tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45455490701667074072024-03-14T05:04:57.399+11:00Life After Television .... creating Cakes ActuallyAfter working in Television for the last 15 years, its time for change ....so its cakes, cookies and cupcakes a go go. Every member of my family has some sort of creative streak and I have always wondered what is mine ... the cakes are slowly getting thereUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545549070166707407.post-60738514883117920002010-10-09T09:24:00.001+11:002010-10-09T09:25:49.221+11:00LAST DAY of our course and final photos ...Hello ...<br />
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Enjoy all the pics ... everyone's final cakes were brilliant!!! Here is just a small selection of them ...<br />
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Was sad to say goodbye to my new friends today and friggen heck have we learnt alot over the past 2 weeks!!! (still can't move my right hand properly)<br />
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Very ready to be coming home and just want to get the big flight on the red and white kangaroo over and done with ... its a 24 hour trip with transfers and waiting time ....<br />
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To sum the last 2 weeks up has just been sensational and worth the last year and a half wait.<br />
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We did the big tour of Wilton HQ today and saw the test kitchens and the creative design departments. We then 'graduated' got our certificates and it was time to pack up our final clobber.<br />
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We also got to see new cakes and cupcakes and cookies that haven't been published yet so were not allowed to take photos, have tried to remember most and draw them down .... you should have seen the gingerbread houses designs .... can't wait for Xmas this year<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Wasn't easy to leave my cake behind but I took Judy Sue, Mike and the orange lily's off and hope they make it home safe with my 'yeah brilliant' tight packing skills.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Thanks for your lovely words</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Fiona x</div><br />
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Too tired to ramble on today so will just post the pics. We finished our final cakes and was amazing to see everyone elses. For a class of 24, everyone had such different styles and no 2 were nearly the same at all.<br />
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Will just put the planning of mine today and then tomorrow I will put my favourite ones of my class mates. We are doing a tour of Wilton HQ tomorrow and seeing all the kitchens and all the preparation behind the scenes, can't wait!!! (and we get to sleep in until 0600)<br />
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Don't look too much at Mike and Judy Sue ... poor things, I managed to drop them today so Judy Sue got a bit of a bump on her head ...<br />
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Also did round 3 (ding ding) of shopping at the Wilton Shop .... will definitely have to buy another suitcase tomorrow arvo ....<br />
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Hope you like my final cake .... looks OK<br />
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love Fiona x<br />
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Its getting near the end now .... 2 days of class left to go and then we are on our own in cake world ...<br />
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Long day today with Gum paste class tonight after Masters Class.<br />
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This morning we did prep for a couple of hours on our final cakes. My poor little Judy Sue and Mike figurines, I put them under the heating lamps and they nearly got an all over tan ... all OK though<br />
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The rest of Masters Class was spent prepping and finishing the 'b'day' cakes. We divided the cakes into 8 and did all sorts of various designs from everything we have learnt over the last couple of weeks. Have a look at the progress photos ....after all that work I had to take everything back off as I can't bring mine home .... oh well to the next one<br />
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Don't be too critical of my flowers, not perfect but they are OK, will get there<br />
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Also check all the flowers we have made .... went to the biggest art and craft shop at lunch today and bought a compartment box .... really excellent ... lets see if I can get them back to Sydney safely though<br />
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Tonight in Gum Paste class we finished off our flowers which looked awesome. All was going greatly until I friggen snapped off one of my orchid leaves .... thank christ we made a sparey leaf for these such occasions.<br />
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Tomorrow we are doing our 3 tier cakes ALL DAY!!! Can't wait ... have changed the design but wont bore you with it .... wait for the pics tomorrow night.<br />
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Fact for the day: got the telly on right now in the background and one of the commercials is advertising hamburgers but they call them 'Manwich' for meat in a sandwich ... what will our world come with next<br />
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Bye for now ....<br />
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Fiona x<br />
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Very good over here this morning with frost all over the grass - looked really pretty.<br />
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Today was all good, rather than rumble on what we did, will go through each of the pics which will tell the story ...<br />
