Final Cake - Flowers and Cake Design

Thursday night was my final cake decorating class for my final course. I now have all 3 certificates! Alhumdullilah. What can I say about this course. Well I didn't like the icing since it was a different recipe from the one I learned in the first course which was actually not the real Wilton recipe but I liked it better because it had butter in it and not just vegetable shortening so it was easier to work with and it tastes better too. I didn't have good luck with making the royal icing either..it kept coming out too stiff. I followed the recipe exactly and the only mistake I made was using regular spoons instead of measuring spoons. Like the last course you need a lot of time to practice your flowers which I don't have much of. I found most of the flowers hard to make as well. The wilton rose was not too bad because I did it in the first beginners course but now they have changed the curriculum and only do a ribbon rose for that course. The part that I really loved was learning how to do the basketweave design. I decided to be different and make my cake into a hat shape. So basically its supposed to be a straw hat with flowers. Perfect for spring right? The pink band and leaves are made from fondant.