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It has been a busy summer creating wedding cake toppers for wonderful creative brides! It is so great to see that there are brides who appreciate the Garden Gnome as much as I do! Enough to have themselves and their groom represented with an adorable gnome couple on their wedding cake. It has been fun to add in special details, such as hair colors, side ponytails, clothing colors and flower types and colors. A couple of my creative brides sent me pictures of their beautiful cakes for me to share with you! A Canadian Gnome WeddingThis wonderful wedding cake belongs to Victoria in Canada. I love getting to see all the trends in wedding cakes, such as this one where the cake layers show through a very thin coating of icing. I love the fresh flowers too!  These are pictures of Victoria's topper before I sent it to her.
A California Gnome WeddingThis amazing cake belongs to Ellie and Mark in California. I love the succulents, mushrooms, butterflies and moss added to this beautiful cake. Also the sweet pennant garland. The tree base is great display for such a creative cake!   Mark and Ellie, such a beautiful picture!  A close up look at Mark and Ellie's cake topper. It is so exciting to see how the cake topper I create for my brides, becomes a very special part of their day and it becomes a keepsake from the wedding day, that they will have forever! I am truly honored each and every time I am asked to make a cake topper for a bride.
Every day should be a Gnome Day! Tammy
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 For Mother'Day, I decided to make succulent container gardens for gifts this year. So I thought I would share with you how to make one! You can make a container garden out of any container. I am using old colanders, painted metal buckets and a wire mesh basket I found at Hobby Lobby. They are a great source for unique containers. Here is a link to how to care for your succulents and cactus. http://www.cactuslands.com/plants.htm Supply List *Container - be sure to add holes for drainage *Roll of Fabric weed block - can be found at all home improvement stores *Hot glue gun *Glue sticks *Scissors *Potting soil - I used Miracle Grow Cactus soil and added pellets that retain water, because containers can dry out quickly *Plants - I used succulents, cactus and some annuals  Here I have cut the fabric larger than my container. I am lining the basket with it to keep the dirt in, but to let the water drain out if over watered. I hot glue the fabric to the container, folding it in the corners to make it form to the basket.  Once the liner is glued in I trimmed it to the edge of the basket.
 Fill your container halfway with soil and water retention pellets. Start adding your plants and filling in around them with more soil.  This is how this one looks completed.  This one is a mixture of annuals and succulents. I painted this yellow container with gray stripes to create this chevron patterned container. Then I filled it with yellow and white annuals.  Colanders make great containers for a kitchen garden. You can plant lettuce or herbs in them as well.  This is a vintage splatter wear colander. Love it!  Here I used a metal tub, just remember to put drain holes in the bottom!  This glazed terracotta pot goes great with cactus and succulents! Have fun creating your own whimsical succulent container gardens!
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Tammy HaddixI created Work of Whimsy as an outlet for my creativity! I create christmas ornaments on my day job. I had so many ideas that I wanted to bring to life and this was the perfect way. I can create whatever I want and if I am lucky there is someone out there that wants to buy it! So far it is going better than I expected! Archives
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