Tribe.net. Local Connections OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#57c82af4-5266-48a1-af20-cf1a2be5eaac 2009-01-09T17:46:58Z 2009-01-09T17:46:58Z

Yeah Tom!! Fess up!

OHM 2009-01-09T17:46:58Z Donna http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#f328ea1a-5d5d-4843-9564-cdb5b7f0cc92 2009-01-08T20:38:21Z 2009-01-08T20:38:21Z

So Tom, did you make your house? Have you posted pictures? How about anyone else? I didn't get to make one this year as I had a nasty cough - didn't really want to be coughing all over edible art - and I'm sure my guests would prefer that I didn't do that as well - lol.

Donna 2009-01-08T20:38:21Z : Denisey, Cork Popper http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#fbfefa76-e15c-4fc6-8d43-4a21f542c68e 2008-12-23T05:54:59Z 2008-12-23T05:54:59Z

Fun!!!

: Denisey, Cork Popper 2008-12-23T05:54:59Z Ixxy http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#7c64b740-2bc3-476e-838c-fd94135b2949 2008-12-18T18:15:38Z 2008-12-18T18:15:38Z

Ok, I've *finally* got a few pics posted in my profile. For whatever reason, tribe takes AGES to load my pics...so there are only a few. Hope you get the gist! Perhaps I'll post more when I've got more time! Hope you're having fun with your own housing projects!

Ixxy 2008-12-18T18:15:38Z Plokk D Rainbo http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#51a4846c-81a4-487e-b539-11ed0f7a09e0 2008-12-14T05:27:00Z 2008-12-14T05:27:00Z

Wonderful Ideas.. great laughs and now I want to go build a whole city.. with a castle at the top of the hill with a mishmash of all the ideas in this thread.. lol

Plokk D Rainbo 2008-12-14T05:27:00Z Plokk D Rainbo http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#45e52b1a-ba7a-4903-b8e2-560aacb453cb 2008-12-14T05:21:59Z 2008-12-14T05:21:40Z

you could make your own flavored croutons.. dill... lemon... orange... rum... lol any flavor that you can buy.. almond this is a great thread... :)

Plokk D Rainbo 2008-12-14T05:21:40Z FreckledGirl http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#710252ab-88ca-4e83-81be-1a82e0bf6843 2008-12-13T19:11:18Z 2008-12-13T19:11:18Z

I made this recipe for "graham crackers" using whole wheat and white flour instead of graham flour, vegan margarine and soy milk (I'm vegan, so I wanted to eat it!), and it turned out AWESOME. I can only imagine it would get even better with the expected ingredients. It would be super easy to cut into house shapes, as well. My friends and I SCARFED the crackers...seriously, I'm planning on making these for holiday gifts along with my lemon curd! http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/graham-crackers-recipe/index.html

FreckledGirl 2008-12-13T19:11:18Z Erin http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#1eb11024-ae3a-4058-ba03-c1601c1c28d1 2008-12-13T03:53:32Z 2008-12-13T03:53:32Z

What about fruit roll ups for stained glass. They even have rainbow ones. Also, maybe do a fruit theme. Like using a pineapple for a house kinda like spongebob with windows cut out and little plantain people . Cut up coconut shell for all sorts of stuff-tree tops, roofs. I don't know but it could get interesting. It could all be sitting in cinnamon and sugar for sand. A tropical theme. Sorry-now I am rambling. Need to go to bed now.

Erin 2008-12-13T03:53:32Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#4d8983e5-56a9-4441-9788-8911a5891e3f 2008-12-13T02:51:18Z 2008-12-13T02:51:18Z

how about a leaning tower of Biscotti

OHM 2008-12-13T02:51:18Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#683c6d5c-e9c3-4143-997e-4219346cc5f8 2008-12-12T23:19:23Z 2008-12-12T23:19:23Z

Goldy locks can only take us to BAD places I fear. Trees made out of thin pretzel stix with green stuff, wolves with big teeth. Here we go again. Someone has been sleeping in my bed

OHM 2008-12-12T23:19:23Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#660ff08d-322d-4630-b26c-a5bc0f3873db 2008-12-12T21:35:46Z 2008-12-12T21:35:46Z

I saw "pomegranate molasses" at bristol farms (local spendy-type supermarket)... gingerbread made with this might give it kind of a redish "brick" look! worth pursuing.

