• Hey thanks for the reply and I'm glad you found like minded women as well :) Thankfully I met mine in my early 20's so now that I'm 30 I have lots of girls who I can be myself around without judgement. I really just wish women could support each other on a larger scale and I did not feel like this article conveyed that message but instead perpetuated stereotypes by dividing women into boxes. Glad I could provide you with an alternate frame of reference. I commend your self reflection and courage to leave negative feelings and actions in your past :)

  • Ugh. I take so much offense to this article. As a "boys girl" or "tom boy" or whatever you want to call it this is 100% not a decision or something you can just turn on and off. I full on wish I could relate to these "other girls" because it's incredibly hard to find girl friends when you naturally gravitate toward "masculine" activities and away from "feminine" societal constructs. Please consider that women come in many shades and styles and that it's not such a wonderful feeling when you are told how you could be pretty if you did this or that and are then publicly scorned for getting male attention over another "pretty" girl. Ugh just so disappointed that this was posted.

  • He's a rescue pup from the Northwest Territories. Half German Shepard and half Husky. I've shown off his love for logs before but he's looking a bit more formal in this one lol

  • Thanks so much :) everyone kept telling me to freeze the top but I'm a pastry chef so I just couldn't get behind that. Lol

  • Thank you :)

  • Lol! I understand! Got some great business news the other day and it took me like 5 tries to wrap a cake in chocolate because I just couldn't focus

  • Thanks big time. I am from Newfoundland so I wanted to showcase that in the flavour of the cake so although it wasn't a blueberry duff (popular Newfoundland dessert) it had a bunch of fresh blueberries baked into the white cake with sweet cream layers :)

  • Totally understand why you wouldn't. I own my own business so it was pretty easy for me to just schedule it in. Plus I don't think we have anyone in the surrounding area that could make pulled sugar flowers like this.

  • Thanks so much for all the love :) my husband and I built our commercial bakery in our backyard so it was pretty easy to take this on before the wedding. Made the sugar roses 3 days before and did the cake the day before. Totally understand why you wouldn't do a cake yourself without a big walkin fridge where you can keep it safe.

  • Lol! It's so weird. He makes the weirdest kinda noises and carries them around the yard and then he'll lay next them them and make these strange high pitched howl noises. I'm gonna have to get it on video because I'd love to know if anyone else has a dog that does this. Even our vet was like ughhhh wtf lol

  • Totally agree with you both and thank you for the kind words :) I try to keep it in perspective that the meaner they are to us both the less we have to see them, so at least there is a silver lining lol

  • Mine was one of my first memories I can remember clearly.

    Christmas morning when I was three or four I got a microlite (easy bake oven knockoff) and I was pumped. Unbeknownst to me my parents and grandparents had been in an absolute tear the night before looking for the cutter and mix set they had to go with the oven and were unable to find it. So while everyone else is opening presents I decided to go to the kitchen and get some stuff to make in my new oven. I opened up the cupboard where my mom kept the baking things and blammo there was a huge box of little cutters, bowls, rolling pins and mixes. So I come out with a bunch of stuff just ready to bake and everyone is so happy and overjoyed about the find that they all stopped what they were doing and surrounded me with all the loves.

    Looking back the whole thing was just so magical and since I now own my own pastry shop I think it's fair to say this experience truly shaped my life :)

  • And last night he met his first skunk. Pro life tip: if you're not sure if your dog has been sprayed, do not let him in the house.

  • Thanks :) I've done a bunch more and have gotten better. Hadn't done this kinda work in like 5 years so its neat to do it again.

  • Planning to place these on just before we bring out the cake so if anyone has experience with reducing how fast things melt in a fridge (without using isomalt) that information would be awesome :)