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fakebakeprops@gmail.comAnna Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09665022596809253309noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-56832241113283045452019-09-20T06:00:00.000-07:002019-09-20T06:00:05.397-07:00Fruit Sorbets - A Sweet #FakeFoodFriday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This week's #fakefoodfriday is a simple. sweet one! This tray of sorbets were for a production of Don Giovanni. Finding the plastic cups were the hardest part, and I don't remember where we got these (it's been over 3 years and I've slept some since then... sorry!). We may have even found them in stock... ANYWAY. The idea is relatively customizable to any ice cream/ sorbet type of dessert. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Materials: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/ENERFOAM-ENER42-FOAM-SEALANT-DISPENSED/dp/B001I6D82W">DuPont Enerfoam</a>, colored paper, insulation foam, fake fruits, spray primer, paint, tacky glue</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To make these sorbets, we started by making some sorbet scoops out of DuPont Enerfoam. It's very similar to Great Stuff! with the added bonus of a reusable nozzle/gun. For those unfamiliar with both products, it's a foam sealant usually used to fill cracks. USE CAUTION WHEN USING THESE PRODUCTS! They are made with chemicals that are extremely bad for your health. We used our spray room for adequate ventilation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To make the sorbet-like scoops, we made a bunch of blobs and then picked the 6 we liked the most. They only needed to fill the opening of the glass. You want to avoid making anything that is too thick with Enerfoam (or Great Stuff!) because it requires air to cure. It is possible that the insides of thick globs of this kind of expanding foam will take a very very long time to cure fully. It's also extremely sticky if you accidentally poke your finger into an uncured glob. And, yes, I do speak from experience... WEAR GLOVES.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Inside each glass is a roll of colored paper. We picked these three because it's what we had in stock, and could make paint to match. When our globs were dry, we painted them (first with a spray primer so the paint would stick) and then acrylic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The blueberries and strawberries were from our stock, but the lemon slices are small pieces of foam, carved and painted. We cut a small groove in those 'scoops' to accommodate the slices, and glued them in with tacky glue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We stuck them on tray using <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IRCORQG/ref=dp_cerb_2">Joe's Sticky Stuff</a> and they were good to go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-4056286116868867802019-09-13T06:00:00.000-07:002019-09-13T06:00:05.286-07:00Some More Light Apps - Another Quick #FakeFoodFriday<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A follow up to last week's light apps, I have some more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Disclaimer: as with last week, many of these use pre-made food items because sometimes it's easier, quicker, and smarter, to use something that's already done. Most of them were purchased from Barnard Ltd, which is now <a href="https://www.displayfakefoods.com/">Display Fake Foods</a>. All of these were made for School For Lies at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in 2013. Throwback!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If I recall, these 'crackers' are actually fake wafer cookies, cut in half with texture added to the ends to look crumbly. The cheese is white acrylic caulk. The tomatoes are <a href="https://www.michaels.com/foamies-marshmallow-shape-small/D059396S.html">foam marshmallows</a>, sliced and painted red, with a bit of yellow and orange detail painting for seeds. They are topped with some plant bits for garnish. (You may notice it's my go to. Plant bits make great garnishes!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These little cubes are just insulation foam, coated with <a href="https://www.pnta.com/scenic/coatings/sculpt-or-coat/">Sculpt or Coat</a> and painted with acrylic paints. The cream cheese is tiny <a href="https://www.michaels.com/styrofoam-balls-multipack/10213124.html">styrofoam balls </a> cut in half, and also covered in Sculpt or Coat with some white paint and stuck on top of the cubes. And yes, that is a little grass blade for garnish. <i>(Every time I see this picture I wonder what watermelon cubes with cream cheese balls would actually taste like... If you have experience with it, please let me know how they are.)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Though I think these would be 100% disgusting, they are pretty cute. We bought the crackers and I made the cups out of <a href="https://www.wonderflexworld.com/">Wonderflex</a> scraps and painted them with acrylics. The cheese balls are more of the same styro balls from above, covered in acrylic caulk and glued into the cups. The cups are hot glued on, and as expected, the garnish is some plant bits glued on. </span></div>
Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-70457178543842806252019-09-06T06:00:00.000-07:002019-09-06T06:00:03.445-07:00Some Light Apps - An Easy #FakeFoodFriday<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After a very accidental few weeks off, Fake Food Friday is back with some quick, light apps!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Disclaimer: many of these use pre-made food items because sometimes it's easier, quicker, and smarter, to use something that's already done. Most of them were purchased from Barnard Ltd, which is now <a href="https://www.displayfakefoods.com/">Display Fake Foods</a>. All of these were made for School For Lies at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in 2013. Throwback!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For these I took some bought cuc slices, some white acrylic caulk and sprinkled some moss pieces on top for a garnish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These very simple pinwheels are two layers of fun foam for each color glued together and then cut into strips. I then used spray glue to roll them up, and coated them with a bit of <a href="https://www.pnta.com/scenic/coatings/sculpt-or-coat/">Scuplt or Coat</a> for gloss and minimal texture. They're topped off with some found plant bits for garnish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We found these shrimps in stock, so I couldn't tell you much about them, but they were probably resin and very hard. I did make the toast, though. It was just a hunk of bead foam, shaped into a small baguette shape, and then sliced. I used acrylic paint straight onto the foam (cringe), and hot glued the shrimp to them. The tomatoes are beads that I filled the holes with some hot glue and painted red. They're also hot glued on, as well as the tiny green leaf garnish. </span></div>
Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-43859961039573365382019-08-09T11:55:00.001-07:002019-08-09T11:55:43.920-07:00Gooseberry Hops, A Quick #FFFriday<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This little project is a personal favorite, because they're just so cute. For a production of Don Giovanni, set in the 15th century (also featuring the <a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2019/03/fake-food-friday-marzipan-hedgehogs.html">marzipan hedgehogs</a>!) I made these cute little gooseberries in the form of hops. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Materials: Large wooden beads, fun foam, hot glue, paint</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately I didn't take any process pictures for these, but it's pretty simple. I started with this research image from HistoricFood.com of 'gooseberries in the form of hops.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I then took a large oval bead and some artfully cut fun foam, and glued it on in layers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I then passed them on to our very talented props painter, Lisa, who actually made them look like a thing, including a little sugar coating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As with so many of my fake food projects, I'd like to give a lot of credit to the painters, because they really sell the finished product! Thanks, Lisa!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tomorrow our fifth show opens and we move into 6-show weeks and building Apprentice Scenes, where our apprentice technicians will have a chance to show of their skills and the apprentice singers get to sing principal roles. But for today, I'm going to enjoy the company of my fellow staff members who will be leaving and revel in a two day weekend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">FFFriday will return next week, and, as always, if you would like to share a project, email me at fakebakeprops@gmail.com !</span>Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-26604260582003001242019-07-19T07:00:00.000-07:002019-07-19T07:00:02.557-07:00A Few Fritos for #FakeFoodFriday<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's FFFriday again, and I've got an easy one for you this week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This little cup of Fritos were made for an Apprentice Scene in 2018 by our apprentices Alyssa Tryon and Adia Matousek! Scenes are a single performance (plus run thru and dress rehearsal, obviously), so you may be asking, "But why didn't you just <i>buy</i> Fritos?" No one was going to eat them, they were just bar dressing, and we didn't want to waste them. Also it was a great project for Alyssa, who wanted to more fake food (don't we all?!). In actuality, these were split over 3 small bowls and they had false bottoms put in them so they looked full. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each Frito was cut from a piece of <a href="https://www.wonderflexworld.com/">Wonderflex </a> and shaped using a heat gun to soften the thermoplastic, and wrapped gently around a dowel to get the curl. Alyssa then painted each one with acrylic paint, adding some brown texture for authenticity. We didn't worry about the grid texture on the back of the Wonderflex, as it's not noticeable unless you're reaaaaally close. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that's that! Happy Friday y'all and Prop On!</span>Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-62310462736126900872019-07-12T00:28:00.000-07:002019-07-12T00:33:20.095-07:00Steaming Mug - A Little Different #FakeFoodFriday<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hello All! This week's #FFFriday is a bit of a stretch to be considered 'fake food,' but it's a project I've been working on for a while and I want to share it! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We got a note to add 'steam' to a mug that an artist is carrying around to illustrate how very cold it is outside. She puts this mug to her face and pretends to drink from it as well. Plus, we're an outdoor theatre, where there's always wind, and it's usually quite warm, so actual hot water wasn't an option. This project has evolved quite a bit, but I'm going to share my whole process, for science. (Final tool and materials list will be at the bottom of the post.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, we didn't have one in stock, and they're pricey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not great since our artist is putting it up to HER FACE. Also, the fog from dry ice is very dense, so it would have just fallen down the sides of the cup like fog and less like steam. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This idea we got some traction on, and it was the first real iteration that went on stage. I had our shopper pick us up one of these: <a href="https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-Portable-Essential-Oil-Atomizer-with-Tin-Carry-Case/100022465">Portable Essential Oil Atomizer</a> from our local Walmart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The mist would just hit the side of the mug, and then dissipate, so with the advice and assistance of a friend who happens to be a special FX guy (HI KIER!), I made a little pipe to direct the mist upwards. I had to add little air holes along the bottom, otherwise the atomizer couldn't work. I also added a few bumpers on the sides to it wouldn't wiggle around in the mug. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This idea really built on #3, and solved several of our problems. I watched a handful of youtube videos about making 'foggers' from humidifiers and I figured WHY NOT?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had our shopper pick up a <a href="https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/homedics-reg-personal-ultrasonic-humidifier/3244354?">HoMedics Personal Ultrasonic Humidifier</a> from Bed Bath & Beyond. They are cheaper if you order them online, but I'm impatient and was under a time crunch. I chose this humidifier because it's USB powered, affordable, and small. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I then proceeded to take it apart, all I really needed was the atomizer disc and circuit board. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For power, I first tried a <a href="https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/mophie-powerboost-mini-universal-external-battery/3346554">Mophie Powerboost Mini</a>, but it was too large for our mug. I went on a hunt to Ross Dress for Less, for a smaller powerbank, and got lucky!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I removed the battery portion from its novelty casing, and we had a rechargeable battery! The charging port and power port are right by each other, which is very helpful. I then hooked everything up to make sure it worked! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The key to this set up is the atomizer disc having full contact with water. This is also plugged into a power strip, and not the battery, for testing's sake. (Plus the battery was charging). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Essentially, the atomizer disc vibrates at a specific frequency and turns water into vapor. SCIENCE!! However, if it's put under water, it can't make mist. So to solve this, I opted for a sponge (really, just gray foam) in a condiment cup, filled TO THE BRIM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I timed the mist output for this set up and it went for about 8 minutes before the atomizer couldn't pull water out of the 'sponge.' If it was a real sponge it may have worked better, but I was concerned about color and we definitely didn't have a sponge that deep. So I tried putting a lid on the condiment cup to squish the disc into the sponge a bit more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I cut a hole the size of the output portion of the disc and used some <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Joes-Sticky-Stuff-65/dp/B00IRCORQG/">Joe's Sticky Stuff</a> to stick it to the lid. I filled the cup to nearly overflowing and smushed the lid on. It was a bit of a mess, but this set up went pretty strong for nearly 17 minutes before the mist diminished! I painted the lid, hooked it up the battery and tested it out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I then did a lot of creative wrapping, taping, and sticking to get The Setup into a small mass to put in the mug. I wrapped the circuit board in stretch wrap so it wouldn't get wet. I also stuck a second condiment cup on top to hold the water/sponge on top. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As one can see, it's not very... delicate. It technically fit into our mug, the condiment cup was just about the same size of the opening. However, it was still only shooting up from one area, and it was quite vigorous. I tasked an apprentice into looking for smaller containers, perhaps in our jewelry drawer, and she did not disappoint!