Dear Diary

[Thursday, May 6th]

Dear Diary,

Today's my first day decorating at the bakery! I'm going to keep a photo journal so I'll have a ready-made portfolio when I open my own cake shop. I'm so excited!!

8:45 am
My piping skills might need a little work:

10:00 am
Spacing is HARD!

10:45 am
Spacing's getting better, but I really need to figure out how to fix missteaks mistakes:

The guy who picked this up kept going on about how I "double-crossed him," and laughing. Must be a Game of Thrones thing.

12:45 pm
Woohoo! I have mastered the art of chocolate drizzle!

I know it's good because customers keep stopping to take pictures of my work!

1:30 pm
Another success! I had a really complicated order but I was extra careful to write it all down exactly and now the customer wants to see my manager!

I'm totally getting a raise!

2:45 pm
Huh. I really thought Kalhteen's mom would be pleased, but she seemed kind of grumpy.

I guess she doesn't like rainbows.

4:00 pm
Woohoo! Carol says I'm the best decorator in the whole department! She even let me try my first cupcake cake to celebrate:

Who's number one? It's me!!

Thanks to Trisha B., Phillipa P., Monique R., Maggie D., Kim B., and Eric S. The road to disillusionment is so much more fun when traveled with friends.

PS: Let the Princess Bride jokes...BEGIN. ("You don't happen to have six fingers on your cupcake cake, do you?")

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Because some days call for more than coffee:

"Probably Whiskey" Enamel "Coffee" Mug

(The listing really does have "coffee" in quotation marks, ha!)

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And from my other blog, Epbot:

Sunday Sweets Would Like A Word

Tomorrow is National Dictionary Day, folks, so what better way to use our words than with beautiful cakes?

After all, cakes can say so much.

They can talk about what's important:

(By Mea Sculpture Cake Design)

Share what's in your heart:

(By Nashville Sweets)

...and do it in any language!

(By Le Dolci)

(My love language is cake. WHAT.)

Maybe it's your favorite saying:

(By Queen City Bakeshop)

Or a snippet of poetry:

(By M Cakes Sweets)

Or a favorite childhood story:

(By Sugar and Spice)

Maybe you know all you really need:

(By Mely's Cake Design)

Or you want to get dramatic with a single letter:

(By Mark Joseph Cakes)

And if you can't choose just one word (or two or ten)?

(By Chatter Cakes)

This works.

In fact, sometimes there's nothing more beautiful than blocks of handwritten text:

(By Lovely Cakes)

Look how romantic with all these great textures:

(By Yuma Couture Cakes)

Feathers and stone. I like it.

But let's end with something seasonally appropriate: an homage to Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas:

(By Cupcakes By Louise)

For it is plain to see,

These cakes are Sweet as they can be!

Happy Sunday, everyone!

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