NOT a year later.... :D

Progress! It hasn't been a month since my last post, YAY!! What's been going on lately? March is a busy month for family/friends birthdays, so we've had a lot of cakes to make....and a lot of parties to go to! I got in a creative order of some cupcakes for St. Patties Day - Rainbow colored inside and I chose to spray and sprinkles the frosting in GOOOOOOOOLD!

Unfortunately, it looks more yellow in the photo - but in person it was definitely a metallic gold. I also had an order for a bachelorette party that I got to have some free reign with and I did a corset design. I'm currently obsessed with the pearl looking sprinkles!

March was a pretty good month - nice variety. In addition to the above I had a fun LEGO cake, a pretty sweet Wonder Woman torso, and TONS of jar cakes went out. I still haven't been able to really get a good picture of these yet, but it's butter cream, cake, and add ins layered in an 8 oz. jar. Very convenient for on the go cake eating! And great for shipping out for far away birthdays!

April is going to be a little slower, which I'm kind of looking forward to actually! May is going to be busybusybusy. Birthdays, a wedding, graduation and Mother's Day all in May. Lots of booking already and it's just little ol' me making, baking, and decorating!! I'm excited, but I know it will be stressful. It REALLY makes me want an actual bakery. Have the staff do the making and baking so I can concentrate on the decorating -- which is my true passion! Someday.....

(If anyone is looking to anonymously donate to the cause of my bakery - just let me know! Hehehe...)  ; )

Playing catch up!

Okay, so I have quite a bit to catch up on that's happened. Still new to blogging and it's not the first thing I think of to do in my spare time. I must say there is something beneficial to it...mentally...emotionally. Being back to my job as the stay at home parent and my husband officially starting a new work schedule (often random hours - 2nd and 3rd shifts) --- I'm back to having mostly children to talk to. I adore them, I do, but adult conversation is greatly missed some days.

I've had some fabulous cakes over the last few weeks. Valentine's Day was busy enough this year, and I can't wait for next. I made some great rose cupcakes that were beautiful --- SUPER thankful for the 1M tip I finally bought! If you decorate and don't have this - get it. Also, my favorite cake order for the season was a heart shaped cake with some scroll work on the sides. Which turned out beautiful. I also used a pearl red airbrush spray, but I really wasn't impressed with it. In fact, none of the pearl sprays have really been worth it yet. They usually just end up kind of wet looking. HOWEVER, I have yet to try the spray on fondant....so we'll see.

Oh, and an update on the sugar free debacle. I found some better recipes - but the new ingredients basically broke even on the order. They still weren't fabulous (still ended up a little dry), but they worked. Lesson learned: I will not be making any future orders sugar free. Sorry, but it's just not my expertise. :)

I have some more great pictures coming. I just haven't uploaded them yet! So keep an eye out. I'm going to attempt to do a MUCH better job of updating -- hopefully at least once a week. Let's be honest, it can't get much worse. Once my youngest starts doing a better job of sleeping on his own, that should help too.