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This perfume container is nearly the same size as The Setup, and I trimmed down one of the wicks that came with the humidifier so it was just taller than the perfume vial. Beautifully, the atomizer disc was the exact right size to fit in the top of the lid. I drilled a hole in the top and cut a slit up the side and slid it in, holding it in place with more Joe's Sticky. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I taped the perfume vial to The Setup and stuck it in the mug. There was still the problem of a single jet of mist, so an artful placing of the condiment lid did a pretty good job at diffusing the mist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">However, I still wasn't satisfied with 'artfully placing' the condiment lid, and The Setup looked a bit of a mess. So, I solidified the atomizer wire connection, cleaned up the perfume tube lid a bit, and made it so it didn't have to get taped onto the base. I also glued the humidifier on/off switch to the actual switch so it was easier to use. I covered almost all of it with e-tape so it would be dark in the mug. You can still see a bit of the LED light, but only enough to know that the atomizer is on, or that the battery is charging. To make it super easy for our run crew, I made it an elastic holder that can hold the perfume tube but can slide off so the charging port is accessible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To deal with the single jet problem, I made it a little hat! A round piece of scrap plastic, with a few holes punched in, stuck on a plastic tube, cut at an angle. It fits in the mug between the perfume vial and The Setup. I spray painted it flat black (though it doesn't look like it in the photo) and added a little pull tab so it's easy to get out of the mug. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I did a time test for this (final) setup and there's a strong mist for about 15 minutes, and then it diminishes significantly. The perfume bottle doesn't hold a lot of water, so that's still pretty impressive!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm pretty pleased with how it finally turned out. I'll likely never see it on stage, but I hope the audience appreciates it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Final Materials: </b>Mug (stock), HoMedics humidifier bits, rechargeable batter with USB plug, USB power cable (from humidifier), plastic wrap, refillable perfume vial with removable lid, scrap plastic, plastic tubing, Joe's Sticky Stuff, black waxed thread, elastic, and SO MUCH electrical tape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Tools:</b> Olfa knife, small Philips screwdriver, scissors, sewing machine (for elastic holster), pipette to fill perfume vial</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hope I get to use this trick again in the future! You can buy ultrasonic atomizer discs on Amazon, and there are a handful of diagrams out there if you want to wire your own circuit board. That's a bit out of my range, but always a possibility. Honestly, the big score on this project was learning that you can get poopmoji power banks. What a world we live in! Also some of my co-workers called me a science witch while working on this project, and honestly, I love it. #sciencewitchforever</span></div>
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Materials: Plastic Orange, Model Magic, Foam Packing Sheets, Crystal Gel</div>
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Step 1: Cut a plastic orange into slices (use what you've got!)</div>
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Step 2: Take some Model Magic and sculpt some pith (ie the white part of the peel)</div>
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Step 3: For the inner, juicy part, it's two layers of foam packing sheets, with crystal gel and paint gluing them together. A little detail carving and then finished with a bit more crystal gel and paint. </div>
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Step 4: Glue into the rind, get a glass and twisty straw, and tah-dah!</div>
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</span>Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-85384964156178905102019-06-28T07:00:00.000-07:002019-06-28T07:00:08.206-07:00It's the Day of the show, y'all!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally, the culmination of many 12 hour days, late night techs, and serious shift rehearsals have gotten us here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the grand tradition of the Santa Fe Opera Prop Shop, we will have a big party/ Prop Tart Queen Coronation and then open a show tonight (La Boheme) and another tomorrow (The Pearl Fishers) and then (hopefully) rest on Sunday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Materials: <a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2019/03/materials-monday-insulation-foam.html">Insulation foam,</a> Crayola Model Magic, scrap vacuform plastic, acrylic paint, hot glue</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These shrimps started out as many food projects do, with the general shape cut from insulation foam. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, we only had 1 inch foam, which was a bit too hefty for our shrimps, so Sara cut them all in half.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the tail, Sara cut some scrap vacuform plastic into tail shards (shards seems like such a harsh word, but I can't think of anything better?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Those pieces were then glued into the tail of the shrimp body with our good friend hot glue</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To give the body some more dimension, the foam bodies got some Model Magic detailing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(I had suggested trying some fun foam for the shell, but that was a BAD IDEA and the poor shrimp looked like a tiny croissant)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some artful indents gave the illusion of the shell segments really well! To achieve this, Sara used a combination of some clay tools, and also a dull cheese knife (honestly, I can only assume this was a cheese knife... it's been in our carving tools since before I started)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At this point, during a break, Sara made the astute observation that her toes and the shrimp were quite similar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eventually these shrimp ended up on a tiered seafood tray (as previewed in the shrimp to pic) surrounded by fake ice. So good!! Boheme opens in one week from today and I can't wait to see these on stage! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can see more of Sara's work <a href="https://saralapool.com/">here</a> and Serena's work <a href="https://yauserena2.wixsite.com/scenic">here</a>. Happy Fake Food Friday, and Prop On!</span></div>
Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-71461351728368413362019-06-14T07:00:00.000-07:002019-06-14T07:00:03.861-07:00Margherita Pizza - A guest #FakeFoodFriday post from Hannah Fenske!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello all, it's that time again for a guest post! This time we have a tutorial on <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Margherita Pizza from Hannah Fenske, who I worked with at the Opera. This delish dish (yeah, I said it) was for 2018's </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Italian Girl in Algiers at the Santa Fe Opera. Take it away, Hannah!</span></span><br />
