Perseverance, perseverance, perseverance

For the past two weeks, I've been trudging up a very steep curve, sometimes slipping two steps back and picking myself up with a stronger resolve to try harder the next time.

And it's all got to do with orchids.

Yeah, orchids.

You see, my best friend, Laine has bestowed me with the honour of making her wedding cake ever since she learnt of my newly acquired cake decorating skills. She asked and I said yes and we both got very excited at the prospect of me doing her wedding cake.

For her, it's your best friend making your wedding cake. For me, it's going to be my very FIRST wedding cake. You can't imagine how thrilled I was when she asked if I could make her wedding cake. I was practically leaping with joy!

We've discussed and I agreed to make a two-tiered cake with her favourite flower - orchids.

I swear they are not the easiest sugar flower to make. It took me a week to figure out how to join the flower parts (throat, petals and base) together. And this week, I've been teaching myself how to colour them with food chalk colouring.

I must say I'm still on a very steep learning curve because after two weeks of trying, I'm still stuck with a really ugly batch of sugar orchids.

Now, I gotta get back and make more orchids.

I gotta keep at it. I gotta keep at it. I gotta keep at it...