Carrie's Cakes Class

WOW!!!! The last few days I got to go to the most amazing class! It was absolutely incredible and I definitely recommend it to anyone that does cakes, or wants to learn. She is the nicest lady you could ever meet and she totally opened her kitchen to us. We got to look in all the cupboards, ask her any questions we wanted, and see everything in action. She even shared her recipes with us!!!!! That was amazing, because not often do bakers want to share their recipes. So I know it sounds mean, considering she told us all hers, but I don't plan to share the secrets she taught me :). After all I did pay nearly $400 to learn them :)!! Well, I might share a few :).

She told us where she gets all her supplies, and where to get the best prices etc. And told us we can call her anytime if we have questions. She even asked me if I wanted a job!!! At the end of the second day she was looking at everyones projects and she told me she really thinks I have the right touch for this and asked if I ever want a job!!! That was such a huge compliment from someone so incredibly talented. She often calls former students to come work for her when she is in a busy season, or wants a little more help. Let me tell you, it is sooooo tempting!

Anyways, everything was great, I learned so much that otherwise would have taken years to figure out all on my own, and I meet some great people. There was even a mother and daughter there from Kuwait!! They came to utah just for her class. Pretty cool huh. I made some good friends and look forward to getting to know them better through other things, like the cake decorator club starting up here in Utah. They are having a convention in october and having starts from the food network come and teach!!! It will be so cool!! Now I just need to save my pennies so I can join the club and sign up for the convention :). Its a pretty expensive hobby, but there are so many incredible things that can be done.

Here are some pictures of my cake. We learned a lot of different things so its kinda just a lot of different things. I wanted to just do one complete cake so I could put it on my website, but it was too much fun playing with everything, and I can never decided on just one design :).

There was one downfall of the whole event. I came down with the stomach flu!!! On tuesday my friend and neighbor Camille, who is just awesome, babysat my kids. All day! Aaron ended up coming home sick after just a few hours so the kids ended up back and forth between Camille's and our house most the day. Thanks Camille for all your help. You are so great!!

So anyways, on my way home from class I was soooo tired! I could hardly drive, and I had been having a hard time standing up all day at the class. I figured I just needed a good nights sleep. When I got home I pretty much went right to bed. I tried eating dinner, but that made me feel worse so I hit the sack. Within a few hours I felt so awful. I was really afraid I wouldn't be able to finish my class. The next day I woke up feeling pretty much the same, but I wasn't throwing up, so I gathered up the kiddos, still in their pj's, and headed to my moms. She tended the kids all day. THANKS MOM!!! And I went to class. It was kinda hard to do things because I felt pretty week and so my hands were kind of shaky, but I made it through the whole thing. After I got back to moms she tended me for a few hours until we went home. I got even sicker once I got home. I am thankful the worst held off until after my class. Today I'm still pretty sick, but thanks so a lot of medicine I seem to be managing. Anyways, I'm sure you love hearing all about my sickness :). Here are the pictures!!!