Some pictures

I've realized that I took all those pictures over the past few weeks and never took them off the camera to upload here.

So here goes... a few pictures of cakes I made in my cake decorating classes:

Birthday cake for a colleague - combined effort with a friend I took this class with. I made the white roses and the green leaves, she did the rest. And if you're wondering what's on the cake - they are candles looking like tools... lol



I made this cake for the choir's get together after our last concert at the end of March. I chose a fitting theme and it took me HOURS to do those musical notes, trust me!



This is the last cake I made - part of the new gum paste and fondant class. I started by making the base out of fondant (a bit like clay shaping, only eatable lol). I chose the blue and green mixture for the base and then when it came to cover the cake with a fondant layer, I thought I'd continue with that theme. So the cover of the cake is also green and blue and then we started learning about draping pieces of fondant on cakes. Since my cake isn't all that high, it was hard to drape anything on it! LOL The two orange looking things are my attempts to drape! After the draping I started making things up as I went along and suddenly ended up using leftover fondant to make little fish and then got the idea to make Squirt, the turtle from Nemo! :-D You gotta work really fast with fondant and even faster with gum paste because they dry out immediately. So here's my underwater cake. I made it the day before I left for Charleston (and the carnation on the cake was something I did because I knew I'd end up missing the next lesson and just wanted to know how to do it). Oh and by the way - whilst fondant might look cool, it's not nice to eat. So when it comes to eating it, you just take everything off it and then eat lol






Shortly before going to Charleston I went to the mall to find a top and a skirt for the wedding. I came across this bored looking Easter Bunny - turns out every child that was placed in his arms to have pictures taken with him started crying their heads off LOL In which case I suppose his stance is more sad than bored.



Looking at this picture of Boone Hall, it just seems so... normal. Even after looking at the videos I made while there, I realized that they just can't compete with actually being there and seeing it for yourself. It is truly stunning.
As soon as I get my non-digital pictures developed, I will put them up here too, maybe they can convey the grandiosity of this building better :-)



And last but not least - a look at the books I bought at the library book sale yesterday! :-D For all these and another CD and 7 tapes, I paid $25!!!! I LOVE book sales!!!