I love watching Ace of Cakes on the Food Chanel. Baker Duff Goldman of Charm City Cakes', slightly irreverent style as well as the breadth of cakes that his company bakes, really makes me smile.Watching his crew assemble and decorate their offbeat cakes reminds me in a way of making sculptural glass beads.
Their orders are custom orders and a lot of mine are also. Each one is a little different and always a challenge.
They are given a theme and then start researching online some reference photos.
After they find what they need, they print it out and often sketch more angles of it. I do that for
some of my more complex beads.Of course, the scale is quite different as well as the components, but watching this show always inspires me. They love what they're doing, appear to have fun and have to use their imagination and resources on a daily basis.
Besides the really different ones, they also make layered cakes with cool color combinations and patterns.
So watch your favorite show and look at it a little differently. See whether it inspires you to try something new in your lampwork beadmaking. I know that Ace of Cakes does that for me.
Let me know if you'd like me to post some of my challenges over the next few weeks and show you the process from start to finish? Meanwhile, visit my etsy shop, http://www.StudioMarcy.etsy.com
That looks like a great program Marcy - unfirtunately we don't get it here.
ReplyDeleteI used to love cake decorating - but after 30 years of making all the kids birthday cakes, I now ike buying them better ;o)
I'd love to see more challenges too please!
Marcy, no wonder you are so creative! I need to learn to see things differently. Yes, I'd love to see some challenges. That would be fun! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI decorated cakes for a bit too and must admit, I started lampworking because my favorite beadmaker did not "get" that a white wedding cake would NEVER have green leaves. And yet I had a market for charms of wedding cakes thanks to a my other business. Funny, the things that set us off on a path, eh?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I would love to see some of your challenges!
I LOVE Ace of Cakes!!! I watch it all the time and think "OMG, that would make an AWESOME bead!" I think most cakes are made very similarly to making sculptural beads because you start at the middle and build outward from there. Little fiddly bits last!
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