Monday, May 07, 2007

Happy 1st Birthday, Chaeli Jayne!










Antonia and I would like to extend our best birthday wishes to little Chaeli Jayne and her proud parents, Patty and Sean, by offering a glimpse of the cake created for her on the occasion of her birth one year ago.

(The theme of the cake was a celebration of the Jersey Shore, complete with paintings of four of the many lighthouses which dot the shore. The new baby arrives in a sugar sailboat festooned with a sugar sail bearing a painted scallop shell. A tern keeps her company on the bow of the boat while sugar pillows and blankets keep her compfy and toasty. Sugar shells, molded from real sea shells and starfish, interspersed with sugar roses, anchor the corners of the shimmering, sea-blue, fondant-covered cake. Each cake side features a painted sugar plaque of a Jersey Shore lighthouse. Photo number six is the yellow and black Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City. Since it is located in the midst of a group of apartment houses, I chose to paint it surrounded by the ever-present phragmites on our coastal shore. Photo number seven is the red and white Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island. Number eight is the top of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse while number nine is the Twin Lights or Navesink Lighthouse of Highlands.)

Maria

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

SWEET!!!!!

RAR

Maria Denzer said...

Sweet indeed...it is SUGAR art after all! Thanks RAR!

Maria

Anonymous said...

Maria -

I love going to your site to view the beautiful creations. You are very talented and may you continue to make great masterpieces. If you ever appear on a show in New Jersey I would love to be a guest. May God continue to bless those hands!

Anonymous said...

Hello Maria -

I love viewing your site and seeing the new masterpieces that you create every so often. You are a true artist and may God continue to bless you and all your work. If you ever appear on a show please let me know as I would love to see your work up front and close. Stay well!
Wandita

Anonymous said...

my goodness, a maria you did such a wonderful job on this one!!!!!