Our finished front.
Friday, June 8, 2012
All Apologies
I'm SO SORRY I haven't been around lately. But our storefront FINALLY opened and I've been here day and night just trying to keep the doors open and loads of people coming through.
But we're so proud of where we've come from and where we are. I hope everyone in Atlanta gets to come in and taste our freshly made biscuits, scones, muffins, and cupcakes. Not to mention our delicious coffee drinks :)
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Happy 2011!
So it's a brand new year and it's time to start fresh!
Hodgepodge Coffeehouse and Gallery is underway. We're still waiting for permits, but hoping by the end of spring, all of Atlanta will have an amazing place to come and cozy up with good coffee, delcious cupcakes, and phenomenal art.
Are you ready?
I know I am :)
Hodgepodge Coffeehouse and Gallery is underway. We're still waiting for permits, but hoping by the end of spring, all of Atlanta will have an amazing place to come and cozy up with good coffee, delcious cupcakes, and phenomenal art.
Are you ready?
I know I am :)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Weddings, Cupcakes, and FEAR
This weekend I had my first WEDDING!
I cannot believe I have gotten this far in this little amount of time. Remember when I first began this little blog?
It's crazy!
I get nervous with every order I do. I mean this is someone's: birthday, or babyshower, or christening, or Friday, and I only want to enhance that day, not ruin it.
But a wedding? This is THE day. Oh lord, I watch Bridezillas! I see what happens to potentially sane women have things go wrong on their wedding day.
So there was planning, and creating, and replanning, and recreating. I had to build the cake stand myself because there just wasn't anything that could hold that many cupcakes that wasn't horribly tacky. So it was me, wood, styrafoam, pretty white decorative foil, a hot gun, and a dream. There were times I wanted to cry. There were words that some may deem inappropriate. And there were times I just wanted to set the thing on fire.
Which I could have because my oven decided it was going to become an incinerator.
A violently hot incinerator that wanted to do nothing more than to burn everything that went in it.
So it was off to my darling Lynne's house where she graciously let me take over her kitchen for an entire day with all of the ingredients (including love and magic) that goes into 14 dozen multi-flavored cupcakes.
And with all this it all came together.
And it looked something like this:
I cannot believe I have gotten this far in this little amount of time. Remember when I first began this little blog?
It's crazy!
I get nervous with every order I do. I mean this is someone's: birthday, or babyshower, or christening, or Friday, and I only want to enhance that day, not ruin it.
But a wedding? This is THE day. Oh lord, I watch Bridezillas! I see what happens to potentially sane women have things go wrong on their wedding day.
So there was planning, and creating, and replanning, and recreating. I had to build the cake stand myself because there just wasn't anything that could hold that many cupcakes that wasn't horribly tacky. So it was me, wood, styrafoam, pretty white decorative foil, a hot gun, and a dream. There were times I wanted to cry. There were words that some may deem inappropriate. And there were times I just wanted to set the thing on fire.
Which I could have because my oven decided it was going to become an incinerator.
A violently hot incinerator that wanted to do nothing more than to burn everything that went in it.
So it was off to my darling Lynne's house where she graciously let me take over her kitchen for an entire day with all of the ingredients (including love and magic) that goes into 14 dozen multi-flavored cupcakes.
And with all this it all came together.
And it looked something like this:
Our First Cupcake Wedding Cake!
The bride was nice enough to let me know the next day that everything went well and I was able to sleep that night.
It was all worth it and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Which is a good thing, since I have another one December 3rd :)
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Tis the season...
for weddings and cupcakes!
I am fortunate enough to have been hired to make cupcakes for a wedding in November. I also have a tasting for a December wedding this weekend!
I can't help but think that my own wedding anniversary is coming up. Thanksgiving was around the corner, and all my immediate family was going to be together for the first time in four years. So my hubs, then boyfriend, and I figured we might as well get married with everyone here.
So in three weeks we got it together. Not much planning, but I wouldn't have had it any other way.
Daniel was a little upset that we didn't have the means for an engagement ring because it was so last minute and we had just bought a house. I assured him that our 1929 craftsman was my engagement ring and I was just thankful for it. Very few people can live in their ring. But he assured me one day there will be something ridiculous on my finger.
That was almost two years ago. We spent our first anniversary in the hospital with the birth of our daughter, who came along six weeks early, but strong, like ox.
And here we are. In a month I'll have kept a baby alive for a year (no thanks to her daredevil spirit) and have two years of marriage under my belt.
With everything finally slowing down, sans the trying to open a coffeehouse and build a small business, it's back to thinking about that pretty little ring.
Quick sidenote: Not huge on traditional, and I'm leaning towards onyx as the main stone
I am fortunate enough to have been hired to make cupcakes for a wedding in November. I also have a tasting for a December wedding this weekend!
I can't help but think that my own wedding anniversary is coming up. Thanksgiving was around the corner, and all my immediate family was going to be together for the first time in four years. So my hubs, then boyfriend, and I figured we might as well get married with everyone here.
So in three weeks we got it together. Not much planning, but I wouldn't have had it any other way.
Daniel was a little upset that we didn't have the means for an engagement ring because it was so last minute and we had just bought a house. I assured him that our 1929 craftsman was my engagement ring and I was just thankful for it. Very few people can live in their ring. But he assured me one day there will be something ridiculous on my finger.
That was almost two years ago. We spent our first anniversary in the hospital with the birth of our daughter, who came along six weeks early, but strong, like ox.
And here we are. In a month I'll have kept a baby alive for a year (no thanks to her daredevil spirit) and have two years of marriage under my belt.
With everything finally slowing down, sans the trying to open a coffeehouse and build a small business, it's back to thinking about that pretty little ring.
Quick sidenote: Not huge on traditional, and I'm leaning towards onyx as the main stone
So here are a couple potentials:
I'm leaning more towards the second one. I'm just worried it's a little too big. The first one, though, does not have the stone set in the ring and I've never been a big fan of that.
Anywhoozle, I'm not very good at getting things done in it's "proper" order, but it all gets done eventually :)
So what do you think?
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Football Season is Upon Us!
My friend Ashley was hosting a couple's shower for her sister and her sister's future husband. Her sister loves baseball, her fiance football. So baseball sugar cookies for her and FOOTBALL CUPCAKES FOR HIM!
I don't watch football often, but I'm pretty sure these will be a staple at all future Super Bowl parties :)
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