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As you can tell I'm a total cake nerd so this is like my fourth food book...I love the concept though, reading how other people chucked it all to follow their real passion and you can't beat the recipes. As I type, I have Banana bread with chocolate chips and crystallized ginger in the oven!

Halloween!!

I know it's not even October but yes my house is already Halloween decorated! I know, I know but I couldn't wait any longer!! :)

These are orange string lights with Halloween cupcake liners I placed over them...LOVE!

have cake, will travel...or maybe not!

Went on my first cake traveling adventure this weekend and it was crazy! I literally baked all day Friday, and I'm OLD now so felt like I might die at the end of the night. Then after like five hours of sleep, drove my happy ass to Abq to rush (and stress!) to try to get all the frosting's made and the cake's decorated...um yeah! I was almost in tears the whole time! The rest of the night was a fine balance between exhaustion, drinking, more frosting, and trying to see friends. I went on to get an HOUR of sleep, then drove my not so happy ass to Santa Fe, then finally and forever later came home. Overall, the trip was a success, everyone seemed to love their orders, I got paid (even got a tip), had a blast seeing everyone (even if it was way to rushed) and even got to stock up on wine at Trader Joe's....I did have some epic cupcake failures! My first batch failed miserably and took away two of my precious hours of baking, then my last batch was an attempt at German Chocolate and it failed bad (TWICE), then on my last delivery TWO cupcake boxes overturned and took at two dozen cupcakes and my Kitchen Aid mixer bowl BROKE!
All I can say is I'm exhausted but am so glad I did this, some of my prettiest cupcakes came out of this trip and it was definitely a learning experience!!!

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So this week is going to be a Busy, crazy week...my first cupcake all nighter, Abq trip to deliver 14 dozen cupcakes, Zoey turns three, Monday night football, and oh yeah school (three quizzes and three papers due)....but on top of that I am pleased to announce that I have been reading every night! I have a pile of books on my to do list, including joining a book club where we are working our way through the Harry Potter series. I am also going to start reading...

I am very excited about my new discovery of food books, which combines my two loves. The last book I read actually had recipes intertwined in the book! This book reminds me of my life this year, starting over and doing what I really love which is baking.

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"Ask most people what they want from life and the answer is simple..to be happy. Maybe its this expectation though that just keeps us from getting there. Maybe the more we try and will ourselves to states of bliss the more confused we get, to the point where we don't recognize ourselves. Instead we just keep smiling, trying like hell to be the happy people we wish we were until eventually it hits us, its been there all along..not in our dreams or hopes but in the known, the comfortable, the familiar." ~Grey's Anatomy