Because I'm Happy??

What a week!  No seriously, it's been a crazy week of ups and downs.  Our computer has been on the fritz (computer gods, please help us out here), we messed up the side of our car in an awful no-win parking garage situation (thank you Pittsburgh Parking Authority) and today we sliced our thumb with a knife.  No seriously, this has been our week.  Can we get something happy?

To be fair, though, we've also had a lot of good things happen to us this week.  We met with a bride to go over some potential wedding cake ideas, managed to perfect our Ferraro Roche cupcakes (yes, you read that right), and we managed to make some delicious cheesecake.  So, does that mean our week was a wash?  A lot of good, a lot of bad, everything ends up just where it began?

We have so much coming up in these past few weeks, 60th birthday party cakes, a 2 year old's birthday, and let's not forget our Easter cupcakes that we're so excited to bake and ship out!  We also have 2 pretty awesome surprises in the works, but we can't leak any details quite yet.  We just know they're going to be some of the biggest cakes we've ever made!!  Sorry to tease you with such a sentence like that, we promise as soon as we can share more with you we will!

Until then, we'll be kicking back watching these Buccos, enjoying that spring is finally here.  Did you hear that?  SPRING IS FINALLY HERE!  Hope you're having a great weekend!!

August Living

IT'S AUGUST!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

We're sorry for all you haters out there, but August is our favorite month of the year!  Besides it being our birth month (and who doesn't love their birth month??!!?!) it's also,  in our opinion, the best summer month out there.  It seems like all sorts of fun things happen in August.  Family vacations, bonfires, early football games, pool parties....did we mention vacation??  Because we're going on vacation in less than 2 weeks, and we absolutely cannot wait!

We have one last order this weekend, and then we're peacing out for a 14 day hiatus until we're back with some more orders in late August/early September.  In that two week span we will:

1. Head to the beach with our favorite sister for some sun and surf (and boys!  Lots of boys.)
2. Attend our first ever Backstreet Boys/Jesse McCartney/DJ Pauly D concert in Cleveland.  Don't be jealous, even though we know you are.
3. Head out to a first place Buccos game.  We love baseball games in general, but heading out to a Buccos game right now...it's absolutely electric
4. Try out a few ideas we have for some new cupcake flavors.  Fall is coming...is it too early to start investing in some pumpkin?
5. Watch lots of awful television that we haven't had time to catch up on.

Even though this is a job we love (and we mean LOVE!), we still like to take some time off every once in awhile to sort of relax, refocus, and get all our ducks back in a row.  Whenever we've taken some time off in the past we've come back chomping at the bit to get back in the kitchen...that's always a good sign that you're doing something you love.  Most people don't like returning to their jobs after vacation, and to be honest, if someone wanted to pay us to never work again, we'd be fine with that too.  But coming back from vacation and heading back into the kitchen...we can't wait!

It's been a tremendously busy few weeks, and we've been honored and humbled by all the love, support, and (maybe most importantly) orders you guys have sent our way these past few weeks.  Birthdays (lots of birthdays!) weddings, baby showers, we have seen just about everything under the sun these past few weeks.  And we love it!  It's great to watch as our business slowly starts to grow through recommendations from others who have sampled some of our previous tastes.

Now the only question remains...who's going to bake us a birthday cake??

Have a fabulous weekend, guys.  Let's go Bucs!