A Little Bit About a Lot of Things

Ever since I was a kid, my mom and I would go to the Christmas Festival. We would do some light shopping and then go out to the now closed Anthony’s Pier 4.

The Christmas festival, now in its 30th year, has a wonderful gingerbread house display every year. The houses are judged and sold, with proceeds going to Housing Families, a non profit dedicated to ending family homelessness.

This year my mom and I started a new tradition. We brought my kids to the festival and they were able to judge the gingerbread houses!

The gingerbread houses were amazing! Check out this Finding Dory gingerbread house – look at all the detail.

A Wizard of Oz themed gingerbread house made by Café Escadrille.

Chef Maria Cavaleri’s house.

I loved the Candy Land themed house by Jennifer Pearson Luna, Executive Pastry Chef at Ostra and Sorellina. She won best tasting – which was my vote – and boy were those cookies tasty!

Here’s a close up.

This Main Street Disney gingerbread house was made by Cupcake City and took home top prize!

This house won the Best Decoration award.

Ginger Betty’s had adorable Dory cookies.

The festival has 300 exhibitors so you’re sure to find some holiday gifts!

I love these ceramic koi fish made by Maine artist, Tyson Weiss. Check out his website www.fishinthegarden.net

There are so many things to choose from: scarves, mittens, jewelry, kids clothing, holiday goods and more!

I love these birdhouses.

The food aisle is always the best to go down, that’s why I always save it for last. I picked up some really tasty toffee from Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe out of New York.

How cute are these hot chocolate balls? If you can’t make it to the show, check them out online.

I loved Carrie Wagners whimsy illustrations. She’s a first time exhibitor and is based out of Rhode Island. I picked up two of the most adorable ornaments – an octopus and a fish. You can find her shop, Sepia Lepus on Etsy if you can’t make it to the show.

The festival is open this Saturday 10 – 6 and Sunday 10 – 5. For more information, check out the Boston Christmas Festival’s website: http://bostonchristmasfestival.com/

Disclaimer: I was invited to bring my family to the festival to judge the gingerbread house contest. We were compensated with free tickets to the festival. All opinions are my own.

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