New To Cake Decorating And This Wonderful Board!
Decorating By cshelz Updated 21 Apr 2007 , 5:18am by mareg
Hi! Welcome! This is a very addicting site! If you are taking the Wilton class you should buy the course 1 kit. You will also need some small stuff, but it all adds up quickly! I know that I had to have EVERYTHING when I first started, so I know how excited you are about taking the class. My hubby bought me the master tip collection because he knew that I wanted to take classes. I was so scared of starting that it took me a year to sign up. Now I'm teaching cake decorating! I can tell you everything that you'll need (or what your instuctor will tell you that you need), but she will "take you shopping" on your first night. 
If you want to get a head start, here are some things that you may want to buy:
a Trim 'N Turn turntable, Parchment Triangles, Show 'N Serve cake boards (most likely 10" rounds)Meringue Powder, Piping Gel, Clear Vanilla flavoring, a cake leveler, a 13" angled spatula, a flower lifter (you can use scissors for this, but it's about $3), some colors, and some good quality straight sided pans (either Wilton or Magic Line) and some extra tips #1, 12 & 104 (for using in course 1). They do have tool caddys too! 
See I told you.....just some small stuff and it all adds up! Remember to save and USE as many coupons that you can to get your costs down. I have so many people saving Michaels adds for me!! Most things are personal preferences, so I don't try to "push" my students to buy things that they don't want to.
Good luck and have a lot of fun!!
Cathy
Hi and Welcome Michelle,
Here's a list of CC acronyms:
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-2926-.html
You can sign up for Hobby Lobby coupons:
(40% off coupons every other week.)
http://www.hobbylobby.com/
HTH
Have fun!
Welcome to this highly addictive site !! I find myself here......all the time. Hope you enjoy it as much as we all do !! =)
Welcome to the addictive site of cake central!
Welcome! My name is Cathy. You'll find lots of friendy help and loads of ideas, tips, and techniques here. Glad you've joined us! 
Welcome, but be careful. I spend so much time on this site, I'm not able to spend much time practicing.
Ditto Antylucifer...I spend so much time on here and I learn so many techniques in one day that by the time I get off to practice it's too late and I've forgotten a lot of them because there's too many to remember.
Oh my goodness, I just started here too and I have a serious addiction problem. Today I had to shut the computer down so that I would dare get on. Welcome and I can't wait to see some of your creations...
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