$is_award=$is_gold_award=$is_hair=0;
$is_byallee=0;
$is_askallee=0;
$c=get_the_category();
foreach ($c as $cat)
{
if ($cat->slug=='certifikitsch-winners')
{
$is_award=1;
}
if ($cat->slug=='classique-d-camembert-winners')
{
$is_gold_award=1;
}
if ($cat->slug=='love-is-in-the-hair-award-winners')
{
$is_hair=1;
}
}
// true added because this table will now always exist - jealous button
if ($is_award || $is_gold_award || $is_hair || true)
{
$admin_email_pop_coa=$admin_email_pop_cdc=$admin_email_pop_liith="";
if ( current_user_can('level_10') )
{
$now=gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$key=sha1("A".$now."B");
$the_title=single_post_title("", false);
?>
$admin_email_pop_coa="
Send Certifikitsch Confirmation Email to: ".get_the_author_meta('display_name')."";
$admin_email_pop_cdc="
Send Classique d' Camembert Confirmation Email to: ".get_the_author_meta('display_name')."";
$admin_email_pop_liith="
Send Love Is In The Hair Confirmation Email to: ".get_the_author_meta('display_name')."";
}
echo "
";
if ($is_award)
{
echo '
';
echo ' .'/library/img/certifikitsch-of-authenkitschity.gif)
'.$admin_email_pop_coa;
}
if ($is_gold_award)
{
echo '
';
echo ' .'/library/img/classique-d-camembert-post.gif)
'.$admin_email_pop_cdc;
}
if ($is_hair)
{
echo '
';
echo ' .'/library/img/icon-love-is-in-the-hair-sm.png)
'.$admin_email_pop_liith;
}
/*
if (empty($uid))
{
$str="Click if you\\'re Jealous!
(You must be logged in to be Jealous.)";
}
elseif ($user_is_jealous)
{
$str="You are Jealous of this Kitsch!";
}
else
{
$str="Click if you\\'re Jealous!";
}
if (empty($uid))
{
echo '
 .'/library/img/jealous-button-med.png)
';
}
elseif ($user_is_jealous)
{
echo '
 .'/library/img/jealous-button-med.png)
';
}
else
{
echo '
 .'/library/img/jealous-button-med.png)
';
}
if (count($jealous_rs)>0)
{
echo "(
".count($jealous_rs).")";
}
*/
echo "
\n\n";
}
?>
This flower child Cake was made several years ago and is on display in my front shop window. About a month ago I took it outside to hose it off and created quite the spectacle. I call it flower child because it has large google eyes on the top layer peering out at you, and is covered with faux sugar roses. Each layer has a different scenario going on, starting with the bottom layer of colored swans in candy baskets and a herd of pink plastic elephants in the center honoring the bones of their ancestors.
All the icing is created from high quality acrylic artist materials, from a formula I’ve developed over the last 30 years, and the colors are hand mixed by me and extremely colorfast. My iced sculptures are a time consuming process as I start by tracking down interesting vintage cake toppers and plastic toys. I then ice the sculptures by layering multiple layers of faux icing over several days, or weeks – and I make all the faux sugar roses, or other faux icing decorations, like medallions, in advance.
Allee Willis
Fantastic how intricate this one is! I can certainly see why its in the window. This is my favorite one so far.
The topper is excellent.
I would imagine that hosing down a cake would be quite the spectacle!
How long did this one take to make?
More kookykrafts sculptural cakes: https://www.alleewillis.com/awmok/kitschenette/author/kookykrafts/
kookykrafts
Greetings from Phoenix on a sunny (and probably hot) Sunday morning. Just getting ready to bike down to get my Sunday NY Times, which I will spend most of the day reading!
I don’t remember exactly how long this cake took but probably worked on it off and on for a couple of months. I was working on several at once, so when I had extra icing from one or the other I would apply it to this one – so it became super lush with lots of layers and many colors. This has been moved a couple of times in the back of the pickup truck (not fun) with my partner Tony wrangling it so it wouldn’t topple out. A ridiculous and fantastic spectacle for sure. So many of these plastic cake toppers are extinct – or hard to find. It’s almost like a mini-exhibit of vintage cake toppers…