Darby Smart To DIY For Subscription Box Review – Oct 2014

I received a different version from this one. It’s 4 small houses and the cookies aren’t ginger. I was a little disappointed with the instructions provided and that they only included 2 icing bags for the 3 different colors of icing. Also, I only received 2 bags of candy.

I figured it out and started working on it last night. Received it late as well, would have liked to have been able to work on it over last weekend and brought it into work.

I think this is cute and looks like a lot of fun! (My family does gingerbread houses every Christmas so I’m partial to them 🙂

I can understand the frustration of having a more childish craft. As soon as I saw what was in the box I knew my 6 year old would be involved. He enjoys crafts; I enjoy doing them with him. I also enjoy doing my own adult crafts. Darby Smart did a cupcake box before so it isn’t unusual for them to have a food box.

Still my 6 year old had great fun with daddy. It was fun watching my husband trying to figure out how to construct the gingerbread house.

My son is all grown up too, but I see this gingerbread house as an opportunity to flex my cake decorating muscles. Currently, I don’t possess any, btw, so I doubt my finished house will look remotely edible.

I subbed to Darby Box at the beginning of the year for a couple of months (basically until I ran out of time to do crafts otherwise I’d still be subbed!) and I always loved them. I think they do a nice job picking a variety of DIY projects. In the time I subbed, I made coasters, cupcakes with fondant toppers, a wood burning kit to make an cutting board, and a DIY marquee sign that lights up. About every other box was a high value box with tools that I could use again later, but I still enjoyed the other boxes too. Now I wanna resub!

I also did the 3 month special, which I am happy about.

I LOVED last month (tie-dyed scarves). Loved. Wanted to buy more supplies of same (but they have the world’s most jacked up website – you can’t search!- and I never could find it).

But, SUPER unhappy with a gingerbread house. I feel that this is really age specific. I have HS and college sons. They have no interest in a GIngerbread House, and neither do I.

I feel that if you are sending one project – it needs to work for most people. The tie-dye for example… you could use it on scarves, tees, anything. Anyone could make use of it.

I hope November isn’t some preschool turkey craft.

I enjoy doing Darby Smart mystery boxes. My 6 year old son did this box with daddy. They made it the day it came. It was fun watching them making it. We all enjoyed eating a little piece of it that night. I don’t think there is anything left of the house 🙂