Gingerbread House

Now that Thanksgiving is over I can look ahead to Christmas. I have taken out the Christmas decorations and put them up around the apartment. I now need to go out and buy more decorations but that is what the Christmas markets are for in Prague, Nuremberg, and Vienna. Today I decided to have some Christmas fun with the girls and we made a gingerbread house. It was the first time we had done it so I started out simple. I bought the sides and roof of the house pre-made. It was a challenge enough to melt sugar and stick everything together. The girls really had fun sticking the candy all over the house. Sofia originally want to make it like the picture on the box but I convinced her that our own creativity was better. Now that it is made I'm not sure where to put it. What does one do with it? Do you leave it out all month and then throw it away? It seems like a waste of good candy.