Happy Thanksgiving!

My fallen leaves and the grape vine cake.
4-layer lemon torte
with
spiced icing between
decorated with the fall colours of leaves.

Hope you wore elastic-waisted pants today!

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September Highlights

Al's First US Contract Cheque!
So Al is officially an international businessman, and a full-time student!
Full-time web support and developement business, plus working on a full-time degree.
We are really proud of him taking this leap of faith at such a young age.
(I hope he is proud of me for figuring out how to use the photoshop tool to make the blurry water waves!)

Here is the newest photo of Candy, doin her name-sake playing.

www.flickr.com href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/19221745@N00/sets/72157594291343783/"> motivated motion's Special Effects Wedding photoset

These are some photos inwhich I started to experiment with filters and colour palates.

Here are some hay stacks in the field behind the Masonic BBQ Sept 6, 2006

Yes we are definitely rural!

The Masonic BBQ- Sharon Lodge

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The Most Wonderful Hug of Love
(Wordless Wednesday)

Wordless Wednesday

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Blue
Grumpy Blue after the Icing went to Pot!
No Odds......The cake is beautiful!
" Daaa, Dum, De, Dum, Dum, Dum, dum
Dum, Diddy, Da, Di, Dum"
"Hear Comes the Bride!"

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Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants.

(click on any photo to make it larger, and back page to come back to the blog)

I am so proud of myself!

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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!



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