(amazing the stuff you have to know to be a HS newspaper adviser!)
LorienSkye Junior Member
Joined: May 06, 2007
Posts: 28
Location: Jackson, MI
Posted:
Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:09 pm
I have to say.........having just gotten into cake decorating in the past year, and being pretty young......I have always thought that staircases and fountains and basketweave were TOTALLY "ubertacky" as chutzpah so aptly said. However, just a couple of months ago I had a bride contact me and she wanted a basketweave wedding cake and I thought to myself "Here we go.....something really outdated." But the design we came up with was very updated and I ended up loving the end result! So, I am now a firm believer that some of the old "classic" cake decorating styles can be incorporated into a chic modern cake. (Don't know that I will ever be sold on the tuk-n-ruffles, though........ewwwww!)
do brides always look beautiful and the grooms like they're sick to their stomachs/hung over?
(and someday I'll learn to type and spell!)
Mine was hung over/sick & he ate a whole roll of Certs right before the ceremony, because he was nervous!
k8memphis Forum Addict
Joined: Mar 21, 2005
Posts: 752
Posted:
Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:04 pm
Wendl wrote:
k8memphis wrote:
I was thinking the same exact thing! Sunlover's cake was very pretty, but it was lost in all those stairs and fountains.
Well we'll give y'all two or three hundred to catch up with us(like the 18th century chair example).
stfua
Excuse yourself??? "STFUA"!??!?! Nice talk there!
Oh, you will "give" us two or three hundred WHAT to 'catch up' w/you?
If you want to give us 2-300 dollars, you would be wasting your money...
If you were being ever so 'generous' as to giving us 2-300 cakes in which we would feel compelled to do a tackified stairway cake??? No way, I made it quite clear that that um, "style" is not, nor will it ever be in my book.
And if you would read the quote in your signature tagline - you would do well to take that advice to heart. I didn't say folks were wrong to do something, I said that is something I wouldn't DO.
Here's a refresher in case you missed your own saying: Is it not utterly fascinating how one baker's 'never ever do'
is the next bakers', 'I swear by this' and they are both right?
How's about YOU take some of your own advice, n'est ce pas?
Wendl
You have me as the author of something I did not write. I like Sunlover's cake very much I can see it very well. I did not write that critique about her cake. The following is my comment on her cake.
k8memphis wrote:
Sunlover00--I love your fountain cakes, updated and still making dreams come true! Lots of girls like the fountain.
Doing a fountain or not is like piping roses or strings. It's a matter of paying dues which of course is one of the things this profession can get away with Not doing. We can jump right in and sink or swim because we can lassoo it and make it what we want from the get go.
'Course if you need to pay the light bill...
SL00--lovely and beautiful work <applause here>
BCJean Forum Addict
Joined: Jun 12, 2007
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Location: California
Birthday: Apr 03
Posted:
Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:27 pm
You have to remember that not only did the cakes have lacy tuk-n-ruffle around them but, in your home the table lamps and vases all had hand crocheted doilies under them. It was a look which people were expecting. Things just looked plain without that bit of lace. I never liked the cheapness of the plastic staircases. I think that was a Wilton thing. They could have been made of something nicer. I guess the plastic went well with that, "wood paneling" on the walls behind. The fountains brought in that, "flowing water" which meant, happiness for you.
I sometimes miss some of the drama and "over do" of the past. I love the old theaters, the massive cars of the 60's, houses with big tall ceilings and yes the days of the hats both for men and women. It so made their outfits complete.
We used to be a proud people and dressed and acted that way. Down for me are: Fast food, skin tight clothing with no flow of fabric, compact cars, houses which are all one big room with no personality, theaters which look like a little room with a big screen T.V. Language which sounds as though they have no vocabulary of appropriate words. We have lost a lot of the glamor and excitement of the past. I even heard this week that there is talk of doing away with capitalization in our written language because no one uses it in emails.
I for one, am very happy that I was a part of the past generation.
I am okay with laughs about how strange these things look today and don't mean to put a damper on them. I just don't want you to feel sorry that everyone in those days lacked for artistic abilities.
No those days will never come back and we don't want everything to look the same our whole lives and some of it is funny to remember how we loved it. I used to sew in the 60's and 70's and when polyester came out I was in Heaven. I made swimsuits, underwear, and a leisure suit for my husband. I hate man made fabrics today.
