http://craftyvixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#57c82af4-5266-48a1-af20-cf1a2be5eaac Yeah Tom!! Fess up! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:46:58 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#57c82af4-5266-48a1-af20-cf1a2be5eaac OHM 2009-01-09T17:46:58Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#f328ea1a-5d5d-4843-9564-cdb5b7f0cc92 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. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:38:21 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#f328ea1a-5d5d-4843-9564-cdb5b7f0cc92 Donna 2009-01-08T20:38:21Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#fbfefa76-e15c-4fc6-8d43-4a21f542c68e Fun!!! Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:54:59 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#fbfefa76-e15c-4fc6-8d43-4a21f542c68e : Denisey, Cork Popper 2008-12-23T05:54:59Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#7c64b740-2bc3-476e-838c-fd94135b2949 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! Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:15:38 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#7c64b740-2bc3-476e-838c-fd94135b2949 Ixxy 2008-12-18T18:15:38Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#51a4846c-81a4-487e-b539-11ed0f7a09e0 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 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:27:00 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#51a4846c-81a4-487e-b539-11ed0f7a09e0 Plokk D Rainbo 2008-12-14T05:27:00Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#45e52b1a-ba7a-4903-b8e2-560aacb453cb you could make your own flavored croutons.. dill... lemon... orange... rum... lol any flavor that you can buy.. almond this is a great thread... :) Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:21:40 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#45e52b1a-ba7a-4903-b8e2-560aacb453cb Plokk D Rainbo 2008-12-14T05:21:40Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#710252ab-88ca-4e83-81be-1a82e0bf6843 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 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:11:18 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#710252ab-88ca-4e83-81be-1a82e0bf6843 FreckledGirl 2008-12-13T19:11:18Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#1eb11024-ae3a-4058-ba03-c1601c1c28d1 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. Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:53:32 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#1eb11024-ae3a-4058-ba03-c1601c1c28d1 Erin 2008-12-13T03:53:32Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#4d8983e5-56a9-4441-9788-8911a5891e3f how about a leaning tower of Biscotti Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:51:18 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#4d8983e5-56a9-4441-9788-8911a5891e3f OHM 2008-12-13T02:51:18Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#683c6d5c-e9c3-4143-997e-4219346cc5f8 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 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:19:23 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#683c6d5c-e9c3-4143-997e-4219346cc5f8 OHM 2008-12-12T23:19:23Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#660ff08d-322d-4630-b26c-a5bc0f3873db 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. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:35:46 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#660ff08d-322d-4630-b26c-a5bc0f3873db Tom 2008-12-12T21:35:46Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#dfb62465-f827-45aa-86a2-2a39f093e04f 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 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:05:08 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#dfb62465-f827-45aa-86a2-2a39f093e04f Nadia 2008-12-12T07:05:08Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#ebf8261e-f3bf-4887-977b-c67b081e4b59 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 :-) Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:27:13 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#ebf8261e-f3bf-4887-977b-c67b081e4b59 Cara 2008-12-11T19:27:13Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#ef6d160a-8e6f-4627-be37-cdc27f7f7a49 DON'T FORGET THE STRAWBERRIES! Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:40:48 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#ef6d160a-8e6f-4627-be37-cdc27f7f7a49 Gregory/ 2008-12-04T14:40:48Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#52fa60f6-1ef1-4ccb-be58-526ea72bfa65 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... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:16:44 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#52fa60f6-1ef1-4ccb-be58-526ea72bfa65 )'(Blysse 2008-12-04T03:16:44Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#4f205071-d942-4517-823e-94f8f5784feb 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. . . Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:50:44 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#4f205071-d942-4517-823e-94f8f5784feb Soooz: biker/priestess 2008-12-03T17:50:44Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#5c7a4bcf-b8bf-41be-ab90-78574db6df5b I remember hearing about the edible book festival a few years ago yet more reference Ideas! thanks for reminding me about it. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:03:11 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#5c7a4bcf-b8bf-41be-ab90-78574db6df5b Tom 2008-12-03T16:03:11Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0fffcd42-7e8c-44c7-9113-c8d179423cf6 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. