one of my favorite co-workers at the quilt shop is cynthia. she’s a former school teacher and like a grandma to everyone she meets. when her daughter catherine reached out to ask if i would make a cake for cynthia and her husbands surprise fiftieth anniversary party, of course i said yes. catherine gave me […]
cakes
carebears cake for my friend amanda.
my boss and the owner of sewingly yours has a daughter, amanda, who has special needs. amanda’s grandma used to make all of the family birthday cakes, but had some recent health issues and wasn’t able to make amanda’s cake this year. so, amanda recruited me, started about three months before her birthday. 🙂 she […]
the cakes of march.
i had a couple of cake orders in march. the first was a 70th birthday cake for my friend kim’s husband bill, who is an avid pickleballer. it was cookies and cream, which is one of my favorite recipes, and i basically stole the design from several cakes on instagram. the second cake was for […]
febroorary. 2o24.
i literally can barely remember the happenings of last february. some of these pictures aren’t even really jogging my memory. but, i’ll muddle through, in the name of family memory keeping. here we go. ruby’s birthday is february 3rd. or so we are told. anna made her some pupcakes to celebrate her fifth birhday. she […]
somehow seventeen so soon.
you guys. this kid turned seventeen in january of 2024. seven. teen. feels like this was yesterday. like previous years, his birthday aligned with exams and the semester break at school, so he got to spend his day doing what he loves. gaming. the boy agreed to homemade nachos for dinner and then opened his […]
kicking off 2024 with a bills cake.
hopes for the bills were sky high when we rolled into 2024. they had just won 5 straight to overcome a 6-6 record to finish the season 11-6 and win the afc east. so, obviously, when my fellow western ny ex-patriot friend requested a bills cake for her husband, it made perfect sense and i […]
a decade of crazelnut
another december brought another birthday for our hazelnut. ten this time. a full decade of the crazel. so, smack in the middle of all the holiday feasting, we crammed in a bunch of birthday celebrations. the first such occurrence was lunch with her class. she requested chick fil a nuggets, and was very disappointed when […]
fall florals cake, part three.
about a year ago, my work pal, cynthia, asked if i would make an autumn themed floral cake for her friend’s birthday. i did. and you can see that one here. then, a couple months ago, i made a similar cake for my pal jen’s fortieth birthday. that one is here. well. cynthia asked me […]
the rest of august.
with a large chunk of august spent in iceland, and with the time before that spent feverishly preparing for iceland, and the time after it spent feverishly recovering from iceland while simultaneously getting the kiddos ready for school the following week, this recap for “the rest of august” is going to be short and sweet […]
jen’s floral fourtieth.
before we left for iceland, my friend jen asked if i would make her a legit birthday cake for her fortieth birthday this year. actually, she told me that her husband should be contacting me to order it but wanted to make sure i had the date on the calendar, just in case. hahaha. anyways. […]