a homemade lemonade drinking bare feet kind of day ♥
Piquing My Pinterest ~ My First!
Why oh Why are you so addictive!
I love Pinterest! I kind of use it as my virtual vision board! I find beauty, love, inspiration and motivation by pinning. I pin my dreams, my goals, my favourite things, cute ideas and inspirational quotes. I heart it!
This is what I pinned this week...
A little Inspiration...
A gorgeous idea for newborn shoot...
Can't wait to learn Yoga...
Super cute for expecting mumma...
Beautiful horses are the sweetest...
The truth! Must always remember this...
My favourite movie! SMILE...
Love this idea for bubs room...
Motivation...
Inspiration - The truth!
Fell in love with this stair case...
Calm...
One day I will get there...
These are just super cute...
Stunning dress! Stunning accessories...
Always have faith...
This my space! My place I go to in my mind to 'check out'...
Love this kitchen...
Love! What a cute and simple idea...
I love finding new and fresh ideas on Pinterest! I love it when I don't want to go for a walk, I pin some photos and get going! I love it when I loose a little faith in the future, I pin some photos to get me hopeful again. I love it when I have so much love in my heart that I can not express it, I pin some photos to express my feelings. I love it when I want to inspire me and those around me, I pin some photos that speak to my heart!
Come on over and follow me on PINTEREST
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x S.K.K x
Decorating my bird cage cake
Several weeks ago I shared with you my Christmas cake, shaped like a bird cage and then how to marzipan bird cage shaped cake. Last week I shared how I iced my cake, so finally this week I show you how I decorated it!
How to decorate bird cage shaped cake
Ingredients
- Gluten free birdcage shaped Christmas cake covered in a layer of marzipan and iced
- Royal Icing
- Ready to roll white icing
- Petal paste roses (instructions coming soon...)
- Petal paste bird (instructions coming soon...)
- Fondant snowflakes (instructions coming soon...)
- Pink edible beads
- Fondant holly leaves (instructions coming soon...)
- Iced ring
- Pink, green and white edible glitter
- Aqua edible dust
Equipment
- Rolling pin
- Bakers twine
- Pins
- Piping bag fitted with small circular nozzle
- Wooden cocktail sticks
- FMM textured lace set
Method
- To get your bird cage even, start by placing a length of bakers twine over the top of your cake and pin in place, so that you have divided the cake in half
- Continue pinning bakers twine to your cake until you have segmented the cake into 12 pieces
- Lightly push the string into the cake so you are left with small indentations and remove string entirely
- Lightly sieve icing sugar on to your work top and knead white icing until soft and pliable. Then, using a rolling pin, roll into a long shape about 5mm thick, i.e. at least the width of the lace imprint and long enough to go round the cake
- Push lace imprint into rolled out icing strip, continue until strip has imprint from end to end. Using a sharp knife, trim sides of strip, lightly brush cooled boiled water onto back of strip and adhere to bottom of cake. Trim off excess at ends
- Make up royal icing as package instructions
- Spoon into piping bag fitted with circular nozzle
- Starting at the top of the cake, carefully pipe a strip of royal icing down one of the indentations in the cake
- Continue until you have all of the cage spindles piped
- Roll out fondant icing as before and cut a small circle out using a round cookie cutter, lightly brush the back of your fondant circle with water and place at top of the cake in the centre
- Then roll a small ball out of white fondant icing and attach to the top of the cake using a wooden tooth pick
- Lightly sieve icing sugar on to your work top and knead white icing until soft and pliable. Then, using a rolling pin, roll into a long shape about 5mm thick, that is at least the width of the lace imprint and long enough to go round the cake
- Push lace imprint into rolled out icing strip, continue until strip has imprint from end to end
- Using a sharp knife, trim sides of strip, lightly brush cooled boiled water onto back of strip and adhere to the top straight part of the cake. Trim off excess at ends
- Brush edible white glitter on to spindles of cage
- Continue brushing white edible glitter on to cage
- Brush aqua cake shimmer onto blue icing
- Work out the position of your petal paste bird and push bird foot into cake
- Pipe a small dab of white royal icing onto the front of your fondant bird, line bird up with its foot and push into the side of the cake
- Pipe a small dab of royal icing onto the back of the fondant roses and place them at the top and bottom of the cake
- Pipe a small dab of royal icing onto the back of the holly leaves and place them at the top and bottom of the cake
- Pipe a small dab of white royal icing onto the edible pink beads and place next to the holly leaves on the cake
- Using edible glitters, dust roses with pink glitter and leaves with green glitter
- Pipe a small dab of white royal icing onto the back of the snowflakes and place on cake
- Attach iced ring to ball on top of cake and lightly dust entire cake with sieved icing sugar
Here it is on my Winter Wonderland table
Have a sweet day!
mini shoot with littles
a quick set up and a few snaps. didn't get exactly what I was looking for but still cute enough :)
nakie baby <3
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nakie baby <3
Miss Etoile @ Top Drawer Spring/Summer 2012
Last week I showed you the gorgeous new treasures from one of my favourite interior brands, Miss Etoile. It was great to see their collection at the Top Drawer interior show in all its sugary, sparkly glory! I so need to get some of the gorgeous paper blooms and striped straws for my Summer soiree's.
Have a sweet day!
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