I was curious as to who makes their own or buys wholesale gumpaste flowers. I just hate making flowers and am looking into buiyng offline but how does that work when it comes time to charge the customer. Do you charge just what you payed for jthem and the time it takes to place them or as you would if you made them yourself? When asked do you tell the client that you purchase them not make them? Just wondering what you all do. TIA

I buy them. avalon deco .com. Say Hi to David from me.

I mark them up, oh, 300-400 %.

I call them "handmade" which is true. Just not by MY hands.

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Jen

I love and always use www.discountsugarflowers.com

Great prices, quick shipping, perfect flowers, plus lots of other stuff, and I dont have to make them (I hate making them!).

Love to paint and sell them, though!

I have heard that the flowers tend to be thicker for shipping purposes, have you found that to be true?

Havent heard that, but I've never seen any that seemed *too* thick; I suppose it could be true but certainly not an issue with the ones I've gotten.

I recently bought some from Pfeil & Holing (they can be seen in my photo album for a flower vase cake I did) They were beautiful and seriously I couldn't imagine trying to make all those. Besides, mine would never turn out that well. I'd mark them up too (whatever you feel comfortable with) but for this cake it was for a friend and I only charged her for supplies.