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Thank you! And it’s not printed- it’s painted! In the words of the teammate who made them:

It’s a 5-layer stencil I made then touched up with a brush. I printed a photo of a painting of Trudeau, then traced it out on acetate to make the stencils, cut them out, lay them over the sugar wafer paper, and painted the food dye on with brushes & sponges. Then I wrapped it in fondant with a frame cut out. 

The wafer sheets don’t dry out as fast as fondant, so it’s more forgiving, but the texture doesn’t quite match the fondant. That’s where the crackle effect comes from - the wafer sheets. 

PS - the wafer paper tastes like royal icing! You can find it at cake decorating shops. –Jez

Our Trudeaunut submission

Oh Gish. Oh dear sweet Gishwhes. I love you. Seriously I do. You make me smile. You make me laugh. You make me cry. You make me remember that there is only one me in this world and I should let my light shine.

As I gished the last Gishwhes As We Know It last year with my team, SanityForRent, I met 14 amazing new people. We sticked together all year and did GISH this year.

As we Gished, I was happy to be reading GISHWHES 2017: A Universe of Possibility. It gave me ideas and ways to think out of the box. But most importantly it gave me a smile, lots of laughs, and times to think back onto 2017 with my team.

If you want to smile and see why Gish is needed in our world, pick up not just this book but any Gishwhes or Gish book. You will smile. You will laugh. You will cry and wonder how can such great Random Acts of Kindness be created in just one week. Last year we save a rainforest and South Africa Dance School. This year we helped animals find furever homes. Read Gish. Join Gish.

Welcome to Team Scrumtrulescent’s Tumblr!

If you’re looking for our items from the 2018 hunt, you’ve come to the right place! If you’d like to view only our item submissions from this year, you can find them all in this tag.

Our team also does something we like to call Behind The Gish. Many of us take pictures and videos throughout the week as we work on our items. We save them up and then post them here, often with stories and explanations written by the team member who completed the item. They’re a glimpse at a bit of the behind scenes craziness that goes on in the completion of these items, and you can see them all in this tag.

Or, if you’d like to look at both our items and Behind The Gish posts from this year, everything from the 2018 hunt can be found in our Gish18 tag.

We’ve got several more tags listed on our navigation page, including several previous hunts, mini gish challenges, and a section for Gish recognition, including tags for our items that have made it in to the Coffee table book, the yearly Gish Hall Of Fame, and ones that have been used in Gish’s social media.

New for this year is our Familiar Faces section, where we’ve listed the tags for some of the unofficial team members. (Our pets. We tagged our pets.)

So welcome again, take a look around, and leave a comment or two if you feel like it!

I want to thank Paradive, who agreed to help us with our tea party! --Shaked

91. Image.  There are some places it's practically impossible to have a tea party; but you pulled it off. -Khai K.

We’re very excited to share that Gish used this photo in their social media! It was used in an ad, and on Facebook, Twitter and the Gish App to promote early registration for the 2019 hunt!

Edit: And what’s this? There in the bottom corner of the coffee table book cover? A first for Team Scrumtrulescent- we’re a CoverTeam!

An unexpected side effect of a team member being featured on the Gish website: a few teams chose the Gish site to replicate for their needlepoint webpage, and therefore replicated her picture! A few of them were kind enough to share their images and info with us so we could post them here.

1. Created by Devin for Team Gish’s Bishes

2. Created by Diana for Team YetAnotherChimera

3. Created by Cortney for Team Cat Steel. You can see more of her work at Coco’s Hoopla on Instagram and Facebook (@cocoshoopla)

And there was a further surprise after the hunt-- one of the above was tweeted by Gish at the end of August! So not only was her image featured by Gish, but a replication of her image was also featured! 

Not only did I hand weave this design of a flying giraffe being formed from my dreams, but I also handmade the loom out of two coat hangers, some string, and a piece of bamboo. A few days after the hunt a teammate told me she had an actual loom- she’d missed the item entirely when reading the list and didn’t even know it was on there! --Kaela