Prachtig & bedekt

Al een tijdje wil ik heel graag een oude paspop. 
Maar, waar begin ik?! 

Ik zie ze in veel webwinkels voorbij komen, maar vaak staan er toch wel wat hoge cijfertjes achter. Logisch ook, bij zulke prachtexemplaren. Even doorsparen dus.. 

Daarbij wil ik heel graag een mooi corset of kraagje, het liefst beide. 
Maar, hoe weet ik of het corset past? Zijn er veel verschillende maten paspoppen? Hoe pakken jullie zo iets aan als je op zoek gaat naar een corset of iets dergelijks?
Of is het gewoon op de meest logische manier, taille meten en steeds naar de maten vragen? 

Hopelijk kan iemand van jullie mij helpen.. 

Hier een aantal prachtige paspoppen op een rijtje:

Via Pinterest - Pastels and Whites

Via Pinterest - Ana-Rosa

Via Pinterest - Grange de charme

Via Pinterest - Servies en Brocante

Via Pinterest - Pastels and Whites

Fijne dag allemaal!

Lieve groet,

Nadine

La Tarte Ladurée

I've made this one before, in purple, white and gold for my mom. 

This time I was inspired by the green Ladurée gift bags. The pale shade of avocado that I used, matches perfectly with the bags. 

The cake was made for a lovely lady, she turned the big 50 today.

Have a wonderful Saterday evening and Sunday!

Love,

Nadine

Victorian grace

Hello my dear followers, it has been a few weeks since my latest, but here's an new cake.

 

My mother celebrates her birthday tonight and I've made her a mini cake in white and lavender, finished with a brooche on a pearl necklace in gold and white. 

The inspiration was Ladurée, I just love their pastel colored boxes with gold details. 

This cake is one of my new favorites! The lavender matches perfectly with the white and gold....

Have a great week end!

2011

Again, Christmas is almost over and it's only 6 untill 2012....
It's amazing how short a year seems to be....

I've made 32 cakes this year and I loved making them. 

Yesterday, I've made my last cake of the year and I wanted to show you my favorites cakes of 2011.


Thank you for all the visits and comments and I wish you a wonderful last week of 2011!

Shades of pastel

This is a cake I've made for a friends birthday. Last year she got a white with dark pink one, one of my first mini cakes. This year I made her a layered cake with some new things.

A while ago I've found these lovely pictures on Flick, they are made by Rhiannon Banda-Scott.
I fell in love with these georgeous combination of pastel colours, the green matches perfect with the white and pastel pink on that pretty wooden floor.


So it got a place on my endless to-do-and-inspiration-list. The lace mold is a first, so are the ruffles, they match perfectly.

For the base I've used white fondant with a tiny amount ivory, just to break it a bit.
The green was made with avocado and for the pink, I've mixed pink and peach.
For the gold I've used several colours, untill it was the antique gold I've wanted.

This cake is not so simple, like many others.. I have crossed my borders for this one, but I'm very pleased with it. And so did my friend :)

Congratulations Ilona!

Dit taartje heb ik voor een vriendin gemaakt, ze was maandag jarig. Vorig jaar heeft ze een wit met felroze taartje gekregen en dit jaar heb ik haar een 2-laags taartje gemaakt met enkele "uitprobeersels".

Een tijdje geleden vond ik deze geweldige foto's op Flickr, ze zijn gemaakt door Rhiannon Banda-Scott. Het was liefde op het eerste gezicht, deze prachtige combinatie van pastel kleuren. Het groen past perfect bij het wit en pastel roze op die mooie houten vloer.

Dus kregen ze een plekje op mijn te-doen-lijstje. De kant-mal heb ik voor het eerst gebruikt en past er perfect bij, net als de roezels. Die ik ook voor het eerst gemaakt heb.
Voor de basis heb ik witte fondant met een ietsiebietsie ivoor, om het wat te breken.

Het groen heb ik gemaakt met de kleur avocado. En voor het roze, heb ik pink en peach gemengd. Om dit goud te krijgen, heb ik enkele goudpoeders gemengd, tot ik de kleur kreeg die ik wilde.

Dit taartje is niet zo eenvoudig, zoals vele anderen... Ik heb toch wel mijn grenzen verlegd voor deze. Maar ben er erg blij mee en mijn vriendin ook :)


Van harte gefeliciteerd lieve Ilona!

Victorian wedding cupcakes with a vintage twist

Yesterday was a BIG BIG day, my friend Eva got married! And I had the honor to be her witness. The day started out with some clouds, we had some rain but not at the important times.

Eva was a georgous bride! I was there the whole time as the pictures were taken in the gardens of the location. It was so much fun, I even had the chance to be de photographer's assistent. My job was to make sure the train of the dress layed perfect and her hair was out of her eyes.

