Oh my goodness, it's the Strawberry Shortcake house! Forgive me, but it's all I can see - you absolutely nailed that pastel pink + bakery aesthetic. It's just beautiful, and so much fun to watch you make! Hope you're enjoying your holidays to the full.
Did you guys have the strawberry short cake computer game?! One of the games was building your own houses!! And all the sprinkles and candy details! 🥰 Uhg. The memories 😌
Melt and pour window panes = GENIUS And as a miniature diorama creator, I totally feel you about how long it takes to cut out windows, and the saving power of audiobooks 😆 Merry Christmas!
super cute, looks like a late 90s/early 2000s dream house lol. I don't know if it'd help but I remember from my pottery classes that if you're trying to stick things together like that, you can put score marks in both pieces before adding your "glue" and it almost works like a puzzle or like sandpaper, letting it adhere better to the opposite surface
I don't normally watch your channel but I return once a year to watch the gingerbread house😅 it's become a tradition to me and I have to say you really outdid yourself this year!
Katie, if you raffled that soap gingerbread house off after New Year, I'm betting an awful lot of money could be raised to help a charity of your choice. Just a thought. I hope your family's Christmas was Merry and Bright and that lots of Love and Laughter was enjoyed by all. God bless you all.
A few of my favourite tips for GB house decor. A piece of foil with white icing beach makes great looking skating pond. Pez candies for bricks. Great for sidewalks or paths. Bubble tape or fruit by the foot for roof shingles Dust then blow around icing sugar for snow drifts. Don't forget the plastic Santa for the roof!
After seeing the embed loaf, I would love for one year to make the house using all those extras as a way to really tie up and remember the year. I think it would be super fun
This came out absolutely charming! Maybe make experimenting with different color palettes a tradition? Like next year you could do blue and while and lean hard into an "ice and snow" theme. Next year do a very classic red and green. Maybe do a deliberately faded-out version of those colors to make it look "vintage", like it's something years and years old. Heck, do one where you style it so it looks a bit weathered like it's an old Victorian house, or something! Oooh, use very Victorian colors for that, like burgundy, super-deep forest green, brown, gold, etc. That could look so classy! And I too love the lights inside. Keep that effect!
A tip on assembling roofs on gingerbread houses - lay a ribbon across the house and frost both sides (leaving a small gap for the ribbon) then add the roof and then pull both ends of the ribbon and tie them together atop the triangular apex of the roof. It’ll prevent it from slipping and falling off. Untie or cut the ribbon and just slide it out when the frosting has hardened to keep it together. It’s such a simple but perfect technique.
Mwahahhaha! Well first it's fabulous of course, but you always say you're not going to make another gingerbread house soap, and then you do! And I LOVE THEM! My 53 y/o butt just can't get enough of them! Thank You!
Absolutely stunning Katie every little girls dream. This is hands down my favorite ,definitely the best you have done. You are so talented and the love and care you put in shows in the end product .
Thanks for doing the 12 days of soapmas again this year. We know its a lot of work for you. I love having a video of yours to look forward to each day. I am always so excited to see how you change up the soap gingerbread house from year to year! Merry Christmas hope you and the family had a wonderful and magical day filled with lots of memories!
Just had an idea for a 2023 soap: 80s & 90s! 80s: Pastel colors with a grid pattern & maybe glass brick & slotted sunglasses embeds. 90s: Bold colors with alien head, yin yang, peace symbol, & striped tophat embeds. Triangle, circle, square, & squiggle embeds would work in both decades.
Next Year has to be some sort of clear with glitter. That way you can have a really neat Ice house that the light shines through! Lovely video! Thank you so much.
I would grate soap all over the brown cardboard. Right now we have about 18 inches of snow on the ground, so it only seems fitting that the ground be covered in white. I love this idea. I've made a volcano for a children's science show out of soap and a superpowered bathbomb, but I've never tried a 'gingerbread style' house. Next time I see the silicone moulds for sale, I'll have to remember and grab some, or maybe just wing it, like I did with the 40cm tall volcano I hand sculpted with re-batched soap.
OMGoodness!! So beautiful! Reminds me of a candle gingerbread house we had in my house every year when I was a child....perfect to keep and bring out every year!