Tom 2008-12-12T21:35:46Z Nadia http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#dfb62465-f827-45aa-86a2-2a39f093e04f 2008-12-12T07:06:43Z 2008-12-12T07:05:08Z

hehehe... gotta say, i LOVE the fairy tail ideas... three pigs, lots of choices! goldy locks... this isn't health concious, but a few weeks ago I was talking with my boyfriend about holiday desserts, gingerbread houses vs sugar cookies... and I said, fuck it! I hate ginger bread anyway, so why not just make a sugar cookie house? so tempting... but I'm starting to lean more towards the savory pretzels. I think it'll go over better with my boyfriend's family at christmas

Nadia 2008-12-12T07:05:08Z Cara http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#ebf8261e-f3bf-4887-977b-c67b081e4b59 2008-12-11T19:27:13Z 2008-12-11T19:27:13Z

noone mentioned rice crispies! haha, ive made "gingerbread" castles before (with rapunzel or something like that in the highest window) and rice crispies made really good basis for stone walls. they are pretty easy to paint over with grey icing to color them accordingly too :-)

Cara 2008-12-11T19:27:13Z Gregory/ http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#ef6d160a-8e6f-4627-be37-cdc27f7f7a49 2008-12-04T14:40:48Z 2008-12-04T14:40:48Z

DON'T FORGET THE STRAWBERRIES!

Gregory/ 2008-12-04T14:40:48Z )'(Blysse http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#52fa60f6-1ef1-4ccb-be58-526ea72bfa65 2008-12-04T03:16:44Z 2008-12-04T03:16:44Z

Twizzlers/redvines work really great. Cut them up in tiny chunks to make bricks to face a house or chimney. They make great porch rails, fences, trees, house trim, pathway liners, etc. My brother once made a gingerbread cathedral with crushed lifesavers for the stained glass. It worked really really well. The flying buttresses were a bitch though. If I was motivated to move myself from this couch, I'd go in and find my mother's secret gingerbread recipe. It's tweaked to be really solid, better for building, but still tasty/yummy. And she doesn't use lots and lots of sugar. She always hated over-sweetened cakes/breads, and she always believed us kids got too much sugar anyway. So she took it waaaaay down in her recipes. But that would mean getting up and I have a back spasm, and, well, I ain't moving right now...

)'(Blysse 2008-12-04T03:16:44Z Soooz: biker/priestess http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#4f205071-d942-4517-823e-94f8f5784feb 2008-12-03T17:50:44Z 2008-12-03T17:50:44Z

If you are making this for diabetics, this could be entirely of raw veggies... carrots and celery logs, slices of turnip or rutabaga for sheetrock, onion slices for windows...grass for grass. . .

Soooz: biker/priestess 2008-12-03T17:50:44Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#5c7a4bcf-b8bf-41be-ab90-78574db6df5b 2008-12-03T16:03:11Z 2008-12-03T16:03:11Z

I remember hearing about the edible book festival a few years ago yet more reference Ideas! thanks for reminding me about it.

Tom 2008-12-03T16:03:11Z Petite http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0fffcd42-7e8c-44c7-9113-c8d179423cf6 2008-12-03T08:18:18Z 2008-12-03T08:18:18Z

My brother is an architect, so last year I asked him to make small scale drawings of my Mom's house to use as templates for a gingerbread house. She has an old craftsman house with wood sidings. I made a gingerbread copy of her house as my gift to her for our Christmas dinner centerpiece. She LOVED it!! I even made "grass" all around it with shredded coconut colored with green food coloring.

