Pain from the past

It may not look like it, but this was one of my hardest cakes ever. It was for a 50th anniversary a few years back, and had sotas on top of each tier. What's a sota? Well, it's basically cornelli lace that wanders and overlaps. I got a little carried away and made it pretty thick, so you couldn't see the top of the cake. It was very beautiful, but my brain lapse came when I matched the three sheet cakes to the sotas. My arm hurt forever. It took a week to recover from that one. But it really was one of my prettiest and most elegant!! I decided never to do that again! It can be thinner and still be very pretty!