Motivated Motion

Wedding Cakes Are Us



I bet you have all wondered why a week has gone by and I haven’t written a word.

I am sure some of you thought, ”Oh Finally! The Chick has shut up!”

Well I was a bit busy.

My Mother-in-Law, Lillian has come up for a visit.
She arrived just as Amber, Alex’s Girlfriend, left.

Lillian has gotten me into a great adventure!

Chris and Hilionor are getting married, and Lillian decided she would bake their wedding cake as a gift for them.
Lillian turned 93 in January. Baking a traditional three tiered wedding cake is an amazing feet for a woman her age.

Lillian does not decorate wedding cakes though. Years ago (over 10) I would decorated a cake if she needed it done.
Chris and Hilionor were quoted between $300.00-$800.00 for a baker to decorate the wedding cake.

Lillian asked me if I would do it for them at a better price. I said I’d try.
I haven’t decorated a special cake like that for so long, and I did not want the Bride and Groom to be disappointed.
I went to see them just around Easter.
We talked about what they wanted and they told me their ideas for the cake.

I decided to make them a demo cake from a Styrofoam form so they had an idea of the kind of the colours they could choose from, and to see if I came close to being able to create what they had in their mind for the cake.

Hils said she wanted pale coloured flowers and an off-white cake.
I showed her some cascades of flowers and she said she liked that.
So I have now created the demo cake.
It is champagne/or ivory coloured with a pearl coloured accent trim with pale champagne/or ivory, pink, white, and blue flowers.
I used two colours of pale green leaves, in three varieties of leaf style to accent the cascades.

I am hoping to create a pure icing 3 dimensional filigree heart centre piece as the cake topper.
If I was successful there will be a picture in the slideshow at the end of the piece.

After two weeks of candy flower making, my dining room is now officially re-named Wedding Cakes Are Us.
My friends who visit get to sit with me and have tea and watch me build flowers now.
Honestly, I am afraid I am gonna go blind from all the sugar around me! Hee Hee
( I am a diabetic, so my family understands when I tell them don’t let me lick my fingers!)

I am very satisfied with the demo cake.

But I found out something.
One should never build a wedding cake in front of their sons’ girlfriends.
It really gives those girls crazy notions.
I spent all Week going out with Amber and she was showing me all the stuff she wants on HER cake!
It is fun to dream, but I think she and I got a bit carried away.

Poor Alex.

He sat there so sweetly as she showed him every page, of the wedding cake book, that she liked.

I am sure he was just thinking to himself, “Sure, yeah. I will look at any Wedding cake you want as long as you shut up about wanting a kitten!”

So Saturday is the day Chris and Hils will come up and look at the demo, and decide exactly what parts of the demo they want for their cake.

And I can take a bit of a break from icing flowers and get out in my garden with the real ones.

Ahhhh
Tranquility!



CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO SEE A SLIDESHOW OF THE DEMO WEDDING CAKE


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