Decorating Basics: Practice

I took a few opportunities to practice what we were learning, and to use up all this crazy icing I had made. Here are some pictures. Again not my best work, but I'm learning right?

Star tip practice...
I had some serious issues with my icing consistency on some of these, but that was an important mistake to make. Icing consistency is key! And I'm not very patient with learning things, so this was a good exercise in just doing stars for a long time to make some nice ones, without wierd points, blobs etc. And as my teacher always says, "it's ok, you get to eat your mistakes!"

Practicing roses...Looking back on these photos, they aren't bad, but the ruffling of the edges is probably because I beat the icing too much, and there is too much air. And, I could never make it flat like the ribbon rose they are supposed to be, so apparently these are Victorian roses instead. Fine by me :)