Day 344/365 (June 26, 2015)

What a long day, but a very awesome productive day!

I got up early and began making the cakes for Lola. It took me several hours but I made her a beautiful rainbow birthday cake and even made extra rainbow cupcakes from the extra batter. Sadly i will not be able to get a picture of the inside of the cake but I can tell the rainbow turned out well from the leveling of the cakes. I also did a great job leveling the oven because there wasn't much leveling I needed to do. I decided to frost the inside of the cake a light blue so it would be like the sky.

I am so proud of how it turned out and extremely thankful the fondant rainbow stayed upright in the cake! I also sprayed it with pearl shimmer so it would sparkle.

I also fit in packing for New Hampshire and multiple cupcake deliveries, and going to the office for a bit!

Then Sasha, Karen, and I headed out to NJ to drop off the cake. Thankfully it made it there safely and we got to see Lola for a tiny bit on her birthday and give her her present, then it was back home for a little bit of sleep.

Also my rainbow fun today was even more fun since the Supreme Court ruled Gay marriage was legal and everyone was cheering. Different things like the White House, and SF City hall, empire state building, etc... all turned themselves rainbows with lighting choices. Even the Freedom Towers spiral antenna got festive which you can sort of see in a picture.

Day 190/365 (January 23, 2015)

Went to my jenny appointment then came home and began working on making the cake. I leveled them and filled them and frosted and decorated. It took a really long time but I was so proud of it! Ally popped in for a tiny bit. Fred tried to drink from the tiny sink and charlie was like excuse me?!?!

I had a really long conference call training thing for work and I got a last minute invite to Rochelle's birthday party which was lovely and i met some nifty people.

Day 100/365 (October 25, 2014)

Another day where i spent the majority of it feeling overwhelmed and stressed but it was all for a good reason! I spent my morning playing with Tessa and Colson, making a whole bunch of frosting, and filling/crumb coating the cakes. Then i went to Tessa's soccer game for a while. Then hurried to get my mom who doesn't know the meaning of "in a hurry." When I finally got back to Becky's I made the last bit of frosting and then did the actual frosting coating. Becky's kitchen aide is great because it is a larger capacity so I was able to make 3 batches of frosting at once, and probably could have done u to 5! However it doesn't tilt up so it was difficult to scrape the sides and was driving me batty!

Mike then came and used a toothpick to draw a tractor on the cake and I made the different colors, and was so pleased the black actually came out black! Then I traced the tractor and stacked the cakes and piped the border. Then began picking up after myself since I made a mess! Mike had to write on the cake since Sasha was too far away.

The party itself was very nice and t was good to see everyone that showed up. There were so many cute little kids there that enjoyed my cake... which I ended up having way too much of, sugar overload! I was also "surprised" with a cake of my own. I saw it before they brought it out but i acted surprised for them and it was very sweet since they never see me on my birthday. Samantha and Mike came with baby Xavier. He is such a cutie but was asleep most of the party which they didn't want. It was funny watching them try to keep him awake but that was a failure... until they went to leave and then he was wide awake!

After the party was over I stuck around for a bit and then sadly had to leave. I am always so conflicted because MA stresses and overwhelms me but when it is time to eave it is always so hard especially when I am with Becky and her kids. I had to hold back tears while driving. Luckily I made great time and when I got home i actually parallel parked the car in front of the apartment... first time ever! After everything was unloaded it took me 22 minutes to drive the car the one block to park it thanks to city traffic!

Day 79/365 (October 4, 2014)

It was a long good day! I woke up early and made the frosting for Karen's cake and decorated it as well. The night before I made a chai flavored ganache so that was part of the filling. This cake is so moist and was so tall! Sasha helped me do the writing since I suck at that!

I also made chocolate chip cookies, I tried to make them chai flavored as well but the special chai sugar i made wasn't strong enough to the other ingredients.

Sasha, Karen, and I went out to 5 napkin where we met up with Monique and her daughter to celebrate Karen's birthday... another burger place where I only got a salad... double rough! After we came back home and had cake/watched her open presents and hung out until Karen and I went to go see On The Town. Oh yea we had lock troubles again as well!

On The Town has some beautiful dancing but it started almost 15 minutes late and intermission was too long so it didn't end until 10:45.... not cool! then I came home and headed out to Marissa's birthday party at Bourbon. I didn't really know anybody but met three nice people I chatted with for a while and glad I went out... then it was home to SLEEP!