The Queen of Chocolate welcomes you...
at the tower door of her Chocolate Castle.
But before you come in, be sure and check out all the goodies in the window - pies, candy, very special cakes, cookbooks - everything you need to indulge your love of chocolate!
I've been collecting chocolate "food" for quite a while with the idea of sometime making a storefront scene for a store that sells all things chocolate. I never could get around to starting on it cause I couldn't come up with a good name for it. Then one day I was in a Hallmark store (it must have been karma - I never go in Hallmark stores) and there was this delightful little ornament and she was actually named "The Queen of Chocolate". As soon as I saw her I knew what I wanted to build.
I designed the building myself and used a wood box from the craft store for the store section and built the tower out of foamcore board. I covered the exterior with a brown scrapbook paper on which I had printed the block lines. The paper had some texture and I varnished it which brought out the texture a little more. The tower floor is chocolate and white chocolate tiles made from scrapbook paper. I made the little chest in the tower from wainscotting panels, the chocolate castle on the chest is a JoLyn sticker that started out as a sandcastle - I cut it into pieces and put them back together to make a smaller castle. Inside, I made the tuxedo cake from scratch, and also made the Mary Engelbreit candy box, the brown and gold candy boxes, and the Godiva chocolate boxes from kits. Outside, I made the topiary trees with Fimo and made the planter from individual pieces of wainscoting (painted chocolate brown, of course!).
My son took these wonderful pictures and I only wish he had been into cameras way back when I first started making minis - these make me want to take all my other pictures off my website!!