In your recent video about testing soap kits, I commented that I got the itch to try and make some soap, and I did! I ordered everything through amazon to make some melt and pour. My family loved it as a little extra gift over the holidays. Thank you for being a great inspiration and a lovely person. I hope you had great holidays xx
that pink works amazingly. I love this. Lets make trying different (pastel) colours in the gingerbread house an additional tradition. It would be so much fun. Just imagine something pastel brown, white, or light blue...
I'm really surprised at the lack of views on this video, the time it took to not only plan this out but then to actually get everything put together must have been soo time consuming. I'm really hoping you get the recognition you deserve because this is absolutely beautiful and very detailed! ❤️
I was LITERALLY just thinking “It’s been a few months since I saw a Royalty Soap video. I wonder how Katie is doing.” AND THREE HOURS LATER YOU’RE IN MY RECOMMENDED
I think next year you should auction one of these soap "gingerbread" houses off & either do a giveaway with the proceeds or donate the proceeds to your favorite charity. You could do the same for a lot of holidays. Find a larger project you can do out of soap & have auctions for your customers/subscribers. The following would be my ideas off the top of my head; all made from soap, of course New Years: a fun girly party drink Valentine's Day: box of Chocolates, bouquet of roses or a snow globe with glitter, hearts & a romantic scene inside St. Patrick's Day: a mug of green beer with frothy cap Easter: an Easter basket Mother's Day: a spa kit with an assortment of your favorite scented soaps Memorial Day: A floral arrangement Father's Day: Boat in a bottle, sports stuff or paperweight Flag Day: a soap "cake" with flags on it 4th of July: soaps with a bunch of sparkes in them to simulate fireworks, you could experiment with injecting colors into clear soaps to simulate fireworks Labor Day: bunch of corn, barrel of apples, other harvest fall items, pumpkin spice latte in a coffee cup Halloween: jack-o-lantern, haunted "gingerbread" house, trick or treat bag with treats Thanksgiving: Cornucopia or a pie Christmas: "Gingerbread" house, Christmas tree, little wrapped gifts or a stocking with goodies Again, all made of soap. Feel free to use any of this with my blessings. It would be a fun marketing tool & would translate to all social media platforms where you'd leave a link to your current auction.
Merry Christmas to you an your framily!!!, I am alwaysed amazed at your vizion, talent and troubleshooting skills. You take a point of "hmmm..." and make it a positive. I think you are an amazing woman and as always, a true, cry of Encore!!
I always love your year end soap gingerbread houses! I know you'll continue to come up with amazing designs in the future! Wishing you and your wonderful family a Merry Christmas! ❤️
I have a tip for ginger bread roofs. Put a ribbon in between the house and roof, set the roof on and tie the ribbon at the peak. This holds the roof on until it's stuck on and then you can remove the ribbon.
This turned out so cute! You just keep getting better and better at these every year! I'm fully obsessed with the front door, something about all the different sizes and colors of the soap beads hits just right. Love it!!
So cute!!!!! It looks like a chocolate bar “gingerbread” house in the best way possible! This would actually be a lot of fun to try to make out of chocolate😊
Oh it's perfect! I've loved every one you've made, but this one really shows how your skills have advanced. Honestly, just transfer what you do here into frosting for your next cupcake challenge....Your frosting skills are already "baked" in. :D
It came out awesome! Reminds me of making gingerbread houses in the pastry shop haha. One thing that might help with attaching the roof is if you score the top edges of the walls where they meet the roof piece with a paring knife (like make some rough scratches/cuts in it) that would help with holding your soap glue and give it something to grip rather than the smooth soap surface. You can also score on the underside of the roof piece where it meets the walls too. We actually do this when making chocolate displays 👍 you could also score the edges of each wall piece when you put those together to make the bond stronger, although that part seemed to go pretty good for you.
We need a seasonal house. spring summer fall and winter 🤩
I’m obsessed with this every year!
Yesss ! A haunted house for Halloween for sure and maybe even some premade kits as merch
Easter egg house.
Yes!
Yes please 😄
Yeeeesss!! 😍
Oh my goodness, it's the Strawberry Shortcake house! Forgive me, but it's all I can see - you absolutely nailed that pastel pink + bakery aesthetic. It's just beautiful, and so much fun to watch you make! Hope you're enjoying your holidays to the full.
The memories you just brought back!!
I used to have the doll, and when you would squeeze her she would blow you a strawberry scented kiss!!! 🤣
Did you guys have the strawberry short cake computer game?! One of the games was building your own houses!! And all the sprinkles and candy details! 🥰 Uhg. The memories 😌
YEARLY SOAP GINGERBREAD HOUSE LETS GOOO
Oh!❤ it’s the sugar plum fairy’s house, how lovely.
