sweet inspiration & fun baking ideas

Food Blog Forum and new friends This past Saturday I attended my first blogger type conference. It was a one day event in Atlanta, chock full of speakers and put together by Gwen of [...] Monday, September 13, 2010

Peek-a-boo I went to get a few groceries and found this looking back at me. This is the coolest thing. I couldn’t wait to show you. More about it soon… [...] Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Sharpies and other stuff I may need a couple. It turns out, I’ll be visiting you guys in about a month. YAY! YAY! Yippee! I’m excited! I’m going to be doing [...] Sunday, September 5, 2010

It’s shipping. The book is now shipping. I’m nervous. And excited. And nervous. I really hope you guys like it. That is if you decide to pick one up and flip [...] Thursday, September 2, 2010

Emmy Memories I didn’t bake this weekend. I was in Los Angeles for something super fun. It was a whirlwind weekend that centered around the Emmys. The actual [...] Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Cupcakes, Crêpes and Cream I was recently in Denver for a few days. It was my first visit to Colorado. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see much of the city other than the 16th [...] Thursday, August 12, 2010

Cake Pops It’s real. It’s printed. It’s on its way to warehouses and bookstores and stuff. And, it’s crazy. When I started this blog I [...] Saturday, July 31, 2010

Competitive much? Here’s some cool cake and baking related stuff you might be interested in. Whether you’re competitive with cake, still learning, like baking [...] Thursday, July 1, 2010

All hands on… cake! This past Saturday, I helped judge a cake decorating competition to benefit Hands on Atlanta for their 20th Birthday Bash. The day was filled with [...] Tuesday, June 22, 2010

An update Things are getting closer. It looks like the book will be available a little earlier than expected. In September instead of October online and in stores [...] Monday, May 24, 2010

They Got Me The other day I was doing a little impromptu shopping. I had already spent more than I wanted and I was about to pass the Williams-Sonoma store. I said [...] Thursday, May 20, 2010

Stuffs Earlier this year I posted a cute candy button display that my friend Julie made following a tutorial on a website called Bake it Pretty. And even though [...] Sunday, April 25, 2010

Sublime Today’s post was supposed to be something cute in time for Easter. Unfortunately, I didn’t do any baking this weekend or last. I’ve [...] Sunday, March 28, 2010

Pages and Post-Its See all these pages? I’ve been pouring over them this weekend trying to meet a deadline for a project I’ve been working on for more than a [...] Monday, March 8, 2010

Fun with Films You may remember these cookies. I did them a few weeks ago when the Oscar nominees were announced and to kick off a series of movie award season recipes [...] Monday, March 1, 2010

Just plain sweet! I received the best Valentine’s Day card yesterday and it wasn’t even addressed to me. It was from a sweet, eight-year-old little girl named [...] Monday, February 15, 2010

Macarons! Raise your hand if you have heard of Tartelette. She’s an amazing food photographer, stylist, pastry artist, and person. And she’s french, [...] Sunday, January 24, 2010

SugarComa! I think I’m just now starting to recover from this weekend. Saturday and Sunday were filled with sugar and some of the sweetest people. On [...] Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Icy Cakes I received the sweetest email a few days ago from a reader named Ella. Her note was short but really spoke to me in so many ways. Ella is from Stockholm, [...] Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Gone. Christmas is over. But that doesn’t mean the giving is. I did a little shopping yesterday… not to return anything, but to look around. It’s [...] Monday, December 28, 2009