#item 200

[teammothra]

200. Crochet or knit a doily recreation of our solar system.

[trashbrigade]

200. Crochet or knit a doily recreation of our solar system.

[teamgoatsgoatsgoats]

Item 200:  Crochet or knit a doily recreation of our solar system.

[teamscrumtrulescent]

nice trudeaunuts!! How did you find a place to print his photo on the fondant?

Thank you! And it’s not printed- it’s painted! In the words of the teammate who made them:

It’s a 5-layer stencil I made then touched up with a brush. I printed a photo of a painting of Trudeau, then traced it out on acetate to make the stencils, cut them out, lay them over the sugar wafer paper, and painted the food dye on with brushes & sponges. Then I wrapped it in fondant with a frame cut out. 

The wafer sheets don’t dry out as fast as fondant, so it’s more forgiving, but the texture doesn’t quite match the fondant. That’s where the crackle effect comes from - the wafer sheets. 

PS - the wafer paper tastes like royal icing! You can find it at cake decorating shops. –Jez

Our Trudeaunut submission

Some more behind-the-scenes on the donut-making process

[teamscrumtrulescent]

Or, An Exercise in Disportionate Effort.  Food art items are my favorite.  Last year’s Girl with a Pearl Earring pizza taught me I’ve got a little bit of a knack for food portraiture.  There’s a skill for the resume, alright.  

Trudeaunut was my nemesis.  I despised the donut.  I cursed the donut.  I cursed baking.  Flour.  Frosting.  Trudeaunuts.  I tried to convince anyone else on the team to take my donuts.  “No, Jez.  I don’t want your donuts,” they’d say.  Then we’d laugh, and I’d devolve into cursing and sputtering about how much I hate donuts.  And maple syup.  And Trudeau’s face.

I tried making a mold of a Ken doll’s face to sculpt my maple-flavored donut holes.  Trudeaunut’s face turned out to be a spiced maple mush.  I tried wrapping it in fondant.  It looked more like a marshmallow than a Prime Minister.  Painting food coloring over powdered sugar was an embarrassing mess that I don’t want to talk about.  My kitchen smelled like spiced maple heaven and looked like a confectionery apocalypse.  But I learned how to make donuts.  Jelly donuts.  Maple buttercream donuts.  Cinnamon-maple custard donuts.

Friday night, the beast finally caved.  The dough rose in round, maple-custard-filled clouds of perfection.  The fondant rolled out smooth, and wrapped up those fat bombs like Christmas morning.  I learned to paint.  Badly.  The portraits I painted on Friday didn’t hold up as well as I had wanted, but they looked… Trudeauish.  It was a bad reproduction, but it was Trudeau’s face on a perfect quad of delicious donuts that I ate for breakfast.  Because that’s what we do to our enemies.  We eat them with maple syrup and coffee. --Jez

[teamscrumtrulescent]

Everything was part of an item somewhere. A cardboard boat, a gator suit, a simple things museum, carnival games, so much laundry.... Gish, summer is so sweaty. If you look carefully, there’s also a banana for scale. – Jez 

 200. [IMAGE] It’s the final days of the Hunt and you’ve almost reached the summit! Your mountain: All your dirty laundry and GISH detritus. Summit it in your front yard and pose proudly at the top.

[teamscrumtrulescent]

PS: I dance about as well as I sing. -Jez

200.  Virtual conga time! We’re starting a virtual Twitter conga line. Here are the rules, so read carefully: Step 1. Make a video of yourself dancing the conga. Step 2. Click here and go to the end of the thread of our original tweet. Step 3. Reply to the LAST reply on the thread with your video and tag it #TwitterCongaLine, #GISH, and the handles of 3+ friends. Get as many people as you can to participate, but make sure you and all of your friends reply ONLY to the MOST RECENT tweet at the end of the thread. If someone else has commented, comment on THEIR post instead. Capiche? We can’t wait to see what a train wreck this will be. Submit your original conga video with a link to your Tweet in the comments. Note: This is a fully inclusive conga line. Dance in any way that works for you, by your own definition - in a chair, through an avatar, etc — if you’re dancing in your heart, it counts.

[teamscrumtrulescent]

200. Steve Wozniak’s 70th GISH birthday bash continues! Create a travel brochure for your “Happy Place.” It should exemplify whatever, whoever, or wherever makes you happy. Describe it in the copy of the brochure and post a copy of it on social media tagged #GISH, #HappyPlace & #WozDomDay3 Submit the original image with a link to your post in comments.