Yours and Ana Reardon’s gingerbread houses are some of my favorite yearly traditions ❤
Katie could use Ann's ribbon tip from this year's video to help with the roof haha
I LOVE Ann Reardon! Such a cool channel.
In our house it aint Chrismas without Ann and Katie!
Melt and pour window panes = GENIUS
And as a miniature diorama creator, I totally feel you about how long it takes to cut out windows, and the saving power of audiobooks 😆 Merry Christmas!
All I can think of is the CSI episodes with the miniature killer! Hahhaha!
@@HighTideSoaps I need to Google this!
@@minimaplesstudio3567 OMG, watch all the episodes with it, there are a few! You’ll love it.
My favorite tradition - see my family, come home, and watch the annual soap house with a big plate of dessert
Every year they get cuter and cuter.
Loved the trees.
This pastel pink gingerbread house really is the most beautiful one you've ever made.
Love every little detail of it!🩷
super cute, looks like a late 90s/early 2000s dream house lol.
I don't know if it'd help but I remember from my pottery classes that if you're trying to stick things together like that, you can put score marks in both pieces before adding your "glue" and it almost works like a puzzle or like sandpaper, letting it adhere better to the opposite surface
I don't normally watch your channel but I return once a year to watch the gingerbread house😅 it's become a tradition to me and I have to say you really outdid yourself this year!
Definitely your best soap gingerbread house yet!
Katie, if you raffled that soap gingerbread house off after New Year, I'm betting an awful lot of money could be raised to help a charity of your choice. Just a thought. I hope your family's Christmas was Merry and Bright and that lots of Love and Laughter was enjoyed by all. God bless you all.
A few of my favourite tips for GB house decor.
A piece of foil with white icing beach makes great looking skating pond.
Pez candies for bricks. Great for sidewalks or paths.
Bubble tape or fruit by the foot for roof shingles
Dust then blow around icing sugar for snow drifts.
Don't forget the plastic Santa for the roof!
It's beautiful! I love it. It appeals to the little girl in me for sure.
This is the best soap creation I've EVER seen. 🥺🥺🥺🥺
If you sold soap Christmas trees I would buy in bulk for gifts. The ones you made for this are so cute!!!!
This was my most favorite soap creation of yours. The chocolate bars along the side and those trees are just *chef's kiss*
I'd love to see a Family-coop Gingerbread in the future~
like everyone designing a different part of it etc
I would purchase those soap Christmas trees in a heartbeat! Would you consider having something like that in your store next season??
After seeing the embed loaf, I would love for one year to make the house using all those extras as a way to really tie up and remember the year. I think it would be super fun
This is definitely my favorite of your gingerbread houses!!!!!! It came out so lovely!!!!!!!!
This came out absolutely charming! Maybe make experimenting with different color palettes a tradition? Like next year you could do blue and while and lean hard into an "ice and snow" theme. Next year do a very classic red and green. Maybe do a deliberately faded-out version of those colors to make it look "vintage", like it's something years and years old. Heck, do one where you style it so it looks a bit weathered like it's an old Victorian house, or something! Oooh, use very Victorian colors for that, like burgundy, super-deep forest green, brown, gold, etc. That could look so classy! And I too love the lights inside. Keep that effect!
Next year spray paint the cardboard white to look like snow. This is superb the best design yet.
A tip on assembling roofs on gingerbread houses - lay a ribbon across the house and frost both sides (leaving a small gap for the ribbon) then add the roof and then pull both ends of the ribbon and tie them together atop the triangular apex of the roof. It’ll prevent it from slipping and falling off. Untie or cut the ribbon and just slide it out when the frosting has hardened to keep it together.
It’s such a simple but perfect technique.
Mwahahhaha! Well first it's fabulous of course, but you always say you're not going to make another gingerbread house soap, and then you do! And I LOVE THEM! My 53 y/o butt just can't get enough of them! Thank You!
Gorgeous Katie!!! My daughter and I had so much fun watching this together on Christmas night. We love it!! 🎄❤️
Love that you are using tools from Jackie’s kit!
The best one yet! The lights put it over the top.
Absolutely stunning Katie every little girls dream. This is hands down my favorite ,definitely the best you have done. You are so talented and the love and care you put in shows in the end product .
