OK I HAVE SEEN THIS POST AND THIS IS MY 1ST TIME READING IT.... YOUR SISTER IS A HATER. LET ME SAY IT AGAIN A HATER..YOUR CAKES ARE REALLY NICE I WISH MY CAKES LOOK THAT NICE AND NEAT...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

OK, I went in to look at your photos. I understand the fear that people are just being nice with their compliments. HEY! My cakes should look so good. YOUR GOOD!!! You can tell your sister, "thank you for your constructive criticism, I'll that it under advisement" and go on your own way. Make, and decorate to your hearts content. Congratulations on your first paid cake.

I too, looked at your cakes, and can I just say, they look really great! I have been trying to master a present cake for months (that darn lid keeps messing me up!) and I'm also dying to do a purse cake similar to your make-up bag. They are both really, really good! Please don't give up, you have to have more faith in yourself!!! BTW, my son loved the airplane cake!!!!

First of all, You can never please EVERYONE!

I seriously hope that you're sister just has bad taste becuase if she really meant what she said then it just means that she is so INSECURE about something in her life that she has to take it out on someones happiness!

Your cakes are great! but that's not the point....you obviously enjoy Cake and everyhting about cake! like all of us here at CC. You should only quit if you seriously want to. And hey, everyone is hard on themselves and their CREATIONS...that's the way we get better...to look at the stuff that could be improved..no matter how small a detail it is.

I seriously would just pray for your sister and hope that she works out whatever is making her into a Hateful hateful petty little thing!

As for you...keep on decorating! It's hella fun ain't it?

The first thing you should ask yourself is if you enjoy making cakes, if you do you shouldn't quit no matter how well you do at it. Before anything this is a hobby and you pick something you enjoy and do it.
Your airplane is really cute so why your sister said it wasn't is a mystery. I'm sure that all the kids at the party loved it and the parents were probably pretty impressed. The cupcakes are cute, kids love the little toys and stuff.
I like to take pictures of my cakes if I'm not happy with them, for some reason I get a better perspective of the whole cake than when I'm looking at each detail. I'm never completely happy with my cakes, I see each little flaw or something I should have done differently.

Now about your sister, she's either trying to be mean or she's got some other issues, possibly about seeming to know everything. My MIL is like that, she's always giving me "great" cake ideas, telling me I should do something differently or telling me I shouldn't do something because it won't work, the woman has never decorated in her life. Do what I do and work your hardest to show her how wrong she is. I recently took great pleasure in telling my MIL that my first wedding cake travel 300 miles (while stacked) and needed no repair because she had told me that I should just make sheet cakes since there was no way I'd get the cake down there. I also just ignore much of what she says and she's getting to where she won't say too much now, if you ignore your sister she'll back off.
If the people who bought the cake didn't ask for their money back I would assume that they were happy with it, I would have been if I had been buying it. I know it's hard to believe that people would pay for your work, I've only sold a couple and each time I'm slightly astonished that they'll pay for it. Read the posts about customers deciding that they don't like the cake, it seems that most people would tell you that they thought you were ripping them off if they didn't.

Don't make your sister a cake, she's not worth turning your oven on for.

Wow!!! Look at how this post has grown in a day!!!!


This is my first time reading and I think your cakes are awesome!!!!!


I would definitely be happy with it..........now off to read some more posts, lol!!



PLEASE don't get rid of your cake things, if you love doing this, keep doing it!!!!!!!

I just read your post. You don't know me from Adam and I hate to judge your sister like this but....

she must be awfully jealeus of you! Your cakes are WONDERFUL and anyone would be MORE than satisfied with them.

She is playing on your self doubt. Don't let her ruin your fun and obvious talent!!
Keep doing cakes. You are truely good! I wouldn't say so if I didn't mean it!!
Please PLEASE don't quit!!!!

Joanne -

I know how you feel. My mother gets critical of me sometimes (and she is my assistant, to boot!). She is an accomplished chef who graduated from the French Culinary school. I hate it when she points out errors and and questions my choices in butter, vanilla, etc. She gets annoyed at the way I schedule things too. But at the end of the day, I know I enjoy this and I try to take her comments as constructive.

I respect her opinion and ask her to tell me what she thinks in a constructive manner - not critical manner. I tell her it is not helpful to say things like "I don't know why you are doing that".

