Wow. There are people who are much better at building things out of cookies than we are.
Seriously.
There is a model of the new library re-model, with some of the rectangular parts of the building designed to look like books, and the front windows represented by animals made out of fondant.
This is in the professional division, because the maker is an architect. This is his first time working with fondant.
There’s a lighthouse inhabited by mice. The builder had to make a special mold to create pieces for the rounded lighthouse. Holy moly.
No, the Girl is not biting off pieces of the house- she is having an authorized candy cane.
Here’s a close up of the mice who inhabit the lighthouse. Not sure what it is a reference to? Is there a story about the lighthouse mice? Maybe there should be.
Notice that the mice underground are watching a scary movie- it's about a cat.
There’s a model of District 13, from the book Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins, as imagined by a teenage book club. Sorry, no picture.
There’s a model of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, by an entire kindergarten class.
Can you imagine 24 kindergarteners with this much candy and icing. Sticky.
We have ideas for next year- like an ice fishing shack on a glass candy lake, with some goldfish crackers visible under the water. Also, Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen’s moisture farm on Tatooine. Just give me time to forget the misery of this year.
Update- we actually placed! The Girl got 1st in the youth division, and the Boy got 2nd. I got 3rd in the adult amateur division, which considering the other entries, is no shame. Okay, there were only 3 in my category, but I’m still not ashamed.
edited to add- The Girl accidentally sat on her house. Maybe I should have said something when she put it on the chair? Yeah, it’s my fault. We knew we were going to compost them eventually, but she was still pretty upset.
Strawberry Fields for Breakfast 