Thanks for doing the 12 days of soapmas again this year. We know its a lot of work for you. I love having a video of yours to look forward to each day. I am always so excited to see how you change up the soap gingerbread house from year to year! Merry Christmas hope you and the family had a wonderful and magical day filled with lots of memories!
I don't know why but the paranormal color shift between pink and orange filled me with so much joy because they're my two favorite colors 🥰
I love that you make a soap gingerbread house every year! 😁
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!!!! 🤩🥰💖
It’s gorgeous! And those fairy lights are perfection!
I don't get too excited about soap things admittedly, but wow, that is stunning!!!
You have outdone yourself! Simply gorgeous!
What a fun video! Next year, I'd love to see a gingerbread soap cottage! How cool would it be to represent Royalty Soaps in gingerbread form???
Just had an idea for a 2023 soap: 80s & 90s!
80s: Pastel colors with a grid pattern & maybe glass brick & slotted sunglasses embeds.
90s: Bold colors with alien head, yin yang, peace symbol, & striped tophat embeds.
Triangle, circle, square, & squiggle embeds would work in both decades.
The color morph to the orange made me think of butterscotch! It looked like butterscotch pudding in the molds.
Next Year has to be some sort of clear with glitter. That way you can have a really neat Ice house that the light shines through! Lovely video! Thank you so much.
Katie Carson - you have filled so many of my sleepless nights with loveliness. I am looking forward to your creations in the new year.
Oh my goodness! That’s an amazing ginger bread house!!! Wonderful job!!
I would grate soap all over the brown cardboard. Right now we have about 18 inches of snow on the ground, so it only seems fitting that the ground be covered in white. I love this idea. I've made a volcano for a children's science show out of soap and a superpowered bathbomb, but I've never tried a 'gingerbread style' house. Next time I see the silicone moulds for sale, I'll have to remember and grab some, or maybe just wing it, like I did with the 40cm tall volcano I hand sculpted with re-batched soap.
My little pastel heart is meeeelting!
LOOK HOW STINKIN CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is definitely your best one yet! I am not even a huge fan of the color pink, but I think this is adorable.
Same !!!
OMGoodness!! So beautiful! Reminds me of a candle gingerbread house we had in my house every year when I was a child....perfect to keep and bring out every year!
This is the first time I've been here for Soapmas and I LOVE this idea! A gingerbread house I can get behind!
Add some shaved soap “snow” next year around the base. This was absolutely adorable ❤😊 Merry Christmas to you all.
In your recent video about testing soap kits, I commented that I got the itch to try and make some soap, and I did! I ordered everything through amazon to make some melt and pour. My family loved it as a little extra gift over the holidays. Thank you for being a great inspiration and a lovely person. I hope you had great holidays xx
that pink works amazingly. I love this. Lets make trying different (pastel) colours in the gingerbread house an additional tradition. It would be so much fun. Just imagine something pastel brown, white, or light blue...
That is so cute. Thank you for sharing all your hard work with us!
So very cute for your last day of Soapmas. Next year you could use a cake board of any shape as the coloured foil can be changed from year to year.
Fabulous!!! Happy 2023
I'm really surprised at the lack of views on this video, the time it took to not only plan this out but then to actually get everything put together must have been soo time consuming. I'm really hoping you get the recognition you deserve because this is absolutely beautiful and very detailed! ❤️
Omgosh, this gingerbread house is amazing! I’ve been into the overly feminine decor with light pinks lately so this just does it for me.
Oh my greatness!!! That is the CUTEST lil pink house I've ever seen. Great job!
I was LITERALLY just thinking “It’s been a few months since I saw a Royalty Soap video. I wonder how Katie is doing.” AND THREE HOURS LATER YOU’RE IN MY RECOMMENDED
I think next year you should auction one of these soap "gingerbread" houses off & either do a giveaway with the proceeds or donate the proceeds to your favorite charity.
You could do the same for a lot of holidays. Find a larger project you can do out of soap & have auctions for your customers/subscribers.
