I'm bipolar and it is finally (for the first time) working to my advantage! I've got a bachelorette cake due this afternoon and I'm using the fact that I don't sleep when I'm manic to finish the cake!

The last elements of the cake are cooling (I forgot to put eggs in the batter the other day so I had to re-do them!) and then I'll carve, spackle, frost, detail, cover in fondant and the do the final touches! YAY!

LOL

What cakes are you all working on this weekend?

Rachel

Oh man!! I feel for you. I have stayed up once until almost 4:00!! Thought I was going to drop the next day. I hope your cake turns out wonderful!!!! and that you get some sleep!

Yeah I have been there my self till around 4 AM decoarting my son's einstein caterpillar cake with all the drop stars! Hang in there and try and get some rest soon!

Those all nighters can be the pits! I had a cake 3 weeks ago I started on a Thursday night- went to bed at 1am, got up at 5am, finished it, went to my day job, came back home, packed it up and WHEW I was tired!

I have two cakes I need to bake tomorrow, but besides that, I'm gonna sit here drink my coffee, and enjoy my CC!

This past Tuesday I was up late too working on a chocolate two tiered cake. However, I wasn't up as late as you guys. If I can help it I will prepare as much in advance as possible so I won't have to stay up late. Especially since I work full time during the week.

When I turned 50....I gave up all-nighters for ANY reason! LOLOL I'm working on a cake for a cookout tonite~ picnic style...complete with ants. Don't remember where I got the idea. My ant heads keep falling off. Reinforced with floral wire. This should do it! Now to make the gingham tablecloth......................

I tend to have sleepless nights also...and I to use them to my advantage!

Post pictures when they are done!!

You go girl!! Keep on baking!!

Cindy

Well, it is 5:30 and I just finished posting the pictures after delivering the cake. The reaction from the woman who hired me made it all worth it.



I want to do another one!

Rachel

I am like Phoov - I don't do all nighters for any reason. I am new to the decorating world but I know that when I start getting really tired - it is better for me to quit. Whenever I am making something (not paid yet) I try to do a little each night so that the last night I only have to ice and decorate. My decorating skills are still slow so even doing it in stages still takes me a long time.