Size: 24"x24" base
Total Height = 20"
Main House = 16" width x 10" deep.
Front Facade = 16" high x 6" deep
Used the same pattern I designed last year, but had to adjust the main facade as the awning collapsed--TWICE--due
to humidity.
The chocolate-covered pretzel eaves were perfect on Day 2. By Day 3 they had warped due to humidity.
Does anyone else notice an ominous pattern here?
I piped Royal Icing eaves after that. Let's see H20 saturate those rock-hard suckers. What else....
Wilton's has changed the viscosity of their candy wafers. Now, the melted chocolate is either completely
soft or already hardening. I couldn't swirl the chocolate ice cream like I did last year.
Oh ya...see those candy disks framing the doorway?
That's cause the door that would have been there ...(say it with me...) softened due to HUMIDITY.
And then the disks started slipping due to gravity plus a lie I told in Third Grade and never confessed.
Sister Penitentia of the Wooden Ruler told us we would eventually pay for our sins.
By Sunday, our house was such a mess that we had to eat breakfast on the patio because there weren't any clean surfaces left.
And the irony that I used the Eureka to vacuum out crumbs inside the GBH while the rest of our home went
unvacuumed did not escape me.
Oh...and poor Larry donated several brain cells to the campaign. I put him in charge of gluing the red & green fondant stars
to the mini-lights because last year'slights melted the chocolate on the chocolate-covered pretzels rod "eaves" and I ended
up spending 4 extra hours shoving fondant stars underneath them. This time we were putting the stars on FIRST.
I was making candy roof shingles while Larry sat at the workbench in our 10 x 10 storeage room testing various glues
to find one that would work quickly to merge two curved surfaces. (it's a big NO to Superglue, E6000, rubber
cement, and Liquid Nails (what can I say, we were desperate). He finally settled on an epoxy. I came back 30 minutes
later to see how it was going and the entire room smelled "fume-y" with Lar sitting there holding light to star and staring
off into space. I immediately opened another doorway to pull fresh air inside and turned on the fan.
So, while a lot of heart and sugar went into this project, a few brain cells formerly dedicated to the life of Caravaggio
probably died in the effort. Thanks again, Lar.
FRONT:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DSC02047.jpg
BACK:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DSC02050.jpg
SNOWKID:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DSC02051.jpg
Total Height = 20"
Main House = 16" width x 10" deep.
Front Facade = 16" high x 6" deep
Used the same pattern I designed last year, but had to adjust the main facade as the awning collapsed--TWICE--due
to humidity.
The chocolate-covered pretzel eaves were perfect on Day 2. By Day 3 they had warped due to humidity.
Does anyone else notice an ominous pattern here?
I piped Royal Icing eaves after that. Let's see H20 saturate those rock-hard suckers. What else....
Wilton's has changed the viscosity of their candy wafers. Now, the melted chocolate is either completely
soft or already hardening. I couldn't swirl the chocolate ice cream like I did last year.
Oh ya...see those candy disks framing the doorway?
That's cause the door that would have been there ...(say it with me...) softened due to HUMIDITY.
And then the disks started slipping due to gravity plus a lie I told in Third Grade and never confessed.
Sister Penitentia of the Wooden Ruler told us we would eventually pay for our sins.
By Sunday, our house was such a mess that we had to eat breakfast on the patio because there weren't any clean surfaces left.
And the irony that I used the Eureka to vacuum out crumbs inside the GBH while the rest of our home went
unvacuumed did not escape me.
Oh...and poor Larry donated several brain cells to the campaign. I put him in charge of gluing the red & green fondant stars
to the mini-lights because last year'slights melted the chocolate on the chocolate-covered pretzels rod "eaves" and I ended
up spending 4 extra hours shoving fondant stars underneath them. This time we were putting the stars on FIRST.
I was making candy roof shingles while Larry sat at the workbench in our 10 x 10 storeage room testing various glues
to find one that would work quickly to merge two curved surfaces. (it's a big NO to Superglue, E6000, rubber
cement, and Liquid Nails (what can I say, we were desperate). He finally settled on an epoxy. I came back 30 minutes
later to see how it was going and the entire room smelled "fume-y" with Lar sitting there holding light to star and staring
off into space. I immediately opened another doorway to pull fresh air inside and turned on the fan.
So, while a lot of heart and sugar went into this project, a few brain cells formerly dedicated to the life of Caravaggio
probably died in the effort. Thanks again, Lar.
FRONT:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DSC02047.jpg
BACK:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DSC02050.jpg
SNOWKID:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DSC02051.jpg