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:18:18 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0fffcd42-7e8c-44c7-9113-c8d179423cf6 Petite 2008-12-03T08:18:18Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#df482e97-0d0a-4cda-a940-a2a4dffe9ef9 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 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:14:47 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#df482e97-0d0a-4cda-a940-a2a4dffe9ef9 Petite 2008-12-03T08:14:47Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#9c2a36b5-a709-49d6-826d-2fa9678e9d83 and the little pig houses could all be build around a pond of saphire blue Bombay gin martinis w/ little olive rafts.mmmmmm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:18:05 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#9c2a36b5-a709-49d6-826d-2fa9678e9d83 OHM 2008-12-03T02:18:05Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#80e61c86-e664-4972-9db6-ac6ec4770650 <<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 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:57:25 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#80e61c86-e664-4972-9db6-ac6ec4770650 : Denisey, Cork Popper 2008-12-02T22:57:25Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#020f555a-a5f1-41c8-b5de-a64d14e6f9c2 ps... LOVING the three little pigs - edible diorama idea! why shouldn't food tell a story? Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:02:45 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#020f555a-a5f1-41c8-b5de-a64d14e6f9c2 Tom 2008-12-02T17:02:45Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#16abb1e6-e11e-4c67-b077-1c695002027d > 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. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:01:04 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#16abb1e6-e11e-4c67-b077-1c695002027d Tom 2008-12-02T17:01:04Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0870a385-57b4-43a3-8fb6-090ce71ce6a9 > 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... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:57:10 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0870a385-57b4-43a3-8fb6-090ce71ce6a9 Tom 2008-12-02T16:57:10Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#f82ee288-d4f5-4b6e-88f3-e17ba94d71d7 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 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:49:41 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#f82ee288-d4f5-4b6e-88f3-e17ba94d71d7 rosy 2008-12-02T08:49:41Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#df787fe3-675f-408e-8686-9eb288868e5e 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. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:41:08 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#df787fe3-675f-408e-8686-9eb288868e5e Donna 2008-12-02T08:41:08Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#7ff8abd7-fa24-4f03-971b-14b731da34de I might have to blow the whistle on you! And Tom you could make the 3 little pigs houses all different Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:04:12 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#7ff8abd7-fa24-4f03-971b-14b731da34de OHM 2008-12-02T01:04:12Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#59cdf837-dad5-47ec-bd5e-4e01a6595ef9 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 : ) Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:15:44 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#59cdf837-dad5-47ec-bd5e-4e01a6595ef9 : Denisey, Cork Popper 2008-12-02T00:15:44Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#43960763-457b-4e94-9a41-25053248bddf you gotta gotta gotta post pictures! um... please, thank you. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:14:12 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#43960763-457b-4e94-9a41-25053248bddf Tom 2008-12-02T00:14:12Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#ff0d7673-c212-4b38-b7e6-cdcb5ae122e2 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:) Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:49:43 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#ff0d7673-c212-4b38-b7e6-cdcb5ae122e2 Ixxy 2008-12-01T19:49:43Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#bd00be84-a5ce-451d-951e-f03719de5b02 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. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:01:02 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#bd00be84-a5ce-451d-951e-f03719de5b02 Tom 2008-12-01T18:01:02Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#3edc86e6-cf32-41e7-87cf-8b1ba8e660b8 . 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! . Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:57:03 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#3edc86e6-cf32-41e7-87cf-8b1ba8e660b8 Tom 2008-12-01T17:57:03Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#993c32d7-5eb3-437d-bdfd-3925cae42a9b 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. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:23:06 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#993c32d7-5eb3-437d-bdfd-3925cae42a9b Donna 2008-12-01T16:23:06Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#c52ff582-4a3c-4958-880d-df2a29cd221b 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". Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:22:14 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#c52ff582-4a3c-4958-880d-df2a29cd221b Donna 2008-11-27T20:22:14Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#8bf5266f-f946-44b0-86bb-431bd1caf250 melted gummy bears make great stained glass windows Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:30:14 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#8bf5266f-f946-44b0-86bb-431bd1caf250 Chrissy 2008-11-26T21:30:14Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#5a65895e-55ad-4fe9-823f-5bc1fe3d8959 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! Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:08:00 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#5a65895e-55ad-4fe9-823f-5bc1fe3d8959 OHM 2008-11-26T00:08:00Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#a2446bf0-9683-48ac-afbe-aba6a8c033fd Then has your friend seen this: http://stephenreed.net/installations_wordplay.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:39:03 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#a2446bf0-9683-48ac-afbe-aba6a8c033fd lavenderfae ~ Wynne 2008-11-25T23:39:03Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0074e400-744e-45dd-bab8-010c7e510c22 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. Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:17:34 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0074e400-744e-45dd-bab8-010c7e510c22 OHM 2008-11-25T23:17:34Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#82b2b231-9827-4a08-9dd6-45b19081d187 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. Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:52:47 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#82b2b231-9827-4a08-9dd6-45b19081d187 Donna 2008-11-25T16:52:47Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#84e2563e-d21e-4689-a028-e047fd500b43 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. Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:11:46 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#84e2563e-d21e-4689-a028-e047fd500b43 lochlainn 2008-11-25T02:11:46Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#62b0a160-59aa-4aef-ae4c-f89053019935 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! Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:12:37 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#62b0a160-59aa-4aef-ae4c-f89053019935 OHM 2008-11-25T00:12:37Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#adb4af8f-a512-4f24-858d-cea8376f42fe triscuits Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:59:58 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#adb4af8f-a512-4f24-858d-cea8376f42fe Soooz: biker/priestess 2008-11-24T22:59:58Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#925e208f-05e8-436b-8519-bb39a6726de9 he made not I made Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:47:33 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#925e208f-05e8-436b-8519-bb39a6726de9 Tiffany 2008-11-24T18:47:33Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#6bebc459-b0dc-4917-a5e7-90b342518aa3 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) Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:47:03 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#6bebc459-b0dc-4917-a5e7-90b342518aa3 Tiffany 2008-11-24T18:47:03Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#81e67978-0174-4337-81d8-5eb6a1848201 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) Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:13:12 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#81e67978-0174-4337-81d8-5eb6a1848201 Cat 2008-11-24T18:13:12Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#524fb358-017b-44aa-a13b-928cda7c1f68 >>a holiday crack house! << HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:59:24 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#524fb358-017b-44aa-a13b-928cda7c1f68 Tri 2008-11-24T17:59:24Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#209245dd-dce4-4ebe-b2fc-600c15a251ea 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! Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:40:02 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#209245dd-dce4-4ebe-b2fc-600c15a251ea Tom 2008-11-24T15:40:02Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#d22f8ee9-55b9-4eac-b59e-dd2850e64a63 I tried so many google searches but not that one... I meant it jokingly... but there it is... 84,000 references! thanks! Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:35:40 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#d22f8ee9-55b9-4eac-b59e-dd2850e64a63 Tom 2008-11-24T15:35:40Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#4de9e870-beda-4d49-8be5-1567a5848d5d 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! Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:24:36 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#4de9e870-beda-4d49-8be5-1567a5848d5d OHM 2008-11-24T08:24:36Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#7d0471ae-1e3a-40e7-ba02-ac7d61007c1b 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 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:26:19 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#7d0471ae-1e3a-40e7-ba02-ac7d61007c1b OHM 2008-11-24T03:26:19Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#82f6a71c-1bb4-430d-bcd1-1878288acc5b egg white meringue would bake better and keep a bit longer than cream cheese. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:51:37 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#82f6a71c-1bb4-430d-bcd1-1878288acc5b Soooz: biker/priestess 2008-11-24T02:51:37Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#af5634ce-34cc-4625-88c9-6f7a27c0023f you could chink it with cream cheese. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:24:02 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#af5634ce-34cc-4625-88c9-6f7a27c0023f OHM 2008-11-24T02:24:02Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#8f29f270-32b1-4bb2-858b-98e9caceded9 Log cabin made with pretzel rods. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:22:53 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#8f29f270-32b1-4bb2-858b-98e9caceded9 OHM 2008-11-24T02:22:53Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0c224e43-ca96-441a-88f2-d2f413a44025 how ,bout a "strawbale" house from mini shredded wheat? Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:42:04 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#0c224e43-ca96-441a-88f2-d2f413a44025 yadda yadda 2008-11-24T01:42:04Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#5b973a2e-2b68-4ab0-8cc7-f1e040c13482 just out of curiosity, I did a google image search of alternative gingerbread houses & there's a lot of example out there Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:37:04 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#5b973a2e-2b68-4ab0-8cc7-f1e040c13482 Tiffany 2008-11-23T19:37:04Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#062ae815-b5e6-4754-bfbc-114ce8e309fc I've seen them made with graham crackers. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:16:06 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#062ae815-b5e6-4754-bfbc-114ce8e309fc Tri 2008-11-23T19:16:06Z http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#a25b3729-6a8a-4b01-a21b-dad3c475ca46 . 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? . Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:30:50 GMT http://CraftyVixens.tribe.net/thread/87cf654a-1725-4879-876e-6e744f06063e#a25b3729-6a8a-4b01-a21b-dad3c475ca46 Tom 2008-11-23T15:30:50Z