In May of 2007 I was visiting a Hobby Lobby store in nearby Pekin, IL, and discovered a display case of decorated cakes along with advertising for their Wilton Cake Decorating classes. Cake decorating had long been a fascination for me and since I love crafting and creating and baking it seemed like a good idea to sign up for the beginner's course. Instantly I was hooked.
Since that time I have taken Wilton Courses 1, 2, 3, 4, and am to begin Course 5 next Monday. This also emboldened me to travel to the Chicago region to the Wilton School and take a course on How to Start a Cake Business, as well as additional courses through our local community college on how to start a catering business.
As I was taking cake decorating classes for my own personal enjoyment, things in my job began to fall apart and I eventually decided to leave my position to pursue other things. While exploring other things, cake-decorating became more and more important to me and soon the idea to begin a home-based bakery business developed. In less than a year I've made over 50 cakes and the business continues to grow, via word of mouth from my friends and customers.
I am grateful to my friends for their support and am constantly overwhelmed by the amount of serendipity out there that can lead us to wonderful moments, people, and discoveries.
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I've seen all of these as you've made them, but I'm still amazed at the diversity! It's art; that is, one is drawn your spontaneous juxtapostion of time and elements weaved together toward an exponentially shrinking ephemera of imagination. ILY, TWTH
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