppers by Faye Kepner
Welcome to Whoville by Patricia Bartolillo
Mickey’s Watch Factory by Rachel Lyle-Cranford
Bavarian Christmas by Rachel Spiker
 Peace by Janina L. Hnatyshyn
 Bed and Breakfast by Nicole Patterson
 Yuletide European Fishing Village by Nicole Heide
 Gingerbread House by Lisa Garrett
Child Division
First Place Award and Viewer's Choice
Santa’s Spa at the North Pole by Brian Holt
 Second Place Award and Most Creative
Worst. Christmas. Ever. by Andie Pavlat
 Third Place Award
A Christmas Village by Bronwyn Lewandowski
 Honorable Mention
So maybe it wasn’t a reindeer… by Tommy Pavlat
 Santa’s Skate by John Berard
 Super Christmas by Matthew Pavlat
GINGERBREAD HOUSE PHOTOS - 2007 WINNERS
To see a larger version of the images, click on the small thumbnail to the left.
Adult Division
 First Place Award
Enchanted Tree House by Jennifer Lauria
 Second Place Award
Christmas Cheer by Mary Elliott
 Third Place Award
A Very Married Christmas by Katrina Ten Eyck
 Viewer's Choice and Honorable Mention
Magic Christmas by Rachel Lyle-Cranford
 Most Creative
Pig Point School by Ami Hazell
Victorian Cottage by Laura Riddle
American Four Square by Val Bolger
Christmas on the Cape by Candice Blair
Army Areo School, College Park, 1911 by Mark Fisher
 Old Maryland Farm by Nicole Patterson
 Holiday House by Susan Ballard
 Easter in December by Patricia Bartolillo
 Away in a Manger by Pat Cranford
 Merry Christmas! by Janina Hnatyshyn
Ski School Dropout by Diana E. Hugue
 Bethlehem Means House of Bread by Wendy Paulat
 Carousel by Judy Gardner
 Christmas in Paradise by Jean Ballard
 Playland In Winter by Zenobia Freeman
Child Division
 First Place Award, Viewer's Choice and Most Creative
Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse by Victoria Russell
 Second Place Award
Christmas Beach Cottage by Bronwyn Lewandowski
 Third Place Award
Opps! Wrong Holiday! by Tommy Paulat
 Honorable Mention
Quinndilien's Farm by Quinn Riddle
 Soccer Registration by Alexandria Miller
 Polar Express Station by Kenisha Amari Warren
 Santa's Workshop by Emily Wilkerson
 Plutarch's Temple to Appollo by Andie Paulat
GINGERBREAD HOUSE PHOTOS - 2006 WINNERS
To see a larger version of the images, click on the small thumbnail to the left.
Adult Division
 First Place Award, Viewer's Choice, Most Creative
Creature Comfort Inn by Ami Hazell
 Second Place Award
The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe by Jennifer Lauria
 Third Place Award
December at RVCFD by Diana Hugue
 Honorable Mention
The Enchanted Forest by Patricia Bartolillo
Monticello by Richard Kwarteng
Winter Dream by Janina Hnatyshyn
Tree Emporium by Susan Ballard
Gnome Chalet by Kristen Becker
Child Division
 First Place Award, Viewer's Choice
London Toy Shoppe by Bronwyn Lewandowski
 Second Place Award
The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe by Michael Stevenson
 Third Place Award
A Very Merry Christmas by Emily Wilkerson
 Honorable Mention
Shrek's Swamp House by Victoria Russell
Christmas Bath by Tara O'Herlihy
Penguin Brigade by Codie Reeves
Igloo Village by Hannah Kempton
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