Can't wait to see the pictures...

Months ago she asked me to make 80 wedding cupcakes as dessert, she liked the combination of white, ivory and peach with gold details.

The cupcakes were a succes and Eva loved them.

It was such a beautiful day, I wish you guys all the luck and hapiness! XO 

Gisteren was de GROTE dag, mijn vriendin Eva ging trouwen! En ik had de eer om haar getuige te zijn. De dag begon met wolken en we hadden wat regen, maar gelukkig niet tijdens de momenten dat we buiten waren.

Eva was een prachtige bruid! Ik mocht er bij zijn toen de foto's van het bruidspaar gemaakt werden in de tuinen van Mondo Verde. Wat was dat leuk zeg! Ik mocht zelfs de fotograaf "assisteren", mijn taak was ervoor te zorgen dat sleep mooi lag en Eva's haren niet voor haar ogen hingen. Ben heel benieuwd naar de foto's!

Maanden geleden vroeg Eva mij of ik 80 cupcakes wilde maken, die na het eten geserveerd zouden worden. Ze vond de combinatie van wit, ivoor en perzik met gouden details erg leuk. De cupcakes waren gelukkig een succes en Eva was er erg blij mee.

Het was een geweldige dag en ik wens jullie alle geluk toe!! X

Charming lavender

This cake was made for the mother of a friend. She loved my Victorian charm necklace cake and also wanted cupcakes to go with it.

Using lavender with ivory and gold was on my to-do-list for a long time and she also liked these colours. And I'm glad I used this colour combination :)

Have a great weekend!

Romance à la Marie Antoinette

My new favorite :D

Made for my sisters birthday who turned 24 today. It's also my anniversary cake, exactly one year ago I've made my first two cakes for my sister :) Times flies....

This year she wanted the colour peach in her cake and I just love the combination peach, ivory and gold. I did a lot of new stuff on this cake. The rose has been made with a super duper petal mold and is my new favorite, the flower cameo was bought last week and I just needed to use it :) and I have done some stripes on cakes befor, but never these thin ones.

The bottom cake is made of Victoria sponge, probably will be used a lot after this....
The other cakes are made of biscuit, all filled with a vanilla buttercream (with real vanilla seeds for the first time) and cherry & strawberry marmelade.

Hope you like it too :)

Happy Birthday sis!

Inspired by Peggy

A while ago I made this mini cake for my aunt. I was inspired by the magnificant Peggy Porschen.. 

It was hard to get the right colours! I constanly took my fondant to the computerscreen to see if the colours matched...

My aunt was very happy with it and send me a few lovely pictures she took at home. Here it one of them.

The roses I would do different, but I still like the colour combination :)

Diamond Baroque

Again, a three tired cake :)

Made for a couple that celebrates their 60th/diamond aniversay today.
Her daughter asked me to make the cake in black&white and baroque style, because the location is a old castle. She saw a previous black&white cake and liked it very much.  

The lace is real and for the first time I used a mold to make the pearldrapings. Before, I put on suugarpearls, one at a time... Using the mold is so much quicker, thinking why I haven't done that untill today..


Have a nice weekend!

Victorian charm necklace

My friend wanted a cake for her birthday and because she loves my designs, I was free to do whatever I wanted. That's always nice to hear :)

Last week I've made a petite necklace cake and because I loved it so much, this cake would have one too. Wanting to try out my new cameo mold and some other molds I haven't used yet, the design was there in a second.

Than the choice was between peonies and roses, it became peonies..

At the beginning there was a little doubt about the colour combination, but I'm soooo happy with the result and gladfully she loved it too :)

Happy birthday Sandy!

 

My first dessert table

On the internet I always see so much pretty dessert tables and I realy wanted one at my birthdayparty. I was lucky enough to celebrate it at my little sisters house and she has a lovely wall and even greater dinertable that I could use. The lace tableclouth and decorations on the table are mine :)

The table isn't full of food, but a first I think it makes a little pretty dessert table.

Happy Birthday to me ;)

Tonight I'm celebrating my 26th birthday with my friends at my sisters house. I wanted to make a big cake (it's my first all by myself..) in blue&white.. This colour-combination I've loved  for such a long time and I'm sooo happy with the result. Hoping my gasts will love it too.

The fillings are chocolatecake with chocolate fudge cream and vanillacake with cherryfilling.
The bows, baroque-applications and cameo's are made from molds and the sugar pearls are put on by hand (I believe there are about 300 of them...). The lace-border is real :)

Working all week on it and it was a good practice as I have another three-layered cake in a month.

I'm already wondering which colours will be used on my next birthdaycake ;)

Have a great weekend!