Self Taught Decorators Club

Comment by Melanie on June 4, 2013 at 7:16am

Thanks Ladies! It definitely wasn't easy coming up with a design. When they told me my theme was The tale of Timmy Tiptoes, I had to google it! Lol! I had never heard of it!!

Comment by Karie Collins on June 4, 2013 at 7:17am

Congrats!

Comment by Karie Collins on June 4, 2013 at 7:25am

My business is home based and we have a tiny kitchen. My husband and I are looking to buy a house that has space large enough to work and store everything (right now it's all in Rubbermaid containers). Is there anything you have in your kitchen/ workspace that you absolutely could not decorate without along the lines of shelving table etc.? we are possibly thinking of designing our own custom space.

Comment by Mandy Nel on June 4, 2013 at 7:43am

Definitely an adequate area to roll out your icing on - must be wide enough to accommodate the size that you have to roll out your icing to.  We have granite tops in our kitchen and our middle kitchen table I have had a piece of granite fitted to half the table for this purpose - and it works like a charm.

Comment by June Kowalczyk on June 4, 2013 at 8:30am

I agree with Mandy, Karie. 2 yrs ago we put in my dream kitchen. Long wait.... house is now 25 yrs old. Kitchen was tiny, tiny..... 2 people couldn't work at the same time. Now it is a large spacious galley kitchen.  I have granite counters,  but the best is the angled island, 52" x 36". We have a overhang, and 2 stools so we eat breakfast here. This is where I roll out my fondant, ice my cakes, prep work...etc. if I could have made it bigger, with some storage on the side or underneath,  I would have, but there wasn't space.  I would be lost without this island now.  :o)

Comment by Mandy Nel on June 4, 2013 at 8:38am

@ June - we have nearly finished paying for our house, and then hopefully we can look at doing our dream kitchen - and for sure having decent tops and lots of storage is number one on the priority list. 

In our house we built in a cupboard in our dining room that accommodates all my baking ingredients, sprinkles, colours, fruit cake mixes, filling mixes etc. as well as chocolate molds (another little sideline that I do); In our "study" we fitted another built in cupboard that takes all my packaging stuff and our old linen cupboard accommodates all my pans and cupcake wrappers and extra cookie cutters etc; and finally in our spare bedroom I have my working area with all my gadgets neatly stored in the bakels 14kg boxes, properly marked, and a pull our shelving area under my table with all the smaller things in their boxes.  But I use the term neatly very lightly - because although everything is neatly stowed, when I am in full caking mode its mayhem from the spare bedroom all the way to the kitchen - but in two ticks after finishing a project I can quickly pack the clutter away.  Ah, I really don't think I lived before starting this most wonderful craft :-)

Comment by Mandy Nel on June 4, 2013 at 8:40am

Welcome Kristie - we are here whenever you need us - if we can help we do, and if we can't we try and find you the help you need :-)

Comment by Karie Collins on June 4, 2013 at 8:48am

That sounds like us. when I'm in decorating mode, it's the counters, dining room (using that term lightly) table and two folding tables in the living room. We have a spare room that has all my buckets and when it's time to decorate, the entire house including dining room chairs gets used. Our house is only 900 square feet and it's bedroom/2 bathroom.

Comment by Mandy Nel on June 4, 2013 at 8:55am

Oh wonderful - I do believe that each and every one of us has a similar story to tell - it just goes with the territory and believe you me, you NEVER have enough space - even if you have tons of rooms and tables, they will all get taken up with caking paraphernalia :-) True story :-)

Comment by Karie Collins on June 4, 2013 at 9:02am

My husband does mostly all the baking and I do mostly all the decorating. I should take before and after pics when we both work to show you the reference. Takes me about an hour to clean up after he is done. Takes about 10 minutes after me. I like to clean as I go. So while the second batch of cake is in the oven, I'm cleaning up the pans, etc from the first and getting the 3rd batch ready. He uses every last measuring cup, spoon, etc we have (6 sets of each) plus 3 kitchen Sid mixers. I use 2...one for cake batters, one for icings. Occasionally I'll use a 3rd if I have 2 different buyer cream icings needed, or if I need royal icing or pastillage too.

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