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truepennyI am not, in general, a big fan of the holiday season. I loathe commercial "Christmas" music (due to having been in a variety of choir groups as a kid, I know the words to almost all of it, which means, oh yes, I can be earwormed in a heartbeat), and of course, you can't go into a store after, say, mid-November, without being assaulted with the stuff. It tends to make a person a little tense and resentful about the holiday in question.
But what I do like are gingerbread houses.
Cake Wrecks is featuring gingerbread houses for their Sunday Sweets today (i.e., the one day of the week when CW celebrates amazing cakes instead of trainwrecks). Jen linked to the Artisan Cake Company's blog entry about amazing gingerbread houses, which linked to the winners from the 2008 National Gingerbread House Competition (which include a gingerbread CAROUSEL), which led me, after a little Googlework, to the photographs of the 2010 competition (which include what I swear is a gingerbread replica of Fallingwater).
If you're going to click through to just one picture however, this one, of the octopus building a gingerbread house with some help from his crustacean friends (the work of Highland Bakery in Atlanta), is totally the way to go. That is an octopus who is happy in his work.
So whatever you celebrate at this time of year (Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, New Year's...), I hope it's a very happy one. I'll be over here with my fingers in my ears.
But what I do like are gingerbread houses.
Cake Wrecks is featuring gingerbread houses for their Sunday Sweets today (i.e., the one day of the week when CW celebrates amazing cakes instead of trainwrecks). Jen linked to the Artisan Cake Company's blog entry about amazing gingerbread houses, which linked to the winners from the 2008 National Gingerbread House Competition (which include a gingerbread CAROUSEL), which led me, after a little Googlework, to the photographs of the 2010 competition (which include what I swear is a gingerbread replica of Fallingwater).
If you're going to click through to just one picture however, this one, of the octopus building a gingerbread house with some help from his crustacean friends (the work of Highland Bakery in Atlanta), is totally the way to go. That is an octopus who is happy in his work.
So whatever you celebrate at this time of year (Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, New Year's...), I hope it's a very happy one. I'll be over here with my fingers in my ears.
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Date: 2010-12-13 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-13 09:08 am (UTC)I once recreated out Library building using gingerbread for out 6th anniversary. The building is a de-constructed department store that was originally built in the 1930s and has been architecturally remade. Not the easiest thing to make in gingerbread (as bits have been known to fall off the actual building and it has some amazing leaks) but discrete application of chopsticks for support held things together until it was sliced and diced.
These snapshots of the real thing proves how over ambitious I was: http://citylibrary.pncc.govt.nz/central-library-photo-album.html
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