Cake Life @ The Velvet Buttercream

So I started work at Albertsons' this past thursday.. there's nothing better then being thrown right into the deep end head first. Currently my store is going through a full scale remodel.  Everything from the walls, to the floors, to the cake case!  Meanwhile the entire store is a mess, in the bakery we are trying to transition from the summer schematic to the fall schematic.  A transition like that is no easy task.. everything from the colors, to the flavors of cake have to change.  Going back to my first sentence of being thrown into the deep end head first, I have been working to get the bakery up to fall schematic before the head honcho's decide to walk the store. Oh and by the way.. the walk is happening THIS THURSDAY!   So... again...  thrown in, head first.  < insert sigh face here > lol Customer order shaped cakes seemed to be on the menu during my first week back with Albertsons.  I had a request to make "Thomas the train","

Back To ARIZONA! Last year around thing time I was posting my goodbye to this blog hoping that I wouldn't have had to end it on such a sore note.  I kept trying to invent new ways for me to talk about creating wedding cakes, but one can only do so much with icing and 20 hours per week.   In June of 2010 I decided that I was tired of not being with the one I love, so I put the effort in and got a job at a catering establishment in Maryland as their full time cake decorator.  Little did I know that it wasn't exactly full time.. I guess working at Albertsons kept me spoiled thinking that hours were just made out of thin air.  I stayed busy from July (when I arrived in Maryland) through the holiday season, but just as January 2nd hit.. my hours dropped from 45-50 per week to 10 .  My ability to be creative with cakes had gone to almost a standstill and for that reason I had to stop posting to my blog. I wasn't making character cakes anymore, I didn't have any fun