Did I Charge Too Much For Gumpase Baby?
Decorating By crazyladybaker Updated 19 Nov 2010 , 3:17pm by diamonds-and-rust
15" ??? That's nearly the size of a full term baby!! EGADS! Does she have any idea what gumpaste alone for that would cost??
People need to really and I mean REALLY get a grip.
15" ??? That's nearly the size of a full term baby!! EGADS! Does she have any idea what gumpaste alone for that would cost??
People need to really and I mean REALLY get a grip.
My twins were 18 inches and 20 inches 5 weeks early.. a 15 inch gumpaste baby is like a 7 month baby in utero !!!!!!!! and that would be a topper for what size cake ? I have that mold.. and it takes time to color it.. paint it.. dust it.. make the blaket.. if you charged minimum wage for the two hours.. you undercharged !
Could you tell me where this baby mold is available from. I just HAVE to have one lol
I don't think the customer said she wanted a 15 inch baby, she said she expected the one she got to be about 5 times bigger! I think she was just eyeballing that little thing, ya know?
Either way, that is too funny she expected something THAT much bigger when she had a picture to compare the scale to.
Was she really complaining about a $10 price tag? Or more that the size of the baby was so small in person, her vision of it on top of an 8 inch cake wasn't working in her mind!
You did a fabulous job, by the way! 
That customer probably had the same thing to say on her honeymoon.
Seriously though, she's a nut.
BTW - I recently saw a cake with a baby topper about 12" long and it looked horrible. Well made, yes, but it looked dead. I'd post a picture, but I'm afraid the baker would see it. 
I don't think you over charged at all, but if someone had printed a picture of only the 6" round and shown it to her she may have thought it was an 8" round. That said get a picture with the baby in your hand or next to a quarter, something that people can visualize with something of a familiar size. : )
I have been thinking most of the afternoon about this and had a good laugh thinking about a huge gumpaste baby. I mean...maybe somewhere there is a place for that kind of thing but not in my world. It would be almost life size and who knows what a hold that size would cost not to mention how much gumpaste it would take to fill it up!
I guess after the shower is over you could carry it around or wrap it up in a blanket...
This. It would be just GROSS and WRONG to have a life size baby on a cake.
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