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1. My paradise ... every colour possible of the Wilton range for all your desires. None of us can do anything in just white anymore, everything gets a colour. Because I just can't be normal, am always looking to create new colours and schemes<br />
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2. Some of the flowers we have been making which will go on the birthdays cakes, putting these together tomorrow<br />
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3. My butterfly which we did with icing gels (new technique learnt today) - the colours haven't come out very well but they are purple and red, yellow and black. Quite proud of myself that I didn't take hours to decide on the colours<br />
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4. Learning to write with the royal icing and piping skills - felt like we were back at kindy learning to write again ....<br />
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5 & 6. Have look at the difference between Debbie and teachers and mine ... am sure you can tell who is the student ....this was just before I wrecked mine and chucked it<br />
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7 & 8. Please meet Judy Sue and Mike who I made this afternoon. This photo doesn't do my little friends any justice. They are actually about 10cm in height. Named after the 2 TV presenters who wake me up at 0530 each morning over here. Will send another one through tomorrow when I have finished them ....<br />
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9. Another mission nearly completed - I went to the Wilton shop this afternoon and again boosted the US economy - should be getting my telegram from Barrack soon ....Thank god for the 25% discount though, just be prepared for all the baking that I will need sampling from next week<br />
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Right that's it for today ... bring on a few hours sleep and back into it again tomorrow .... You will be happy to know that I have changed my mind bout the cake design .... just going to see what happens when I get everything prepped and go from there ...<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Be good</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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Welcome back to week 2!!!<br />
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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 ....<br />
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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 ....<br />
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Sunday was all about boosting the US economy with my well practised shopping skills and I did a very good job!!!<br />
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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.<br />
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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 ..... <br />
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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.....<br />
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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<br />
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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 ....<br />
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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.<br />
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Welcome to the end of week 1 - its nice to have it here ...<br />
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Today started with an hour and a half practise of our roses which we know and love ( I figure if I keep telling myself that it will sink in).<br />
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Next the half roses came along which were OK however I don't think you would classify the ones that I did as half roses ... more petals that just need a bit of encouragement ....<br />
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For a bit of variety we attempted the victorian rose which is just like its cousin but with a curvier tip (97) - its not in the nice part of the family either ....<br />
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BUT .... we then got introduced to Petunias and my stress levels came back to normal!!! They are a dream and I put violet paste in my icing bag with the white and got stripy petunias which looked fabulous in colour and will get their slowly in design.<br />
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Now I just need to work out if you can get purple, pink or orange petunias for my final work.<br />
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After lunch it was time to ice in royal icing our b'day cake and 3 tier wedding cake for next week. We went next door to Johnny's for lunch (awesome chicken wraps with hot chips (got into the fries debate again) so were all on a high until we started decorating.<br />
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We were just covering foam cakes as they will be for display and although it was brilliant having a palet knife back in my hand, I still need to learn not to be so critical of my own work ... its only icing!!!<br />
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The teachers put some music on and I was actually humming along and enjoying the 'pan flute' until they played my favourite Elvis song ... wasn't pretty!!!<br />
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So I am getting ready to go out to dinner tonight (Italian with big glass of red wine) with my team that are staying here at my hotel and it will be nice to get ready and know I am not getting covered in icing.<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Tomorrow I don't have to wake up at 5.30am either, a few of us are going Downtown to play tourist (will say hi to Oprah if we find her) and then on Sunday I am going to the Mall next to the hotel for SHOPPING all day!!!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Have had an incredible week and wouldn't change a thing at all. Have got homework too which are the figurines I am going to make for my final work. Just the bride and groom though ....</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Have brilliant weekends and look forward to posting on Monday with the beginning of my final works. Lets hope I can make a decision about designs and colours</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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Would love to say that today was 100% goodness but the fact that I sitting here reporting in with a glass of wine in one hand and cheesy puffs in the other (who says you can't take the girl out of Mosman) is a tell tale sign that it was different ....<br />
