I’d a wonderful time at the Cake Exbo in the NEC at Birmingham at the weekend, one of my friends Breda came with me and her foodie friend Mel, even though breda has no interest in icing she loved the day (or so she let on!!) We arrived there early with suitcase in toe, it was my first time so i was a little niave, thinking there wouldn’t be many people there, but it was thronged early in the morning.
We tried to make a plan to get to every stall, there was so many stalls with cake tins, colourings, dusts, cutters, ribbons, everything else you can think of… i bought a few essential items, if i had a wallet full i would have spent every penny on cake stands and stencils, character tins, but airlines have weight restrictions and my purse had a hole!! I can’t wait to try out my new ponsettia and orchid cutters neither of which I have made before!
I’ve attached a few pics from the show they were amazing, i have loads more of sugarcraft flowers, which I will post again, there is a pic of hippy love cake this is the top tier from my friends cake that she made at a Debbie Brown Workshop on Oct Bank Hol. It was amazing. The character cakes are from Debbie Browns stand (fireman sam, fairytale castle & Thomas the Tank), while the Wonky Cakes are from Lindy Smith, everything else were competition enteries.
Hope you like the pics. xx
Hi! I’ve just come across your site and was thrilled to see that you’ve put photos up of my toy box cake! Thanks very much =D
Leanne
wow Leanne, I have to say I absolutely loved your toy box cake and was utterly impressed by it, it must have taken you weeks to complete. Was it a competition entry or was it just on show. Great to hear from you. Vick
It wasn’t a competition piece no, it was for the “by invitation only” display (replaced the table of honour). Yeah it took me quite a while doing it! the hardest part was deciding who should go where in the toybox! haha! Did you enjoy the show this year? I think i heard it was the busiest year this year. Leanne
Wow what an honour! Thats great, yeah they were perfectly positioned. We went to the show on the Sat it was great, altho if I go back again, I’ll defo bring a small case or back pack (although I did give out about getting bashed about with cases in legs!). I went to cake exhib in Cork, Ireland last year, but tiny compared to UK. Also sugarcraft is so big in UK, I got loads of dusts, cutters, veiners etc. difficult to get stuff here if its for specific flower etc. so internet only way! Happy New Year, best wishes in 2010. Can’t wait to see your new work. x