something I was working on this last week....

I made this cake for my niece's bridal shower. 

It was inspired by a cake class I took with Collette Peters who is awesome BTW...

My niece loved the cake and I had heaps of fun doing it... was a challenge thats for sure especially the cage whiuch I had to do 3 times, finally got it right and was able to transport it with out any breakages... AWESOME!

Bottom layer was dark chocolate fudge cake with chocolate Italian butter-cream and raspberry filling YUM!, top 2 layers were vanilla/coconut  fudge cake with vanilla butter-cream and lemon/passion fruit curd, Double YUM!. both were covered in dark and white chocolate ganache before the fondant was applied which made the cake uber moist and extra yummy! Ya can never have too much chocolate I say!!!

Gum Paste peony with brush embroidery

Cage cake inspired by Collette Peters...

New e-Pattern Suzette Glastonbury Rugolo

Boy we are getting busier by the minute with new patterns flying in the door!!!

I am proud to announce we will now be carrying e-Patterns by Suzette Glastonbury Rugolo...

and to start off we have her wonderful Babushka Pattern...this is available in both paper and as a download... click on the picture below to find out more...

Babushka Cushions by Suzette Glastonbury Rugolo

I have more of Suzette patterns in the process of being converted... will post them as they become available...

New Online class available

Boy are we lucky!!

Angela Jarecki is going to do an inline class for us...

Saika an asian bust style doll

Saika... click on the picture to find out more

Class is only AU$45 and will be an ongoing class which starts very soon... 22nd October 2012

Saika, which means a flower full of color, came about from my love of drawing faces! I wanted a way that I could work on various ethnic faces and features,  that was more than a sketch, yet not quite a full blown doll. I hated the thought of so many bodiless dolls lying about, so I turned her into a bust!

 

Saika is approximately 6” tall, when made totally from cloth. 

Angela will teach her sculpting method along with embellishing ideas to complete your Bust.

This is a fabulous class if you want to learn how to do asian style faces and came about from Angela having a heap of spare heads floating around ... so she decided to Dress em up and display them!

hone your skills in sculpting and colouring

find out more here...

there is even an optional kit available which can be found here...

come n join us in whats sure to be a fun class...

why not treat yourself or someone you love... this class would make a fab gift

New Patterns Stephanie Novatski

We have a new design from Stephanie Novatski

Meet the sultry sea siren Soprana ....

This is now available in e-pattern format which means you can now go to the website and order... once I have received notification of your payment I will immediately send you the links to this 64 page pattern which includes ...

• 10 pages of templates and a supply list to create the doll in 2 sizes... 18 and 24 inches.
• 26 pages chock full of coloured photos and instructions dedicated to the head and facial details
• and 30 pages of detailed photographs and instructions dedicated to construction of the body and embellishment techniques.

This is one gorgeous gal... Stephanie out does herself with her explanations and detailed photos

Soprana the mermaid

more beads

I have another bead kits set up to be practically given away on our facebook pages... 

Spring Fling is made up of colour coordinating pastel colours 5 x 20gms of 11/0s, 5 x 20gms 15/0s, 3mm swarovski crystals, 6mm miracle beads, and quality 11/0  metal silver and gold Charlotte beads and the like... I will take any FAIR offer winner gets a bargain... 

all genuine offers are welcome... this is excess stock and has got to go!!!!

Spring Fling Pastels bead kit

Why not try your luck we are practically giving it away...

was created for a workshop using Patti Culea's Creative Cloth Doll "Beading" book and there are enough beads to create the doll with the beaded floral basket.

here is a pic of my finished doll made during the workshop...

My version of the beaded doll

good luck...