Scrap Weekly in 2010: Week 4

This week's challenge from Ruth at Scrap Weekly in 2010 is to use tags on a layout, preferably in a different way to normal. I've thought about the 'different' part all week and only came up with one idea which was to turn 6 or 8 tags into a flower. However, I tried that today and didn't like how it turned out, so I admitted defeat and made a standard two-page layout - with vellum tags a part thereof.
I so liked my photos of a walk around The Lanes this week, especially the one with old sewing machines, that I wanted to make a layout featuring them. I changed the photos to black and white and knew I needed a two-page layout to include as many as possible. But I changed my mind - again - and printed the ones of choccywoccydoodah in colour, creating a layout in two halves: one black and white and plain, one red and white and bling!

The Lanes, Brighton

There is journaling on a tag under one of the photos which reads:

'Amongst the deserted cafes and months-long Sales of the deepest Recession since the 1930's, can be found a quirky, colourful, extravagant shop with stunning chocolate sculptures; Choccywoccydoodah.'

It took me a very long time to put this layout together today as I haven't done a two-page layout in ages and found it challenging. But enjoyable just the same!

Do You Have A Favourite Shop?

Do you have a favourite shop? One that's too exclusive and expensive for you to even set foot inside? A shop where you gaze through the window in awe at what's inside and dream that maybe one day you could afford to order something? I do.
In Brighton there are lots of little touristy shops, expensive boutiques and jewellers, spread across the Old Town in streets known as The Lanes. It's an area with an eclectic, even eccentric, range of shops. I went there today with my camera for 52 Walks in 2010 and, once again, found myself outside my favourite shop.
My favourite is a specialist shop which is world-renowned for what they do. What is it famous for? Do they design dresses? Jewellery? Leather goods?
No........What then?

The clue is in the name; Choccywoccydoodah.
They make chocolate sculptures, be they cakes or anything else and they made all the chocolate for the Tim Burton film 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory'. The window display in this outwardly unassuming shop is 'to die for' whether you are a chocolate-lover or not!

Would you believe that the two dresses and the central rose creation are all cakes, covered in sculpted white chocolate? The attention to detail is fabulous. A few years ago a doctor retired at the hospital where I work and Choccywoccydoodah were commissioned to make a huge dark chocolate cake (which was the best I've ever tasted) and a life-size white chocolate skull. The skull was so life-like I could hardly believe it was edible!

Here's another of the cakes in the window today, completely fashioned out of chocolate. How do they do that?!!
I'm like a child with my nose pressed up against the glass. I just look and dream.