I can't believe my last blog post was late Sept. Thank you Bell...for charging me monthly Internet fees and yet never giving me Internet signal! Arrgh!
I'm on my iPad which thankfully has Wifi and 3G...I pay Rogers for my monthly 3G service and they haven't let me down yet. At any rate, I've had a lot going on since September in the world of cakes, kids, teaching and training! But since this is my caking blog, I'll just talk sweet stuff if that's ok!
I need to figure out how to post pics of my latest cakes without Internet. I almost always use my camera to take cake shots, so my pics are stuck on my computer now...not accessible here on my iPad. Well, except for my weekend project which I'll post here in a bit. I was FINALLY a student and loved my day of learning all things beautiful in the cake land of Icing Inspirations in Kitchener. Thank you to Chrissie Boon (latest Cake Walk champion and owner of said shop) for hosting the course and to Susan Trianos (another Cake Walk champion!) for her Tufted Billow cake course! I was surrounded by caking geniuses and I loved it!
I had a super partner too! Amber Wills is an up and coming caked in K/W who will one day have the coolest, most unique cake and more shop you've ever seen! I can't wait! This girl is skilled...at everything!
Along with my fullest course, I had 3 cakes this week: 1 sculpted bunny rabbit (which truly deserves its own blog story...maybe later) and 2 very custom cakes requiring genius figure work (which people seem to think I have when they order from me...but which I don't!). A VP on top of the cake throwing a student in the trash (inside joke and completely NOT my idea but it went over well nonetheless) and a special baptism cross cake complete with a chocolate Jesus sitting on a boulder with the baby in his lap. Yikes! It was quite the week! A true test of time management, patience and caking skills. I'm happy to say that I survived, I'm not getting divorced, my kids are relatively clean & fed and to my knowledge, all clients were happy with their cakes.
Pics coming at some point. Very happy to say I have a cake-free week ahead...but I'm hosting a Christmas party so when I'd typically be baking and making buttercream and fondant, I'll be gutting, cleaning, Christmasifying, and perhaps even painting to prep for the party. Oh yeah, and I want to make meatball-stuffed arancini! Whew! Here we go again!