The following would be my ideas off the top of my head; all made from soap, of course
New Years: a fun girly party drink
Valentine's Day: box of Chocolates, bouquet of roses or a snow globe with glitter, hearts & a romantic scene inside
St. Patrick's Day: a mug of green beer with frothy cap
Easter: an Easter basket
Mother's Day: a spa kit with an assortment of your favorite scented soaps
Memorial Day: A floral arrangement
Father's Day: Boat in a bottle, sports stuff or paperweight
Flag Day: a soap "cake" with flags on it
4th of July: soaps with a bunch of sparkes in them to simulate fireworks, you could experiment with injecting colors into clear soaps to simulate fireworks
Labor Day: bunch of corn, barrel of apples, other harvest fall items, pumpkin spice latte in a coffee cup
Halloween: jack-o-lantern, haunted "gingerbread" house, trick or treat bag with treats
Thanksgiving: Cornucopia or a pie
Christmas: "Gingerbread" house, Christmas tree, little wrapped gifts or a stocking with goodies
Again, all made of soap. Feel free to use any of this with my blessings. It would be a fun marketing tool & would translate to all social media platforms where you'd leave a link to your current auction.
Merry Christmas to you an your framily!!!, I am alwaysed amazed at your vizion, talent and troubleshooting skills. You take a point of "hmmm..." and make it a positive. I think you are an amazing woman and as always, a true, cry of Encore!!
This is definitely one of my favs from over the years!!
It absolutely adorable! Love it so much!
For the roof Ann Reardon had a great way to keep it together, tie a string around the top to hold it together until everything sets up!
The best one yet! 🎄
I always love your year end soap gingerbread houses! I know you'll continue to come up with amazing designs in the future! Wishing you and your wonderful family a Merry Christmas! ❤️
Yes love this revisit for the soap house.
I have a tip for ginger bread roofs. Put a ribbon in between the house and roof, set the roof on and tie the ribbon at the peak. This holds the roof on until it's stuck on and then you can remove the ribbon.
What a gorgeous gingerbread house. I'm always gobsmacked at how creative you truly are, Katie.
Look at those numbers! 899K subscribers! Almost there!
This labour of love turned out fabulous 😍😍😍💓💓💓💓
I feel like next year a more decorative board would be pretty like a nice cake board or even a board also created from soap
I love it!
Next year...Make some finger joins so it goes together like a jigsaw! And put the lights in before the roof goes on!
You are a mistro at this a master of your craft. This is absolutely stunning and I love it
OMG it came out soooo beautiful. I love it so much!!!!
So cute I love the gingerbread soap houses
Absolutely beautiful soap gingerbread house!!!!!!! I'm so impressed!! Merry Christmas!!
It's my favorite as well. It is too cute 😍!!!
I am going to miss these videos, they where so much fun to watch
I love pink! This house is so beautiful!
Absolutely adorable! Beautiful! Magical! 🎄🏠🎄🏠🎄
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 ❤
If I'd be a witch, this would be my house.
Merry Christmas!!
omg I always love the gingerbread soap houses!!!!!
I’m obsessed with your soap gingerbread house tradition! I vote we need a Spring/Summer fairy house! ❤ Merry Christmas!
This turned out so cute! You just keep getting better and better at these every year! I'm fully obsessed with the front door, something about all the different sizes and colors of the soap beads hits just right. Love it!!
So cute
So cute!!!!!
It looks like a chocolate bar “gingerbread” house in the best way possible!
This would actually be a lot of fun to try to make out of chocolate😊
Oh it's perfect! I've loved every one you've made, but this one really shows how your skills have advanced. Honestly, just transfer what you do here into frosting for your next cupcake challenge....Your frosting skills are already "baked" in. :D
Unreal. Absolutely beautiful!
THANK YOU Katie! I always look forward to your holiday gingerbread houses. Masterfully done, as always.
Love your gingerbread houses!!!
This IS the bestest yet! 💕
Happy Christmas to all and Merry Holidays too. May all of you New Year wishes come true.
✌❤🕊
So gorgeous and pink!!! 😀❤️
It's so so cute! I love the chocolate bars stacked on the sides!
Merry Christmas!
You can cover the cardboard in foil, and then you basically have a cake board!
Those Christmas trees are SO COOL!!! 🎄🎄
It came out awesome! Reminds me of making gingerbread houses in the pastry shop haha. One thing that might help with attaching the roof is if you score the top edges of the walls where they meet the roof piece with a paring knife (like make some rough scratches/cuts in it) that would help with holding your soap glue and give it something to grip rather than the smooth soap surface. You can also score on the underside of the roof piece where it meets the walls too. We actually do this when making chocolate displays 👍 you could also score the edges of each wall piece when you put those together to make the bond stronger, although that part seemed to go pretty good for you.
I love all of your gingerbread houses, but this is the best yet🤩😍