tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009794138530798212024-02-19T15:01:41.026+01:00That Baking GirlAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06983134581789647176noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100979413853079821.post-86671726617355410392017-12-22T11:10:00.001+01:002017-12-22T11:10:34.494+01:00My first Newsletter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's been a long time, hasn't it? Too long... I had a bit of a rough year. Read about it in my very first Newsletter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am posting the english version here, but you can subscribe to my german one directly on my website www.thatbakinggirl.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thanks so much for reading :)</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06983134581789647176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100979413853079821.post-89021976991556354352017-01-29T12:28:00.003+01:002017-01-29T12:28:21.259+01:00Making Memories<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A little piece of info about moi... making cakes for clients scares the bejeezus out of me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am a nervous cake decorator and having strangers count on me to give their big day that extra special touch is very daunting and </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I see it as a great responsibility. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I really want these people to be happy they chose me to help them celebrate and for them to remember my creations as an integral part of what made their day perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My clients have expectations...but my interpretation of what they could be probably reaches farther dimensions of one's imagination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Like Alice's wonderland...the scary bits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Client expectations as interpreted by me : </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Has to be incredibly tasty and amazing </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Idea has to be original especially if the theme is common</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Has to have as many details as possible, without looking overdone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Has to create a lifetime of memories</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Please make me a nice tasty cake</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06983134581789647176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100979413853079821.post-72342999413296355592017-01-01T13:11:00.003+01:002017-01-01T14:51:16.047+01:00Hello 2017!<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">2016 was quite a year, wasn't it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It has become quite popular to say it was the worst year ever. It is plastered all over the internet, let's drop kick this year out of our memory and start over fresh in 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Can you remember a year in which so many horrible things happened, inexplicable things, downright alarming things? I certainly can't. But then again, I can't remember what I had for supper yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Bye bye 2016, you sucked!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In fact, much like my bear sister here, I felt that it was a year in which not only bad things were happening in the world, but also one in which I personally was tripping over, falling flat on my face, at every corner. A frustrating, difficult year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It wasn't even June yet and I was wishing 2016 was over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Everything I did was just to make myself a step closer to "getting it over with". Do you know what I mean? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In short, I wasn't really enjoying the present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">What a mistake. What a waste.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Really, if I stop for a moment and look at 2016, I could say it was actually one of my best years ever. Not only that, this was the year in which I put my big girl pants on and started making real decisions about how my life should play out in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In 2016, I took risk after risk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I have wonderful clients who order from me, amazing students who want to actually learn from me, incredible readers who follow my Facebook page and support me with all their lovely comments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And I have a wonderful husband who supports me in all my decisions (and also made my studio look awesome), a super amazing little girl who gives me the best hugs and kisses and a great family that believe in me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So hello 2017! I am ready for anything you throw my way and I will appreciate you knowing how you will help me fulfill more of my goals and lay the foundation for a great life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Those are two heavy words aren't they. They are filled with expectation, excitement, joy</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...but also with fear, doubt and panic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I feel all these things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Long before this, there was another, lingering, annoying feeling. Longing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The longing to have a different life. Longing to find my purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Do you sometimes get the feeling that you are somehow wasting your life?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">5 years ago, I got my nudge. Well, it was less of a nudge and more like a bulldozer making its way across my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was going to be a girl. A girl, looking up to me. Me as a role model. Me, shaping her personality, her confidence, her future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Which I did. And think. And panic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"I am not a good example. I am wasting my life. I am not good at anything! What kind of mom am I going to be?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Am I enough?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It started with cupcakes, but quickly turned into a cookie decorating obsession, with occasional dipping into the cake pop world. Cakes were far away from my mind, I felt cakes were too difficult, too important. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In June 2012, I made my very first cake. And it wasn't for someone I knew. I told her I had never made one, but she wanted a cake, and she even told me she had total confidence that it would be good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I didn't charge her for it, because I didn't know what I was doing... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But it wasn't bad at all! If I do say so myself, for a first cake ever...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A few months later I made Lily's first birthday cake and at the end of the year I had two other orders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">By summer 2013, I was almost only making cakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It took over my life. I spent all my free time looking through the internet for tutorials, ideas... I found everything I needed and more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thank you world wide web.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I had found my passion. I had found what I was good at. