Well hello everyone, I wish I could say it is a lovely sunny Sunday morning, but nope it's definitely not, although gotta say at least it's not raining (yet)!!!
Haven't written anything for a while as I haven't been up to much, but have some exciting news. I've just ordered my chicken coop and I'm hoping to re-home some poor but very lucky ex battery hens next week. I can't wait, it's something I've wanted to do for such a long time the poor little ladies have had a horrible life so far, so giving up a little space in my garden is no hardship to me at all. I'll bore you all and post pictures when they arrive.
What I have been doing though is baking and decorating lots of cakes. I had my very first commission which was a 30th Anniversary cupcake tower with a topper. My customer wanted it to be very elegant and quite plain but I have to say she was overjoyed with it and it was really nice being at the party and listening to the compliments her guests were giving about the cakes. I was very pleased with it myself and my customer told me they were gorgeous to eat as well as lovely to look at. I have included a photo of the whole cupcake tower and the topper and also the a photo of the individual cupcakes. There were 30 of them. I made all the flowers myself and each one has a tiny pearl sugar sweet in the centre (the only reference to the 30th anniversary as my customer doesn't really like pearls). I couldn't have done this without the help of the lovely Kim from Angels Cupcakes and the tuition she gave me at the cupcake workshop. Sadly/disappointingly though, I haven't had any more commissions since, although did have another cupcake order but nothing since. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, unless the people who are giving me positive feedback aren't being honest and my cakes are really awful and they don't like them at all!! I also made a birthday cake for my daughter in May and also just made last week a cake for my other daughter's work colleague as a gift. I'll have to post those photos later as haven't uploaded them onto laptop yet - doh.. thought I had. Be back later with more photos. Have a lovely relaxing Sunday x
What I have been doing though is baking and decorating lots of cakes. I had my very first commission which was a 30th Anniversary cupcake tower with a topper. My customer wanted it to be very elegant and quite plain but I have to say she was overjoyed with it and it was really nice being at the party and listening to the compliments her guests were giving about the cakes. I was very pleased with it myself and my customer told me they were gorgeous to eat as well as lovely to look at. I have included a photo of the whole cupcake tower and the topper and also the a photo of the individual cupcakes. There were 30 of them. I made all the flowers myself and each one has a tiny pearl sugar sweet in the centre (the only reference to the 30th anniversary as my customer doesn't really like pearls). I couldn't have done this without the help of the lovely Kim from Angels Cupcakes and the tuition she gave me at the cupcake workshop. Sadly/disappointingly though, I haven't had any more commissions since, although did have another cupcake order but nothing since. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, unless the people who are giving me positive feedback aren't being honest and my cakes are really awful and they don't like them at all!! I also made a birthday cake for my daughter in May and also just made last week a cake for my other daughter's work colleague as a gift. I'll have to post those photos later as haven't uploaded them onto laptop yet - doh.. thought I had. Be back later with more photos. Have a lovely relaxing Sunday x