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Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-86587537730599494452019-06-07T07:00:00.000-07:002019-06-07T07:00:10.818-07:00Cherry and Pistachio Nougat - #FFFriday!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For one of our operas this season (La Boheme!) we have a scene set in 1830-40s with a lot of vendors. One very delightful item we needed to make was some nougat! Our <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fakenbakeblog/">Instagram</a> followers have had a preview of this one, as I've been sharing some process shots over there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Materials: Crayola Model Magic, Acrylic paint, iridescent gift wrap, transparent tape, Joe's Sticky Stuff, Stock silver platter</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I haven't written a Materials Monday post about<a href="https://www.crayola.com/things-to-do/how-to-landing/model-magic/"> Crayola Model Magic </a>yet, but I did write some about it in the <a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2019/03/fake-food-friday-marzipan-hedgehogs.html">Marzipan Hedgehogs</a> post, and it really is one of my favorite fake food materials. And it is the perfect texture for nougat! Originally I was going to add some plastic orchid buds (you can see them in the background of the photo below) to be my pistachios, the color and shape were perfect. However it was pointed out that if all of the mix-ins were the same density (or material) that cutting would be immensely easier. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A warning on this one: this project took a LOT of patience due to dry times. Even working in a literal desert, it still took daaaays. Nearly 2 weeks passed between first sculpting and final wrapping. Model Magic is air dry only, and I've not attempted drying it in any other manner. I did contemplate trying a toaster oven (non-food use only, of course), but I didn't want anything to burn...</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I then let them dry out in the sun for a few hours. They got a nice 'skin' on them, and to help them along (and make them easier to mix), I cut them in half.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next, I made some dried cherries. To get enough color, again starting with white Model Magic, I had to add A LOT of paint. From experience, I knew this was going to make it quite sticky, but I only had the white MM to use. If I did it again, I would have started with a base red so I wouldn't have to add so much paint. Once I had the color I wanted, I rolled the MM into snakes and picked off odd sizes to look like cut cherries. Like the nuts, I wasn't super concerned about how they looked pre-mix.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After making the little cherry chunks, I set the cherries and nuts out to dry in the sun yet again. I left them out for the rest of the day and worked on other projects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I got a bit too excited about my off-white nougat base, and added too much paint. I added more MM, which worked out well in the end, even though the color was definitely darker than I had hoped, and very close to the almond color. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I will fully admit that I've been watching a lot of the Great British Baking Show, and I was certainly treating this like a bread dough. There was a lot of kneading involved (hence the slap-dash waxed paper taped to my table). I flattened it out to add my nuts and cherries in!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I mixed nearly all of my nuts and cherries into the mass, but it was pretty arbitrary. I then smushed it all into a baking pan I found in stock!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In hindsight, I probably should have put some sort of release agent on the pan, but it was non-stick and I thought it would be fine. And now, the waiting began... I knew it was going to take a while for the mass to dry, so I set it outside to take advantage of the dry air and sun. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">However, I was leaving a real baking pan with an irresistibly pokeable material in it, out in a path where people would be walking past. And after 9 years of working here, I know how my curious co-workers would react. After an entire day of sitting outside, the nougat was still pretty soft. I was hoping that by the next day, it would be pretty dry! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This also unofficially launches the F-n-B youtube channel, I guess. I'm v glad my nails aren't filthy, but it's also very weird to see your hands from a different angle than from your body... I digress. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you don't want to watch the vid, the cuts were pretty successful! After cutting them into squares, I let them dry yet another day. I was very glad that I opted to make everything from Model Magic, as cutting tiny plastic chunks probably would have made this process much more difficult, and it's possible the MM wouldn't have stuck to the plastic and the nuts would have fallen out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found the silver tray in stock, and ended up making a white foam tower on the inside to hold up the pyramid and get the most out of the nougat chunks. I ended up trimming several of the edge pieces to get a square cut. And, because the scene they're going to be in is very shiny and sparkly, I wrapped the days-dried (we're talking Day 12 at this point), in iridescent cellophane because it's FESTIVE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the days since, the tray has been cut, but the nougat remains (so far). I hope you've enjoyed this very long tutorial. It's still not as time consuming as actually making it, but it looks real enough to eat, I think! <i>(Note: Our shopper found some real nougat at Trader Joe's and bought some for the shop. It was not what I was expecting, but I also didn't hate it. The best way I could describe it is wet marshmallow, but also tasty? I'd eat it again.)</i></span></div>
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Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-16525732960618307222019-05-31T21:53:00.001-07:002019-05-31T21:53:27.698-07:00Petit Fours - #FFFriday Guest Post from Helena Mestenhauser!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>For this week's #FakeFoodFriday, we have another guest post from Helena <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Mestenhauser, with a super cute set of petit fours!</span></i></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Materials: Insulation Foam, <a href="https://ca.rosco.com/en/product/flexcoatr">Rosco FlexCoat</a>, E</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">xtra Heavy Gel Medium w/ stained glass paint</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These petit fours are very cute but definitely aren't quick: in order to get the very smooth frosting finish I did multiple very wet coats of Roscoe flex coat and let them naturally dry which was at least 24 hours between coats so be prepared for that!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For any piece of sheet cake style pastry I usually start with cubes of foam cut out on the bandsaw. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The second and final coats (for a total of 3 coats) were both colored- the pure flex coat was tinted with both a little bit of cal-tint and with some white paint. The white paint is important, don't forget it! Flex coat dries clear so if you want the petit fours to be pastel in color you have to add white! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">When your petit fours are fully dry</span><span style="color: #222222;">, its time to pipe on some lovely flowers! Kate Stack (instagram handle @k8stack) piped these and they really make the petit fours shine. We used extra heavy gel medium with stained glass paint for our piping to give it a little translucency, but really any spackle with paint through a cake tip will do. As with other fake frostings its super easy to use regular cake piping tips and bags and just swap real frosting for fake, and you can do all the same techniques! Our flower technique requires two different tips: a rather flat one for the leaf, and a medium sized ruffle tip for the flower itself. