Game Season

It's the season for game & I am getting just a little sick of pheasant, partridge & duck I decided that it was the time to make a version of game that I actually enjoy.....a MINI version! So here's a little game pie prep table featuring authentically feathered mallard drake & cock pheasant....whenever I get the urge to make these feathered game birds, I really question my sanity...every one of those real game bird feathers is scaled down & applied one x one!
I haven't decided yet whether to keep this for myself or take it with me to Kensington this weekend....assuming the weather here doesn't bring the whole country to a complete stop, if it does then I'm definitely keeping it for myself :-))

Sweet Collection

I have been working night & day to try & make stock for Kensington on the 4th December. You might think that I've got loads of time but I head out to UAE on Thursday this week & have just short of a week when I get back to be ready for the show.....HELP!!

The last few days & nights I've been driving myself totally mad by making thousands of tiny luxury chocolates, the odd mince pie & marzipan Christmas pud cakes.....with a big sigh at 1.45am this morning I fixed the very last chocolate in place....THANK GOODNESS!  At the minute I never want to see another miniature chocolate again! Here's a small selection of what has kept me busy for what seems like a lifetime!

The Miniature Way.....November 2010

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Christmas is coming...too quickly for my liking!

Oh dear...Christmas is looming & more importantly Kensington on 4th Dec! Between now & then, I have the grandchildren for half term & then a 2 week holiday with my youngest out in the UAE....soooo..I'm beginning to panic...stock doesn't make itself & it takes me most of a day & night to make one piece...I think I maybe put too much detail in there!  Where are those elves that finish your work overnight when you need them? How wonderful it would be to come down to a workbench, that when you left it was full of UFOs, to find it full of completed work! If anyone has any spare elves please send them my way!

Cornucopia...A Horn Of Plenty!

It's that time of year when Harvest Festival is celebrated & this is my "little" homage to it. I remember as a kid, having to take fruit or vegetables into school for Harvest festival...I wonder do schools still celebrate it in this way?
This was a challenge to myself in a way! It combines both my addictions....basket weaving & sculpting foods..& I was not going to make a cornucopia unless I could manage to weave it instead of sculpting it. I will not be beaten! :-))

Funky, fantasy fungi!!

No self respecting witch should be without this little pot of fungus growing on their windowsill...after all, you never know when one might be needed for a spell...............  :-))

Gingerbread Carousel

I'm not sure what inspired me to make this little confection but once I'd started I just couldn't put it down until I'd finished it! Would you believe that it took the best part of 3 nights in my sweatshop to create it...but it was worth it...or, at least I think it was!! :-))

3 gaily painted gingerbread horses, on candy poles, circle a cream & fondant iced centre & the top layer of gingerbread is topped with fondant iced gingerbread stars, cream & jelly beans. More jelly beans & cream decorate the edges of the bottom gingerbread base  & it measures 38mm to the top star.

It would make a welcome change from the more traditional gingerbread house at Christmas wouldn't it! To make the "real thing" would probably be a whole lot easier too:-))