Frangipani Flowers

As I have been flat out since we got back doing a range of things (that I will post about in the near future!) we will be going back in time today......

Just before we went to New Zealand my lovely friend from work Kate, asked if I would make some flowers for her daughters birthday cake.

Her beautiful daughter loves all things yellow so she asked me to make some Frangipani Flowers for the top of her birthday cake.

Making flowers, at least for me, is really soothing, but like many things setting up is sometimes the hardest part of all.  So after a bit of procrastinating I set myself up in our living room one evening, and got started... this is my basic setup:

I thought about putting up a tutorial for making Frangipani Flowers but there are already so many on the Internet if you search.  Also everyone gets results in slightly different ways and sometimes you just have to make it up as you go along.   

Once the flowers have been made they have to dry for a while, and egg cartons are the best way to do this. 

They take about two to three days to dry and after that colour is applied.

After that it was just a matter of boxing the flowers up for delivery.

Kate just this week sent me though the promised photo of the much anticipated birthday cake:

I am so glad that Kate's daughter was so happy with her birthday cake!