Colette Peters’ books are what inspired me (20 years ago) to become a cake decorator. I bought one after taking my first Wilton class and said “I want to do that!”
Now I do! I have stood at her elbow and focused a video camera on what she was doing for a class at convention, and I have had a number of classes with Nick Lodge, who made one of Princess Dianna’s and Prince Charles’ wedding cakes.
You can tell who my friends are at a wedding. They will walk up and carefully touch a flower to see if it is real or not.
Oh.... I'm from Atlanta, and that is one of my dreams!! To take a gum paste flower class from Nick Lodge. .......sigh.....