189 days ago
by Karen Flude |
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Well….....after a late night and an early start I drove up the M6 very slowly….... to arrive at the NEC at 7.15am. We all de-boxed and set up our cakes on the tables provided (only the snail fell off in transit so easy to fix). Then we carried our cakes over and placed them on the judging tables.Leaving my cake was really hard to do, I felt like I’d delivered a baby and didn’t want to go off and leave it with anyone that might not look after it.The judges were very...
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194 days ago
by Karen Flude |
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Well at last after weeks and weeks of working on it, my cake is finally finished.I’m really pleased with the way it’s turned out.The worry now is how best to transport it without getting there with a pile of dust!!So any tips would be greatly appreciated.
The cake is called “An Autumn Wedding” and it really tells the tail of two weddings.The first wedding is the farmers daughter, who has a cake with two mice as the Bride and Groom on the...
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238 days ago
by Karen Flude |
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This week I’ve been starting to put together the cake and characters I’ve been working on over the last few weeks.
When I build a cake from my imagination I have to listen to the story the characters are telling me, and that sets the scene for the finished cake. My Mother always said I had an over active imagination.But I suppose thats how Authors write books sometimes. They have to let the story tell itself and when it’s done they can “picture” the story.
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