I may not have decorated my own house for Christmas this year… (it just all felt too busy with the Fischer Flip) But, at least I got the beautiful Fischer kitchen looking festive for our holiday photo shoot! I had been dreaming of announcing our pregnancy using gingerbread men, and that’s just what we did this past December.
Announcing one’s pregnancy has become such a big adieu. I’m all for keeping things simple. This was a nice way to capture our news in a Christmas card format. You could even use this idea to announce gender as well!
I had bought these gingerbread men and women cookie cutters. You could easily use the smallest gingerbread woman shape as your baby cookie as well. I’ve never made gingerbread before, but it was surprisingly simple. Once the cookies were baked and cooled, I used a royal icing packet to pipe on their clothes and faces.
Gahhhh, the cutest just kills me!!! Next year I’ll have to figure out how to make gingerbread ornaments to commemorate the baby’s first year.
We ended up taking the photos and adding them to our Christmas card for fun announcement surprise. There are so many cute phrases couples use to share that they are expecting. It’s hard to choose! But I had searched a few Christmas pregnancy announcements and thought this was the sweetest: “The more the merrier…”
Sidenote… I had found that red gingham vintage dress months ago and basically cooked up this whole thing as an excuse to wear it. It’s so fun to find unique clothes from times past and give them new life!
I’ll admit, the ginormous shoulder pads threw me at first. But after trying to remove them and realizing that made the top way too big, I decided to embrace them. 🙂
We ended up listing this flip house for sale a few weeks later and these little window wreaths made the sweetest backdrop for the real estate photos. I found the red felt ribbon on the wreaths at an estate sale. There was several boxes of Christmas wrapping and bows, and I got them all!
I was hoping to capture a simple ‘Scandinavian Christmas’ vibe with some minimal organic materials, and accenting with some pops of red. I had a hard time finding a lot of Christmas kitchen inspiration that felt understated. A lot of it is very cheesy or over the top.
The Christmas kitchens I ended up liking the most used natural materials like greens, wood, ribbon, and brass. So I pulled together my thrifted dough bowl, some brass candlesticks, and some holiday greens to get the look.
We are so excited to welcome this little girl into our lives in 2021!!! It feels like good timing: I’m into my second trimester and we now have the Fischer Flip on the market. I feel like there is more space in my mind now to start considering and preparing for the new little babe.
It was full force ahead and all focus on the flip house until now. So, listing this place has given me a lot of peace of mind. I am ready to start nesting! I’ll leave you with a few final pictures from this Christmas Pregnancy Announcement shoot and our sweet little gingerbread family.
Photo credit to the amazing Rilea Petersen.