Yes... Sharon... I'd bought some black food coloring on my last trip.. for a piano keyboard's black keys.. I was going to give to a friend that teaches kids piano... to give out to the winners of a learning / study contest they have... a bit hard to find black food coloring... had to go to a cooking store.. I didn't use the black for this batch of iceing... just the blue red and green... my new years cookies will be a shell shaped oyster cookie... with a gray iceing for the oyster.. and a candy pearl along the edge... that is if I can find some shell shaped or slightly concaved metal deal that they can cook in to give then a somewhat dish shaped shell like cookie.. finding the candy pearl got me thinking..
well as much as I have to do ... with some plants still outside of the cool room... and down in the house somewhat of a mess.. with aphids on one and spider mites on others...and general relocation of everything ... not to mention a trip down to mothers.. in the next few weeks.. [ did I consider Christmas..] I might just build up a 2' x 2' gingerbread house... for down on the sidewalk planter.. as part of it's decoration... I usually have maybe a dozen silver 2" ribbons that run from the planter up.. with plastic sparkley snow flakes among them...
guess I should make it the size of the planter top... more like 14 x 24 " and still have room for the ornimental kale and mums still growing there.. more of a ranch shaped gingerbread house.. now I need plastic gumb drops.. with large bits of sugar coating...and other plastic candy .. maybe stained glass windows and a light inside... please stop me and send me to rehab...
