Can You Stand To Throw Them Out?

Decorating By JaneK Updated 18 Mar 2007 , 7:49pm by nglez09

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JaneK Posted 18 Mar 2007 , 4:44pm
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What do you do with your modeled figures who "don't make the cut" for cakes?? I can hardly stand to throw out the figures...I have fairies, unicorns and polar bears..not worthy of cakes but I must be sick...I can't throw them out...they are adorning my cake stands, flower pots and hanging over bookcases......I know they keep, but....

Anyone else that these "issues"?? icon_redface.gificon_lol.gif

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bonniesido Posted 18 Mar 2007 , 5:03pm
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I don't do modeled figures myself, but my daughter does, and I keep everything! It's like when she was small and I saved her drawings. I have plastic containers stacked with little flawed heads, and legs that didn't make the cut! I keep the flawed finished figures in a curio cabinet! I occasionally think about throwing them out, but doubt I ever will. She thinks I'm crazy, and I guess I am!

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cocorum21 Posted 18 Mar 2007 , 5:11pm
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I kept the one I made for my son't first birthday cake, it's on his shelf in his room. The rest just go in the trash.

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emmascakes Posted 18 Mar 2007 , 5:12pm
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Argh! Even worse is full on dummy cakes. the one I made for a competition I kept for about six months before I couldn't bear the dust on it any longer - it was too fiddly to dust. I had to march it to the dustbin and dump it as quick as possible so I didn't have time to stop myself. Heartbreaking!

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cocakedecorator Posted 18 Mar 2007 , 6:48pm
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i have the same problem. Esp. when I make too much of something, like a candy cane or that and I think well if i store in plastic bag and container I can use it later. I must be ill. icon_smile.gif

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Jenn123 Posted 18 Mar 2007 , 6:54pm
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I think cake decorators are "collectors" by nature! I have a hard time throwing things out and I collect stuff to decorate with all the time. "Ohhhhh this would look great on a cake! I better get 2."

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JaneK Posted 18 Mar 2007 , 7:38pm
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icon_lol.gificon_lol.gif well, it seems I am in good company!!
But it is time for spring cleaning......

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nglez09 Posted 18 Mar 2007 , 7:49pm
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icon_lol.gif "Oh Jane. . ."

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