I had to be there... I had obviously never seen anything like that. I spoke about the exhibit area in the Botanical garden in Fort Wayne, Indiana. So, in the Christmas time, I decided to revisit them again, and boy! I was in for a big surprise - The Candy land.
The lollipops hanging upwards!
I did not ever see any candy like this, but this one looked more like a dressed-for-some-party Christmas tree!
This candy took me to my Tom and Jerry days, there were nights when I would not sleep without watching T&J! May be I should restart it!
A house supported by candy bars and the roof lined by colorful round candies - Don't you just want to live there? It was my perfect childhood home
A house made of sweets with gardens growing ice creams, lollipops, wall made of gums and decorated with colored Christmas trees.. I am not kidding...It was my dream, may I had imagined things like Dairy Milk Chocolates or others, but I definitely wanted a house like that!
The candy bar slides in my garden, where I could hang, slide or simply eat them off :)))
I had spent about an hour or so in the exhibit, but the expressions of the kids who came to visit the candy-land was more gratifying than finally seeing my dream childhood house in shape. And once you are there, do visit the child in you, trying to reach out and bring back some good old memories of childhood!
That looks amazing and it reminds me of so many things. It reminds me of the Gene Wilder version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where he eats the teacup at the end. I used to dream about going to that factory and being able to pick up absolutely anything and it was edible. :)
ReplyDeleteIt also reminds me of the one and only attempt I ever made at Gingerbread Houses. Try as I might, I could not get them to stick together, so I ended up with a massive pile of gingerbread bricks.
And on a slightly creepy note, it reminds me of the house from Hansel and Gretel too. It was one of my favourite fairy tales when I was little. I can't say a house made out of sweets would be my dream house but I could have fun at Halloween. I could pretend to be the wicked witch plotting to eat any child who dared to nibble at the door handles.
It's probably more likely than my actual dream house though, I'm sorry to say. I'd love to have my house standing on its own little bit of land, the way that a lot of the American and Canadian houses do but over here, you're talking about a crazy house valuation. I don't think I'd earn that much money if I lived to be a hundred.