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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

A Day in the Life of a Sugar Artist

At the ripe old age of 50, after 30 years in nursing, I finally decided I wanted to be a sugar artist. Make that a famous sugar artist. Famous enough to command the prices that would allow me quit my two “real” jobs and spend the next twenty years making beautiful cakes. In order to make that happen, I’ve taken basic classes, bought videos and books, networked with other artists, entered cake competitions, won several awards, had work published in magazines, plastered my name over the internet, and, of course, made cakes. Since I’m a bit long in the tooth, I seldom turn a customer away. I need all the experience I can get, as fast as I can get it, which is why my weekend generally goes something like this.

I stayed up until 5am Saturday morning making a Sponge Bob Square Pants cake for a three year old. The three year old would never notice that every one of the sixty hand cut fondant pieces fit together perfectly, but my OCD will not let me be sloppy and the cake turned out beautiful. After three hours sleep, my husband, son, and I delivered said cake fifty miles away for a noon party. We then met my mom, in-laws, and brother-in-law for lunch with three minutes to spare, went back to their house for coffee and cake, I made ribbon decorations for a western shirt and Leon worked on computers and his brother’s truck. We took everyone out for supper, and stayed over for a good long visit until after 11pm then drove the hour home, loved on the dogs, let them out to do their business, put them to bed (except for Frankendumplin’ our pug who sleeps with us and has a pot-belly pig for a brother…but that’s another story) then stayed up talking and cruising the net until 3am. Sunday morning I hit the floor running to meet our oldest son for lunch thirty-five miles away at 12:30pm, met with client in same town at 2pm. She ordered a Louis Vuitton purse cake and 250 cupcakes…yeah! On to the outlet mall to buy my son work pants, delivered them to the Fudgery where he works, watched them make a fudge roll on the marble slab, went to Lowes, Circuit City, Office Depot, and picked up chicken for supper. Got home, ate, cleaned off the table, cut out Elvis costume for son and Santa Suit for friend (will sew them on Wed after work), burned copies of five DVDs on sugar arts (for personal use) and transferred two talking books on CD to my iPod to keep me awake while making the hours drive to and from work, helped my wonderful hubby (a T4 paraplegic) with his shower, gave him his ten minute backrub (we alternate rubs each night) and got to sleep by 11:30pm!

If this sounds like a typical weekend at your house, I’d really love to hear from you. Surely there are kindred spirits somewhere…hello…is anybody out there?

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Blogging for Cakes

Hello All,

In this, my first “official” post, I want to thank my sister-in-law, Ginger, the brains behind this great blog site. She very generously donated her time to build it, as well as create the beautiful background work. More importantly she patiently educated me on the ends and outs of blogging. I spend a lot of time talking to people about my cake business and answering cake related questions on several different web sites. Her suggestion that I use a blog was perfect. I can post my thoughts, show cake pictures, and answer questions in one place, then simply invite everyone to visit my site. You will understand how important that is to me when you read my next posting “A day in the life of a baby boomer who finally decided what she wanted to be when she grew up.”

Please use the link to Ginger’s blog to check out the other amazing things she’s doing.