Petite 2008-12-03T08:18:18Z Petite http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#df482e97-0d0a-4cda-a940-a2a4dffe9ef9 2008-12-03T08:14:47Z 2008-12-03T08:14:47Z

Tom you said, "why shouldn't food tell a story?" and I thought of this festival that I went to... The Edible Books Festival. After the festival, everyone ate the books. It was awesome!! http://www.books2eat.beatricecoron.com/ Look at the gallery pics too

Petite 2008-12-03T08:14:47Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#9c2a36b5-a709-49d6-826d-2fa9678e9d83 2008-12-03T02:18:05Z 2008-12-03T02:18:05Z

and the little pig houses could all be build around a pond of saphire blue Bombay gin martinis w/ little olive rafts.mmmmmm

OHM 2008-12-03T02:18:05Z : Denisey, Cork Popper http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#80e61c86-e664-4972-9db6-ac6ec4770650 2008-12-02T22:57:25Z 2008-12-02T22:57:25Z

<<hopefully the walls would be durable enough to hold... >> I suppose what you use to attach the windows to the walls would be important. Wouldn't want to have your windows fail and turn into a blob, perched on the bottom 'sill'... Thanks for making me think, Tom! : ) Aloha! : D

: Denisey, Cork Popper 2008-12-02T22:57:25Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#020f555a-a5f1-41c8-b5de-a64d14e6f9c2 2008-12-02T17:02:45Z 2008-12-02T17:02:45Z

ps... LOVING the three little pigs - edible diorama idea! why shouldn't food tell a story?

Tom 2008-12-02T17:02:45Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#16abb1e6-e11e-4c67-b077-1c695002027d 2008-12-02T17:01:04Z 2008-12-02T17:01:04Z

> Question - will the melted gummies have the same structural integrity as the jolly ranchers would? < good question. probably not, but I guess I would ask do you need it? hopefully the walls would be durable enough to hold... but then again, it may be a little risky.

Tom 2008-12-02T17:01:04Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0870a385-57b4-43a3-8fb6-090ce71ce6a9 2008-12-02T16:57:10Z 2008-12-02T16:57:10Z

> what about taking the favored bread sticks cutting them in to the size you wanted for bricks < Or using bread sticks to create a "log cabin" rice paste or something equally as glutenous for chinking the logs...

Tom 2008-12-02T16:57:10Z rosy http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#f82ee288-d4f5-4b6e-88f3-e17ba94d71d7 2008-12-02T08:49:41Z 2008-12-02T08:49:41Z

what about taking the favored bread sticks cutting them in to the size you wanted for bricks ..or the rice mix you get in bluk, has taste, texture..and different sizes......plus seaweed..hummm

rosy 2008-12-02T08:49:41Z Donna http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#df787fe3-675f-408e-8686-9eb288868e5e 2008-12-02T08:41:08Z 2008-12-02T08:41:08Z

Okay, I can see that - kind of...Triscuts for the straw house, pretzels for the stick house - but what would you use for the bricks (croutons, maybe?)? It would be interesting to do both a sweet version for the dessert table and a savory one for the snack table. Oh, the ideas just keep running in my head. I do find myself leaning towards the savory as the sweet has been done forever - and I love creating new things. Plus, I am a better cook than a baker. I'm not sure I'd be good at making the royal icing, and I would definitely be using graham crackers to build with. I like the idea of the morbid version - that would work great for Halloween! I so love putting together cooking and crafting.

