Wedding cake & cookies for Vera & Vincent

Vera text-ed me ages ago (can't remember when anymore)... All i know, it is marked in the diary :)
She's organising her wedding for October 23rd.

We met up a couple of months ago, to brainstorm and come up with a final design for them. Vera & Vincent are sooo easy to work with, full with ideas, open to suggestions - one couple you do not want to disappoint :)
We come up with detailed ideas for the cupcake tier design, as well as design for the sugar cookies that will become their bonbonaire

The date draw closer, and there's a 3 day conference during the same week **cries!!!!

What do you do?.....
(Try to) be organised - and stay up all night ... that's what... When you've said you'll do it.. you do it!! Bought some Coke to help me last through the night... :P

So... here are some photos

individual cookies for the guests

they are individually named - and will be both bonbonaire & seating card

i love how they all lined up on my table :) *note to self : be super careful with spelling!!


named, stuck on the backing, packaged & ribboned

And this is the cake / cupcake tier :)

The wedding's colour theme is yellow & white. Thus the colour theme of the cake is linked back to this.
Did you notice the girl sugar cookies' dress colour?

Handmade love birds grace the top of the cake (a red velvet), with a top hat & a pretty veil ;)
I thought of putting flowers around them - but it takes away from its simplicity.. and so I left the bird couple on their own :)

love birds details






the cake!!!!

And before I left - I took a moment to take in the breathtaking view from the room. St Michael's Golf Club @ Little Bay is just beautiful!!!
Having the room to myself during set up means I can roam around and went snap snap snap ^__^

The view just opens up - as is it's never ending *taking it all in...

Congratulations Vera & Vincent!!!! thank you for the sweet text you sent me after :)
Have fun in your honeymoon!!!!!

sweet and simple, inspired by this lady.

and to Asti.. Happy Birthday (again)!!!
Trust you to wear the pressie's ribbon wrapping.. and making it look good too ;)

3M - mimi, mazda & minions

so who hasn't been updating their blog lately? **raise my hands
i have no excuse except that "things have been absolutely hectic".... standard excuse, yes i know...but true... so let's not dwell on that.. I must say though, I had to go into the blog to see what i have posted and what i have not. *oops...

So here's one of a recent ones...

Mimi wanted to throw a surprise party for her friend. Florensia apparently luuuuuurves her mazda 2 and its plate so much, that Mimi thought it would be a good idea to give her a cake of her car.

Me, on the other hand, went ... "ummmmm...??"
You see.. electronics, cars (boys toys basically) always seem to be a problem for me. As well as characters... They never turned out quite right. Is it because we have a preconceived idea on what they look like? Thus became harder when judging these?

Anyways... after looooong thought, i thought "heck with it.. let's do it!". But I did warned her in the beginning that it's not going to look exactly like the real thing. (and Mimi thank you for the trust!! )

The car is bright GREEN!! And the plate is green as well (with what i thought to be a glow-in-the-dark capability... but apparently it's not.. *damp my fire).
I added a couple of other elements to the design to make it more playful and fun :) I suggested a group of martians from toy story to be included - staring into the plate number in amazement.

but Mimi said... "what about minions from Despicable Me? Flo loves them..." OK! sounds good to me :)

So here comes the minions.. they were done first... leave the scary car bit to the end ;)

minions partaee

The next morning, there's no denying the car. THE TIME HAS COME... and after a full day.. the minions moved from their black tray... to the cake board, taking their place in front of the car..

minions and mimi's friend, flo - peeking at each other

see the rego plate? :]

So there you go... I am conquering my fear of making cars... Still has some refinements to do of course, but we're definitely on our way :)

I also started doing mobile uploads to facebook to an album called "i eat sweet in progress" when I was making this cake. And it's quite an interesting process :) First, I uploaded the photos just for the sake of it, but comments starting to come in from my friends - it is very encouraging for me. So, THANK YOU!! Not only that, the comments also became quite an entertainment for me when i'm doing cakes in the middle of the night as the comments come through :)

At the moment, I'm still trying to figure out how you can post mobile uploads straight to "pages" rather than your personal profile. So "i eat sweet in progress" is still uploading to my page and not to i eat sweet. But have a look anyway.. and if and when I figure this one bit out of Facebook, will transfer to the correct page :)

My thanks to Mimi, for the challenge... :) and for the sweet email afterwards... it always makes me happy (and relieved) to hear that all went to plan :)

xxx