Candy houses are family tradition LESLIE BARBARO / HERALD NEWS Skye Gioia, 4, of Clifton, creates candy houses with her cousins, carrying on a tradition started by their family in the late '60s. |
WEST MILFORD -- In the basement of Lisa Lubarsky's lakefront home here, Autumn and Skye Gioia, 7 and 4, of Clifton, dipped their small hands into plastic bowls of brightly colored chocolate candies, gummy bears, nonpareils, and spicy cinnamon bits. Rhythmically, wordlessly, they pressed the candy, piece by piece, into sticky homemade icing that coated empty shoeboxes.
Across the small work table, their cousins Maryanne and Emily Lubarsky, 16 and 14, of Wayne, did the same. Their aunt Lisa, 45; grandmother Eleanor Forgett, 72; and cousin Linda Spring, 56, stood nearby, scrutinizing their handiwork. Every so often, the adults leaned over a child's shoulder to offer suggestions.
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That's a cute idea for kids.