DIY Gum Paste Flower Drying Rack

Another WMI (Wilton Method Instructor) posted a pic of a clever DIY FLower Drying Rack made from those ever-useful photo boxes sold at Michaels:

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Cover your Cake with an Icing Tip

A different and easy way to ice your cake:

Double Drop Flower!

Playing around with my 2D tip this week, this happened!

It's a Double Drop Flower, made simply by making either the Drop Flower, or the Swirl Drop Flower, then turning the tip so that the icing will come out in between the first petals and giving it a simple drop flower again. Same color, or a different color gives you two more possibilities!

Play with those tips! You never know what you'll come up with!

Wilton Advanced Skills

Wilton Advanced Skill: Stringwork
Next Class is at Michaels in Dayville, CT
Monday, January 26,10:30am










Wilton Advanced Skill: Piped Borders & Embellishments 

Next Class is at Michaels in Lisbon, CT

Sunday, February 15, 1-3pm

New Project Classes, and...

...2wk and 4-wk classes added to the Lisbon, Dayville and now Westerly, RI!  Michaels Calendars:

Sign up for classes online at Michaels.com/classes --Lisbon zip code: 06351  Dayville zip code: 06241

2-wk :

 Lisbon:

Course 1: Building Buttercream Skills-condensed

Sat, January 17, 24; 3:30-6:30pm

 Course 1: Building Buttercream Skills-condensed 
Sat, February 21, 28; 4-7pm

Dayville: 
Course 1: Building Buttercream Skills-condensed 
Sat, January 24, 31; 1-4pm

Course 1: Building Buttercream Skills-condensed  

Fri, January 23, 30; 5:30pm – 8:30pm

Course 1: Building Buttercream Skills-condensed 

Fri, February 6, 13; 5:30-8:30pm

Course 1: Building Buttercream Skills-condensed

Fri, February 20, 27; 5:30-8:30pm

Westerly: 
Course 1: Building Buttercream Skills-condensed
Sun., February 8,15; 3-6pm

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4-wk:

 Lisbon:
Course 2--Flowers and Cake Design

Sun, February 1, 10:30 - 12:30pm

Course 1: Building Buttercream Skills

Mon, February 2,  6:30-8:30pm

Course 1: Building Buttercream Skills

Tue, February 3, 10:30-12:30pm

Course 3--Gum Paste and Fondant

Tue, February 3, 6:30-8:30pm

Dayville: 

Course 3--Gum Paste and Fondant

Mon, February 2, 10am – 12pm

Course 4--Advanced Gum Paste Flowers

Mon, February 2, 12:15pm – 2:15pm

 Course 2--Flowers and Cake Design

Thu, February 5, 10:30-12:30pm

Course 3--Gum Paste and Fondant

Fri, February 6, 10:30-12:30

 Course 2--Flowers and Cake Design

Sat, February 7, 1-3pm

Westerly: 

 Course 1: Building Buttercream Skills
Thurs., February 5, 6-8pm
 

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The current new Project classes (one session classes):

 Lisbon:

 Kids Critter Cookies

Sun, January 25, 1pm – 3pm

Piping: Borders & Embellishments
 Sun, February 15, 1pm – 3pm

Crazy for Cupcakes

Sun, February 22, 1pm – 3pm

Stringwork

 

 Dayville:

 Advanced Skills: Stringwork

Mon, January 26, 10:30am – 12:30pm

Kids Easter Chicks

Sat, February 21, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Westerly: 
Check Out These Chicks              
Easter Cookies for Kids

Piped Borders and Embellishments

Sun., February 1, 2-4pm


Crazy for Cupcakes
Wed., February 4, 6-8pm 

Wilton Piped Borders and Embellishments
Fri., February 6, 10:30-12:30pm

Crazy for Cupcakes
Wed., February 11, 6-8pm

Advanced Skills: Stringwork
Fri., February 13, 10:30-12:30pm

Crazy for Cupcakes
Wed., February 18, 6-8pm

Wilton Piped Borders and Embellishments
Fri., February 20, 10:30-12:30pm

Check Out These Chicks Easter Cookies for Kids
Sun., February 22, 2-4pm

Crazy for Cupcakes
Wed., February 25, 6-8pm 

Advanced Skills: Stringwork
Fri., February 27, 10:30-12:30pm

New Year! New Classes!!

2015 is going to be a great year to take all the new Wilton Method  

classes at Michaels!!

AND... the January 10 Open House is the time to do it!

For $40, you can sign up for all four, and take them when you want to!!

It's a great time to have a group class with your friends or family and schedule your classes at your convenience--4 is all it takes to customize your calendar!!  

See me at the open house for details.
This Sale Ends Jan. 31!!!

Wilton Gingerbread Cookie Kit

These cookies were fun to decorate and I recommend them for anyone to do this holiday season!
The kit comes with eight BIG cookies and all the royal icing, candies and red and green fondant to easily decorate each one, and then some!
Here's the set I did yesterday: