Cakes and Blooms

Connie, the person that use to be my internship supervisor is away on vacation and while she is away I am the cake decorator. At our store we have cakes called "designer" cakes. They are sculpted cakes that are reasonably priced. Whenever a customer orders a cake their order is placed on a board that is labeled Monday-Friday. My heard sunk into my feet when I saw that two designer cakes were ordered a of a dog and a truck. My fear and anxiety went away when I was told that Connie made the cakes before she left and all I had to do was paint them. Connie is so good at making these cakes and I was afraid of messing them up, but I must say that they came out looking wonderful. Have a look...

Here is a dog cake a customer ordered. It came out so cute!


Here is a truck which was ordered by the same person.


I think that I did a good job painting these cakes and I hope that Connie would be proud. My coworker thought I did a good job painting Connie's cakes. So when a customer ordered another designer cake she took the order and thought I would do a fine job. The customer wanted a cake to resemble a crabby patty from Spongebob Squarepants on a wooden floor. I was a bit nervous but I think it came out looking okay for me doing it all myself.


Here are some other cakes that I made to be put in our case of cakes that are ready for customers to pick up.




At home I have been so excited to see everything that has been blooming lately. I grabbed my camera and took a walk around the yard.

I just love the iris that have bloomed in the front yard. I posted about these last year, but I will never get tired of posting about them.


Some of the stems are so overloaded with blooms they are toppling over. I put the stems that toppled over into various vases around the house.


In the backyard the chives have blossoms and are begging for me to make cheddar and chive biscuits.


Behind the chives along the garden fence the clematis have bloomed in a spectacular show of violet and green.


Here are some other various photos from the yard: A yellow iris by the pond, my pot of thyme on the patio, columbine by the window well and our beautiful angel statue.


Of course I could not write a post about the back yard without including the pups. Here are a few pictures of Charlie and Lucy on the deck.


Here is a picture of Sofia looking statuesque as Nicole would say.