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The 10th anniversary of my 21st Birthday is almost here!

Why hello there,  glad to see you all again!  I know that it's been quite some time since my last post and I apologize.  I always seem to end my last blog by saying that i'll write another one soon.. but i'm pretty horrible at keeping up with that.  I think i'll start setting an alarm to remind me to write about the week.

Anyway, I've been really busy between trying to keep my day job happy and trying to keep myself motivated about The Velvet Buttercream.  I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't burned out from creating cakes day in day out, plus trying to get the bakery off the ground..  It's exhausting to try and make all of this work, and honestly i'm becoming burned out from it all.  The one thing that still keeps me excited about The Velvet Buttercream is that many of you are excited about the project, it's you who keep me in the game and are always pushing me to move forward.  For that I thank you.  :)

So here we are ending the first week in June 2016 and i'm trying to get things back on track again, since naturally there's always something to derail it.  The derail this time around was based around losing the second full time cake decorator at my main source of income.  I had honestly never hated going into work more than I had during that one month period while waiting to get another person in.  Now that we are past that horrible period, I can provide updates of the bakery and the cool stuff i've been doing.

How about a couple pictures first?






And last but definitely not least..  The velvetbuttercream.com website is now up and running, every page is 98% complete as is the mobile version of it as well!.  Check it out and let me know what you think :D

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