Donna 2008-12-02T08:41:08Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#7ff8abd7-fa24-4f03-971b-14b731da34de 2008-12-02T01:04:12Z 2008-12-02T01:04:12Z

I might have to blow the whistle on you! And Tom you could make the 3 little pigs houses all different

OHM 2008-12-02T01:04:12Z : Denisey, Cork Popper http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#59cdf837-dad5-47ec-bd5e-4e01a6595ef9 2008-12-02T00:15:44Z 2008-12-02T00:15:44Z

Ixxy! That sounds really cool! Will you post pictures? I'm diggin' everyone's ideas here : ) Question - will the melted gummies have the same structural integrity as the jolly ranchers would? We used to use lollipops for the windows, laying in the licorice when they were cooling, that way the licorice didn't melt... Really fun stuff, here, folks! Thanks : )

: Denisey, Cork Popper 2008-12-02T00:15:44Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#43960763-457b-4e94-9a41-25053248bddf 2008-12-02T00:14:12Z 2008-12-02T00:14:12Z

you gotta gotta gotta post pictures! um... please, thank you.

Tom 2008-12-02T00:14:12Z Ixxy http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#ff0d7673-c212-4b38-b7e6-cdcb5ae122e2 2008-12-01T19:49:43Z 2008-12-01T19:49:43Z

Today my friend and I are making gingerbread trains and people....morbidly! We're planning a trainwreck! With flames! And broken limbs! And severed heads!!! Oh the humanity!!! It'll be a good time:)

Ixxy 2008-12-01T19:49:43Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#bd00be84-a5ce-451d-951e-f03719de5b02 2008-12-01T18:01:02Z 2008-12-01T18:01:02Z

actually melted gummy bears makes more sense than the melted Jolly ranchers I was considering... gummies melt at a much lower temperature, and since I will be using thin black licorice vines for the "stained glass piping" I run a lower risk of damaging the licorice.

Tom 2008-12-01T18:01:02Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#3edc86e6-cf32-41e7-87cf-8b1ba8e660b8 2008-12-01T17:57:03Z 2008-12-01T17:57:03Z

. I have to admit I hadn't really thought at all about the savory route... I was always thinking cookie based... but, one could almost make a craker thing with rice cracker "bricks" and triscuit style roof thatching... and now, I am amost at the point of going cookie or going cracker... I am leaning more toward cookie... since as a kid I never did make one, but always admired with such sweet sparkling fascination. and isn't our task as adults to do those things that always fascinated us, but we never did? if not that... then what? make money... and then die? or to finally give our permission to play... in the ways that we were always limited away from? so... cookie house it is... and lil' tommy is pretty stoked! .

Tom 2008-12-01T17:57:03Z Donna http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#993c32d7-5eb3-437d-bdfd-3925cae42a9b 2008-12-01T16:23:06Z 2008-12-01T16:23:06Z

It would be really cute to make a kids' scrabble game with bean bags and a big canvas - it'd be a great floor game (or paint part of the floor in a gameroom for the board). I wouldn't want the furniture in my house like that, but it is neat in an office area.

Donna 2008-12-01T16:23:06Z Donna http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#c52ff582-4a3c-4958-880d-df2a29cd221b 2008-11-27T20:22:14Z 2008-11-27T20:22:14Z

Cool idea! I never thought of using the gummy stuff. I wonder how the worms would look - being that they are multi-colored already. They could make some awesome "windows".

Donna 2008-11-27T20:22:14Z Chrissy http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#8bf5266f-f946-44b0-86bb-431bd1caf250 2008-11-26T21:30:14Z 2008-11-26T21:30:14Z

melted gummy bears make great stained glass windows

Chrissy 2008-11-26T21:30:14Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#5a65895e-55ad-4fe9-823f-5bc1fe3d8959 2008-11-26T00:08:00Z 2008-11-26T00:08:00Z

thank you sooooooo much I had to go send her the link. I can only dream of what she might do because they are redecorating!

