It's the bank holiday weekend. We went to AppleCart Festival, we had friends round for dinner, we watched the Jubilee concert, and i made a sugarcraft anemone. Sugarcraft is brilliant, it's like play-doh for adults. You can spend half an hour making something and sticking your tongue out in concentration, and pretend you are 'skilled' instead of just 'a toddler'.
To make this little experiment i stocked up at the excellent Craft Company who delivered super quickly! I used the blossom-white sugar flower paste, which as you can see is quite pink. It comes in a resealable plastic pot, and is just soft, so you can work it a little and soften it up, shape it, and then it hardens completely in a few hours. I also got some edible glue to stick it all together, and used some black glitter flake to cover the centre (which was made of a ball of the blossom-white icing)
To shape the petals i followed Domestic Sugars excellent tutorial. I didn't have a special ball tool, i used a 1/2 tsp measuring spoon, and i used spoons to lay out the petals, but the sponge is 100% vital, i couldn't have shaped these on a solid surface!
I have so much anemone love right now
In other news, we just confirmed that the truly awesome Chris Barber will photograph our big day! I came across his photos through work waaaaaaay before we got engaged, and loved it. So i showed the boy, and he loved it too. We've looked around, there have been a couple of super close seconds, but Chris was our first choice from the start, before we picked a venue or even thought about any other things, so we are super excited to have him on our team.
Happy dance!
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