Sweet Charity Event Part I.

I was invited to the Sweet Charity Event, put on by Heart of America and Albert Uster, that took place April 25th. I was specifically invited to be one the designers for the Des Alpes Chocolate Fashion Show! Before you ask, I am not a chocolatier, I am a cake designer. More on that later.

It was sort of a last minute offer, but I gladly accepted. The theme of the fashion show was "Heroes in Literature." Me loving everything and anything Marie Antoinette, I searched for a female character that makes fashion statements. I choose Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind.


I am a cake designer, and I work with cake. That means sugar, flour, butter, fondant and sugar paste, that does not mean satin, sewing needles or manikins... Nonetheless, I was equally excited and nervous about the project. Knowing that this event is the top 15 charity event in the DC area did not make me any bit saner. When I had ideas in mind, I did not get off the phone. I was calling a few of cake designer friends who were excited for me put did not know what I got myself into!

This is all I kept telling myself:

Yes, that is a piece of parchment paper that I wrote on! I needed motivation, BADLY!

So here I am on a Monday morning, with a skirt that I made the night before with some help from my parents and a retired pastry instructor friend of ours. I started to mold some lace and buttons to be ready to dress my model. I packed all of the accessories including the sugar magnolia and the sugar purse I made.



A few minutes of crazy quick packing, and off we went to Washington DC!

Ok, so that's part one of the Sweet Charity Event blog posts. I don't want to make the posts too long, so part two, is coming soon!