You may not know that I was a keen cake decorator in a previous crafting life. I decorated cakes for many special occasions including Weddings, Christenings and birthdays and each and every cake was a labour of love. Two of my specialties were hand moulding flowers from sugar paste and piping the very delicate and intricate extension work. Despite this, I'm not decorating my birthday cake because of the time factor. So I've enlisted the services of a cake decorator. We sat down together and nutted out what I'd like and now it's all in her hands. But whilst I was looking through hundreds of internet images to find what I liked, I couldn't help but notice how cake decorating styles have changed over the past 30 years. Gone are the frilly, lacy cakes that I specialised in and in are the bright funky cakes. After seeing so many wonderful cake creations, I started to get the bug again. I even visited a local cake decorating supplier and picked up some modelling paste and......