A New Design Release
3 weeks ago
Showing posts with label felt cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label felt cake. Show all posts
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Here is another batch of felt cakes I made during the last 2 weeks. I remade a couple of them as I wasn't satisfied with the first results.
First time making a whole felt cake. I have to practise with the icing though.
I just bought this Wilton Wonder Mold. For the past few weeks, DD had been watching on Youtube on some doll cakes making using this mold. I can bake but I am not a professional cake decorator. I know there are a lot of accessories (different type of tips to be used on the dress) involved and they look quite intimidating. DH told me that he will help out with the decorations and told me to go ahead and buy the kit. DH came with an idea to save some work but not money. He suggested buying a barbie doll dress, cut it to the waist length and put it over this doll pick. In this way, we don't have to decorate top body with icing, marzipan, etc. What do you think? We will try making a Barbie doll cake this Sunday together with DD. If you want to look at the most beautiful Barbie doll cakes, go here. That is the site which DD and I frequent a lot and try to look for The Island Princess cake, that one is stunning!
I had been reading quite a lot during the evenings too. Recently I am into reading about child abuse books. I finished Sold by Tess Stevens last week and started Shy Keenan Broken. They are not lying when it is written 'The Most shocking story of abuse ever told' on the cover of Broken. The abuse that this young girl Shy had gone through since she was 4 was horrifying!!! Each time I finished a page and had to turn to a new one, I kept on telling myself 'please, let the abuse stops at the next page.'
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
I made this felt cake stand yesterday. It took me a while before I got the courage to give it a go after buying the pattern from the designer (Sweetie Pie Bakery). I am not a big fan when it comes to tons of instructions. The pattern I bought has more written instructions than pictures to show the steps. Luckily I made a felt box few days ago and using that, I used my own instructions to make this cake stand and referring to this pattern instructions from time to time.
I received my Basic Felt Sweets book yesterday from a Japanese seller. I spent so much time looking through the book and thumbs up for this book. It is a great felt sweets book for beginners with step by step pictures showing you how to make the cakes/sweets. Though I got to say, not all sweets come with step by step instructions, you still have to use a bit of your imagination. Really love this craft book and there are so many others which I want to buy and try out. I've been cutting down on my cross-stitching since I started this felt crafts work. I am just not in the mood to do any other cross stitch works, except for my current HAED. Btw, Angel of Spring just got her 2nd eye ;0). Will post a picture once that page is done and it won't take long actually.
I need some help here. What do you call that 'raspberry' thing (between the kiwi and the strawberry). I am buying rhinestones now as this book requires quite a lot of them but I have no idea where to start my search from when I don't have a clue what that 'raspberry' thing is called. It is formed with some beads together but I am sure I can buy these as a whole. 
Thursday, December 10, 2009
I am so much into this new hobby these days. These 3 are still my 'guinea pigs' :0)) I am really amazed with myself. Few week ago, I would even dare to venture into any sewing, except sewing a button. I am really enjoying every minute doing these cute stuff. My 5 year old DD loves them a lot. She really treats them like treasures (see how long that will last). I bought this Felt Cakes Lot from Umecrafts. There are so many patterns which I could see myself doing from her designs - Miniture Dollhouse, Chinese Dim Sum, Christmas Set (DD wants me to do that for her), etc. What's my next felt projects? Back to FeltCuisine. I still have tons of her beautiful felt goodies to make from the Ebook I bought from her.
Rosy Sweetheart Cake 
Mocha Sweetheart Cake
Strawberry Sweetheart Cake
(replaced the red dots with my Stenboden pearls instead)
Katerina just completed a new artwork - Christmas Spirit. This artwork is really amazing and I've been waiting for so long for her to come out with more B&W with hints of colours artworks. This one really takes my breathe away. Hope HAED will get it charted before the sale ends on the 21 December.
Last Sunday was Sankt Nikolaus. These are the things we put up for her, though the big red bag was prepared by her grandmum. DD put out a few pieces of biscuits and a glass of milk for Sankt Nikolaus. She was really excited the next morning to see whether Sankt Nikolaus put something out for her. She even told me the evening before to wake her up if I see him coming into the house.
2 evenings ago, my husband found this trapped outside our basement bathroom. It slipped through the metal covering . This Polecat scratched our window frame really bad and we have to make a new one. We started by putting a long broom into the hole, so that it could climb out but it was biting and playing with it instead. I thought of a ladder too but it was too late by then. I was shopping in Germany and called my DH but was told it had been shot by the Falck man whom my DH had to call for such situation.
Christmas cookies baking will start from next week. Lots of baking next week. I am going to bake a cake for the kindergarten parents' coffee and pølsehorn (probably) for the kindergarten Julefrokost.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Approaching the challenging part very soon - Her Eye! It took me approx. 4 hours to stitch her eye last year and I am looking very much forward to see how much time will be needed this time with tenting. I am only stitching on her during the early hours in the morning while the whole family is still sleeping. I am rather pleased with the progress.
Another felt cake done. I only used an hour to complete this. I made the Strawberry Felt Cake yesterday and it took me hours. The designer Felt Cuisine is such a talented lady. For someone who doesn't know how to sew, like me, finds it really easy. The instructions and pictures are so easy to follow from her ebooks. I don't even have to buy tons of different felt colours as the colours used are not that many and still I can so many lovely felt goodies. I made them for myself but yesterday, our 5-year-old daughter wanted me to make more after she saw the pink one I did.
So, all my craftwork have to be packed away for the time being as it is DD's birthday tomorrow and I have to start baking the Fairytale Cottage cake tonight. She will celebrate her birthday in the kindergarten tomorrow and her grandfather will come by for coffee. We are throwing a birthday party for her on Saturday, inviting some friends and their kids over for coffee and dinner. Another birthday celebration for her again when her grandparents return from their holidays in France, lucky girl!! I am really excited to see whether all our guests come with the same brand of toys. I think by now, the whole world knows that she is a huge Go Go Pets fan. She will be getting Go Go stuff from us and her aunt and uncles.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is celebrating this special holiday.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
It took me a lot of courage to get these started. I can stitch but I am not good at sewing. I decided to start on these 2 new things which I've never done in my entire life. I finished this stitching beginning of this year but couldn't find the courage to turn it into an ornament. It wasn't that difficult actually but it is not perfect and I am quite determined to keep on trying until I perfect a padded ornament. By the way, I had the ends of the braid wrongly around the ornament, it should be on top instead of bottom.
It is like a dream come true to make one of these. I bought the CD ROM from the designer few weeks ago. I managed to buy the materials here and there and only when I happen to pass by certain stores that are selling felt. I couldn't even find the sponge and luckily my mother in law had some. Not easy to live at the countryside, eh? It took me a long time to make this felt cake as I have to sew so slowly to get the right spacing. This felt cake is just the beginning, I will definitely make more of them and some felt tarts too.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
.jpg)