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Today was all about flowers - in royal icing and in gumpaste<br />
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We started with the drop flowers (lovely) and then went on to roses (rose buds) which is where the day went downhill quickly for us all. They looked easy but once you got stuck in, the formations just didn't make sense. One chinese buffet later for lunch and things looked alot better.<br />
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After lunch we continued with the roses and just got with .... after about 50 of them (little bit of an over estimation) we all actually got the hang of it ... mind you, don't think you would find mine in any botanic books.<br />
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Carnations and 1/2 carnations were next which looked great and were fun to do too.<br />
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Lillies finished the first part of the day for class and which was an excellent plan .... they were alot easier and looked good too.<br />
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Thank christ we have 2 of the most patient teachers in the world. Imagine just for us individually we find it challenging but for Debbie and Lorena to have to explain it 12 times each .... good luck!!!<br />
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When we started the week we were given a box of icing tips which just looked like small little metal things but now it all actually makes sense on what each one does ... its actually quite incredible how much we have learnt and done so far ....<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Everyone was still a touch dismayed though and then we had the thought of 3 hours of Gumpaste class to contend with aswell. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">BUT ... the roses we made for gumpaste class ended up looking OK, took 3 hours but was worth it </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Bob from Florida drove us home and thank christ we went via the biggest supermarket ever - I actually had 4 people asked me if I needed help looking for anything ... please ... that is one place in this world where I can find my way anywhere ... </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Once again managed not to buy anything from the Wilton shop but have added at least 12 more items to my list. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Have also decided on my colours for my 3 tiered cake .... deep violet, most vibrant orange ever and am sure a bright magenta pink ... will no doubt change my mind though again ...</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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Hope you are all excellent.<br />
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Can't believe we are on DAY 3 already. Today consisted of a power outage in the kitchens and dodgy icing!!! Oh no you are all probably thinking ... oh yes ...<br />
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Jetlag hit big time this morning and even after 5 hours sleep I was still exhausted and struggled all day.<br />
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We arrived at 7am this morning to start my beloved piping skills and half the school was in darkness, so after shuffling around the kitchenaid (very heavy) and finding a power outlet that was working we were back in business.<br />
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Was all about piping this morning, going over yesterdays and then learning a few more ..... The Chandelier (might won't be hung in Buckingham Palace but are OK,), the Zig Zag garland (yeah alright), and then another type of garland which I will leave to the garland professionals and won't insult their abilities, quite complex ....<br />
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Have to admit was good to practise yesterdays skills and gave me good ideas for my 3 tier cake (see pic)<br />
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Thanks for your ideas, have gone with a 3 tier consisting of 6 inch round, 10 inch round and then 12 inch square, should look excellent. Now to decide on the colours. As its going to be too hard to bring back to Sydney, Terry who is from Boulder, Colarado is going to put it on display in her and her husbands bakery.<br />
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Debbie and Lorena took us through torting a cake and piping the icing which I hadn't seen before as the majority of cakes in Australia are fondant but was really good to learn for the buttercream style<br />
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After an awesome buffet lunch (like Sizzler) it was flower time with royal icing. We all attempted to do 'drop flowers' (looked quite easy in theory) but the icing was not playing ball today so we had to change to 'sweet peas' (see pic - ALOT more practise needed).<br />
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Managed to walk out of the shop again with no purchases - won't happen again though. There is just way too much to buy!!!<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We are trying to sort out sight seeing plans for Sat and Sun. One of the locals husband is going to draw up a guide for us .... way too nice the local Chicagoians. Am craving a big glass of wine after the week so far so bring on Friday night!!! </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Anyway tonight is for planning the designs for our cakes - love it</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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We started at 0700 this morning and finished at 6.45pm as we had our first gum paste (flowers) class.<br />
