The making of a bobblehead couple, some progress pics

Noah in the Bath

Want to make your very own Noah-in-the-Bath? Head on to Learn Cake Decorating Online for my tutorial. Yes! My tutorial got featured!! How awesome is that?

http://www.learncakedecoratingonline.com/noah-bath-cake-topper/

A chicka interpretation of The Walking Dead

http://www.mcfarlanetoysstore.com/mirestwadeha.html

Being an avid TWD (The Walking Dead, if you don't know what it is, shame on you!) fan, I was disappointed for missing out on this awesome Michonne collectible statue so I decided to make my own Chicka version.

 Start with a wire armature. Yeah, something like this.

Wrap with florist tape.

Make the zombie. A touch of entrails is a good thing. BTW, did you see the TWD comic issue where a zombie's entrails got caught and he was snapped back like a bungee cord? That was awesome!

And this is my Chicka interpretation of Michonne.

Zombie head. Looks more like alien at this stage. But every head goes through an alien stage. Yes, even zombie heads.

 Attach head with a splatter of red isomalt blood.

Make the shoes. Yeah yeah, I know Michonne wears leather boots but my Chickas wear floral Docs, so floral Docs it is!

JUST LOOK AT THE FLOWERS!! Handpainted with a 0000-size Winsor & Newton round tipped brush, using Americolor airbrush paint (edible, of course!) and with the aid of a pair of very cool-looking magnifying goggles, so cool that hubby thought I should wear them to work.... yeah, righto hun!

 More painting. Bigger brush this time.

Waiting for things to dry..... patience is not my greatest virtue!

 Dreadlocks really tried my patience but here she is, finally finished..... phew!

Lulu skip to ma Lou

Gravity defying creations are always fascinating and a big challenge in making figurines. I love a challenge. So, meet Lulu my skipping in mid-air Chicka. She got the name Lulu from people who liked her in my Facebook page. Than you peoples! I confess I'm absolute stoked with her and even hubby's impressed.

Bow chicka wow wow wow.....

Stripper pole dancer cake topper for an 18th birthday cake.

Eek! It's Jack Skellington!

I made this Jack Skellington cake topper. He's quite special because he was commissioned by a customer from Canberra. My first Canberra customer! I didn't have to worry about packing and shipping, which was kinda nice. Been making and shipping figurines for more than a year now and finally got a Canberra order. 

And here's Jack happily perched on the cake made by my customer. She did a most awesome job, don't you agree?

Australian Cake Decorating Championships 2014

My entry at the Australian Cake Decorating Championships at the Cake Bake and Sweets Show in Sydney this weekend. We had to leave at 6am yesterday to drive 3 hours to Sydney to submit my entry. I came at second place. Would've loved to be first but second is still great considering this is my first time entering a competition. 

The theme was "Nature's Best" so I've made a bobblehead of a famous UK cake artist (with her permission of course!), and she's Mother Nature in an apple orchard airbrushing the trees and apples to bring out their best colours. Don't know how clear you can see it in these pics, but I made her balanced precariously on a ladder that's tipping over and she's sorta lost her airbrush which is floating in the air and as a result, made splotches of paint on the tree and ground. 

Incidentally, the splotches are in the shape of her logo - that was her only condition of granting me permission to use her as my model, and that is to feature her logo. Please visit her facebook and give her a like! https://www.facebook.com/DinkydoodleDesigns

Golfing Granny

2013 Recap

2013 has been a busy year. My caking activities took a new turn this year and I discovered my love for bobblehead cake toppers. To my utter delight and amazement, it turns out I'm not the only one loving those bobbleheads. As a result, it's been a steady stream of orders through the year and almost every weekend has been a bobblehead weekend, hence why I've neglected my blog. 

In addition to bobbleheads, I also discovered a fitting name for my little hobby-turned-small-business, Cakicature, which is a play of words combining "cake" and "caricature." I set up a Cakicature Facebook page and a website as well. Do click on the links and check them out. 

To all those people who have been a great source of support to me this year, I'd like to say a big Thank You. My hubby Greg for being so patient, my fellow cake decorating friends on Facebook, whom I fondly refer to as "my cakey friends" - an uber thank you.... yes, you know who you are! Thanks for all the invaluable support, advice and awesome tips. And of course, to all my customers, thank you muchly for giving me the opportunities to make such a variety of bobbleheads and cake toppers. They each have their own unique challenges and I've learned so much more from them. 

Finally, I'd like to thank the master cake artists whom I've been fortunate enough to meet and learn from by attending their workshops - Peggy Tucker and Dawn from Dinkydoodle. The skills I learned from you have greatly expanded my capabilities. Oh, and all those Craftsy video lessons have been truly priceless as well. 

I still have one more person to thank, and that's Gary from Oldvision for his "how to pack fragile items" youtube. If not for this youtube video, I wouldn't have a clue how to pack and ship my bobbleheads safely. Check out his video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4X-8a2YVtw

That's my oscar-wannabe-speech done. Hahaha! Here're a few pickies from 2013. First, the bobbleheads....

And I made some cakes too...