Structure

This is my structure I made for my tent like structure, I used wood inside the sides of the fabric so they were strong enough to bare the weight of the sweetie door curtains. 

final ivy leaves

This posts shows the final stages of adding my ivy leaves onto the inside of my structure. 

I think they look very effective as they are not uniform, they look similar to as they would if they were real. 

Soldiering on!

It was much harder and time consuming than I initially thought to sit and use writing icing to draw on the veins on the leaves... but it was worth it, because they look effectively brilliant and they taste lovely!

lollipop dandelions

For my lollipop dandelions I used 12mm dowel and 10cm polystyrene balls, I also made a base for them to stand in of MDF, then painted. 

With one of the dandelions I pierced the polystyrene several times to make a very full one, then with the other one I only stuck a few lollipops in then scattered some on the floor so it looked like it had been blown. 

Mushrooms... Again!

I think I have found a miracle! I have found these coconut / marshmallow mushrooms that are amazing! 

With the other mushrooms that were savoury and sweet, although they were edible I don't think they would have been particularly pleasant to eat... so these are the perfect solution as they are sweet, so they fit perfectly with the rest of my installation!

At first I thought I encountered a bit or a problem as they don't stand up very well... but on my installation floor I don't want it to be flat all the way through, I would like mini mounds with foam underneath the floor I will be putting down... so I am putting these mushrooms on cocktail sticks and putting them in the foam!

Lickable wallpaper round 2!

 Experiment with lemon jelly! 

I decided to take another route and explore different ways of doing lickable wallpaper, because of the gelatine disaster... So I thought of jelly! it's sweet, cheap... and I think everyone likes it! but to give it more colour I bought yellow food colouring and to give it a little tangy kick I added a bit of freshly squeezed lemon!

 It didn't go as planned, because although it sets well, it needs to be refrigerated for a while, and it's not lickable! For instance when you lick it, no flavour comes off and it has a funny texture. 

 Another experiment with lemon lickable wallpaper! With this one I used freshly squeezed lemon, glucose syrup and a small amount of yellow food colouring. It initially seemed like it wasn't going to work because it is so funny when you first mix it! But when you paste the liquid onto a surface it sets rather quickly, and is very lickable! I think I have a winner of a technique right here!!! 

Nests!

 For the 1st attempt at the nests I used candy sticks and strawberry laces, but I struggled with how to attach them together, for instance, I tried to weave them, then plait them, but it was difficult as the candy sticks kept moving because the strawberry laces arent strong enough to tie tightly.

 In my second attempt I just twirled the strawberry laces into a large swirl and layered it ontop of each other to create a nest shape... I then placed 3 creme eggs ontop.

I decided to leave the wrappers on the creme eggs because of my influence for this from willy wonka's geese that lay golden eggs.