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Our teachers for the Master Class are Debbie and Lorena and they are excellent. Very patient and explain everything really well. Mary is our gum paste teacher and awesome too.<br />
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One of the ladies is behind the scenes baking for our break times and my 'wheat intollerance' has had to go out of the kitchen for a while with the cupcakes that have been made for us .... it's worth it!!!<br />
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OK, today we had to practice all our 'perfect' piping that we learnt yesterday and then we learnt the reverse shell (not good), basket weave (yeah okay), cornelli lace (excellent), bead border (anyone that can make these buggers round gets a medal), rope (mine dismal), double over striping work (good fun) and then the crown boarder apparently which has gone out of fashion (hopefully will not come back for a while)<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Also went to the Spotlight equivalent at lunch time to start thinking options for bedazzling up my soon to be 3 tier cake. Being me, had to buy all the colour ribbons as I couldn't make my mind up between all shades of the pinks and purples .... still haven't but got some awesome ribbons for future cakes.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">No purchases from the Wilton shop - pretty proud of myself</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We had 3 hours of the flower making gum paste class which was brilliant. Lots of fun and you will see the goodie pack we got which was just like opening a Xmas pressie. We started prepping the flowers like daisies, lillles and the rose bases (I chose pink in about 7 mins) and the rose leaves .... not a bad effort at all by all of us .... 3 more nights of this class to go and we are allowed to use these flowers for a final cake too (if they match our colour scheme remember)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Bob from Florida drove us home tonight and we got into a traffic jam through one of the towns, there was a big massive 4wd drive parked next to us and the number plate was 'big'. God bless the USA for keeping life easy for us.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Right, exhausted, need to sleep, enjoy the pics. No more piping tomorrow ... its cake time</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The foam cakes in the pics are me trying to work out whether to do the square round round or the round round square ... what a decision</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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I always say that you learn a new fact each day and on the journey over I learnt a few ....<br />
1. Don't tell your life story (even if he asks) to the US Immigration officer who has the power of the stamp in your passport ..... he doesn't care<br />
2. Don't argue with the Officers that say 1 personal bag and 1 cabin bag over - they wont change or bend the rules ... not even for an Aussie!!!<br />
3. When the intercom at LAX airport announces your gate change .... please go and check with someone behind the counter .... saves a plane load of people wandering the airport and nearly missing the flight!!!<br />
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There are 24 people in our course and we are all from all destinations from around the world. We played the 'who are you and why are you here' game this morning which was really interesting to listen to everyone's stories.<br />
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First moment of getting excited this morning was walking through the Wilton Shop and being told that we get 25% discount of all products. I sort of said to myself that I would wait until next week to make purchases but what a surprise when I left this afternoon with 2 books!!!<br />
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Today was all about what we are going to learn over the next 2 weeks and starting to think about our final 3 tier cake which we will design. Am already in a paddy about what shape I will do and have changed my mind at least 12 times.<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The three things I learned today:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">1. God bless aprons (thank you Sareybear)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">2. Americans do not understand what hot chips are ... they are 'fries' .... thank god we cleared this up on DAY 1.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">3. Piping icing takes patience!!! This I am still trying to learn ..... will get there ....(wont bore you with all those pics)</div><br />
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Have a look at the pics and you will get an idea of what the school looks like and what we did today.<br />
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Take care and until DAY 2<br />
Love always<br />
Fiona xUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545549070166707407.post-28741539998647104662010-09-19T15:36:00.000+10:002010-09-19T15:36:04.957+10:00Chicago ... here we come ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq2VQSRqoVJWd2J8udCNkNIMt46OHuisDViJ7YrdtuCPHpDoNhTylqqwJWQ8Wwb4b2Z75vU_FUmWgb23CllDCIUBPqTWuB1qP8a49vk801swc66UhxFteSYXVqY_gigslMK4HqUA21R2vG/s1600/cake_withflowers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq2VQSRqoVJWd2J8udCNkNIMt46OHuisDViJ7YrdtuCPHpDoNhTylqqwJWQ8Wwb4b2Z75vU_FUmWgb23CllDCIUBPqTWuB1qP8a49vk801swc66UhxFteSYXVqY_gigslMK4HqUA21R2vG/s320/cake_withflowers.jpg" /></a></div>It has taken me one and a half years and many many visits to the Wilton website, however next Saturday I will be travelling to Wilton HQ in Chicago to do the Wilton Master Course for 2 weeks ... stand by callers for reviews and pictures.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0