The Geodesic Dome
Festival of Trees - 1981

This more complicated Gingerbread was my second house to design and build. Shown here is a Cocoa Painting done on Gum Paste.

 

Here royal icing is used to mortar the sugar cube foundation and tower together. A transformer in the center powers the lights for the two buildings and the light poles along the walkway.

 

Compressed sugar was used to build the Lamp Shades for the walkway lanterns. The large sugar dome was built around a Chinese lantern globe, which was later removed.

 

Small electric lights are set inside each of the Walkway lamps. The Plywood base is iced with white royal icing. Dried bread forms the slope up the hill to the tower.

 

Log piles are from gingerbread. Hundreds of trees in many different styles decorated the scene around the dome.

Sugar cast bells and globes decorate the scene. The smaller dome was made on the outside of a balloon, later removed. 16" green tree is made from colored gingerbread dough.

 

A darkend shot of the Dome house - with the lights all turned on.

 

Small decorated sugar bells decorate the lamp posts, while a large sugar Crown, made from gum paste, decorates the upper dome.

Ginger cookies are attached to the dome to give the final Geodesic touch to the scene.

Nearly finished, the Christmas scene lights up.

The finished Festival of trees, Geodesic Dome, on display at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Hundreds of hand crafted trees and ornaments make up the finished scene.

 

Phoenix Art Museum

Festival of Trees - 1981