This is a story about a redo...in my restaurant! (there will be more coming, but these will be slow and far between!)
When we rented our space - we bought about 90% of what was housed inside. Including this beauty:
It was a dive bar in it's former life, so this fit right in. But it didn't fit the direction we were going. Originally I was going to paint right over the stickers, but found that with a LOT of hard work (and loss of fingernails) I could peel them off. I knew that would render me a better finished look.
Once all the stickers were taken off this is what we had:
But that wasn't enough for me! The fridges around it were all black and I wanted this to fit in - as opposed to standing out. So I spray painted it black (primer plus paint!). Not once, not twice, but three times! My business partner was more than concerned about the fumes!
So here it is after it's painting:
I'm pleased with it. It sits behind a bar, so it isn't overly scrutinized on a daily basis. If this was in my kitchen - I'd probably done more work on it. I tried to sand some of the sticker/stickiness off which you can see on the bottom part of the fridge. It equaled scratches so I abandoned that. And some of the stickiness just didn't come out (you can see some of the outlines still).
But it fits in overall....maybe one day I'll take a picture of the whole line ;-)
What type of cake do you give a graduating accountant? Why an adding machine/printing calculator cake of course! A friend of mine text me asking me to make one for her husband's graduation party and I accepted the challenge! I was very nervous, as this was my first sculpted cake! The night before I started working on the cake I cut the keys out of fondant. Because I wanted to make it to scale, I used a photo of an actually printing calculator. And then used the algebra my momma taught me! :) The width of almost all of my keys is 5/8 of an inch. I then cut a 2" wide strip of gum paste approximately 6" long and laid it over a quart jar overnight to dry. The next day I started by making 2 9"x13" cakes and placing one on top of the other and shaping the top one (actually only using about 1/3 of it) to make the top of the calculator! I apologize I have no photos, this was a pre-blog cake. Then came butter cream in between the layers and covering the cake! I rolled o
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