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Video: Gingerbread extravaganza!

Each year around Christmas, Diane Schenker makes an elaborate gingerbread house. Schenker's houses aren't anything like the pre-built boxed kinds people can pick up at Costco. They're intricate and detailed, and usually based on her own designs. Her sister Lorraine O'Neal insists the structures "rival any Martha Stewart creation."

In almost 30 years of building houses, she's made enough structures to fill a Christmas village, including a greenhouse with a hard candy roof, downtown Anchorage's Voyager Hotel and even her own Stuckagain Heights home with a giant black bear peeking through the window.

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