October is next week. Next week. It’s almost October… My disbelief comes not from how quickly the year has flown by, though it has, but from knowing I’ve got a full calendar for the first time in my company history and i’m at the threshold of having to fulfill it! I’ve got a cornucopia of charitable events coming up. It feels good knowing I can contribute to so many worthy causes. I’ve been blessed, so I’m being a blessing! Let’s take a look at what’s going on! Oct 3: UCI Far

So i was going back over some of my earlier blogs and had to laugh at this one. It was fascinating/overwhelming me that new flavors and combinations wouldn’t leave me alone. I could tell i was trying to fight them, but decided to compromise, in bits and pieces. HA! I’m all in now, baby!! My imagination isn’t just a greedy mistress, she’s a harem now! People regularly ask me what flavors i offer. Well, pull up a chair America, cuz the list is infinite.  Yes, i still have my ba

Cuz it’s Summertime! Will Smith’s finest – second only to the bare chest scene from Bad Boys… but i digress. She’s here! She’s here! I’m telling y’all… I have waaaaayyy too many flavor combinations in my head. This is just a couple of the flavors I’ve been tossing around in this crazy brain of mine. What doesn’t help is my instagram feed is 50% bars and spirits companies constantly giving me suggestions of cocktails to try and emulate. Madness, i tell you, sheer madness! As a

When you think “con game”, you think of being swindled, stolen from, hoodwinked. But that’s not the whole story. While the original “Confidence Man” (con man) was set on deception, you have to admire the root of it (just hear me out…). The whole scheme behind “a con” is to gain your mark’s confidence by exuding confidence in what you want them to buy into. Your confidence earns their confidence. The Con. At work, i am responsible for training all of our Customer Service Reps

You know how those info grabbing sites can search your facebook and tell you which words you use most often? (btw, stay off those quizzes! they’re harvesting info to be able to set up accounts in your name with your true info…) Well, if there was one of those for everyday life, it would tell me my most used words are God and Ha! Ha? Yes, Ha! Because of God.  Go ahead and get your church fans out cuz it’s Testimony Time!!!!! I’ve quoted you that poem “Drinking from my Saucer”,

As most of you know (or those who were paying attention to my repetitive posts about it), i participated in a small farmers’ market last Wednesday. WOW would be an understatement. It was a complete whirlwind for 4 hours, chatting, laughing and talking with the staff of UCI Medical Center about cake. Alcohol and cake. Occasions for alcohol and cake, mostly referred to as “lunch”. They were excited that there was a sweets vendor (the only sweets vendor!) on site and intrigued w

Alan Thicke was one of the coolest, corniest dads on television. But that’s not what this post is about… So y’all remember this business course i just finished? Well one of the bigger takeaways for me was stretching past my own boundaries. I make alcohol-infused bundt cakes. the end. I was not terribly interested in making anything else or changing anything about what i was making, i just needed to know how to build my business. Well lo and behold, these women pushed and prod

Groundhog, schmoundhog… This is Southern California and we don’t do seasons! It’ll be winter, spring and summer all in one week and we roll right along with it. Only in SoCal can you wear flip flops with a sweater, shorts with Uggs, or scarves and woolly caps with tank tops. Yeah we do. Don’t hate. So when folks say “Spring is Coming” we say, “Umm, ok…”, because it’s already been here, gone and come back as far as we’re concerned. That’s why i’m excited to roll out our Spring

A couple weeks ago, i had a rough weekend. I had about 8-9 orders to fill. In my haste, i managed to botch 3 cakes. In the end, i fulfilled all my orders, had 3 bags of broken up cake and was exhausted from the bad attitude that had swelled. (Takeaway – focus on the positive, enjoy the process and everything will come out beautifully!) Every baker at every level botches cakes. Either they overcook a couple minutes, or the oven heat isn’t balanced, or the cake sticks to the pa

…Well you know the rest of that one.  How’ve you been? Long time no chat! Almost, what, a month now? I hope your holidays were fantabulous and your year has started with a bang! You would be amazed at how much has changed in the past month for me and RSC!! So about 3.5 weeks ago, i started taking a baking business course on line called Passion to Profit, led by Janelle and Eddie Copeland of The Cake Mamas fame. You know when you think you know something then all of a sudden s

New year, new goals. New visions, new plans. New shoes, new hair. You know how it goes. So my vision board has started to slowly come to fruition and i’m super excited to see what’s going to play out in the new year! Here it is, let’s go over it: Weddings – ehh, we’ll get there, not a high priority. Priorities – GOD FIRST always has worked out beautifully so far! I can’t wait to see what else He has in store! Self-Sustaining – Primary Goal for 2018!!! By year’s end, I want to

I’m a purist, a minimalist and in general, lazy. I like things as simple and pared down as possible without sacrificing the pleasure principle. I do not impose my lunacy on you, but that’s what i put into your cakes. I’m not saying I take as many shortcuts as i can or use inferior products, but i’m going to take the fewest steps possible in effort to minimize the time and labor necessary to get your treats to you. There are a lot of bakery options out there and the more popul

Going off the cuff with this one… I’m all about planning, prepping, timelining, organizing and yadda yadda, but not today. I saw that i haven’t written to you in almost a month, despite the dizzying array of events swirling around me, so i’m putting pixel to page to purge. You ready? You sure? ok. Last we spoke, i was shouting in my spirit about my cup being empty, right? Well folks, the water is bubbling!  I still haven’t heard from my Wendy’s angel, but that’s ok because i

Well folks, I’m gonna call time of death on this kickstarter campaign. Fewer than 10 days does not equal $7000. It’s not going to happen.  I’m ok, but disappointed, but ok. I know I have big things on the horizon, I know God has innumerable blessings for RSC in the pipe, this was just not the way to fund them. Selah*. I love and appreciate all of you that pledged my campaign. Thank you for believing in me and wanting to see me succeed.  Your support means the world to me.  Yo

I was having a conversation with a dear sister of mine about order cakes for the upcoming holidays. She said, “I’m just going to start taking orders at work. Just going to walk around and write them all down…”  We laughed about it, but it’s really a brilliant idea! Earn free cake by filling in the gap for me! If I could walk around your circles all day and talk to folks about my cakes, you know i would. But since I can’t, you can chat them up on my behalf! It usually helps to

After having the same conversation twice in the same day, i realized how truly passionate i am about this. I don’t like frosting. The verb or the noun. Frosting and decorating are not my things. “But cake needs frosting! Without it, it’s ju–” Hold up, hold up, I’ma let you finish, but i need to make my case. A few months back, i went on a recon mission to scope out my closest competition. They had a nice little shop, celebrity endorsements and had just filmed an episode on a