Ever break a glass table top?

I remember when I was in school in Bombay in the 1950's, I can home one day just wanting to eat some walnuts. I asked my cook, our very dear fellow and a wonderful cook, Krishnan, whether he could break open a few for me.

He got the walnuts and also a hammer, as we did not have a nutcracker, and sat down to break them open.

The first one split open. As he was cracking the second, the head flew off the hammer, right across the room and landed on the beautiful black glass dining table top, cracking it into a series of crazed patterns.

Krishnan was horrified, thinking he may lose his job as this table had cost a few hundred bucks.

It ended not so badly as he just had a reprimand from my mother! (Dad was diplomatically not allowed to blow his top.)

The table top had to been thrown out and a new one obtained, which must have cost quite a small fortune at that time.

It is a pity that we did not have Annikki around then.

Recently we had a similar incident at Kampitie.

Annikki was a bit disturbed for a few short minutes, but then she brightened up. She created this masterieceout of that cracked glass.



She tried a few different glues and then decided to use a quick-setting epoxy filler adhesive to stick together whatever pieces she had salvaged. Using some really good glass paint, she created this beautiful mosaic pattern on the glass, and we have a very unusual and unique glass table top!

This is not the first time she has applied her creative mind to restoring glass. A year or so ago one of our mirrors fell and broke. She used a black glue to create this artistic backdrop on our dining table.



An unusal item in this picture is the flower pot on the wooden stand in the front left corner. It is entirely edible with the pot, stems and leaves being baked out of gingerbread mix, the flowers being artiistically cut sweets and the mud inside the flowerpot being delicious cake! Here is a close up of the "Edible Gingerbread Flower Pot".



Send us your smail-mail address to receive a table top 2006 calendar containing 12 beautiful pictures Annikki's designer cakes. The calendar is just now being printed in China. This calendar will be mailed out FREE to the first 500 people who send us their snail-mail address. It will be mailed around the world directly from the printers in China.

The printers will later, in 2006, finally publish the beautifully bound 100 page hardcover book, with photographs printed on the best glossy art paper, by Annikki which is called "Edible Art".

We have not yet received the pricing for the book. We will blog it as soon as it is received so that you can pre-order the book.