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Thanks, Helena! These look completely delightful. I love a tiny treat, especially ones that look so delicate. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Materials: Pink insulation foam, bead foam, tissue paper, flex glue, acrylic paint, epoxy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the pineapple chunks, I started out with strips of pink foam and cut them into generic pineapple chunk shapes. I then covered them with yellow tissue paper and flex glue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once they were dry, I brushed a bit of light yellow paint on them for a bit of depth. Once they were fully dry, they were completely covered in epoxy, because they were used by real food and we wanted them to be washable. To do this, we used acid brushes and 5 minute epoxy on most sides, let it cure, and then repeated the process on the other sides. Finally, we gave each chunk a light sand to get rid of any hard edges and knock down the shine a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The oranges are bead foam, artfully carved into wedge shapes. We opted for bead foam so they would have a bit of texture instead of smooth sides. They were then coated in white tissue paper and flex glue, allowing it to wrinkle in places, to form the 'juice sacs.' (I just googled this and I don't really know how I feel about the name. 'Juice vesicles' also was suggested, but really, that's not much better). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once the tissue paper was dry, they got a coat of orange tinted flex glue, that was watered down just a touch. As a result, the flex glue pooled into the lower areas, leaving white ridges, giving the oranges a great texture! Shout out to Emily Feder for figuring these out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For our bananas, we cut a bunch of circles out of 2" pink insulation foam using an olfa knife, and then sliced it like you would a banana. They were sanded slightly for shape, then coated with white tissue paper and flex glue. This was a two step process to get both faces and the sides. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They then got painted with light yellow acrylic paint and allowed to dry. Then their center detail paint was added. We finished them up with a coat of epoxy (the most difficult of the three, in my opinion. Getting the sides was... difficult), and finished with sanding like the other two. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I almost finished this up with, "and that was that," but this project was quite time consuming due to the epoxy coating. It's possible we could have coated them with a different sealer, shellac perhaps, but we were worried that an 8 show/week schedule would be too harsh on them. Our fruits were washed after every performance. And of course I didn't get a picture of them all together on their tray, because tech. There is some real pineapple in our fridge calling my name, and I think it's snack time. Prop on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another quick #FakeFoodFriday this week! Sadly I didn't take many progress shots of this because I didn't think about it... (always take process shots, friends!) So this week we have pie!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Materials: Pie plate (ceramic), insulation foam, Apoxie, Glossy Wood Tone Design Master, Shellac</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For Straight White Men at Steppenwolf, staging called for the guys to be eating a pie straight out of the tin. Because we didn't want to buy a pie for every performance, we searched for some easier alternatives, especially ones that didn't require baking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I started with a pie pan from stock, and put a 1" layer of insulation foam on the bottom, which I hot glued down. I then mixed up a bunch of <a href="https://www.avesstudio.com/shop/apoxie-sculpt/">Aves Apoxie Sculpt</a>, which is one of my favorite prop making materials. It's a two part clay that is also adhesive. It stays workable for several hours and hardens without baking. It paints easily, is carvable, sandable and all around great. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So with my mass of Apoxie, I rolled it out on some parchment paper, which, honestly was pretty awkward, butI wanted to make sure it didn't stick to my table. Once it was big enough, I draped my pie plate and pressed in my crust. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the Apoxie was fully dry, I painted my crust with a generic crust color and then dusted it with our old standby, Glossy Wood Tone. Because it was being filled with food, I then sealed it with shellac. Our shellac was a bit old, so it was gloppy and ended up darker than I expected. </span></div>
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Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-62751599529689361922019-05-10T07:00:00.000-07:002019-05-10T07:00:09.542-07:00Lettuce! - A Quick #FFFriday from Katie Webster!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This week's Fake Food Friday is quick one, mostly because I just started my summer job in Santa Fe and the lack of air here has made me le tired. Anna made some lettuce for <a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2014/07/the-dagwood-of-your-dreams.html">The Dagwood of Your Dreams</a>, which was awesome and cartoony. Katie Webster at the Denver Center has a slightly different technique for a different look!</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another fun faux food project with the thin packing foam sheet! My fellow prop artisan Roo Huigen had made adorable seedling sprouts with the translucent packing foam. I thought I could translate her idea into lettuce form when we had to make crates of abundant food for Oklahoma! In this case, I cut loose leaf shapes from a shiny, sheer, synthetic fabric that we had in our fabric stock. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That was key to the success of this project and saved a lot of time. If you were trying to recreate this exact process, it will depend on the fabric you have access to, and you will have to experiment to achieve the look you want. Look for sheer, somewhat stiff synthetic fabric. Luckily we had green, but a pale yellow or white could work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Then I used hot glue to create leaf veins on the fabric leaf. While it was cooling I sandwiched on a layer of the thin packing foam. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This leftover pizza was made for Max Bialystock's office in The Producers. I got to work with my new favorite material, gel wax! I hope y'all are ready for a lot of pictures, because I went overboard on this project...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I spooned my gel wax onto my pizza slices and let it set. As you can see, my sawdust didn't add as much body as I thought it would once it was on the slices. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the cheese I tinted more gel wax and put it in a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Norpro-Nonstick-Mini-Pie-Pans/dp/B000F7A5PS?th=1">mini pie tin</a> to cool. (<i>I've actually been keeping several of the pie tins around because they're great to use with the gel wax. They're non-stick so everything peels or pops out and it's super handy.) </i>I used a mix of yellow and brown tints and added quite a bit of white regular wax (really they were old emergency candles because that's what I had). There was also a wedge of yellow wax that was in our materials stock that I grabbed in case I wanted to add a little variety into the cheese. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Previously I had artfully added some machine oil (mineral oil or sewing machine oil also works) to my cake boards to make them look greasy. I don't recommend using any kind of real veg oil because it can smell. