While surfing the web yesterday, a little bored I must say, I did an EBay search for cupcakes. You see, I am making my wedding cake. Well.. not so much a cake, but cupcakes. It seems to be the 'in thing' at the moment, and as far as I can see, if you can bake, you can make your own.
I have organised the hire of a cupcake tree, five layers descending in size, to put them on. And even with flowers (icing) it still works out about $400 dollars cheaper than paying someone to do it!!

So I did a Google search for cupcakes, images really. For inspiration. I already pretty much know what I want to do, but it never hurts to research these things. One of the pages to come up on the search was this Cupcakes.

Well after scrolling the page at least 3 times, I wondered to myself why the hell someone would be selling cupcakes on EBay.. then the penny fell. Silly Jacqui. They aren't real. Made from plaster I would imagine.
OK.. then I thought ... WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WANT TO PUT FAKE CUPCAKES ON DISPLAY!! Unless you were a bakery of course..
LOL! Lets just say my sister thought it was funny. AND they were advertised as 'shabby' Now I am up on this, I kinda know what it means. But all I could see was the kids faces when I told them they were shabby, and then watched to see how long it took to figure it out that they weren't real!
There is a huge market for these things. And don't get me wrong. I think its great if people can make some money out of fake cupcakes. But... why would you??

Wish I had have thought about it