{"id":807,"date":"2012-12-09T05:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T05:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2012-12-09T09:19:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T09:19:34","slug":"neiman-marcus-gingerbread-yummm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"Neiman Marcus: Gingerbread Yummm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The process by which a foam piece of M becomes a delicious gingerbread cookie:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First it begins as a thick foam cut-out with what appears to be styrene on both sides. That got sliced off with a heated-wire foam-slicing tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1689.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-808\" title=\"IMAG1689\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1689-577x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1689-577x1024.jpg 577w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1689-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1689.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then it gets sanded down by hand:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1712.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-809\" title=\"IMAG1712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1712-1024x990.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1712-1024x990.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1712-300x290.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1712-310x300.jpg 310w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1712.jpg 1901w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some sanding and painting later:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1741.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-810\" title=\"IMAG1741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1741-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1741-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1741-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1741-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What would be a more interesting book than the one on grey&#8211;50 Shades of Brown:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1803.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-814\" title=\"IMAG1803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1803-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1803-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1803-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1803-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made a lot of cording:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1758.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-811\" title=\"IMAG1758\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1758-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1758-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1758-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1758-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glitter, the herpes of the crafting world (then again, so is fur-fuzz):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1757.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-812\" title=\"IMAG1757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1757-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1757-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1757-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1757-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is where I ran out of cording. The Goddess of Adequate Yardage, despite being prayed to, did not provide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1804.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-813\" title=\"IMAG1804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1804-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1804-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1804-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1804-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here it is finished except for that last foot of frosting cording. The floor is coated in glitter from the roomful of trees the other crew decorated:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1810.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-815\" title=\"IMAG1810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1810-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1810-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1810-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1810-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roomful of trees:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1677.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-816\" title=\"IMAG1677\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1677-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1677-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1677-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1677-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t even all of them. I have no idea what round this is, tree-wise, as I worked at home more than on location.<\/p>\n<p>Yummm! in the window; that naughty ant messed up our kerning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG22711.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-817\" title=\"IMAG2271\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG22711-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG22711-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG22711-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG22711-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process by which a foam piece of M becomes a delicious gingerbread cookie: First it begins as a thick foam cut-out with what appears to be styrene on both sides. That got sliced off with a heated-wire foam-slicing tool. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=807\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[165,129,29,167,168,99,166,28,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}