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Katorina: This is my lovely Aunt Fran at one of her MANY 80th birthday parties!
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Katorina: Aunt Frances with two of her longest, bestest buddies, Janie and Fran.
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Katorina: This was the simplest, easiest method to use to get something to fly out of the cake! Lever action!
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Katorina: Here is one of my work spaces---I worked on springy, sling shoty ideas for 2 days before settling on something that actually worked.
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Katorina: This little butter knife (?) had the PERFECT angle for the lift needed to get the action figure up, and OUT of the pop bottle.
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Katorina: Here is the lever in place, it has to be near the edge of the cake to work.
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Katorina: OK, now to hide the silo that the man was going to jump out of!
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Katorina: Let the stacking Begin!
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Katorina: Here we have the Leaning Tower of carroty Piza! Eeeeeek!
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Katorina: Here was one of my "There, I fixed it!" solutions.
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Katorina: The skewers helped to straighten it out a bit.
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Katorina: I just extra cake to fill in around the transport tube.
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Katorina: I gave him a new "tattoo", he's ready to hunker down!
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Katorina: Thank goodness Super Secret Back Up Support bought a couple of extra cakes for structural augmentations!
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Katorina: Saran wrap had to be deployed!!!!
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Katorina: After sticks and plastic wrap came a cardboard wedgie covered in tin foil (for a really Professional look!
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Katorina: Here we have the action figure Down in the Hole~!
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Katorina: OK, doll's in place.
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Katorina: He is loaded into the cake with just a piece of wax paper and frosting over the top.
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Katorina: Side view with saran wrap covered with butter cream frosting. Thank goodness for frosting!
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Katorina: Here's the top, not pretty, but OK...
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Katorina: Super Secret Back Up Support rode the 10 miles with the cake on her lap, it MADE it!!!!!!!
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Katorina: The "It's Raining Men" cake got decorated in the kitchen of the restaurant.
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Katorina: I added some sushi 'grass' to help camouflage the top better!
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Katorina: The action figure ejected from the tube perfectly!
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Katorina: Looks like a tsunami hit it!
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Katorina: The anatomy of a pop up cake!