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Because even if I am not the most confident person on the planet, I believe I am good at this. I spend a lot of time and energy developing my own style, finding the right colors and trying to make my customers happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Though not everyone is always happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am still just a person. And I can't please everyone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I wish I could though. And I wish everyone knew and understood what type of person that I am. I genuinely want everyone to be happy. I don't lie or try to hide things. I want people to see that I try my best with every creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So for the last few years, I have been creating. Teaching. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But also otherwise working. Part-time jobs, and part-time cakes, full-time mom and housewife. Overtime stress and fatigue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was time for another type of new beginning. Not just finding my passion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And just weeks later, I found a cake studio. Coincidence? I prefer to call it fate. Somehow it gives me more confidence to think it was meant to be, that everything would be ok.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mixed with fear of course. But that's part of growing. You can't grow, change or become better if you only go the safe path.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Be kind and patient with me. I hope to do wonderful things with your help and I hope that being there will inspire me to grow and become better. Everyday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I was tremendously proud of this cake I made about 6 months into my cake making venture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I haven't make a giant cupcake in years. </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">What if I didn't see an improvement in the characters or technique?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Just, you know, my whole reputation resting on my jet lagged, haven't made a cake in a month, was enjoying myself on a cruise just a few days ago, why am I here, shoulders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I actually quite like how the cake turned out. I was able to add more figures and they have more character, more of a story to tell than the old ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I was born in Canada, just outside of Montreal. I grew up there, went to school there, fell in and out of love there. I had my family and friends...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">...and a feeling of national pride. To live in such a great, safe, beautiful country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Not to mention we have one the cutest national animals, like ever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What, I didn't want him to get cold!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The maple leaf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">People of less popular countries even stick it on their backpacks to get better treatment abroad. Not pointing any fingers... I get it. I like us too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The maple tree (I realize my interpretation is botanically incorrect, but I don't care, I just wanted it to look cute) is not just absolutely gorgeous, especially in the fall, it also produces liquid gold. Ah, not REAL gold, but close enough! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You haven't had REAL maple syrup if you are disputing this by the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Maple syrup. You can eat it with everything. This cake, incidentally, is a Maple Syrup cake with Maple Syrup Buttercream and Maple Sugar Chunks. Drool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Plus, you can eat it on snow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">How practical...since we have a lot of it in Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Take some sugarpaste (I use <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MassaTicinoCARMA/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Massa Ticino</a>, best thing on earth), and mix it with CMC. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Every year, I have had sleepless nights thinking about how to make it, so that it is clean and classic, not too flashy or silly, and especially, not old fashioned! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But the thing is, it's not JUST a cake now, is it? It's a token of appreciation... a way of letting the person know that you love them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But I don't know this Nonna, I don't know how to show her love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So I calm down and I think of my favorite grandmother...Lily's Grand-Maman, my mom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And I think, how would I make this cake if it were for her? How would I let her know how much I love her? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I have a husband and a daughter, I live in a nice apartment not a shack in the woods and I don't have a beard...yet, but I am nonetheless, someone who does prefer my alone time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I would stay cooped up at my place for days and talk to no one if I could. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I can't, can I? No? Sigh...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">(In case you are wondering though, if I ever did live in a forest, it would have to look like this... I covered the cake using McGreevy Cakes awesome Birch Tree Cake <a href="https://youtu.be/ivlgrPK3hRs" target="_blank">Video Tutorial</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Firstly, I bought some very cute clipart right <a href="https://www.etsy.com/transaction/1107934250" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lily is clutching a box and eyeing me with disdain. She is four, she is serious. I have obviously failed to meet her expectations. How could I??!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"But you said you loved the cake just a few minutes ago!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Now, what you have to know about me and my cake making is, I tend to source my inspiration from pretty much everywhere, from books, cloth, paper, napkins, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This time, I had ordered some products from an online shop specializing in American products. As a thank you, they sent me a box of "Be my Valentine" treats, which is basically a vanilla version of a Swiss Roll (by the way, no such thing as a Swiss Roll in Switzerland). After flipping it over, having consumed 5 of them at record speed, and slowly getting over my shock at how many calories I had just inhaled, I saw this Valentine's day card, and knew this box hadn't just been sent to destroy my diet. This was my next cake, and my first blog post!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thing is, leaving it exactly the same is, well, for lack of a better word, Blah. It is just like getting a cake order, with an attached picture of the cake you should reproduce. Boring! If I can't come up with the original idea myself, I want to at least make it different, mine! I want to put my stamp on it, make people think, yeah, that is Heidi's style. Different, not wrong!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(Because we don't see it well enough, the small cutter is 2 1/4in, 58mm, the large is 3 7/16in, 88mm, or 3 sizes larger than the small)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I used the square cutter, just to know where to cut my circles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cone tool and dresden tool to make indentations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Make two tiny lines in your sideburn with your dresden tool. Roll up a ball of sugar paste into a long teardrop. Stick on the Button and make hair lines with your dresden tool.</span><br />
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