Shhhhhh!

Shhhh! Don't tell Steve I'm here posting a message. I should have finished tidying up ages ago. And I should have had a shower and been in bed by now. But as he's working nights, he'll never know (because I certainly don't think he reads this blog!)

I decorated two cakes today. One's being collected in the morning and the other one I'm delivering tomorrow night. Both are for Saturday, but I had to bring them both forward a day, because I'm going away for the weekend! :o) It's "work" related. I'm going here:

http://www.ichf.co.uk/cake/

I'm leaving home at 6.30am on Saturday morning and driving to St. Albans, where I'm meeting someone I know through the British Sugarcraft Guild. OK, so when I say I 'know' them, we haven't actually met before. But she sounds normal on the phone... You know... she doesn't sound like a mad, axe-wielding murderer, LOL!!!

From St. Albans, she's driving us to Birmingham. We're staying in a B&B, 'cause we're going to the exhibition both Saturday and Sunday. I've got tickets for a workshop and a demo whilst I'm there, so I'm really excited. Hopefully on the Saturday night we'll meet up with some other people from the BSG for a meal or something. And I've found out that a friend I met through Babyworld is going again this year! It'll be lovely to catch up with her.

Got a busy time coming up.

Back from the NEC on Sunday evening.
Monday 17th, decorate a cake.
Tuesday 18th deliver a cake in Hemel Hempstead!
Friday 21st I've got a cake.
Tuesday 25th meeting a friend in Bluewater
Saturday 6th Daniel's birthday
Sunday 7th Daniel's party

Then, I've got a LOT of cookies to do. And when I say a lot, I mean a lot. Between 12th and 23rd December, I've got 1020 cookies to do. Thankfully, I'm not decorating them. But I DO need to make a start on the cookie dough. It freezes beautifully. I can and will cut out a lot of them and freeze them raw (subject to space!) But, thinking about it, I won't have space for all of them.

I think that's everything for now.

I'll report back after the weekend. But now, I'd better tidy and get to bed!!!!

Fame Again!!

You know the football shirt cakes I did for the 90 year old twins?

I got a phone call from the customer earlier today to say that there's a small article about them in the Jewish Chronicle and that my cake's in the picture!

This is the photo:

And this is the article:

http://www.thejc.com/articles/spurs-fan-twins-do-party-double

Shame I didn't get a mention, LOL!!! But, coo, look at me... published twice in one week!!! :o)

Fame!!!

Well, OK, not quite.

But I'm so excited... like a kid at Christmas!!!

There's a magazine called "Wedding Cakes - A Design Source" and I sent in my wedding cake photos. And some of them have been used in the magazine! And I'm just so proud of myself. Nothing like this has happened to me before.

Lots and lots of people get their cake pictures in this magazine. I'm not unique. But I used to buy it and look longingly at the cakes, wishing I could produce things like that (I still do look through it, wishing I could produce some of the amazing cakes). And now, my cakes are actually in that very magazine!!!

I was working at the youth club today (making lunches for the children) so my mum went to buy the magazine for me (it was only published today!) I got three copies! LOL!! One to keep in pristine condition, one to show off with ;o) and one I've sent to my Auntie in Canada.

And the best thing is that I get my business name and website details listed in the magazine. It'll be wonderful if I get some business from it!

Week Of Twins!

I realised I had cakes for twins on Thursday and then cakes for twins on Sunday.

I got a lovely email with photos, from the family of the 90 year old twins:

"Many thanks for the cakes, they were much admired and enjoyed.

Jo & Philip"

and

"What can I say, the cake was absolutely amazing and what a lovely function.

Natalie"

Cookies & Cupcakes - Done!

I have a large roll of cellophane... like the stuff florists use to wrap bouquets.

I cut some of that and made a sort of wrapper/envelope/bag thingy for the 4 remaining cookies.

I could have sworn I had more bags, though. I did look last night.

I was right. I did have more bags. Found them this morning. After I'd finished wrapping the cookies, of course. Grrrr!!!

Anyway, I was up at just after 7am this morning to bake the cupcakes. Customer collected them at midday. I finished with about only 20 minutes to spare.

After lunch, I'm going to start the two football shirt cakes that are being collected in the morning.

B*gger!

And I was doing so well.

OK, so it took me a LOT longer to get the cookies done this evening. But that's not the problem.

The problem is I've run out of bloody bags. I'm 4 short. And I had everything timed perfectly. Sh*t!

I'll sort it out in the morning... either beg my mum to go to Romford to get some for me, or else I'll have to go myself. But only if I get the cupcakes done first.

*sigh*

A Bridge Too Far!

"A bridge too far!!" - That was what my cleaner said, when I told her that I finally got into bed at 2.30 this morning!!

It does look good, though! :o) It needed to be in the pastel colours that I've done it in. I originally did a brown, wooden looking bridge and it just wasn't right. So I looked on the ITNG website and the bridge is cream and blue. It looks much better.

I'm going ot photograph it very shortly!