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UtahFamilyTransformsHomeInto Life-sizedGingerbreadHouse
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By Ben Hooper
Dec. 13 (UPI) -- A Utah home is drawing the atten- tion of passers-by -- as well as Internet users -- after being deco- rated to resemble a life-sized ginger- bread house.
Virginia Hoffman said she realized a few years ago that her red brick home in the Yalecrest area of Salt Lake City bears a striking resemblance to the Christmas season treats, so she started think- ing of ways to decorate the home as a gigan- tic gingerbread house.
Hoffman enlisted
the help of her family to make her vision a reality.
"I told my family about it and luckily they didn't think I was crazy. And so we painted these gumballs in the kitchen over Thanksgiving of 2019, and then my daughter and son-in-law helped me figure out how to attach them to the house," Hoffman told KSTU-TV.
Hoffman, an interi- or designer by trade, and her husband, a pro- fessional artist, added vanilla wafers into the mix for this year's decoration.
"We made that out
of foam, insula- tion, and then my husband melted out the squares with a soldering iron, and I painted them and got the exact right colors to look like the cookies," Hoffman said.
The yearly décor has proven popu- lar with neighbors, and this year's version went viral online after Hoffman's daugh- ter shared pho- tos on Reddit.
"I hope that if it can just put a smile on anyone's face, if it can just help a little bit, a little Christmas cheer, that's the whole goal. It will all be worth it," she said.
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