My friend Deb is an amazing photographer!  Wasn't I lucky to discover that she was the official photog at Joyce's 90th bir...

  My friend Mandy's grandma was celebrating her 90th birthday and I was asked to do her cake. Mandy told me that Joyce loves cats and ...

My friend Peter gave me a set of "Russian tips." I had seen them on various websites and figured it was time to give them a try....

Marthe called the other day to say that hubby Robert was celebrating a big birthday. He's a deer hunter and she wanted a cake in the s...

A friend of mine is having a granddaughter and was hosting a baby shower for her daughter. Since it's going to be a girl, we concentr...

  In the fall of 1999 I was feeding a stray calico cat. She was pregnant and had her five kittens on a shelf at our back door. Dad found th...

 Okay, I love to play with my food! I figured Valentine's Day would be a fun time to do this.  I invited Richard for a mid-week Valen...

Okay, so I love making cakes. I really do! A while ago I figured some folks really don't want to see my garden, my cats, my life and m...

 With soft snow falling and warmish temps, we headed into the woods again...  We had spent most of the morning bringing in wood and...

 Okay, so the stream my parents' sarcastically called "The Mighty Mogelon" is not very wide but balancing over two 2x4s was...

 Since I burn wood to heat the house, Richard and I spend much of the winter cutting and gathering. Here's Richard crossing the froze...

 I made this cake for Issie who turned 96 yesterday. She loves playing the one-armed bandit.  Issie looks terrific! I especially l...

 Out in the back woods, my dad planted spruce and pine trees 40+ years ago. The deer like the shelter the trees provide and generally sle...

I've been making cakes for enough years now that I've had many returning customers. I've been making birthday cakes for my fa...