I also have no pictures to show because it is all on that outdated photo paper. I love my digital camera.
indydebi Forum SuperStar!
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Location: Indianapolis IN
Posted:
Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:34 pm
BCJean wrote:
You have to remember that ..... in your home the table lamps and vases all had hand crocheted doilies under them.
HEY!! I have doilies under my lamps! And I crocheted every single one of them myself!
It's not called "old-fashioned"..... in decorating circles, I have a "Victorian Motif"! (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
Texas_Rose Forum Addict
Joined: Feb 26, 2008
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Location: San Antonio, TX
I've really been enjoying reading all of this...except the minor argument (although I did learn a new acronym).
I always thought the Wilton look with the fountain and the stairs and all the little plastic attendants to go on the stairs was designed by Wilton to sell more Wilton.
I think the tuk-n-ruffle was Wilton's simplified version of Australian extensions on the cake...a way to get that pretty lacy look without the complicated work. Just my guess though.
Doug Forum SuperStar!
Joined: Jun 28, 2005
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Posted:
Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:52 pm
indydebi wrote:
BCJean wrote:
You have to remember that ..... in your home the table lamps and vases all had hand crocheted doilies under them.
HEY!! I have doilies under my lamps! And I crocheted every single one of them myself!
It's not called "old-fashioned"..... in decorating circles, I have a "Victorian Motif"! (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
LOL...
mine are store bought --
i call it Casual Country
fiddlesticks Forum SuperStar!
Joined: Aug 05, 2006
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Location: Indiana
I love the old theaters.BCJean
. I must say I love them to ! Its like you really went to a movie !! Im so excited when we happen to run across one !
Hawkette Regular Member
Joined: Jan 09, 2008
Posts: 115
Posted:
Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:16 pm
k8memphis wrote:
Well there's a close second for gutsiest with Hawkette posting STAIRCASES!!!! Agh!!!-- But dang that's a really pretty spread. Too bad the youngsters don't have the eyes to see the beauty.
H-you look stunner too!
What year was that?
Hah! Memphis, you got me. It was 2003. Just a few years after the eighties. I didn't know anything about cakes. I looked in the Wilton yearbooks to get ideas, which of course were touting their fabulous staircases as the greatest thing ever (*cough*). I didn't have the budget of these gals you see on TV, so we went to a local grocery store. It was an upscale grocery store, but still, a grocery store. I insisted that my cake not have that nasty fake fluff frosting that Wal-mart has, though. This was at least a quite yummy buttercream. And really, it tasted pretty good (from the sliver that I got). I was pretty shocked by the color, though. My color was periwinkle (a pastel mix of blue and purple). That was a cornflower blue!
MadPhoeMom Regular Member
Joined: Jan 15, 2007
Posts: 161
Posted:
Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:19 pm
still funnest post i've read in a while....
i'm sure this isn't the place, but how are you guys posting photos IN your post? i have mine at the ready....
dang tacky, it is.....
sally
Hawkette Regular Member
Joined: Jan 09, 2008
Posts: 115
Posted:
Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:23 pm
Actually, the thought behind the staircases was more because I was trying to keep costs down by using sheet cakes, but I wanted to somehow incorporate them into the tiered cake. I don't remember how many it was supposed to feed. I think around 200. I had thought about using the bridesmaid and groomsmen figurines, though! Ugh. Looking back at these pictures, there are a lot of places where I've said, "What was I thinking?!?"
minorfan Junior Member
Joined: Dec 04, 2007
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Posted:
Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:23 pm
type your post then look at the bottom of the text area and there is another darker purple border line that says Attachment posting control panel with a box that reads - Add an Attachment - just hit that button and it will promt you to browse for your photos just like uploading a photo to the gallery.
Hawkette Regular Member
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:25 pm
Sally, instead of using the "Quick Reply" box, click on the "post reply" button at the bottom of the posts on the left side. There is a button for attaching pictures. Click it and wait a minute while it loads the box for you. Then use the box to find the picture on your computer. We can't wait to see it!
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Sunlover's cake was very pretty, but it was lost in all those stairs and fountains.
Just a 
