Hopefully, it will be here for all of you to see.

The winner did an mansion that was turned into an old age home. Hers tilted a little and was a little messy but alot of intricate work. It all depended on the judge. I talked to her afterward and asked her how to do something. She told me how and said, "Lets look at how she did it." Then went, "Oh, she has plastic under hers for support." Now, other then support for the base, everything was suppose to be editable. I think if the judge notice that before the ribbons were given out, she may have chosen me over. She told me she liked my straight lines.

I don't know if you can see it but I made stainglass windows. I used food coloring and did the "leading" with thick black food coloring on homemade lollipops. Poor thing has melted since. I had black stuff running down the front door. Glenn said it looks like it had a fire.

A woman asked if I could donate it to their yearly Lord's auction. I had already decided to donate it to the church so I feel good about that. The only thing is, I'm trying to figure out if I can fix those windows...

Well, here goes. I hope you got a picture.

Nope, wouldn't take it. I'll try something else later. I don't want to rewrite this.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2004

Answers

try again, dee;I wanna see it! :)

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2004

It keeps saying "Can't accept messages with certain HTML tags"

I have it on Countryside friends picture page.

http://groups.msn.com/countrysidefriendspictures/shoebox.msnw

Under "Dee's stuff"

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2004

Looks really, really good, Dee! Waaayyy too good to eat :-)!!! Congratulations!

-- Anonymous, August 27, 2004

It's just beautiful, Dee! I cannot imagine having the patience for such detailed work, especially for something that doesn't last very long. Congratulations! We know you shoulda had first place!

-- Anonymous, August 29, 2004

Wow, Dee!! That sure looks like a lot of painstaking work; not something I'd have patience enough to do, that's for sure. You must have patience in ample amounts!

Have you ever tried using crushed lifesavers for the stained glass? I seem to remember making something called a stained glass cookie that we crushed life savers and put them into a cookie dough frame; the lifesavers melted as the cookies baked. I seem to remember that they were a bitch to get off the cookie sheets!! But that was back in the days before no-stick cookie sheets too!

Congratulations on your ribbon!

-- Anonymous, August 30, 2004

I was going to us lollipops for the stainglass but the windows turned out to be so small that it would have been really hard to get it to look real (You could really see the picture on the "glass")

I wanted to use Pez for the decorations but again, the steeple took up half the church so I had to make it smaller.

I have a confession. A glass of wine (or two) into the middle of the night works wonders on my creativity. I would probably be too demanding on myself if I didn't. I also have a tendency to lick the mistakes off my fingers (don't worry, I wash inbetween) After a while I get sick so I started having a towel handy for that purpose. Went through ALOT of towels.

-- Anonymous, August 30, 2004