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. 

Sweetie door curtains

I want my sweetie door curtains to be vibrant and fun, as it will be the first thing you see, so it needs to make a good first impression!

This 'experiment' proved to work straight away! I am using dolly mixtures, fizzy cola bottles and marshmallows, I bought some fresh, clean needles to use for this in order to thread the sweets onto the cotton. It works brilliantly as long as I start off with a fairly hard sweet such as the dolly mixtures, because I accidently started with a marshmallow and once there was a bit of weight on it it slid off the bottom! 

I'm being hygienic!

Now I have reached the stage where some of my final experiments may be going into the installation I am making sure that all work surfaces in my kitchen / dining room have been washed thoroughly with Dettol anti-bacterial cleaning fluid. 

Change of plan!

Edible Ivy!

This is my experiment with the edible ivy I want crawling up the right wall in my installation. 

For this experiment I bought a few packets of edible rice paper, green food colouring and writing icing. 

I found an ivy shape on the internet and traced it, then using a stencil I cut a few ivy leaves out of my rice paper. 

This one is the one where I used food colouring to paint the veins of the leaf into the rice paper, and as you can see, they look thick and a bit clunky and clumsy. 

 With the next two leaves on one I used yellow and the other green writing icing, and they turned out fantastically! because the writing nozzle is so small I could create intricate lines for the veins of the leaf... and as a bonus the writing icing sets fairly quickly, so it will not drip, smudge or run! 

 I am creating 4 different sizes of ivy leaf for my wall, so it wont look uniform and rigid. 

I am also going to use yellow, green and white writing icing for the leaves as they are the main colours you see in ivy leaves veins.