50 Years: An interview with Margaret
As our store reaches its 50 year milestone, we talk to our founder and friend Margaret about all things cake and business.
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I am thoroughly unsurprised at myself...
This is the smiling happy face of a Mum who decided that we needed five different cakes and 50 decorated bikkies to match at her son's first birthday.
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The best thing I've ever made
If you're a regular visitor to our website or social pages, you might have noticed a distinct absence of activity over the past few months. We have a very good reason...
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Living a messy, sprinkle filled life
My first few years of cake decorating started in our tiny kitchen in Springfield Lakes. I had the top of one laminated counter to decorate on and less than half a...
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Easily Create New Cupcake Flavours
Over the 10+ years I've been baking and creating with cakes, I've come to realise that when you have a good thing you should stick with it. I used to...
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"Just keep swimming"... Christmas 2021
It's my 7th year in the store (!) and I finally feel like I'm getting into a bit of a rhythm at Christmas time. Here’s what I can tell you...
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Dealing with 2021 and Showing Up
Between COVID and lockdowns, it's been tough. I said to Marcus just yesterday that I think the secret to everything in life is just showing up. So that’s what we keep doing....
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Our 2020 Cake Year in Review...
OUR (CAKE) YEAR IN REVIEW 2020... How it started In January, we kicked off the year by creating a mutli-tiered wedding cake that stood taller than I was. 'What a...
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Paying the rent
In the past couple of days Marcus and I have had some really deep conversations. This isn’t unusual for us - we spend most of our long commute to and...
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Spring Recommendations
Inspiration struck me from many different places this week (sometimes I guess it takes many times for the message to sink in). In the lead up to spring, there seemed to...
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Cake of Thrones
Last week I was gifted the perfect salve to fill the Game of Thrones sized hole that I’ve had in my life since the show finished up. We were commissioned...
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Why you should stop apologising for...
I consider myself a pretty creative person. When I left school, I signed up to a Bachelor of Creative Writing. The sheer whimsy of the subjects I was attending, together with a healthy...
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The best laid plans
Pushing through when you suddenly fall apart Well, it was bound to happen. Last week, I missed my weekly email newsletter for the first time since we announced our rebranding....
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