OHM 2008-11-26T00:08:00Z lavenderfae ~ Wynne http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#a2446bf0-9683-48ac-afbe-aba6a8c033fd 2008-11-25T23:39:03Z 2008-11-25T23:39:03Z

Then has your friend seen this: http://stephenreed.net/installations_wordplay.html

lavenderfae ~ Wynne 2008-11-25T23:39:03Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0074e400-744e-45dd-bab8-010c7e510c22 2008-11-25T23:17:34Z 2008-11-25T23:17:34Z

I love when a topic just takes off like this. Donna, those were great ideas. How Creative can we get hmmmmmmmm? Tom thanks for the topic!! Keep it going!! I have a friend who is crazy for scrabble. Shy "LOVES" word play. She has the little wooden tile holder things all over her house with scrabble tiles and she's always leaving messages everywhere. So for her birthday I wanted to make a scrabble cake so I melted butterscoth chips, spread it on wax paper on a cookie sheet. Put it in the freezer. Then cut into tiles. You get the picture. Other things could easily be made with this.

OHM 2008-11-25T23:17:34Z Donna http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#82b2b231-9827-4a08-9dd6-45b19081d187 2008-11-25T16:52:47Z 2008-11-25T16:52:47Z

Okay, here are my ideas for an alternate. You could use pretzel rods as mentioned before, and either melted white chocolate chips or cream cheese for the "frosting". You could also use peanut butter as mortar - though it's not white. You could add some dill and other dried greens to the cream cheese to make it similar to a dip. Red, yellow, and orange bell peppers are great as decorations and can be sliced in many shapes - especially if you can find ones with a big flat side to them. Carrots are also good for either disk or log type trims and celery cut in a few different ways - if you cut it in a stick, and make narrow slices in the stick (but not all the way along the length) and put it into ice water, the thinly sliced areas curl (think trees or bushes). Slices of cheese for the walkways, as well as other embelishments. The possibilites are quite endless going with pretzels as the structure. You could even use the shaped pretzels as the frames for your windows. Hmm, my creative juices are really flowing with this thread - I love cooking and crafts, so I'm really loving this one. You might have inspired me to do my own alternative house this year.

Donna 2008-11-25T16:52:47Z lochlainn http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#84e2563e-d21e-4689-a028-e047fd500b43 2008-11-25T02:11:46Z 2008-11-25T02:11:46Z

I am diabetic and I can eat those rice cakes with no problem... and soy crisps too... so there is an option. Rice cakes are great with peanut butter, hummus, cream cheese, jalapeno-artichoke dip, spinach dip, and sugar free chocolate (if you get the ones without salt). they can be cut and shaped like styrofoam (which they do admitedly kinda taste like), but don't heat them up.

lochlainn 2008-11-25T02:11:46Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#62b0a160-59aa-4aef-ae4c-f89053019935 2008-11-25T00:12:37Z 2008-11-25T00:12:37Z

I smoked a triscuit once in the 70's and it gave me a headache, so I smoked an excedrine. No wonder I have the munchies!

OHM 2008-11-25T00:12:37Z Soooz: biker/priestess http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#adb4af8f-a512-4f24-858d-cea8376f42fe 2008-11-24T22:59:58Z 2008-11-24T22:59:58Z

triscuits

Soooz: biker/priestess 2008-11-24T22:59:58Z Tiffany http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#925e208f-05e8-436b-8519-bb39a6726de9 2008-11-24T18:47:33Z 2008-11-24T18:47:33Z

he made not I made

Tiffany 2008-11-24T18:47:33Z Tiffany http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#6bebc459-b0dc-4917-a5e7-90b342518aa3 2008-11-24T18:47:03Z 2008-11-24T18:47:03Z

now that we've progressed to Crack House Holidays my son won a Jack O' Lantern contest when I make a Crack O' Lantern carved pumpkin, missing some teeth & with a crack pipe in it's mouth (no, not a real crack pipe)

Tiffany 2008-11-24T18:47:03Z Cat http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#81e67978-0174-4337-81d8-5eb6a1848201 2008-11-24T18:13:12Z 2008-11-24T18:13:12Z

OMD! I'll have to make a Mrs. Clause outfit for my "Crack Whore Barbie" to sit in your holiday crack house!! (CWB is really a generic tall, thin blonde doll I found in the gutter a few years ago, all dirty and messed up)

Cat 2008-11-24T18:13:12Z Tri http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#524fb358-017b-44aa-a13b-928cda7c1f68 2008-11-24T17:59:24Z 2008-11-24T17:59:24Z

>>a holiday crack house! << HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

Tri 2008-11-24T17:59:24Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#209245dd-dce4-4ebe-b2fc-600c15a251ea 2008-11-24T15:40:02Z 2008-11-24T15:40:02Z

wow... great suggestions... I really didn't think of doing the non-cookie thing... opens up whole new vistas of thought. thinkin now of a dilapidated house made out of crackers.... a holiday crack house!