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I just slapped my slices down, sprinkled some leftover sauce and cheese wax and hit it with a heat gun again. I tried smearing some of the sauce around as well. I ended up using the wax to hold the slices on, which was moderately successful. Hot glue probably would have been more effective, but I didn't have a hot gun handy and was in a hurry (of course). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a brief and accidental hiatus, guest Fake Food Friday's are back, and it's back with a bang or rather, a slam! This excellent ham is courtesy of Victoria Ross at Triad Stage and was mentioned on <a href="http://www.silkflowersandpapiermachehearts.com/">Silk Flowers and Papier Mache Hearts</a> in Episode 37 - Skin of A Dragon. This post is also a return to casting and molding, which we haven't had in ages. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Materials: <a href="https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/dragon-skin/">Smooth-On DragonSkin</a>, <span style="background-color: white;">Vaseline, mineral spirits, </span><a href="https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/silc-pig/">Smooth-On Silc Pig</a><span style="background-color: white;">, <a href="https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/psycho-paint/">Smooth-On Psycho Paint</a>, leftover silicone (for filler)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The mold was created for a previous production molded off of a real ham, and it was originally intended for expanding foam. Since I would be casting in silicone, I needed mold release. I made my own release from vaseline and mineral spirits, which worked like a charm! To limit the volume of Smooth-On Dragon Skin needed, I filled the core of the ham with a silicone 'pit' -- a pink chunk left over from past materials (we save everything for this exact reason). I secured the two-part mold with ratchet straps, cradled it in upholstery foam scraps within a box, mixed my parts and began to pour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Painting with tinted rubber is a blast! I used Smooth-On (are they a sponsor yet?) two-part Psycho Paint with the Silc Pig pigments to create my pallet of pinky flesh, reddish brown blood, and white fat marble. I based my highlights and shadows from a research image, and I used popsicle sticks and my fingers to paint the rubber paint onto the ham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once the ham was dry and all silicone paint had bonded to itself, I gave the ham a thorough bath and handed it off to stage management. The ham interacts with stage blood on the actors hands, so having it be washable was a must. It also is slammed on the counter, and the weight and slap of rubber makes the effect truly deliver. The lighting designer even gave the ham its own spot light - a most appropriate lighting for a ham, after all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What a gorgeous ham and epic lighting! Thank you Victoria for sharing. You can check out more of Victoria's projects at <a href="http://www.propertyofprops.com/" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.propertyofprops.com/</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A note about PermaIce: It's awesome and no longer available... however it looks like <a href="https://www.decorcentral.com/deco-frost-1-gallon-artificial-non-edible-fake-icing.html">Deco-Frost</a> is a similar product. However, spackle or acrylic caulk are much more cost efficient materials to use as icing as seen in <a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2010/09/cakes-ala-david.html">Cakes ala David</a> and <a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2010/09/one-last-herring-cake.html">One Last Herring Cake</a>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And there we have it! I glued it to the cake board using hot glue and far as I know, it's still fully intact sitting in storage to this day. Happy Birthday/ Unbirthday everyone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I sculpted the upholstery foam into a dome shaped bun. Then I scored the 'shell' pattern into it, maybe 1/4" deep. I sliced away selectively to mimic the cookie crumble topping that is on the conchas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A few years ago I learned to keep my blade oiled up when carving any type of foam! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Cuernas were shaped by cutting a triangle of 1/4" thin upholstery foam sheet, sprayed with Foam and Fabric adhesive, and then rolling up like you would a real crescent roll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then I did a tissue paper layer ( I used Rosco Crystal Gel as the medium but white glue would do the trick).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next it came down to painting: they definitely got dusted with Design Master's Glossy Wood Tone. For the colorful 'toppings' I used some tube acrylic colors as they had a nice thickness. The finishing touch was a sprinkle of translucent glitter while wet to really capture the sugar coated look. Cinnamon sugar was finely ground cork mixed with glitter, and the powdered sugar was a bit of styrofoam shaved off with a rasp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The chilaquiles feature one of my favorite faux food materials, the foam that comes in various thicknesses for packing material! I don't even have a precise term for this, do you know? <i>I've heard so many names for this stuff! Foam packing sheets, slip sheet, micro foam and roll foam. It is SO HANDY for fake food! -Aimee</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the radishes, I cut circles of the foam and painted the edges red while I held them in a stack between thumb and forefinger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The most time consuming part was the dry time of painting the chips, I tinted Rosco Crystal Gel a light yellow base color and painted each chip. I let dry supported on toothpicks, and then I glazed them all with a wash of reddish brown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The garnishes were really fun as well, avocados carved from insulation foam and painted with tinted Crystal Gel. Wood shavings spray painted green for green onions. Crumbled styrofoam for cheese. Small bits of upholstery foam spray painted red and green for tomato and jalapeño. I used some real Chile flakes as well to help my paint look more like sauce! Also, the real cast iron skillet helps complete the illusion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anna used <a href="https://www.amazon.com/FloraCraft-B003V4A8E0-8-OZ-Clear/dp/B003V4A8E0">acrylic water</a> for her martinis, but for ours I used one of my new favorite materials, gel wax! I'll be doing a Materials Monday on it because it is so nifty and has so many uses. In this project I used <a href="https://www.michaels.com/artminds-gel-wax/10057583.html">ArtMinds Gel Wax</a> from Michaels. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A quick run down of Gel Wax: it comes in a tub, and you can get it at pretty much any craft store in the candle making section. You can color it with wax dyes and you can heat it on a stove top. It's solid once it cools, so it's much quicker than the acrylic water. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because I didn't need to dye the martinis any color, I didn't bother to measure how much gel wax I was using. I just put a bunch in a pot and let it heat up. Because I wanted them to be as clear as possible, I made sure I heated the wax until all the bubbles were out and it was very liquidy. <i>The big risk in this is if you're pouring into an acrylic vessel (as is the case most of the time for theater) is that it might melt.</i> I didn't melt any glasses this time around, but I've definitely done so in the past (and will gladly share in my gel wax post). I also read that you want to make sure to use a metal stirrer, not wood, because wood can introduce bubbles into the wax. My skewers definitely did!