NEC Birmingham, London :)

We visited NEC Birmingham's cake exhibition in London and it was such a great experience. Here are some pictures to share :)

There was just so many people!

This is made by Lindy Smith - love it so much! Sets you in Xmas mood right away!

& this pumpkin was amongst the many exhibitions available ard!

Met Debbie Brown @ her booth and we waited patiently till the end of the day to chat & take picture with her :) She's still as amazing as ever!

This is Liyana, my partner in crime!

This is Tal Tsafrir and her work is just spectacular! & she must be one of the most patient sugar artist ever! Love her work so much!

Here's Tal autographing our books :)

Me & Marcela Sanchez, another amazing sugar artist! We attended her demo to model small people - it was so good!

Me & Alan Dunn the most amazing sugar flower artist!!!! We got the chance to attend his demo as well. He is such a fun guy, really... Was so entertained during his demo :)

Lindy Smith!!!! I just love her books, her products & her work! Was so happy to finally catch her at the end of the 3rd day! :)

Lindy & Liyana!

Me & Ximena, a sugar artist from US - another amazing artist :) with amazing personality. Entertains us no matter how busy she was :)

Ximena with Liyana :)

Who hasn't heard of Maisie Parrish??? Had the opp to attend her demo too! Enjoyed it much :)

& finally, this is Georgie Godbold - she is the original maker of the amazing wobblies which we had the chance to watch her doing it @ her demo! So much fun!

Please don't mind all the excitement... It really was amazing...

hence the exclamation marks!!!! *grin*

Here are some pictures from the cake competition - these are some of my favorites of the day. Please go to my flickr for more pictures :)

this is amazing!!

& oh... this is beyond words!

amazing or not?

Finally it's time to leave... oh it was such a great 3 day experience for the both of us!

Lots & lots of pictures can be viewed here :)

More excitement @ love-a-cupcake coming soon!!

Stay tune!

11: Debbie Brown Day Three

Our final day! We started off with a surprise demo of "Winnie The Pooh Bear" using real cake by Debbie. Once again, she managed to make it look so so simple!

First, she put 2 cakes together and started carving them into a ball shape. Then, she carved its hand, tummy & back... Once that's done....

She started to work on the head. Once again... 2 pcs of cake shaped into a ball. Then it is carved further to make it look like umm... a head!

Once that's done, the head & the body is combined together. A lot of us thinks that it looks more like barney the purple dinosaur at this stage *grin*

Then the cake is iced with a layer of butter cream. Leave it to set for a while before we start to cover it with fondant!

First, she covered the fondant aroud its hand before starting on the body

Then the head is covered - don't really resemble it yet-eh?

Then, the head is carefully shaped... and then, the ears & legs are added. Looks like now?

Finally, the most important piece - the red shirt! And his eyes!

And the final result! Love it!

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Then we started to work on a magic castle. I did not take much picture during the process of doing it. Only the final product!

Me & my tall castle together with Debbie Brown

Prize giving session!

Yeah!!

My magic castle & tiny angels

Group pics! I made many new friends here. There were quite a number of participants from out of Malaysia - Singapore, Korea, India...

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Debbie's Art Work over the 3 days

Castle

Tom & Jerry

Baby Ballerina

Fairy Prince & Princess

Princess barbie

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Group shots with new-found-friends

Me & Swati from India

Cheryl, Debbie, Me & Swati

Me & Cheryl

Dora & Kak Yom (my cool 'nenek')

Liyana & Me

Liyana, me & Kak Yom locked out of our own room!!!

Then we all went out for dinner... oh boy... we had so much fun!!!

Dinner @ Absolute Thai, The Curve with Dila & Ida. With this 2 around... u'll never stop laughing! They are da' bomb! They are also my roomies u see.... By about 11.30pm, I was ready to sleep but guess what? Dila's hungry! And we're all dragged out of bed to company her to McD's! hahahahahaha...

Dila's so happy :)

Say hi to kak Ros, Dila, Ida & Chami! All except Ida is from Singapore!

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Breakfast in the Morning @ Royal Bintang

Looky here! Debbie Brown who's staying @ Royal Bintang as well, joined us for breakfast! And of course, a group pic is a must!

Before we go our own separate ways, final shots with my 'nenek'

Dila - da bomb!

Kak Chami & Kak Ros!

Keep in touch guys! It's been great :)