Posts by redred

If you add some glycerine to royal icing, it won't dry hard and crunchy.

You could also do it as royal icing runout; cutting them out of gumpaste as others suggested would probably work too

leta, not glycerine, gelatin! Apparently the paste Dunn uses allows him to wire flowers together before the paste has fully dried. That would be handy.

If you anticipate her questions and prepare your answers, you'll feel much more prepared and less nervous. She will probably want to know: Cost - be able to quote your cost for, say 100 serve cake, 200 serves etc. or have a cost for...

Alan Dunn uses the paste bought from A Piece of Cake Thame (they have a website, UK based shop). leta, when you said his flowers are 'soft', do you mean that his flowers never dry? I love a gumpaste that dries strong without being...

I agree with all the other posters. Perhaps the thing about the top tier might have been managed better by a communicating to her early on that the design you envisage is 1 tier only. However, you did say that you were to have carte...

Bizarre : I don't see any business ops here ... these people have already had their wedding cake.

I have also seen very real silk/fabric cymbidiums which look fantastic, and are relatively inexpensive too.

Thanks Shirley!That's the thing about CC - everytime I come on, I find out about something else I just "have" to have. (Fortunately the having of no money keeps things sensibly in check!)

I would so love to get LASIK. I read somewhere that you can only get it if your prescription has remained stable for the past 3 or so years, is that still the case? It would be wonderful to wake up in the morning and be able to see!