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The cool thing about gel wax is you can pour it in layers and not get stratified lines because the wax just melts into itself. These are my first two half pours. I noticed that I was getting bubbles, both from the wooden skewers and from the cool air. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They became more pronounced as the wax cooled. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I never did get a shot of all of them together, as we were rushing to get these to rehearsal. I think they turned out pretty well, despite the bubbles. If I were to do it again, I'd probably seal the skewers and olives in hopes that they wouldn't cause as many bubbles, but I'd want to do a test to see if a spray sealer would react in any way with the wax. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shortly after this project, (and after I had finished this tub of wax), I did a round of champagne with a different brand, <a href="https://www.hobbylobby.com/Crafts-Hobbies/Candle-Soap-Making/Candle-Making/Candle-Gel-Wax---1-Gallon/p/25212">Country Lane Gel Wax</a> from Hobby Lobby, which barely bubbled at all! That was unfortunate for the champagne, but would have been perfect for these martinis! Ah, well, live and learn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm not really a martini girl, so I can't say this project made me want one, but my summer boss Randy is a big fan, so I'm going to end this with a quote from him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cheers!</span>Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-86843034297382994452019-03-15T07:00:00.000-07:002019-03-15T07:00:09.570-07:00Fake Food Friday - Pimento Stuffed Olives!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's that time of the week, y'all! For this week's Fake Food Friday, we're going to start a 2 part post looking back on Anna's <a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2010/10/dirty-martinis.html">Dirty Martinis</a>. I used her process to start off, and made a few adjustments. She, too, improved up on her olives in <a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2012/02/olive-you.html">this post</a>, and my process was pretty similar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the skewers, I needed something longer than traditional toothpicks, but we didn't have any cocktail spears that weren't plastic, and we learned from Anna's olives that plastic will melt in the oven. Thankfully we had some large cocktail umbrellas that we knew we wouldn't need in the next season and a half, so I harvested their sticks. Sorry umbrellas. I also soaked those mini skewers in water, much like one would do before grilling kebabs. No one wants charred martini skewers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>Sculpey III bake time is 15 min per 1/4in at 275°F </u>. I opted for about 40 minutes as my olives were about 1" x 1/2". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I should note that toaster ovens are not the most precise machines. Most Sculpey sites suggest using a oven thermometer to make sure your temperature is correct. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As you can see, my toaster oven was a bit too hot, or I left them in a bit too long. From a distance you couldn't see the scorch marks, so I was more careful with round 2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next week I'll cover the gin portion of our martinis!</span><br />
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<br />Aimeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03834064315564790767noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7285220696053223933.post-28128079084407310042019-03-08T07:00:00.000-08:002019-03-12T13:54:38.838-07:00Fake Food Friday - Kolaches & Pastel de Guavas Guest post from Jenn Higgins<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's time for another guest <span style="background-color: white;">#fakefoodfriday post! This time we have some delicious looking kolaches and Pastel de Guavas from Jenn Higgins, who is an artisan at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre in Milwaukee, WI (aka where our dear founder Anna was working when she started this blog!).</span></span><br />
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These are Pastel de Guavas made for the Milwaukee Rep’s production of “In The Heights”, made of carved upholstery foam, then covered in batting and latex in a similar fashion! </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Thanks for the tips, Jenn! The cotton batting is such a great pastry texture! Do I need to go out and get some pastries tomorrow? That would be a hard yes. Happy FFFriday everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Upholstery, bead, or insulation foams are standard base for a lot of fake food, but choosing what kind really depends on the project you're working on. We will explore all of them eventually, but first: insulation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Insulation foam has been featured in a few posts on the blog: </span><a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2010/09/cakes-ala-david.html" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Cakes ala David</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2019/02/fake-food-friday-cheesecake.html" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Cheesecake</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> and most notably, </span><a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2010/04/fauxsciutto-part-1.html" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Fauxsciutto</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b>Building:</b>Insulation foam is a great choice for stability, as it doesn't break apart like most bead foams. You can find it in several sheet sizes and thicknesses which gives it a lot of versatility. For large projects, insulation foam can be stacked (laminated) together, as you can see in the picture above. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Where it really excels is detail. Carving shapes into pink foam will hold edges and designs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(This is the only time you will see these buns, as the finished product was rough, at best. Let's just say my painting skills have come a long way since 2010, and it's a good thing these ended up in the trash once the show was closed.)</span></div>
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Carving swirls into these cinnamon buns was very easy with an Xacto knife.</div>
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Insulation foam also sands easily and evenly (unless you have a lamination line, and then it can get a bit tricky...). </div>
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Like bead foam, insulation foam is a great material to use as a false bottom or a firm filler. I used insulation foam here because I needed to carve a hole for the spoon and I was worried bead foam wouldn't be able to hold the weight.</div>
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<b>Adhesion & Lamination</b>: Like most foams, you can't just use any glue to stick it together. Spray adhesive and some contact adhesives like Dap Weldwood Original will eat away at the foam. Hot glue will melt it and shouldn't be used for laminating, but low temp will work if adhering to a plate or something, especially if the foam has been coated. (In the photo above, the hot glue melted the sides and top, but I needed texture anyway, so it worked out) </div>
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<a href="https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-Fastbond-Contact-Adhesive-30NF/?N=5002385+3293241327&rt=rud">3M FastBond Contact Adhesive 30NF</a> is an excellent choice for laminating sheets of foam for large projects. It comes in tan or green, and it's a low VOC formula. It doesn't smell awful, but, as with all adhesives, should be used in a ventilated area. Safety first, y'all!</div>
