All of the pieces on the beach(except the umbrella) were made from Wilton's fondant that I colored. The palm tree was a lot of trouble, it got top heavy and wanted to break but I just kept gluing it together with RI and finally after 3 days, it worked!! The water of course is colored piping gel, and I used RI and tip 1 to do some whitecaps on the waves coming into the beach.