dream dress!

Every bride's dress is super special and lovely and, if you follow tradition it's also a big surprise on the day! I am very lucky that often my customers let me into their secret and send photos or weblinks of thier wonderful dresses. It's one of the perks of the job!! However, often i may be looking at that very photo and wondering just how am i going to try and make a mini version of that frock for the cake top bride lol!! I may not be able to get it exactly right as its a very small scale to work on, but generally i think i can make a pretty good attempt!! Lace, beading, full skirts, short skirts, net skirts, long sleeves, short sleeves, no sleeves..... I think i've attempted it all!!

One such dress i admired was for a lovely bride who told me i was indeed one of the very few people who had seen it so far. She had sent me a photo of herself in the dress taken at a fitting, and i admired it and even wished it was mine lol! A top secret dress indeed!! Just lately she kindly got in touch again and this time i realised the secret was at last out about the dress!! It was her Uncle who had designed her beautiful wedding gown, and his name? Mr John Galliano. Now, after an initial panic at the thought of any legal action coming my way as i had, inadvertantly, copied a top designer's wedding dress design.... i was relieved and delighted to learn that in fact the cake top had gone down well on the big day, and no complaints lodged from Mr Galliano as yet.... Whew...

The happy couple had a beautiful wedding in Gibraltar, the photos look fantastic, and as you can see the Groom had a very dashing outfit of his own!! hey hey!

Congratulations to the happy and very well dressed couple!!!

You can read a bit more about the wedding and the bride's dress here...

Confetti magazine pages 54 & 55

Gibralta Cronicle

wheels and squeals!

Well its September here in caketopland and we'll soon be waving cheerio to the 'summer' that we nearly had... A bit of a damp one here this year, but still there was a few good days of sun, at least i think there was... i'm almost sure of it..... Oh yes indeed!! One such glorious day was the wedding of two lovely seaside living folk and for a change i made the cake top AND attended the wedding! Oh yes! I am so used to posting off caketops to far and wide, that it was quite a new experience to be there in the same room as one! It was a lovely day, not just with it being a rare sunny one, not a cloud in the sky, but a happy day and a happy vibe all round. The bride and groom had sent out invitations where they were pictured cruising along on a moped... uh oh i thought when i got mine.... how on earth can i make a moped.....oh, i tell ya, i almost left the country, but no!! Instead i attempted the challenge and thankfully the two wheels stuck to the road and i'm glad to say no one fell off.....

Congratulations to Milly and Ally, and thanks for a lovely day at your wedding......oh and while we're at it, let's wish a wheelly good time to the 'webmaster'.... She is currently touring Scotland in some sort of wee sporty kit car... i am afraid i have been told but it went in one ear and straight back out the other, i can't tell you what sort of car it is.... It's em... blue.. it's got four wheels but no roof....oooh but its really cool!! Wheelly wheelly cool.....lets hope for a late sunny summer for the webmaster and Mr W, as so far their waterproofs have been well worn!!

Hey have you noticed there is a theme to this blog entry?? Could it be something round and not square?? Yes i knew you'd get it eventually!! Wheels!! I have been thinking 'wheels' for weeks now and have been on the search for the perfect wheel for a wheelchair!! It is tricky.... Making wheels from scratch is harder that you may think... there are lots of model wheels on the web sold for everything from model railways to robot warring..... but so far i haven't found the elusive sport wheelchair wheel, triple spoked and sleek, and just the right size for a caketop..... Still, i do have some very nice wheels in my collection that do the job pretty good i hope...