Perhaps you can ask your sister to either keep her comments to herself, or see if she would be willing to give you contrustive critizism, not just put you down.

But do not give up - you have done some very impressive things that are difficult to master - especially that Silvester & Tweedy - my goodness - that is very hard to do. And Colette isn't all that, by the way - so don't worry about the "great ones" (I've met her a few times now). The greats were not so great when they first started....

Chin up. We love you and are here for you!

XOXO
Debbie
Perry Street Cakes

i cant believe you sister would say such things. a sister is supposed to be supportive. i think your cakes are really good, i would be more than happy to receive one of those. i am no where near as good as you and i dont think my cakes are ugly or bad. look at all the support you have on here, just take a few minutes and read all the feedback on you cake pics. no one on here would lie to you. i say keep doing what you are doing and she's just jealous.

You said, "...I love making these cakes and it's been so fun joining in groups, taking classes and meeting new friends..."

That is enough of a reason to keep going.

Another reason: Your cakes are AWESOME! I'm jealous of your work!

I am not reading any threads just yet but had to post this for you......Do Not listen to your sister. She is sooooo jealous of your tallent and will do any thing to make you feel bad about yourself. Too true. She probably can't even ice her fingure correctly let alone ice a cake. I have seen this happen lots of time. DO NOT QUIT your are so much better than her. You at least try and not condem. Unlike her.

O.K. I take the part back about making her a birthday cake. Stop making cakes for her only. Make them for everyone else in your family (and customers) and never her. When she asks you why you don't make cakes for her just tell her that she said she didn't like your cakes so you stopped making them for her and leave it at that. You do need to distance yourself from her. All she does is bring you down. She is completely nuts and 100% plain jealous.

Didn't read all the posts about your cakes which, by the way, are BEAUTIFUL!, so I don't know if someone already may have suggested this, but I think for your sisters birthday instead of making her a carrot cake, you should make her a green-eyed monster cake. If she asks what it means, tell her! Your cake decorating is great, and you should be very proud of your talent. Remember,
"You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, you can pick your friend's nose, but you can't pick your relatives". (And some relatives just turn out to be big boogers.)

Hi.
I just looked at the pictures of your cakes and they are wonderful!! You are very talented and don't ever let anyone convince you otherwise.
Your sister is just jealous and very rude in her comments to you.

First - your cakes are great. I love the airplane one.
Second - Your sister is upset that she isn't in the spotlight and is trying to make you feel negative about what you are doing.
Third - QUIT TELLING HER IF YOU THINK BADLY ABOUT A CAKE. She will only use that to make you doubt yourself.
Don't stop making cakes, stop listening to her.

Your momma should have named your sister " JEALOUSY", she is just upset because you have a god given talent that she obviously does not have and wants very bad.

It is OK for us to be critical of ourselves. I am guilty of it as well and I too have a sister who does the same thing to me. Only I am not as nice to say "you hurt my feelings"...I tell her where she can stick it!!!

You do great work and you should continue...I vowed just yesterday that I will never do wedding cakes again because they are too stressful, but I will continue to make other cakes...

You have got to be kidding. You are SO talented. She's obviously jealous.

Oh my GOSH! Is your sister BLIND?!
Your cake are very good...even your Wilton learning cakes are 10 times better than grocery bakeries!
Please take all the encouragement here, put it in a big pile, step up on it and rise above anything your mean spirited sister says!

JoanneK

Your so called sister is just trying to discourage you b/c of her lack of TALENT!

I am AMAZED that people (even at times your own kin) can be SO HORRIBLE! Reading your words I can honestly say that I feel your pain.
I (we) hope all will use your words as encouragement & as reminders that NOT EVERYONE carries our passion and desire for C/D....it's OK
Praise the critics -USE THESE nee sayers 2 fuel your fire for your passion.

Your cakes are fantistic!

IF YOU QUIT - YOU WILL BE PROVING HER WRIGHT! ...PLEASE DO NOT QUIT!

