It’s not only amazing to look at, but every bit of it is edible! 

What amazed me is how they start with a big block of cake…..just plain, ordinary cake.  And then pick up their carving knives and begin to carve.  Somehow, they can look at that lump of cake and see exactly what they want it to be.

The lady who was carving the manatee (i tried to find a picture but couldn’t), said that you just “carve away everything that doesn’t look like a manatee”.  yeah, right.

I remember in junior high school we had to carve something out of a bar of soap.  Doesn’t sound to hard, right?  Soap is smooth and easy and should be pliable to the master sculptor’s plans…….except that i wasn’t a master sculptor and the plan i had didn’t work so well.  In fact, it turned out so bad, that i can’t even remember what design i ended up with because it didn’t turn out resembling much at all…..and all i can remember now is that i turned it in and i think it was the worst one in the class.

Maybe i lacked vision?  Or maybe it’s because i lack the basic artistic skills; i can’t cut a straight line with scissors.  Or maybe it really was just the vision.  I kept looking at that bar of soap and really didn’t have much belief that i could carve it into its destiny.  I think as far as i was concerned, all i could see was that it was a bar of soap.  it needed someone to believe in it.  to see it for what it could be……a dog, a boat, a house.

Have you ever been around someone who inspires your vision?  Someone who believes in you and lets you know it?  Someone who is chasing their vision and just by watching them it encourages you to do the same?