I have been holding on to this little secret for several weeks and it has just about burned a hole in me!! Several weeks ago I received an e-mail from Jackie at Jackie at Cake Central. They wanted me to submit a cake for publication in Cake Central magazine. I answered her back so fast I think the e-mail caught on fire!!
The theme I was asked to submit for was
"Minimally Decorated with a Splash of Red". Now, that's a hard theme for any decorator that wants to showcase their skills to the rest of the decorating community. But I vowed that I would do my best to keep the design simple.
I was really happy with the way this design turned out. I have read Cake Wrecks too many times and seen too many balloon cakes that turned out looking like something...
less sophisticated.
I actually made 2 cakes to submit, and Cake Central put both in the magazine. I was worried that they wouldn't one cake or the other, so I submitted a second cake.
This was the other cake I submitted. I had conceived this design a while back, but with different colors.
I only had a couple of weeks from initial request to submission to get these cakes ready. I wished I had more time to work on them.
How many of you receive Cake Central? I wished it was still a real live printed magazine, but I'm still glad to be published in a leading industry magazine.
Special Thanks go out to
Mike Houston of Houston Studios for taking such great photos to submit to the magazine.
Y'all have a great week!
I was reading a blog a while back and the author said that if you want to be part of a photo shoot then you should make it happen. Pick your favorite vendors, a great concept, and a great location. This has been a slower year for wedding vendors in my area, so there have been a few of these shoots taking place. A great couple of friends of ours decided to come up with a concept and I was lucky enough to be invited. They gave us plenty of time and lots of artistic freedom. I think that was a big plus because no artist wants to be given a big list of rules when they are making something for fun. Our theme was to be "garden" so that was pretty easy. Amanda, with Divine Designs by Amanda, did all the flowers and the table setting. She worked with White Table on the linens and chair sashes. Chad took these pictures but Daisy Moffatt was the official photographer. And it all went down at the lovely Black Fox Farms. The plan is to submit the pictures to blogs, magazines, websites and to add to our portfolio. I am really fortunate to get to work with such a great group of people. I can't wait to show you more pictures in the weeks to come.