Tom 2008-11-24T15:40:02Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#d22f8ee9-55b9-4eac-b59e-dd2850e64a63 2008-11-24T15:35:40Z 2008-11-24T15:35:40Z

I tried so many google searches but not that one... I meant it jokingly... but there it is... 84,000 references! thanks!

Tom 2008-11-24T15:35:40Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#4de9e870-beda-4d49-8be5-1567a5848d5d 2008-11-24T08:24:36Z 2008-11-24T08:24:36Z

with green olives and pimentos and parsley for shrubs. You could color cream cheese w/food coloring and put it thru a pastry bag OH BOY I need a snack!

OHM 2008-11-24T08:24:36Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#7d0471ae-1e3a-40e7-ba02-ac7d61007c1b 2008-11-24T03:26:19Z 2008-11-24T03:26:19Z

I wasn't thinking about baking it I was thinking about eating it like a snack. Like pretzel & dip thing. Maybe I'm the dip

OHM 2008-11-24T03:26:19Z Soooz: biker/priestess http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#82f6a71c-1bb4-430d-bcd1-1878288acc5b 2008-11-24T02:51:37Z 2008-11-24T02:51:37Z

egg white meringue would bake better and keep a bit longer than cream cheese.

Soooz: biker/priestess 2008-11-24T02:51:37Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#af5634ce-34cc-4625-88c9-6f7a27c0023f 2008-11-24T02:24:02Z 2008-11-24T02:24:02Z

you could chink it with cream cheese.

OHM 2008-11-24T02:24:02Z OHM http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#8f29f270-32b1-4bb2-858b-98e9caceded9 2008-11-24T02:22:53Z 2008-11-24T02:22:53Z

Log cabin made with pretzel rods.

OHM 2008-11-24T02:22:53Z yadda yadda http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0c224e43-ca96-441a-88f2-d2f413a44025 2008-11-24T01:42:04Z 2008-11-24T01:42:04Z

how ,bout a "strawbale" house from mini shredded wheat?

yadda yadda 2008-11-24T01:42:04Z Tiffany http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#5b973a2e-2b68-4ab0-8cc7-f1e040c13482 2008-11-23T19:37:04Z 2008-11-23T19:37:04Z

just out of curiosity, I did a google image search of alternative gingerbread houses & there's a lot of example out there

Tiffany 2008-11-23T19:37:04Z Tri http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#062ae815-b5e6-4754-bfbc-114ce8e309fc 2008-11-23T19:16:06Z 2008-11-23T19:16:06Z

I've seen them made with graham crackers.

Tri 2008-11-23T19:16:06Z Tom http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#a25b3729-6a8a-4b01-a21b-dad3c475ca46 2008-11-23T15:30:50Z 2008-11-23T15:30:50Z

. OK... so, I have been looking for really interesting GingerBread House recipes. there are lots of basic gingerbread / royal icing recipes... BUT... I'm looking for something different. maybe a gingerbread house doesn't have to be gingerbread? some of the challenges I hope to deal with... it HAS to be edible. low sugar (diabetes runs in the family) but without chemical sweeteners... (yeah... I know, this might be pretty hard to do...) highly architectural... no basic box. looking for different candy decorations... rather than the standard snocaps and gum drops I plan on making *stained glass windows* with melted Jolly ranchers. anyone have any experience... know of good resources? .

Tom 2008-11-23T15:30:50Z