Tangled tower pinata

One of my nieces is having a Disney's Tangled birthday party.  My gift for the birthday girl is making the pinata.  Recently I've seen a lot of birthday cakes that look like the tower.  I loved how the purple shingles on the roof looked made out of fondant. I thought it would be interesting to see a tower pinata with little pieces of purple tissue flying in the wind as it hung outside at a birthday party. 

Below are some pictures that I used to help me design the pinata.  I wanted to add more to the pinata, but the pinata is such a short version of the tower, I had to leave a lot of details out. 

a screen shot from the movie

 The international movie poster

the top of the princess float at the Disneyland parade

 another shot of the float

 Just a box that i shaped

I used some packing tape and tacky glue

I wrapped it in black construction paper.  I wish I had beige instead but didn't have any, so I decided on black.

 I made spacers out of squares of cardboard to for the top portion of the tower (where the windows are)

 My little helper, helping me to stack the cardboard pieces

 I let them dry for a few minutes

 I glued them near the top

 The top of the tower was just construction paper glued to the spacers.  I changed it though, not sure why I made it black, but later I changed it to white. 

Sorry, by the time I took this next picture, I had done a lot but didn't take any pictures of the work.  My daughter was "helping" me and it was just a big mess on my dining table.  Here I had added strips of brown paper to the base of the tower and glued on different colored rectangle paper to look like bricks.  I also started making the roof after I attached some hemp string on the inside.  I used glue and tape to keep the rope in place in 4 places.  Then I used strips of cardboard to start making the roof

 Here I glued on a bunch of little pieces of white paper to complete the roof

 I made little squares of purple tissues for the shingles and just started layering them from the bottom

 I curled the ends of brown paper with a small paint brush and added some flowers

the vines are just green tissue i rolled tightly together

 

The pinata is about 17 inches tall and the bottom diameter is about 7.5 inches.  I don't know how long this took.  But it was hours and hours.  If I had a few minutes or an hour free during the day I would work on the pinata.  It was a lot of fun, I love doing this stuff.  I think I may try making another and see if I can sell it online.  I want to remain a stay at home mom, but if there is something I can do when I have free time, that I enjoy, I think I better jump on it because some extra cash would be nice right now.

A different kind of candy apple

I found this super cute idea on Lisa Storm's blog and had to try it out. I had a niece and nephew graduating from kindergarten this year and made a few for the both of them. I doubled up on the red tissue paper so you couldn't see the Ferrero Rocher wrapper which made the stem really thick...but i think it still looks ok. I didn't have time to look for brown floral tape. I think would have worked well to wrap up the red tissue at the top. I just glued brown paper instead and glued on a little leaf.