Thursday, July 24, 2008

It's so nice

when clients tell me how much they liked their cake! I don't expect it, because after the wedding there's often a HONEYMOON, and people have way more important things to do than thank their vendors (like relax, one hopes, with an extra large umbrella drink and some sunshine).

But because I'm generally there and gone before the wedding actually begins, I don't get to see the reactions to the cake, which is a little unsatisfying.

I did recently hear from a bride, who not only told me how much everyone loved the cake, she shared photographic evidence:

Very fun. It's been a whirlwind this month, in a very good way. I've gone from hundreds of cupcakes:

to handmade sugar sand dollars:

Isn't this so serene and simple? I really love it - the bride did an amazing job creating this totally elegant, very clean palette.

On the non-cake front, I just finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and loved it. What a beautifully told story, and a fascinating look at real life in the early 1900s. Now on to The Time Travelers Wife, which two of my very good friends have informed me is their Favorite Book Ever. We've recently seen the Hulk (loved the Ferrigno and Bixby cameos), the Fall (breathtakingly beautiful but gratuitously violent), and Hancock (I think Will Smith did a great job but I'm totally in love with Jason Bateman (Arrested Development was the greatest show ever created), and he was wonderful).

Construction is stalled while we decide what to do about the extensive damage we've uncovered in the demo work. There's termite damage, water damage, entire exterior walls that need replacing. We budgeted for some surprises, but this is a little bigger than we'd thought...