21.   For the smaller flags, glue on to halved cocktail sticks and stick into the red balls of fondant.

22.   Pinch the edge of the shorts with two cocktail sticks for a gathered elastic effect.

23.   For a girl with plaits, push two pieces of a cocktail stick into the back of her head and pipe over these.

24.   Neatly cut cocktail sticks in halves and smooth the cut ends with sand-paper.

25.   Cut a flag shape out of rice paper and paint a cocktail stick silver.

26.   Brush one edge of the strips with a dampened brush and carefully place them against the cake so that they are supported by the cocktail sticks.

27.   And, stick the cocktail sticks out!

28.   The crude imitation of the device included a walkie-talkie and a plastic cocktail stick that users placed in their mouths to receive vibrations in their molars.

29.   Auger demonstrated how the invention worked by using a cocktail stick in his mouth.