My daughter and I have been working on wedding stuff every evening this week - from seating chart to program fans to place cards. Last night we added bows to the program fans. Strike that - we added bows to 1/2 of the program fans. We have one more night of "fun" planned for next week to do the other half! Think very narrow ribbon and a small bow. It's a small motor skill fest at its finest!
In the mean time, the groom has been working steadily on the Frisco 1522 base. Here are some updated pics. Let me explain these first two. The base is actually too wide to fit through any of my doors without tilting. And call me paranoid, but I'm not really in to tilting cakes to transport. I'm picky that way. So K has built a second platform for the train that will transport separately from the base. Check it out...
See the part that the groom's dad is holding above? The cake will be built on this part and then...
...poof! It fits down inside the box on the base. Ingenius, right?! But that's not all that's happened on the base this week.
We've been painting and making wheels and little rod thingys...I'm sure they have a name, but hey... I'm a cake decorator not a train expert...it's my job to just think how cool they look!
But a train needs railroad ties, too, soooo...
See how it's coming together? Now let's put that piece in context with the whole:
We have a stream and a bridge and a roadway and a railroad crossing and railroad ties and a place for the train. The base is due to be completed in the next day or so at which point it will be moved to my place, and then I will start to work on the cake portion! Woo-hoo!!
Stay tuned. I think you'll get a kick out of seeing how we put the engine together....
Very Creative! It's going to make somebody very happy!
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