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Posted on February 28, 2025March 4, 2025by sarah

whereas january felt like it was seven months long, i blinked and february was gone. our february this year was pretty darn uneventful. outside of my stone mountain hike, all of the happenings of february qualify for this “monthly recap post” if that tells you anything about the excitement level over here. still mostly rolling […]

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sweet sixteen for sweet maya.

Posted on January 24, 2025February 20, 2025by sarah

somehow, my pal heather’s youngest kiddo, maya, turned sixteen on christmas. it makes no sense because we were like 30 when she arrived and we are still like 30, so the math isn’t working out. but apparently it’s true. so she asked if i could make a cake for the big sweet sixteen bash, but […]

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baby shower cupcakes

Posted on January 19, 2025February 20, 2025by sarah

i had the honor of making cupcakes for the baby shower for my friend kim’s daughter, who will be having a baby girl in april-ish. she gave me complete free rein, both for flavors and decor, but insisted i don’t do anything too difficult. she sent me the decor color scheme and i was off […]

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harry potter themed birthday confections

Posted on December 10, 2024February 18, 2025by sarah

our girl hazel is super into harry potter this year, which works nicely, because she’s eleven and that’s the year when harry and his fellow wizards get their owl delivered invitation letter to hogwarts. anyways. i actually covered that detail in my post about hazel and her parties. for her low key family party, i […]

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you’re a wizard, hazel.

Posted on December 10, 2024February 18, 2025by sarah

well. this kid is eleven. and if you’re a wizard, eleven is the birthday that you find out you’re invited to hogwarts. so it was only fitting that this wizard have a very harry potter themed birthday celebration. or two. i wasn’t able to get a good pic before school, so had to settle for […]

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inter-universal superhero cakery

Posted on June 14, 2023July 31, 2023by sarah

hilarious. that i thought i wasn’t going to make anymore cakes. why can’t i just say no?my old pal kelley reached out to see if i could churn out some sort of cake magic for her youngest kiddo, turning four, who is a fan of many superheroes, spanning both the marvel and dc universes. and […]

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an all natural gender reveal
(and some unicorn cupcakes)

Posted on April 21, 2023April 25, 2023by sarah

when some friends of ours found out they were having a second baby and asked if i would make the gender reveal cake, i jumped at the chance. they were just having a little zoom/facetime reveal with family, so it was just going to be a six inch cake for them and their toddler, the […]

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easter cakery (a story of excess).

Posted on April 9, 2023April 25, 2023by sarah

ok. so.anna and i decided to attempt one or more carrot cakes made from scratch for easter weekend. we found a recipe we liked and got started on cake number one (but made enough carrot shreds for a second round). i busted out the easter sprinkles to make it really festive and a lovely carrot […]

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january.2023.

Posted on January 31, 2023February 17, 2023by sarah

ok. so here’s the stuff that happened in january, excluding spontaneous trips to western new york to watch the bills playoff game vs. the dolphins, isaac’s 16th birthday festivities, and the one cake i made. spoiler alert. the rest is sort of boring. but here goes. lets begin with some happenings while i was away […]

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christmas unicorn themed birthday cakery.

Posted on December 10, 2022January 25, 2023by sarah

like clockwork, every year for the last nine (ten, really) holiday seasons, the christmas preparations and festivities are temporarily interrupted to focus on the birthday of one, hazel grace lidbom. this year, she insisted on keeping with the christmas vibes for her party theme, and requested a christmas unicorn cake. of course, i didn’t just […]

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