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Posts Tagged ‘whimsey’
Where am I running?
January 18, 2017
Artist Roadsworth (Peter Gibson) has never met a yellow line that he did not think needed improvement. 
Why am I dancing?
January 11, 2017
This wonderful cement mixer-disco ball is the creation of artist, Benedetto Bufalino. This installation appeared in December in Lyon, France. Bufalino’s creativity is not limited to construction machinery. See more of his work here. I think all cement mixers should look like this.
Ref.: Colossal
What am I Lego-loving?
December 29, 2016
“Each year during the holiday season, the White House transforms into a veritable forest of glittering Christmas trees with festive decorations as far as the eye can see. But this year, the highlight of the White House holiday décor began in Enfield, Connecticut, with seven LEGO Master Builders.
They were fast at work like Santa’s elves, designing and building 56 unique gingerbread-style houses representing each U.S. state and territory. The team also created two massive gingerbread men and a first-of-its-kind 18-foot long interlocking brick-built paper chain. 500 hours and more than 200,000 pieces later, the LEGO-built decorations are on display in the White House State Dining Room.”
What am I Lego-loving?
December 21, 2016
One of photographer Andrew Whyte’s projects is a series of intrepid Lego minifigures who travel around the world photographing their surroundings and sometimes winding up in terrifying situations (see above.)
What am I celebrating today?
December 4, 2016I am not sure why National Sock Day is celebrated on December 4, but there you go.
I made these. These are not my feet.
More socks:
What is Wednesday’s Wonderment?
November 30, 2016“Building a gingerbread house is a common family tradition for the holidays, but Nemacolin Woodlands Resort has taken the tradition to a whole new level this year.
Visitors can walk through the doors of the life-size gingerbread house, which is built with 500 pounds of flour, 600 pounds of powdered sugar, 10 gallons of eggs and 200 pounds of assorted candy.
Photo shows the building under construction
Pastry chef Scott Tennant headed up the effort to build and decorate a 12-by-12-by-14-foot gingerbread house inside the lobby of Chateau Lafayette, one of the Farmington resort’s hotels.
The resort’s carpenters started the process in October by building a complete wooden house in two- to three-foot sections that could be separated, carried through the lobby’s front doors piece by piece, and reconnected.
By mid-November, the pastry shop was busy cranking out 2,500 gingerbread bricks. The workers laid the bricks against the wooden walls, plastering them together with royal icing “mortar.” That’s about 700 to 800 pounds of gingerbread.
Pastry makers decorated the outside of the house with Gummies, hard candies and other confections. Mr. Tennant said the workers aimed to add splashes of color without going “over the top” so they could create a relatively realistic effect.
The final gingerbread bakery
Indoors, the house has gingerbread planks resembling paneling along the lower third of the walls, with a gingerbread chair rail lined with candy. A baker will offer samples inside the gingerbread house for a few hours each day through Jan. 1, and on Jan. 2 the house will come down.
For several years, Nemacolin has built gingerbread displays: a castle, a train, a Snoopy’s Christmas display, and last year, a large gingerbread house. But this is the first year the resort has built something the public can actually walk through.
When the resort first started making gingerbread displays a few years ago, all work was done in secret, behind a curtain. When workers decided to change things up and construct their displays out in the open, they immediately attracted a following. People would stop by to watch the process and exclaim over how good the gingerbread smelled.
“The workers would take extra pieces and put frosting on them and give them to people,” Mr. Tennant said.
That’s what got him thinking about building something people could walk inside.
The final product has taken a team of 15 people a total of 600 to 800 hours to make.“
By the numbers:
600 pounds powdered sugar
500 pounds flour
200 pounds assorted candy
120 pounds honey
120 pounds molasses
110 pounds brown sugar
60 pounds shortening
15 gallons egg whites
10 gallons eggs
6 pounds baking soda
5 pounds ginger
What am I sappy cat blogging?
November 11, 2016
There are plenty of videos on how to make cute little latte critters @ You Tube.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 