I made this oriental lily today. I just love this technical aspect of cake decorating. Even my mother thought it was real, now that is a true compliment

I keep running out of vases in the house, but I couldn’t resist popping this arrangement into my favourite vase. The colours just seem to leap from the photos. These make great additions to the top of cakes.

I’ve got a couple of projects going on at the same time but I thought that I would give you a sneak peek at my work in progress Easter egg. I know it is tradition to put things on the _INSIDE_ of the egg, but I could not resist decorating the inside instead. I had a brainwave to use a mesh pattern to the other half of the egg.  It certainly makes for interesting decorating.

Excuse my rudimentary work-in-progress as I am still halfway through this project.

I just love making sugared flowers, and although I had completed this project a few weeks ago, I had been too busy to put this on my blog.  This is something I put on the I-will-post-it later tray, and promptly forgot about it. I love the fact that the ruffles of the carnation petals were delicate and I certainly enjoyed putting the colours on them.  As you can tell, the carnations are balanced on wires which are covered in florist tape. This is not something you can insert into a cake straight away, but it is certainly something beautiful to decorate around the edges.  What do you think?

When I was given 2 weeks to come up with a Christmas project decoration, nothing really came to mind. I automatically gravitated to the technical like the holly leaves and berries. What a doof!  This did end up causing me to do more work, however the results were well worth it. Whilst I had no plan, it seemed that my fingers were steering me into this direction. There were wires galore, and there were a few moments where I broke my leaves in half – but like all people dealing with sugarcraft, I have learnt to come with a lot of spares (i.e. made a double batch of wired leaves).

I had wanted to hang it up like a wreath plaque, but in the end, I decided to lay it flat – I couldn’t risk a whole week’s worth of work smashing in a gust of wind.

I was extremely pleased with the result, and the little edible penguin in the centre.

Now for some 3D candles. Following on from the previous 2D efforts, it was now time to cast some attention to some upright standing variety. This one is a bit more technical with wiring involved and Christmas tinsel – this is not something you would put on a cake where children is likely to go for the smash and grab.  This takes more than 1 day to make – there is some drying time involved or everything will wilt and goes sideways.

Worth the effort though … what do you think?

PS> I won’t be lighting that candle anytime soon. Everything will melt otherwise!