Can’t believe it’s here, already!!!  In the past years, the Maddux family were the first to place their gingerbread house order to have as a centerpiece on Thanksgiving.  Here is their house from last year and some others…just to get you in the spirit!

One of our newer, fun clients, Gloria, brought Amy in  the shoppe to order her tenth anniversary cake.  Gloria loves to help with the designs…she’s one of the few who can actually picture a design in her head.

Gloria sent us this photo of Amy and Tony cutting their Sweet Sensations cake that had a brown, leaf motif on champagne colored fondant.  The topper is a burnt orange Sweet Sensations fantasy flower.

It just came to my attention that some blogs from months ago were never published.  They’d been sent to the web people to be tweaked, but never finished and published, so…here are some old ones before I blog about the new stuff!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!!!!

OMG!!!  When we were working on this cake we had a pancake craving!!  The whole shoppe smelled like IHOP!!  It was a vanilla cake with maple buttercream filling…are your mouths watering?

Makynly celebrated her first birthday with a petting zoo and an adorable cake.  The cow has a pink bow to go with the girlie theme.  Wish we could have joined in the fun!

A very excited groom wanted his cake to be the truck he drives for Wal-Mart.  hope you loved it, Matt!!!

Everyone in CA give my dad a hug for me, today!  Wish I could do it in person.  Glad the smoke is clearing for you to enjoy a gorgeous day.  Had to share this particular photo of him because it’s so him!  Have a super day!!!  I love you!

Last week we attended a great networking event put on by AtlantaBridal.com.  It was held at the new Buckhead Room which is a sister site to the Piedmont Room.  Met a lot of nice people and there were some old friends like Lara from Cameo Events, Alise from Dunaway Gardens and Jan of J & J Video Productions!  We were all able to sit together with Kristen Enlow of Madame Monograms, Cayce Callaway, Maria Esparolini of Hair by Maria and Sandra Harris of Celebration Harp.

Atlanta’s Band of Gold played a good range of songs.  They were so awesome I was wishing I had an event to book them, then Mr. Twinkletoes did some dance moves to show us what a bride and groom can learn for their reception.

We also met Seth Watson of Track Seven Events, Monica Jackson of Extraordinaire Affairs & Events, Pennie Mormon from Svelte Fitness & Wellness Training and, a newbie to the scene, Tracy of TLS Elite Events.  Monique of Blossoms Atlanta is pumped up about their new location and website!

Thank you, Lei, for a great event!!!

Didn’t dare wait for this info to be posted on the website.

Don’t forget, we do more than cakes…especially during the holidays!

Here are some of the goodies you can order now and for the holidays:

Cookie trays      Cakes     Gingerbread Houses    Gift baskets Breads/pound cakes:  Banana, Pumpkin, Peppermint, Sour cream pound cake,   Blueberry, Chocolate, Praline….. 

Belly Buttons (our version of cheese straws)    Fudge

Order now!  Operators are standing by!    You can email any time or call during business hours.

Most of you know I’m from California (fourth generation).  All of my family is there and still not happy that I left.  We always thought everyone was far enough into a neighborhood, away from the hills with brush, to be safe from wildfires, but my brother and his family were evacuated for 24 hours over the weekend from their home in Yorba Linda….luckily, their block is intact!  Shari (SIL) packed up the three kids to head to a friend’s house.  Rollie, my brother, and his neighbor stayed behind because they were worried about looters.  The neighbor, Slav, is a professional photographer and here are some of his photos.

Our cousin, Reed, had his neighborhood evacuated, also.  His house was one of the lucky ones.

Imagine a tropical storm (for those on the other coast), or low category hurricane with hot, dry winds (Santa Anas) and fire instead of rain.  That is what a wildfire is like.  If the wind shifts towards you, it could be minutes and it’s hard to out run it.

This is one of two seasons in CA…fire and mudslide.  The burn areas will experience mudslides in the spring without the brush to hold it on the hills.

The house behind the palm tree and people (they’re facing it) is my brother’s.

 Slav Zatoka took these photos.  Here is his website:  www.zatokaimages.com