Hold it right there sister!!! NO WAY!!! You are not and should not sell your stuff or stop making cakes. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! My jaw dropped, i can't believe your sister is acting this way. Sorry it's your sister but is she 13?! I guess in a way i'm not surprised cause seriously i think we share the same sister. My sister likes to ALWAYS criticize anything i do. When it comes to cakes she'll have her say, but guess what?! i'm the one making them, not her. Same goes for your sister. I always tell my sister, if it makes you feel better to put me down, then go right ahead. Cause it seems like this is the only way she knows how to boost her self esteem. sad, sad, sad. i can totally take criticizim (ok i know i spelled that wrong). And i can handle when someone tells me, this is wrong or right or maybe try this or that. BUT don't do it when you have NO CLUE what you are talking about. I have been making cakes for my family mostly and FREE! so they better keep their comments to themselves, when they start paying then they got the right to talk.
I absolutely agree, she is just jealous.
I started doing cakes just about a year ago, and i can honestly say i'm still learning and trying new things. I know this and i point it out w/out a problem. But that's not your case, your cakes are great!!! GREAT!!!!!
ok my blood is boiling now too...
I don't know what else to say, but i'd like to give your sister a swift kick.

Where in Ca are you??? What if I want to buy one of your cakes???

Besides all the gobbledy-gook about self-confidence and your bratty sister . . . the fact that you like baking and decorating cakes as a hobby means you shouldn't give it up!!! Why on earth would you ever let someone ruin your fun like this???

I have an aunt who praises her kids (ages 30, 28 and 26) like they are the best kids ever, the most angelic, the most successful, etc. My mom feels like crap sometimes because no matter what my brother and I accomplish my Aunt still acts like my mom was never a good enough mom, etc. Well, you know what? My brother and I don't have to hide anything from our parents to pretend to be perfect . . . and we love our parents and are a really close family . . . . and even though I'm not perfect, my family appreciates everything I do for them--ugly cakes included--because its something I do from my heart. You need someone to appreciate your talent and your generosity!!!

I think your cakes are incredile and I am very serious -- Where are you in CA???? I'm putting in an order darnit!!!

Please point out her age and wrinkles and every imperfection of hers at her birthday party...you know she already thinks that about herself! I am not a confrontational person, but she needs a slap in the face!!! Seriously! All the time and effort and heart you put into your cakes ~ shows in your cakes...if she can't see that she is blind!
I suggest making an ugly blind troll cake for her! But then again...who say's trolls are that mean!

Girl tell your sister to stop drinking that HATER-AIDE!!!! She's hating on you!
Dont' give up on the cakes, I looked at them I think they are great!! Everytime I do a cake I doubt myself, for some peole that's normal but I make it through and so do you!!! Tell her she don't buy, taste, smell, or look at your cakes with a smile of course.

Jealous, jealous, jealous! I tryly believe this is what it boils down to. Don't ever stop making cakes because obviously it makes you happy and the more you do the better you get. I see NOTHING wrong with your cakes...they are beautiful. I've only been doing cakes for 1 1/2 year and I find that I get a little better every week...it just comes easier or something.

Anyway, just ignore her and keep doing what makes you happy and what makes you money. If your customers like your cakes, well, then that is all that matters. Keep your chin up, girl!


Wanda

This has to be the most blantant case of jeaolusy I have ever heard of! I would love to have your talent!! DO NOT STOP DECORATING!! Something tells me your sister would great joy from hearing you have given up something you are so obviously good at!

Your sister is a jealous,green with envy person..I'm sorry but if one of my siblings every said that I would tell them to %#*& OFF!! You do fabulous cakes and I am appalled that she would be so rude.Don't you dare quit!!

I didn't read through all the post because OMG there are sooo many. I hope you can tell by all the responses that everyone thinks your cake look great and that you shouldn't give up. I am pretty sure that everyone here at CC knows a LOT more about cakes and decorating than your sister and we all think that you are pretty great!

Keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing pictures of all your cakes to come!

Your sister must be a friend of mine-she told me the same thing one day (she didn't know I was coming in her office when she called her mom and made a hurtful comment)-and I posted it here-and you will have all the support you need and honesty here on this post-LISTEN TO IT!!! Do not give up!! You do GREAT work and you have a talent!!! While we are our own worst critics-others take it a step further and feel they are doing us a favor by being "honest"-take the comments for what they are worth from the deliverer-hang in there, give yourself a big hug-you deserve it!!!

If you do make the carrot cake for your sister, you should definitely decorate it. Show her she can't stop you. Don't give up!
And by the way, I think she's jealous that you have talent.