Wedding Cake Fun

Making my little sister’s wedding cake was pure fun, probably because she was so relaxed about the final outcome. My favourite cake recipe is a mud cake recipe which never fails and gives a good base to work with. A sample of the theme material gave inspiration for the purple and blue flowers and the painted tiles on top and musical note cut outs brought in their love of the arts and music. Thanks for sharing your very special and fun day with us 🙂

very retro sample material!

cakes put together and ready for white fondant

flowers cut out, musical notes on wire, dry and ready to put on cake

fondant, flowers, ribbon and dowling in place

All put together, didn’t get the musical notes in the photo.

Congratulations!

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Wreathe and Itajime

 

Wreathe of plastic baubles glue gunned together on hoop

What a hot summer this is. Most of Christmas and New Year has been spent doing as little as possible! All the same I have been tempted to make a few things that took my fancy. The base of this is an embroidery hoop.

Fudge cake with butter cream then fondant icing on top

Then there was my angst over making this simple wedding cake for friends. The finished result looked okay- tasted good!

Applique flowers wall hanging

One of the residents has a blank wall to look at when in bed, so this will help to liven it up. Think she likes the outdoors.

The grand finale is another itajime wall hanging- for the home this time.

I really like bleaching and overdying

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