Category Archives: Miscellaneous

We’ve been hard at work at Maisie Fantaisie and we are happy to announce that we have just launched a new online Cake Decorating Supplies store at http://www.cakedecoratingsupplies.co.uk If you are looking for Sugarpaste Icing, Cupcake Supplies, Sugarcraft Supplies, Sprinkles, Chocolate Making Ingredients, Cake Decorating Books, Cake Stands & More then please visit the new […]

‘We all know the devil is in the detail. Excellence is in the accumulation of seemingly inconsequential, minor and weightless details. Yet, if you gather them together lovingly and patiently, along with your team’s intelligence - it is possible to create weight and density……..for a fleeting second, one may feel that one has touched excellence’ […]

Year: 1950. Location: California. Headline: Homosexuality is a growing social problem. Check that year. 59 years later and yesterday’s supreme court ruling in California to ban same sex marriage could easily be a headline from a 50’s newspaper. This is the country that took us to the moon, developed the micro chip and voted for […]

Recently my husband told me that the radio took 38 years to reach 50 million users, television took 13 years, the internet 4 years and facebook 2 years. Spreading the word about your business or music or blogging about your life and interests is easier than it ever was and sometimes It feels like there […]

I recently designed a Grace Kelly inspired wedding cake and whilst browsing the internet I came across an article about MGM’s designer costume designer Helen Rose. I read that Helen had been Grace Kelly’s wedding dress designer. Helen Rose was hired by Twentieth century fox in 1942 to work on their musicals. By 1956 she […]

I just love the glamour of iconic weddings. Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier, Elvis and Priscilla and here, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. Married On May 21, 1945, their wedding and honeymoon took place at Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio. It was the country home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis […]

On our wedding day both my husband and I had such a wonderful time. Both our families joined us for a lovely service at Chelsea registry office and afterwards, with a bottle of Tequila in our hands, we jumped into a waiting cab and headed straight to the ‘Groucho’ club in Soho. All of our […]

Welcome to my blog! Coming up - I have loads of interesting links and suggestions, tips and recipes, techniques and recommendations. The section ‘Maisie Loves’ will showcase my favourite purchase of the week! Hopefully i’ll see you back here again and again. I’d love to hear your comments….happy baking. Maisie x