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Gumpaste Tulip

I started blogging to share with everyone the wonderful world of sugar flowers. I certainly had enough photos to post but, not much more than that. I wasn't quite sure what to write about since all I do is make sugar flowers.

I was doing it all for fun and the love of it. And still do!!!

A lot has happened since I began on August 19th 2010, maybe not gigantic YET, but still as I look back I see so many blogs of sharing what I love to do..

Some of my blogs...

The Orange County Fair my first blog. That year I entered the fair and won Best of Show and 1st place for Sugar Flowers. I also did a demo on a peony!!!

I wrote about working with Colette's Catering being their Sugar Flower person when they need that special flower.

I also wrote about flower orders I had, how to make some of the flowers in very brief tutorials, and other flower related things I thought might be of interest.

I will post more about what I am doing, where I will be teaching, where I am selling the sugar flowers and will add a couple brief tutorials of some simpler flowers since I am a one person show doing the making and photo taking..

It would wonderful to know that I am inspiring others who are interested in sugar flowers to continue on and learn this wonderful world of sugar art...

Gumpaste Daffodil

 

2012 San Diego Cake Show Entry

Cake shows seem to have a huge build up of excitement for me. It starts first with deciding what to make a cake with gumpaste flowers or just a gumpaste entry piece. Every year as I learn more about gumpaste flowers and learn new ones it alters my decision.


Having been away from the San Diego Cake show for a few years I thought I would enter both the cake competition and a gumpaste piece. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do for the cake and sketched it out.

 But, I am not one to follow the original design and created an entirely new cake idea with little decoration but a lot of flowers.  Here are a few flowers I decided to decorate my cake with

What I wanted to create  was a cake with spring color flowers, not necessarily spring flowers. I made some hypericum berries, some small green plants, and white filler flowers to add to it all, but the flowers I make are so delicate they break if I add too much to a group. I kept the colors all similar but different shades with a couple of stand out colors in the mix.

Sometimes I do get carried away and want to include all the flowers I make since I find it hard to decide. But, I was pleased with what I ended up with and like to think of if as my garden cake. 

San Diego 2012 Cake Show entry 

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So many flowers so little time

I think I am a bit overwhelmed with wanting to make so many new flowers I have found. I have limited time and limited cutters and try to improvise at times. Sometimes it works out like the Parrot Tulip. There is a cutter but I don't have it so I rummaged around and found another cutter that I had to use. I have tear drop cutters that I usually only use for roses.. I found I can make many other flowers with them. The one thing I am lacking are veiners to give the flowers the perfect veining just like a real one.

So, I spend a lot of my time looking on line for flowers I would like to make, studying them, then rummaging through all my cutters, dusting colors, wires, and other supplies.. Then after wasting all this time I make too many and put them all in the stryofoam waiting to be arranged. They wait with all the other flowers I make.

Then it is time to use them and hopefully create an arrangement of some sort. But, what I have come to notice is I make flowers I like, but don't think about putting them in an arrangement together at the time and come to find out they don't go together.

So, I need a system or plan when I start creating them  soI can make an entire arrangement.   I think a list would be good start and find out if I have all the supplies needed to make them. Then, stick to my plan. That seems to be the hardest part for me. Doing what I planned to do. For some strange reason I always, I mean ALWAYS stray from my plan. Whether it is the colors I decide to use, the sizes and quantities I need or changing the flower I want to make.  So, I get no where fast. 

I can laugh since I am in no hurry but I do want to make so many flowers and then see how much time I waste just planning and getting ready?

So, tonight I am going to start my list of desired flowers to make to include what supplies I have and what I need to get. I will start with 10 flowers and see how that goes.

I wonder if I am the only one who has this issue?