This
week I am sharing a project I have been meaning to share for a couple
of years, I kept forgetting until too late for Easter each time. This
year I remembered in time!!
The
main thing I want you to take from this project is the method I use
to get the look of coconut on the cake. It is a very useful technique
and although there are other ways to replicate coconut in miniature
this is my favorite mainly because it is so easy. The product is (or
at least should be) easy to get at any store that sells paint and
wallpaper supplies, you may even already have some if you have done
any re-modeling of your real size home. Its real use is to either
prepare your walls for wallpaper or to glue the wallpaper to the
walls. We ignore that use entirely for our project. We take advantage
of the texture and just glue it down to look like flaked coconut. It
really is that easy, just glue it down and your are done.
I
am pretty sure that I have been able to color the little flakes in
the past but I just couldn't get that to work out for me this time.
Hence the reason I just painted the coconut after the glue dried for
covering the base. It works just fine to do it this way just be sure
to not use much paint, it is really more of a dry brush than painting
for this step. If any of you do know how to color the little flakes
please share it with us so we will all know.
Since
this has been a really long and hectic week I am going to close this
now, hopefully next week I will have more time to get done the things
I want to do. (like writing a longer blog post)
I believe I have some of that somewhere. Now to find it and try it.LOL I have seen these cute cakes in real life size.
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