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alysten ([personal profile] alysten) wrote2009-11-15 11:04 pm

Bubba Crispi

Sugar swan is done. No more hoodies, no more yamaka, no more duck tape. Complete with royal beak markings. I will be adding crown and chain and water later this week.

Project stats:
2 large boxes of substandard rice crisp cereal
2 bags of generic marshmallows
2 stick of butter
10 lbs of fondant
1 lb of gum paste
4 wooden dowels 1/4" diameter
2 yards of duck tape
2 tubes of epoxy

~500 individual feathers
Construction time: 4 weeks


[identity profile] ianraven.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
OMG the beak


That is all.

[identity profile] alysten.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
They look like little rapiers. ;-)

[identity profile] ianraven.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
D00d! Ur swan's eyein' the royalty!

And if "eyein' the royalty" isn't a euphemism for something, it ought to be.

[identity profile] ianraven.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, Bubba =/= "under the radar". I'm just sayin'.

[identity profile] alysten.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I might need more practice with the whole radar thing...

[identity profile] ianraven.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
This up here's the radar. [gestures up above head]

Now, try to fly [gestrures a few feet lower] UNDER it. Down here, maybe. If you keep pulling back on the stick, the plane goes /up/.
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[identity profile] alysten.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
He was still decapitated, with his head in a bowl? ;-)

[identity profile] aryll.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
That's amazing.

[identity profile] caitlindancer.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome job!

[identity profile] alysten.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. You guys going to make it to Yule?

[identity profile] lumineaux.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Dunno about Gracie, but I will still be recovering from surgery #3 at that point. I am highly disappointed that I will not get to meet Bubba in person.

[identity profile] alysten.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Well the good news is Bubba is preserved sugar, and cannot be eaten. So there is a chance you will get to see him live. He's got a fun texture.

Suck on the surgery. Hopefully the recovery will be short and uneventful.

[identity profile] katnboots.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Gadzooks.

[identity profile] alysten.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Dare you to find the yamaka....

[identity profile] katnboots.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
He is so splendidly and formally dressed now -- to seek the yamaka or the duct-tape hoodie would be an invasion of his privacy. =)

HAH!

[identity profile] alysten.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
And would quite possibly require yet another decapitation.
mikekn: (SCA)

[personal profile] mikekn 2009-11-16 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
He looks great!

[identity profile] lissa510.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
cool!

[identity profile] collin-m.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
He looks great. Is it just me or does it look like he's wearing sunglasses in that second pic?

[identity profile] alysten.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought it was more like a bandit mask.

[identity profile] collin-m.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
He's sporting the Tom Cruise wrap-a-round Ray Ban look from "Risky Business"

[identity profile] alysten.livejournal.com 2009-11-16 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
All the cool kids will want them...

[identity profile] lumineaux.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Bubba looks awesome! Nice work.

[identity profile] alysten.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks again for the help on the beak marks.

[identity profile] suba-al-hadid.livejournal.com 2009-11-17 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Much impressed!!