AI'm just doing an hour a week but I really enjoy it! I worked too hard tonight on boat though and hurt my tum :-( silly boy :-)

Thanks Tiddy.

I get the trays from asda to Gray, the mess bag off fruit is good for pressing onto fondant for the middle of flowers like daisies.

ouchy ...was trying to teach my little one the sun salutation...good fun!

I am currently attempting the plank challenge Gray so i know ouchy tums!

ooh good tip roxy..never thought of that 

Nanny I hate 12 inchers!

Neither did I Tiddy until I saw it on my Cassie Brown dvd so I can't take credit for the idea.

ACan't live withouts: mini palette knife, edging tool and my custom flower veiner I had made.

Non-cakey item called into cakeyness: [IMG]http://cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/3261326/width/200/height/400[/IMG]

ADoes this sound like someone after a cheap wedding cake to you all?

"Hi could you make 3 cakes with no icing? I need 8"and 12" in sponge and 10" in fruit for end of August."

ACan't live without my scraper and turntable!

Non cakey item is my trusty flat edged butter knife. Amazing fir level ignored cups and spoons exactly!

A

Cheeky betch. Just book me to make the whole thing damn it! I'm hardly a rip off merchant!

ok kuuushi you will have to explain? im crying here! 

A

I don't :-D

Great idea for the cup tree tiddy, that's now on my shopping list.

I don't think I could choose a favourite item; they're all my favourites at the point I need them!

My non cake essential would certainly include secateurs for cutting dowel. I used to saw at wooden ones, melt plastic ones with a hot knife, now I just snip 'em.

oh Lizzy  please don't you start too...seriously that last sentence from kuuushi has made me laugh soooo much my belly is killing and ive mascara in me eye!

hahahahahahahahahahaha! I think it was the exclamation mark at the end thats finished me off  shes clearly not taken enough water with it and is now sprawled somewhere hahaha! If my hubby walks in now omg! Its tickled me that has!

AGray that previous pic was Siany ' s, but here is mine ... [IMG]http://cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/3261333/width/200/height/400[/IMG]

Now I'm going to eat my dinner ! Not happy with it tbh :-(

Jo it looks fine! What arent you happy?

I can't live without my turning table, the £5 one from Ikea!

Wow Marvel, that would take 'naked' cakes to a  whole new level eh?

What is Kuushi on about? I don't get it :)

I was wondering what people's (ie, you lot :D) thoughts were on this. I'm rather keen to make wedding cakes but want to kind of 'experience' it first. I thought I might offer a wedding cake to someone at cost, perhaps through those facebook groups, but there will be limits- like up to 3 tiers only, and only so many flowers or something like that. I thought I'd limit the offer to cakes for this year rather than next. I'm that keen. I know most people have booked their cakes in advanced, but I'm hoping there might be some who haven't. I'm also limiting where the cake will travel (delivery is part of the cost) to maybe 30 miles from where I am. Not quite decided on this. If I generated a lot of interest, then I thought I'd raffle off. I was thinking this might be a good way of getting some interested in me anyway and looking me up. 

The whole point of the exercise is so I know the ins and outs of making wedding cakes. Going through the consultation, I'm including the tasting too so I'd have to make some sheet cakes for this, discussing the cake design, the venue, etc etc. I'd like to have actually done an actual wedding cake before I take on paid orders for them.

Thoughts? Good idea? bad? waste of time? 

AI've had to go back and look at what Kuushi wrote tiddy, somehow I missed it before. That's hilarious :-D It's like it's trying to be a sentence but just gives up half way through :-D

Jo, that's really good quilted effect on the cake. Looks lovely. Why aren't you happy? Why aren't we all every happy with our cakes? 

AEvening all. :-) Lovely cakes, I love the pants and I love the rainbow, it's so cute.

I saw that leveller and it looked so similar to one of mine. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw the price but on closer inspection it's not the same, really similar tho! I had it for my birthday, haven't used it yet, don't get on with levellers, they never seem to cut straight.

Lizzy I agree with you about every sugarpaste on your list that I've tried. Can't stand Renshaws, hate the stuff, just can't get on with it at all.

Jo that's lovely, what are you not happy with?

A... OMG that was a dodgy prawn...

AOooh Jean, can't help you there I'm afraid. Someone who has sold wedding cakes will I'm sure but if you offered one at cost would it be difficult to charge proper price from then on?

Top tip.  Don't do the level 2 food safety course when you already feel queasy.  Blurgh I may have to go disinfect my house now

Lizzy i have no idea! But i have been in hysterics for half hour now...my daughter walked in and said "mother! what on earth is wrong?" to which I replied "fir level cups and ignored spoons!" which just set me off again  I have no idea why i found it so bloody funny but i think it was the exclamation mark and the fact that no one said anything..you know like when you get a fit of the giggles and everyone else is straight faced...just makes it 100 times worse haha!

Maisie, it was just going to be a one-off offer :) Like a special promo!