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Unfortunately FastBond isn't the easiest to get, but <a href="https://www.dap.com/dap-products-ph/weldwood-nonflammable-contact-cement/">DAP Weldwood Nonflammable Contact Cement</a> is a safe bet. It's carried at the big hardware stores in small quantities, so if you're a freelancer or small shop, it's a great choice. </div>
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<b>Finishing/ Paint Prep: </b>This all depends your final goal, but there are several ways to seal coat your foam. </div>
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A pricey and sturdy route is <a href="https://us.rosco.com/en/product/foamcoat">Rosco Foamcoat</a>. It will give your piece a hard shell, which is good if you think it's going to get handled roughly, which is why I used it for the <a href="https://www.fakenbakeblog.com/2019/02/fake-food-friday-cheesecake.html">Cheesecake</a>. </div>
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<a href="http://www.aquaresin.com/products">Aqua-Resin</a> is a liquid & powder composite resin that gets very hard when cured. It's also pricey, but I know some carpenters swear by it. It's likely a bit overkill for fake food, but who knows what we might need a cake to do?</div>
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<a href="https://jaxsancoatings.com/jaxsan-600-series/">Jaxsan 600</a> is an excellent choice for foam coverage, but it does have some texture, which could be a deal breaker depending on the project or house size. Jaxsan is tintable, which makes finish painting faster and easier. (I love that Jaxsan has a theater tab on their website now. They've embraced us!)</div>
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For a lighter touch, a coat of thinned out <a href="https://www.rosebrand.com/product376/Flex-Glue.aspx">Flex Glue</a> and cheesecloth or tissue paper will give your foam a paintable surface. Don't want to spend $60 on a jug of Flex Glue? Regular white glue will work, it's just less flexible when dry. I have definitely used unthinned bottles of white glue from the Dollar Tree because when your budget is only $350 every little bit helps. You can also get a package of tissue paper from Dollar Tree, because they're a freelance prop artisan's best friend. </div>
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Straight paint: I don't suggest this, but sometimes you've just gotta do what you must. Those ugly cinnamon buns from earlier were painted without any coating, using acrylic paint. It stuck okay, but they were only display items, and you could see all of my sanding and carving flaws up close. Thankfully they were under glass and upstage, but I would definitely do it differently if I had to make them now. </div>
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<b>A note about spray paint:</b> if you do not seal your foam in any way, spray paint will eat away at it. Design Master Floral Sprays are less destructive, but if sprayed too thickly will still degrade your foam. This could be used as a distressing technique, but if you do that, please, please be in a very well ventilated area and wear a respirator. Foam melting releases all sorts of awful things that are VERY BAD for you. </div>
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Insulation foam scrap also makes a handy stand when you don't want your item sitting on a surface. These crusts are made from 1.5" pink foam, covered in flex glue and muslin (I was on a time crunch and we didn't have cheese cloth or tissue paper, the horror!) with some hot glue cheese and red paint sauce. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For this week's Fake Food Friday, I'm going to talk about these faux-zipan treats made for a production of Don Giovanni at the Santa Fe Opera. The show was set in the mid 1600s and there is a big banquet scene. We opted for mostly desserts and finger foods. Many of which I'll probably be posting for future FFFridays. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />These cute little treats are usually made out of almond paste and shaved almonds, so they'd be a great candidate for salt dough. However, we were using them at an outdoor venue with the possibility of being stored long term in trailers, so 'real' ingredients would just invite critters to munch on them. (I personally don't use salt dough all that often, but it's very handy for pastry in most cases.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If this little guy looks familiar, it's because his brother is our current <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fakenbakeblog/">Instagram</a> icon! I'm pretty partial to these because they're just so darn cute and spiky. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Materials: Crayola Model Magic, beads, balsa wood, acrylic paint</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I found this super cute research picture on a gluten-free recipe blog and figured they'd be pretty easy to recreate, and barring some weird noses, they were!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I opted for <a href="https://shop.crayola.com/modeling-compounds/model-magic">Crayola Model Magic</a> for several reasons. You can find it at practically every craft store, it comes in big tubs, and it's very affordable. It also dries very quickly, and if you're in the desert like I was, it dries MEGA FAST. For those who haven't used it, Model Magic is a light, air-dry clay. Michaels used to have it's own version of MM, which I've also had success with. I usually opt for the white, because you can mix acrylic paint into it. (If you add too much, it can get suuuper sticky...) It's very easy to use, you just pull it out of the bag and it's ready to go. Always put unused material in an airtight container because it WILL dry out. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the eyes, I found some beads in stock. They were a weird blue and made the hedgehogs look a bit alien...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After forming the bodies, I shaved a a bunch of little pieces off of a stick of balsa and stuck them into the drying form. It didn't really seem to matter when I did this, the Model Magic is somewhat flexible even when dry, and those shards were pretty sharp... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Please enjoy this view of my workspace. I put wax paper down because the hedgehogs were sticking to the paper a bit. You can also see the large tub of Model Magic we bought for the show. We used it for several food projects. This picture also includes the top 3 things you'll usually find on my desk: a Dixon Ticonderoga #2 pencil, an Olfa knife, and my water bottle. Hydration is VERY IMPORTANT. Especially in the high desert where you are just right next to the sun and the humidity is basically negative. I digress.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once they were dry and spiked, they were ready to hand over to paints! In hind sight, I probably should have glued some of the looser spines in, but for the most part they stayed in pretty well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of our props painters sprayed them almond and hand painted their little eyes (Thanks, Lisa!). We did indeed name them all before sticking them all down. I also made a riser to stick in the middle of the plate to elevate the center 'hogs. We used <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Joes-Sticky-Stuff-65/dp/B00IRCORQG/">Joe's Sticky Stuff</a> to hold them down, and I think I'll have to make an entire post about that stuff because it's a miracle in a roll. Unlike most of my food projects, I have zero desire to eat a marzipan hedgehog, but I would happily display a fauxzipan hedgehog on my Weird Shelf Of Stuff. (Everyone has one of those, right? Mine includes a fake macaron, a tiny statue of Jésus Malverde, and the most gorgeous copperleaf Cheez-it snowglobe a girl could ask for.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That's all for this week's FFFriday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Between my workspace and Weird Shelf, I feel y'all learned a lot more about me this week... </span></div>
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