House No. 15: Easy Bake House

House No. 15: Easy Bake House

repurposed chipboard, packing tape

4 in. x 3 in. x 2.5 in.
015/365; 01/15/11

Today, when cleaning out a closet in an old house, I found two boxes of Easy Bake frosting from the eighties and made this house out of them. In essence, Easy Bake ovens are the training toys for homemaking, modern day little girl hearths.

It's funny to think that these boxes are from the time when I was coveting them. Though I had always wanted an Easy Bake oven, I never had one as a child, but as an adult I have a couple antique ones. People have differing views of the gender role-playing that homemaking toys encourage. What are yours?