Hello,
I want to make a cake for a lady who works in our library and she has been very nice and helpful to me.
Outside of library, I do not know her very well (like her interests or hobbies). I don't want to make a book cake for her. I want something else... somehting unusual... but I haven't been able to come up with any ideas 
I NEED HELP..... 
Thanks,
K 
Hmmm...no book cake.
Maybe a cake that looks like your local library card?
And then make a list of Overdue books??
Hope that helps
library themed:
the old rubber stamp they used to mark due date
or
the rubber stamp they used to put name of library on book
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fine notice: -- for getting older! (overdue age)
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modern hand held scanner w/ bar code connected to a computer terminal? (the modern librarians tool)
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charmed,
That is kind of hard specially since the first thing that comes to mind is a book cake.
Do you have the precious moments cake pan, or even the flower pot cake pan. Do she like flowers? How old is she i know alot of people like flowers maybe make her a simple round cake with roses just saying thank you. Sorry i was not able to help you more, specially since you don't know her that well.
Good Luck,
Michelle
Try something with an odd shape, say a comma pan, decorated with quotes from variuos books. She's a librarian and may recognize them.
(an 8'' squared cake will do nicely too)
Just an idea that came to mind.
charmed,
That is kind of hard specially since the first thing that comes to mind is a book cake.
Do you have the precious moments cake pan, or even the flower pot cake pan. Do she like flowers? How old is she i know alot of people like flowers maybe make her a simple round cake with roses just saying thank you. Sorry i was not able to help you more, specially since you don't know her that well.
Good Luck,
Michelle
What about picking a book theme...like Harry Potter.
Or
Since she knows that you are doing a project or if you keep checking the same books out, she knows something about what you are working on run with a theme on that.
HTH
Patricia
Ok, like I mentioned in the other thread, how about a drawer with index (not reference) cards.
Here's a link to their discription on Wikipedia, with a pic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_card
I love the idea of the quotes. Perhaps quotes about reading & books? I really like the look of the stacked wedding cakes that have text written all the way around them. You could cover a cake in fondant and write the text with a food marker if you didn't want to pipe it on.
Bec
on the ccc that I took to the local library I put the Thomas Jefferson quote, "I can not live without books."
It's in my pictures.
Famous lines from books would be really cute too.
mommachris
I want to make a cake for a lady who works in our library... I want something else... somehting unusual...
You don't say what kind of librarian : Reference, children's, etc. That might help.
Well, this is unusual. It's a hornbook.
http://www.iupui.edu/~engwft/hornbook.html
I like the idea of a book quote on a pretty sheet cake. I think Thanh Thanh's are some of the prettiest I've seen.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=841203
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=819843
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Other book quotes:
http://faculty.mckendree.edu/william_harroff/ebe/book_quotes.htm
HTH!
When you say you don't want to do a book cake- do you mean the open book or a stack of books? Or do you just think that is too obvious of a choice?
I do like the idea of famous quotes from well known authors. If you find out anything more about her you may be able to personalize it a bit more- poems, history, science fiction, murder mystery, romance, etc.
You could make a 'stamp' on the cake with the name of the library she works for, her name, and the date of 'check out'(her last worked day).
I am thinking a shoe box and a fondant shoe... You could always do a cupcake cake with little cute things on each cupcake for spring or summer. Such as Butterfly's, flower's, just different little cute things on each cupcake. On a cake stand thing. That way your separating a bit from the library thing and recognizing her as a person not just a "librarian". She might appreciate that.
my 2 cents. Good luck
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