The twins' birthday party was today.    Their cupcakes didnt turn out as well as I would have liked, but thats just me being picky.  I made 2 flavors- chocolate with marshmallow creme decorated and sugarfree yellow with sugar free lemon curd filling and choc ganache.   The choc was supposed to be like thing 1 and thing 2 so I put them in red liners and dyed the icing electric blue...  I need to check out diff liners cuz once baked, you could hardly tell they were red (was slightly disappointing for me) and I used a dif tip so the icing looked dif than the pic I was using as a reference.   I made lil cat in the hat hats out of marshmallow and red chocolate, they didnt turn out too bad but a couple were a lil messier than I wouldve liked.         The choc ones were a hit- there were only a few left.   People may haveb been a bit apprehensive over the oter ones, cuz if it were me I wouldve been like"sugar free? eww.. no thank you!"   The mom JUST found out she was diabetic a few days ago and asked if I could make a diabetic friendly cupcake so that I tried. And I'm not gonna lie, theyre actually pretty good! I think I may have liked them more than the chocolate.  The lemon curd was tart and the ganache just balanced it out. Was yum...and I'm not even much for lemon. Totally wish I had some extra left over at home.            

I probably lowballed it.  I gave her a good price, but I had a bit too much fun with coming up with my own thing- like fillings, so it cost me a little more than planned. And then the sugar free thing cost a bit more too. A big ol bag of splenda cost twice as much as a bag of regular sugar. I had already given her a price, so I didnt think it would be right to go back and be like "o hey it changed gimme all your money". Either way I'm making a profit and she's one of my first non-family payin clients. You live, you learn. She's already asked me to do another order for her next month- woopwoop. And if she and her family/friends are happy, it could mean more orders from other people and whatnot.      Until then, I've gotta work out some of those kinks.  =P

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I had a second interview at Panera on Thursday, but they never called me back.....    BASTARDS!  jk.           I've still got the SECEP thing to go to Wednesday night, cross your fingers a million and a half times people!      

I've been wanting to make a KooBakes Tshirt. You know rock it out like the champ I am and have the world see it and maybe ask. Free  publicity! And I just think it would be badass.  Mainly, I want to be a bad ass.... It was just going to be a plain tshirt, but then I went to the little girls section (the benefit of being kind of small and relatively flat chested) and saw some longsleeve tees- it IS getting cold, ya know? They had some or 2.50 but then I saw a pink striped one that I realy liked. Pink and crew neck usually not my thing, but I already have silver sparkley letters and i just envisioned it. It was a pricey 5 dollars, but playas gotta play, right?    Now that I have a fullprced shirt and not a half off shirt, I might just keep it. I'm sure I'll change my mind once I find those letters in my craft room.....      Be on the look out people! And I'll be on the look out for more cool shirts that I can maybe make...   =)