Sugar paste cake decorations

My sugar paste fairies with rolling the hair was fun!!

I made this one for a good friend of mine after we ran a stall  selling soap 'cakes' at a fete together, I loved making the bunting and all the tiny cakes and buns. 

(check out her fantastic crafty blog, 'herbie hen' she's very talented!)

Father Christmas was tricky as Rudolf 's antlers and his naughty and nice list tended to snap easily. But several repairs later....

My Dragon cake...

The Fairy and Dragon cake ... 

a little fiddly to paint at times, but very therapeutic too...

STAR WARS COSTUMES!...

Here 's a few of the costumes I made for a STAR WARS convention a while ago...in a galaxy far far away.....They were extremely fun to make.

I used an awful lot of foam lagging, duct tape and fur fabric.

ENTER THE DRAGON!

Chinese new year...

I made the head dress out of cereal card, and scrunched up carrier bags sellotaped into place for his nose and eyes.

Then I painted a thin layer of p.v.a glue and applied pieces of  gold tissue paper and decorated with paper beads, sparkly pipe cleaners and shiny fabric .

the 'body' was an old fleece sofa throw, folded and sewn at each end (leaving a small whole for the head at one end). and again I went to town on the decorations, shiny fabric scales and gold fabric pen...