Sweetening U.S. 280: The Gingerbread Lady moving to Greystone Center
Published 4:25 pm Monday, January 4, 2016
By MOLLY DAVIDSON / Staff Writer
HOOVER—Bright colors, delicious treats and eye catching items are what the Gingerbread Lady is all about, store owner Ellen Morris said. Currently located in Irondale, the shop will soon bring its cheer to U.S. 280, relocating to the Greystone Center.
“It’s a regular gift shop and then some,” Morris said of her shop, which carries an assortment of items for nearly everyone.
For the avid sports fan, Morris carries a number of college team-themed goods; for the wine enthusiast, the shop offers a selection of wine caddies from Germany; and for the cook, there are gourmet foods, edible glitter, melting chocolate, professional baking utensils and more. And of course, there are gingerbread houses.
Morris’ creations are not your average gingerbread house, they’re works of art. Morris has been making gingerbread houses for more than 50 years, and her work has graced the Christmas set of the television show, “The Young and the Restless.”
“(As a child) I wanted to be a famous artist… I never envisioned I would be famous for gingerbread houses,” Morris said. “You stumble into things in life.”
Gingerbread houses are available for purchase year round. Shoppers can buy premade houses or request a customized design. Morris’ gingerbread architecture has included castles, merry-go-rounds, trains and mansions.
Customers can expect to find quality items and good prices at the Gingerbread Lady, Morris said.
“I have always not done normal retail markup and I will continue to not do that,” Morris said. “There is a difference between a small profit and greed and I’ve always gone for the small profit.”
After a difficult year, Morris said she is looking forward to the new year and moving to U.S. 280. Her husband passed away in August 2015, and Morris said before he died, he requested she relocate back to U.S. 280. The shop had previously been located in the Colonnade near U.S. 280.
“Two weeks after he died is when I signed the lease,” Morris said. “It’s a new beginning for me, it’s something I need to do after the death of my husband.”
Although an exact opening date has not been determined, Morris said she expects the shop to open soon.
For more information about the Gingerbread Lady, visit Thegingerbreadlady.com.
“Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.” William Shatner, Star Trek.
Did aliens actually create humans? Nope, I don’t think so. It would more be like humans created aliens. I have followed the whole alien question for years. I have seen the videos of the spacecraft and read a number of books about aliens. I’ve seen almost all of the websites on the subject and have yet to be truly convinced that aliens are real.
Humans had a great struggle to get to where we are today.
We struggled to even stay alive as a species. There was a point where some of the earliest humans almost ceased to exist; we were almost as extinct as the dinosaurs. It was a struggle for us to exist and in some ways, life is still a struggle for humans.
The whole idea of aliens is firstly absurd because there is so real little evidence for aliens; about as much evidence for aliens as there is for God. I have been waiting to be convinced about aliens but all the so-called evidence is so flimsy that I am just not that gullible to buy it.
Whether it is religion or aliens, they are in the same realm of fantasy to me; it would be nice to suggest that aliens helped build the pyramids in Egypt and in Central America. Teotihuacan would be real easy to wrap it in a nice neat little package if aliens were to have helped in some way to have created it.
All of the questions of early life on the earth could be answered without having to involve humans at all. One of the biggest mysteries in all of South America is Tiahuanaco. Tiahuanaco is over 2 miles above sea level and has been built out of some huge and massive stones. One of the more amazing structures is the Gateway of the Sun.
The Gateway of the Sun is a one-piece solid granite 10-ton megalith.
Some people just can not wrap their minds around the fact that this is man-made. For some, it’s easier to think it is either alien made or made with the help of aliens. The fact is that humans are resourceful and are capable of so many things including creating the Gateway of the Sun.
Are you familiar with the Nazca lines?
If so then you’ll know that these lines go for miles and some lines form birds and other creatures. There are some who would suggest that there is a drawing of an astronaut. This astronaut is a representation, they say, of a real astronaut that they had come into contact with. Either that or they were just as imaginative as many other cultures.
No, as exciting as the prospect is, aliens did not create humans but as I said before humans created aliens.