I know it’s been a while since I have posted a blog. That definitely does not mean that I haven’t been busy. In fact, the exact opposite is most likely my reason. So many things have been happening, that I am a little overwhelmed with where to begin. So, I’ll do my best to get you all up to speed withing the next little while in my few spare minutes.

For starters, the most fun news. I went to San Diego a few weeks ago for the ICES convention. It was a great experience. It was my first time attending as well as my first time instructing at an ICES convention. I look forward to many more years of ICES conventions. I also look forward to other trips to San Diego! It is so beautiful there. My family came along and we made a family vacation out of it. All of the things we did were so much fun. I missed some of the family fun because of the convention but I was having my own fun. So someday I want to go back and do all of the things with my family that I missed out on. I didn’t get a chance to take as many pictures as I would have liked. There was so much to take in. It’s a lesson learned for next time.

Anyhow, Hopefully I can get the things posted that I would like to, like my ICES class and how that went, how the classes I took at ICES went, some of the recent cakes that I have done, some personal news, and most importantly classes that I will be offering coming up SOON!

Today I made an appearance on Good Things Utah. I had a great time. The whole news crew was very friendly and accommodating. I had a lot of fun and was able to announce a new class scheduled at Orson Gygi in Salt Lake City, Utah. It will be a two day class where we will sculpt a fairy using cake, modeling chocolate, advanced structures and much more. If you are interested in learning about how gravity defying cakes are made and being able to make your own, this class is it. For more information, check out my classes page.

For those of you that watched the Segment and want to see more on the fairy garden cupcakes that I demonstrated, I will have a blog about it coming out hopefully tomorrow.

Yesterday I was a guest instructor at Bridgerland Applied Technology College. It was a fun day. I was able to go and talk to the students and tell them my story and teach them a few things. My goal was to open their eyes to the cake decorating world and show them what can be done with cake, (it’s not just flour, sugar, and butter) and also show them how fun it can be. I think I was successful in that aspect. I hope the students enjoyed the class. I know I did. And a fun bonus was that they did a write-up on the class and put it on the front page of their website. So, If you want to hear more about the class, or if you want to see pictures, you can go check out the article on the  BATC website.

A couple weeks ago, I got a phone call from the culinary instructor at our local college. He found out that I lived in Logan and asked me if I could come and make an appearance. So, I will be demonstrating and even doing a little hands-on instructing at Bridgerland on the 6th of July. It’s a technical college here in Logan, Utah.  I find it exciting to be a guest instructor at a culinary school. Especially since I have never had the opportunity to attend a culinary school. I guess that hard work and personal study has done well for me.

For the hands-on part, I’ll be teaching the students how to chocolate wrap a cake and how to make a couple things out of modeling chocolate. It should be a fun class.

September 3rd and 4th are the dates for the Eastern Idaho State Fair. The fair has had a cake decorating competition for several years. It has grown quite a bit over the last couple of years and is making quite a showing in the Midwest. I was asked last year to be a judge of the competition and I will be returning this year to judge again. Along with the judging, there will be classes offered. There will be two other judges that will be teaching as well.

We are in the process of making things final and I will post the class as soon as I know the details. I do know that the class will be on the 4th of September and that it will involve gumpaste flowers. So, mark your calendars and come to the fair!

I am excited to announce that I will be doing a segment on Good Things Utah. I love doing news segments. It’s like teaching a whole bunch of people in just a few minutes. And I love teaching and sharing new things. It’s a couple months away, so I will post about it when the time gets closer so that all of my Utah readers can set your DVRs and TVo’s.

Chanel 4. Good Things Utah. July 27th.

It has been a week since I have blogged. I haven’t had much going on this week. I’m just working on paperwork and getting things organized for busy weeks ahead. Things are coming together really well for the gumpaste sugar class and I am in the process of working things out for the Fairy Cake class coming in August.

Aside from that, I have had a free week to work again on my kitchen remodel. Yes, I know it’s been weeks since I started. Cakes come up and things get put on hold. I’ll get this finished eventually. The weather is nice today, so I’ll be sanding more cupboards.

I had my photographer take pictures of the Star Trek cake that I did over the weekend. I know you’re all dying to see it, right? I’ll get them posted as soon as I can.

It is official. We worked out all of the bugs and the Gumpaste Flower class is open for registration. The date is June 10th as I had already announced. It will be a fun and informative class. Be sure to sign up soon to guarantee your spot. The classes link will give you all of the information that you will need.

Thanks to Orson Gygi’s and to my assistant Paula (my ROCK!), this will be a great class.

Things in the class department are going quite a bit slower than I had anticipated. I apologize for the long drawn out process. I should have gone through all of the negotiations before announcing things. I do have pending dates though. They may change if the location changes, but we will do our best to keep these dates.

June 10th- Gumpaste Flower Class

August 27-28th- Sculpted Fairy Cake Class

I have had to drop everything for a special project this week (more on that if it works out). So, I will hopefully have everything finalized within the next week or two. Thank you for your patience with me. I know the classes will be great!

This post is to inform everyone that my classes have all been cancelled.

APRIL FOOLS

I actually have a little of an update to the classes. I have a class outline for two classes to be held in Salt Lake City. I will post the outlines and pricing as soon as I get the location tied down. But in the mean time, here is a little idea of what the classes will be about.

Advanced Structure and Sculpting Class

I will teach how to make a cake STRUCTURE or “bones” as some call it. We will be making a fairy cake. She will be standing on a mushroom ready to take flight. It will be a fun 2 day class. You will learn SCULPTING with rice krispies, modeling chocolate, and cake as well as learning to create some cute small FLOWERS and FIGURES.

Advanced Gumpaste Flowers Class

I had originally intended for this class to be a beginner class, but I had such a huge request for a flower class that I decided that it needed to change. This class will be a one day class. I will be teaching several gumpaste flowers, leaves and embellishments and how to make a beautiful  arrangement with them.

Like I said, I will have more information as soon as I am sure about the location and dates. Thanks for the interest in my classes.