Day 3 - Finishing Touches

Though we were very pleased with yesterday's outcome, there was something still off. The village didn't seem to have enough color balance, or christmassy colors. Also we wanted to do something about the river.Our attempt to use MnM's had failed to yield a nice effect, so now we started thinking about using food coloring with the icing.

I watered it down a bit to make it a bit more flowing, and gave it a blue tint. Here's the result..

The next project was a Tree. We got this idea of using an ice cream cone and getting it to look like a tree with green colored icing. When the icing was on, the tree looked very flat, as the icing was one whole flat surface. I got a toothpick and starting picking at the icing to bring out the effect of leaves. Had to do this around every 20 mins as the icing was drying to keep the effect up. Some photos...

In the meantime, we used the green icing to decorate the village a bit more, mostly with tinsel. Used the same technique to get the icing to look like strands of tinsel. Anyway after a night of decorating, this is where we are thus far...