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Gingerbread Fireplace
Christmas 2005

To continue with my compulsion for complicated gingerbread houses, this year I drafed a 1/4 inch scale model of a fireplace and chimney, the inside and outside. Each brick in the chimney was cut individually and hand placed and icing-cemented, just like real brick.

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The initial front elevations	I baked a large sheet of gingerbread and cut out bricks to scale	The floor and first layers of the fireplace	The first few layers	The chimney grows
An aerial view	A front view	Me cutting out more bricks	Misty wants to help	Experimenting with sugar glass and a blow torch
I even scorched the floor of the fireplace with the blowtorch	I needed a little extra support for the stairsteps where the fireplace narrows to the chimney	Aerial view	Closeup: The Stairsteps	The outside
We tried to make curved sugar glass	Flames made of colored & broken sugar glass pieces, dried apricots, colored icing, and pretzles for logs	The mostly-finished fireplace	The carpet is graham cracker with blue floret icing	Closeup: blue icing carpet
The fireplace with the carpet	The brick ledge in front of the fireplace	Another angle	Closeup: carpet & fireplace floor	With fire in the fireplace
The pretzel woodpile with tarp	The outside lawn, made with green floret icing	Bushes & gingerbread men lawn decorations	The tree is made of 4 gingerbread pieces icing-glued to a central pretzel trunk	The decorated tree with candy presents
The solid chocolate mantel	The decorated mantle with stockings	What's a fireplace without a kitty on the mantle?	Orange candy tabby	snoozing on the ledge
The finished fireplace with sugarglass firescreen	Front view	Closeup: Tree & presents	Closeup: Tree & presents	Closeup: sideview of tree
Closeup: Tree & presents	Closeup: Kitty & stockings on the mantle	Closeup: Orange Tabby	Closeup: Sugarglass Firescreen	Closeup: Fire
Inside View	Side View	Inside Angle	Outside Angle	Aerial View
A peek through the chimney at the fire below	Outside View	Closeup: Bushes & Gingerbread Men Lawn Decorations	Closeup: Bushes & Gingerbread Men Lawn Decorations	Closeup: Bushes & Gingerbread Men Lawn Decorations
Closeup: Snowman	Closeup: Pretzel Woodpile & Tarp	Side View of Snowman and WoodPile	Outside Angle	Closeoup: Upper Outside of Chimney
Sideview	Another Angle	Inside Angle	My favorite finished view	Datan0de attacks the Gingerbread Fireplace!

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