Welcome back to week 2!!!
Just a quick round up for the weekend. On Saturday we all took a trip downtown (to Chicago city) (partaking in local customs and catching a train!!!) to play tourists for the day. Was brilliant apart from being fricken freezing and rainy .... but as Chicago has the 2nd biggest McDonalds in the world (1st in Moscow), they can't have good weather all the time ....
We took one of those red tourist buses and was actually really interesting hearing all the facts .... just one more for you .... The 2 creators of The Ninja Turtles were sitting in a cafe across the road from the Chicago History Museum and they were stuck for names of their 4 x main ninja turtle characters ... one of the guys looked up to read the names on the history museum of famous artists ..... you get the picture now ....
Sunday was all about boosting the US economy with my well practised shopping skills and I did a very good job!!!
Rightio to cake school this morning .... we all had to do approx designs of our final 3 tier cake (see picture and remember I am not the artist in the family!!!) Was also time to start making our final flowers so I started the deep orange lily's which I think are looking good.
The rest of the day was all about flowers ..... am sure you are surprised as me about how many variety of flowers there are in the botanical world .... today we finished off the wild rose (ok), primrose (quite OK), daisies (very ok), daffodils (how can you go past a daffodil), pansies (can take or leave as I was very unco in trying to get the bag settled, had to take a moment ....) and a couple of others .....
We also did colour flower today which is when you pipe icing as an outline and then colour in with a different technique and texture of icing. Looks good ... wait for all the new style of cookies I will be able to do.....
By the end of the day my hands looked like the hungary little catepillar's stomach had exploded all over me ... all colours everywhere, loved it
Tonight we had Gum Paste class again which was awesome. See the pics to explain but we kept on with our orchids, daisies, stefanova's, calias lillies, apologies to botanists out there with my spelling ....
Worked out this morning why we are all so tired ... we have brekkie when the sun is still asleep and the stars are still up and when we drove back to the hotel tonight, the moon was already out ... long days but loving it. The people in my class make it worth it too ... all a classic.
Enjoy the new pics, bit of a variety from the weekend. The fountain which you can hardly see is from the TV show Married with Children. We also went past Oprah's House too ... The first pic is from the Sky deck Willis Tower which is 103 stories above the ground ... you are literally looking down to the ground below
Fiona x
FABULOUS pics - flowers are awesome.
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