A Wedding Shower Theme
Ideas for parties for before the wedding, decorating ideas, Bring your own tea cup and saucer.
Demonstrator: Janet Brown - One of KY ICES newest members who recently relocated to Kentucky from the Virginia/D.C. area. She is an expert with the airbrush and will demonstrate making a tea cup and saucer from gum paste and delicately painting them. Visit Janet's Website
Additional Demonstrations:
Joe Dietz from Central Kentucky Computer Society - He will give us tips to get better pictures of our cakes using our point and shoot digital camera and how to enhance pictures using the computer.
Chocolate Ideas, Sweet and Salty Mints, and Much More
Location:
Homewood Suites, 2033 Bryant Road, Lexington, Kentucky, 859-543-0464 br />
Special rates if you would like to stay overnight
Download poster with more details and registration form.
Looking for something different? Well, we've got it! You will learn how to make a
Spherical Wedding Cake
It's a breathtaking design for a bride's cake that incorporates spherical cakes, gumpaste
and fondant flowers, swags, stripes and other decadent accents as well as a unique
sugar topper. Additionally, create a variety of fondant or gumpaste embellishments,
take notes on some new painting tips and learn how to extend them to form your own
original design. Use some creativity, add some sugar, some embellishments and your
charm to see a captivating final creation. We'll have lots of fun and best of all, you will
take home the knowledge of creating this beautiful cake and the know how and
confidence to try different ideas when making your own creations.
Demonstrators:
Two Sweet Sisters, Martha Herbert and Rebecca Guidry, from St. Martinville, LA , are retired educators, home economists, sugar artists, authors, mothers, a grandmother and actually sisters. Both ladies are members of I.C.E.S. And the Retail Bakers of America Association. They have been in business for 4 years, demonstrated for the I.C.E.S. Convention in New Orleans and Florida. Several of their cakes have been showcased in the I.C.E.S. Newsletter, American Cake Decorating and Mail Box News. Their cake was on the Feb. 07, ICES Newsletter cover. They have a beautifully bound hard cover book with 104 pages of designer wedding and specialty cakes. These ladies love what they do and are ready to share their ideas. To view more of their work visit their web site.
Location:
Mercer County Extension Office; Harrodsburg, KY; 1007 Lexington Road, Harrodsburg, Ky 40330, phone- 859-734-4378.Harrodsburg is one of the oldest towns in Kentucky and near Lexington.
Lodging:
Country Hearth Inn; 105 Commercial Drive, Harrodsburg, KY 40330; phone 859-734-2400; Rates for double room $64.00 per night
Cost: $335
Cost includes class fees, lunch each day & snacks; additional fee for cake dummies ($30.00)required;
list of personal supplies will be sent with confirmation.
A non- refundable deposit of $167.50 is required to confirm your registration; final payment due October 1, 2009