Operation Wedding Cake: The Work On The Toppers Begin!

I've been a busy lady this week with school and externship business going on -- it's leaving little time for focus on blogs and wedding cake bits. Tonight though, since my hands were finally almost back to a normal color, I decided it was time to get to work on the cake topper. It's important to me that a cake topper has, to quote one of my chefs, 'a little personality'. I had been searching online for one that was sassy and fun and I came across plenty -- I came across plenty with enormous price tags (why is it that whenever the word wedding is in the title that things automatically get more expensive?) so I decided that I would try to make my own. Lucky for me, if things go south or if the perfectionist in me doesn't like my final result, I have plenty of (expensive) back ups -- I'm thinking of it as motivation.

A little known fact about Collin Murray, to anyone who isn't me or his family that is, is that he loves penguins. So to delight him I decided to make a "bride" and "groom" penguin cake topper. Here's what I've got so far:


When I started this evening, I had the penguin forms that I had made earlier this week and allowed to dry.


So after my work tonight, I have two wee penguins that I've dressed in their best whites.


I have a top hat and a selection of groom-like finishing touches -- I like the, ahem, Tiffany blue bow-tie with the red knot...


I also have a couple of bride-like necklaces. I can't decide which to use, I'm going to dust them with a little petal dust so the pearls with be iridescent and the red ones will be a little bit sparkly -- like garnets -- but we will have to see which one I decide to use in the coming days.


I've also started making some roses for a bouquet. I've got six right now but I might make more. Trouble is that they are only about as big as the head of a pen and kind of fiddly to make so we will have to see how my patience holds up!