TV Appearances

Create and Craft TV can be found on Freeview 36, Sky 674, Virgin 748 and FreeSat 813 - and if you choose your times then you'll be able to see Frances give some amazing demonstrations from a selection of her books.

The first show - aired on Sunday 21st September - seemed to be a great success, the producers were pleased and Frankie's FaceBook pages and email accounts went into melt down for hours afterwards. If you missed that show then you have two more opportunities to see her live - Sunday 2nd November in the afternoon and on December 14th. You can also look out for the re-runs but why not come to say hello at Cake International, the absolutely HUGE show held at the NEC from 7th November until 9th. Frances will be signing books and demonstrating her Tiny Sugar Shoes, Fancy Dress Babies, Sensational Animals and her Wonderful Fairies.

We'd love to see you.

The Latest Class List

Sugarcraft classes with Frances McNaughton in Tunbridge Wells, Kent

• Saturday 29 March     Peony Spray

Beautiful realistic peony with leaves and buds, perfect for using on wedding cakes and for other special occasions.

• Saturday 19 April     Modelling chocolate - Introduction

Easter is here- that must mean CHOCOLATE!! In this class you will learn how to make modelling chocolate, and make chocolate roses and simple models. The big advantage of using modelling chocolate is of course that your cake decorations will also be delicious!

• Saturday 10 May     Tiny Sugar Shoes and Bags- Introduction

Come and make a large selection of tiny shoes and bags. Perfect for anyone who hasn’t tried making miniatures before. Just the right size for cupcakes. Discover how easy it is to use different basic shapes to make different parts for the shoes and bags.

• Saturday 17 May     Buxom Fairy

Make this delightful ‘voluptuous’ fairy. A lovely modelling class in which you can personalise your own fairy with suggestions from Frances.

• Saturday 24 May     Introduction to Royal Icing

Learn how to make Royal Icing, piping bags, basic piping skills including writing. Build your confidence in a skill which is very useful in many styles of cake decorating.

• Saturday 31 May     Fairy Dressmaker’s and shoemaker’s workshop

Let your imagination fly when designing dresses and shoes for fairies. Final designs will be displayed on a tiny dressmaker’s dummy.

• Saturday 7 June      Tiny Sugar Shoes and Bags - Glitz and Bling

Create a gorgeous selection of shoes and bags to include animal prints, edible glitter and ‘bling’. A lovely follow-on class for anyone who has already started making tiny shoes.
 

• Saturday 14 June     Fancy Dress Babies

Make two sweet babies dressed in character ‘onesies’. One is dressed as a tiger, the other as a flower.

• Saturday 21 June     Introduction to Wired Sugar Flowers- Rose and Lily Spray

Learn how to make this delightful wired spray of roses, lily and leaves. This is a good introduction to flowermaking and colouring flowers with realistic powder colours.

• Saturday 28 June     Sugar Dogs

Be the first to come and learn how to make simple sugar dogs with the author following the release of Twenty to make, Sugar Dogs by Frances McNaughton. Great fun for anyone who loves dogs, or who makes cakes and would like to add another set of models to their skills.
 

ALL CLASSES START AT 10 am AND FINISH AT APPROX 4.30pm

MAXIMIUM FOUR PEOPLE PER CLASS

For full details please contact frances.mcnaughton@gmail.com

Dublin Sugarcraft Guild 22-23 March 2014

We'll be in Dublin this weekend for the Sugarcraft Show there - we hope you'll come and say hello as we're looking forward to seeing all our friends and our Irish "family".

Frances said; "I'm looking forward to the Dublin Sugarcraft Exhibitio - I'll be demonstrating this little sleeping baby fairy in the demonstaration room, and the rest of the time I'll be demonstrating other techniques on my stand."

We'll be selling Frances' books, cutters, moulds and the tools she uses for her work and she'll be signing her books at her stand. See you at the City West Hotel at 10 am on Saturday.

Check out the details HERE

West Wickham Workshop

On yet another beautiful Saturday morning, with a hint of autumn in the air but with the late season sun pushing away the mist and the heavy dew, Franc and I drove the 40 minutes to West Wickham, just outside Bromley. The sparkling sunbeams made even the M25 look acceptable as we made our way up the hill to junction 4 and turned off towards Bromley.

Today was workshop day and the ladies were all going to make some models from Frankie’s book Sensational Sugar Animals. We settled in and the students spent a very pleasant day modelling wonderful animals from the book; a tabby cat – based on our own gorgeous Riamh –  and a woolly sheep.

We had a delicious lunch with the sunshine still gracing us with its had finished their pieces and carefully packed them away for the journey home. We trust everyone had a great time – there was certainly plenty of laughter in the workroom during the day.