For the month of July, fellow Edmonton blogger, Lindsey (from Hot Polka Dot -- yummiest blog ever!) and I took the Wilton's Decorating Basics class at Michaels!
Peewoony is chin in greek. Peehoony is a wise sage who may or may not know...stuff
Mostly everything turned out super pretty. I say mostly because some ideas were definitely better than others (those aren't pink carrots, you guys. They're strawberries and on second look, I probably should have put the leaves facing down), and my ribbon roses ended up looking more like frilly carnations -- not that that's a bad thing (I blame this one on the icing. Butter gets too soft after a while. Lindsey's are better). I didn't even bother taking pictures of my pompom flowers (most of the class agreed they did not like how those looked anyway) or my shaggy mums (Lindsey managed some cute ones on her cupcakes and I [sorta] liked mine in miniature form). I also never ended up putting a shell border on anything, even though I was super psyched to learn how to do them when I found out about their existance.
My favourite techniques have got to be the stars, drop flowers, rosettes, dots (these are way trickier than they look), writing (what to write is an entirely different problem), leaves (these are way easier than they look), and just simple basic things like icing and filling cakes and cupcakes and those weird little tricks you never think of but are completely genius the moment you hear about them.
Everything was pretty delicious, too. Do you remember gollum from Lord of the Rings? Well, it took every ounce of my strength to keep from grabbing everything, crouching in a corner of our house, and licking buttercream off cakes while whispering, "my precious."
