Anyone Else Going To Be Up Till The Wee Hours Of The
Decorating By sunflowerfreak Updated 2 Oct 2007 , 5:08pm by KayDay
Just checking to see if there is anyone else out there that will not get any sleep tonight because they are decorating? I took on more then I should have for this weekend. So I will be up all night long. No sleep for me today. Anyone else?
Well, I have one in the oven now and some gumpaste instruments I am finishing up for another cake that will baked tomorrow. Ofcourse things would get done faster if I could stay away from the computer....but I HAVE to see what happened today when I was at work!!!
Been there, done that! That's how I spent last weekend. I will never again take on 3 cakes for the same day. I work a full time job then come home and decorate, it wears you down. I feel your pain.
Yup, and I'm out of shortening, which means I should just go to bed and finish frosting everything tomorrow. But there's always something to do...and right now it's rebaking a sugar-free birthday cake that came out like a hockey puck.
Oooooh!! Me me me me!
I am baking for my son's birthday on Sunday. Almost done, but then I am going to be cleaning for a while too. Nights like this I rarely sleep.. I have had a cake every weekend this month.. I am looking forward to a little down time.. LOL.
I am going to bed at a decent time. I work a full time job and had 4 cakes this week. Finished two last night and delivered them to work today. Got a 1/2 sheet cake for baby 1st birthday for a friend and a smash cake. I get tired and get sloppy, so time to put it down until around 5:00 in the morning.
I too will be up all night again, I'm working on a castle cake for my niece's birthday party tomorrow afternoon, i'm on cake #5 of 6, so instead of making my icing like I should be doing,I'm on the computer with ya'll! Every Friday night I say "I won't stay up next weekend baking and decorating, but somehow, I end up doing it again... 
I have 70 mini loaf pan sized cakes for 3 o'clock...how effective is a crumb coat with whip cream...does it really make a difference? please help!
Oh boy do I feel for you....
This is the first night all week that I will actually get more than 3 hours sleep.. Took on way to many orders last weekend and this week..Will start all over again tomorrow..
Did my last cake at 5pm and now I'm relaxing watching Psycho and on CC.
Good Luck and try to catnap for 20 mins...LOL
Not up late this weekend.. but next week is a different story!! 
I have 3 sheet cakes, all for the same customer. Then I had a loyal customer call me yesterday for a baby shower cake...craved in the shape of a baby!!....I'm tired already! I think I bit off alil to much.. but you do what ya got to do. *sigh*
Okay..well off to bed I go..NO! wait.. I have a hummingbird cake & cupcakes in the over.. guest I'll be up a lil longer.. DARE! *wishing I'd never told my sister I'd make them*
I am up most nights, by preference. I am nocturnal by nature, after working evening and night shifts in the ER for many years.
Because I work for myself and have no one to answer to except me, I go to bed usually about 4AM and sleep till noon, work from 1PM or so through the afternoon, take the evening off and then work till about 3AM. Most of my clients prefer to pick up their cakes the afternoon before the party or whatever. Since I have only ever done one wedding cake, so far my schedule has never been a problem for anyone else.
But if I wasn't such a dedicated worker, I'd fire myself ... 
or maybe I should give myself a raise. 
Not up late this weekend.. but next week is a different story!!
Yeah....MUCH different for me next week, too! A big wedding that bought my BIG package ... appetizer, choc fntn, buffet, wedding cake .... and the reception is a 1-hour drive on top of it all. I'm going to start baking the (5-tier!) cake this weekend to put in the freezer. It's going to take 2 delivery veh's to get everything there. So I am REALLY enjoying this weekend! 
I am up most nights, by preference. I am nocturnal by nature,
I've always been a night person anyway.....even when I was a kid. I am SO much more productive at night. I think it's because everyone else has gone to bed and there's no one in my way! Hubby is a morning person, so it's a wonder we've stayed together 20 years! His idea is to get up early and go to breakfast. I prefer to sleep in and go to lunch!
I've always been a night person anyway.....even when I was a kid. I am SO much more productive at night. I think it's because everyone else has gone to bed and there's no one in my way! Hubby is a morning person, so it's a wonder we've stayed together 20 years! His idea is to get up early and go to breakfast. I prefer to sleep in and go to lunch!
Same here! My husband is a "lark" and I am an "owl"
He is up at the crack of dawn and then asleep in his recliner at 7PM, if he is home from work by then, and I am getting my second wind at 7PM and ready for the long haul. I think if we were both on the same schedule, after 23 years of marriage, we would have killed each other by now.
Well, not really ...but sometimes 
I was just going to start a thread asking "why am I here???" It's after 3:00 AM and I have decorations to make for 2 cakes. I am the self-proclaimed worst procrastinator in the entire world....I have drifted from the kitchen to the office and find myself typing aimlessly....
will anybody else join Procrastinator's anonymous?...
*raises hand slowly* darn you people!... I try to sneak about acting normal and not let everyone know that I too take on too much work for 6 people and rarely sleep during big weddings.
Add me to the list. I am working on a wedding cake for Sunday...and the groomscake ...oh yeah...I'm doing the catering and flowers too <yawn>.....
Well I finished everything finally at 4:30 am, well finished as far as I can until assembly. So I went to bed for an hour and a half. It's now 10:00 and even the assembly is done. Oh how I hate icing those cakes. Crumbs, crumbs, crumbs. I hate crumbs. So it's my sister in laws bridal shower today. I made 3 dozen decorated cookies (wedding cake, bridal gown, hearts and oval cameos and wine glasses. Then I decorated 1 dozen cupcakes to match the 4 tiered cake that I made. I also made a 20 inch square with a bridal dress on it. I will post pictures tonight probably. They are far from perfect but I think I did OK. thanks for all your help and inspiration.
sunflowerfreak
will anybody else join Procrastinator's anonymous?...
Sure! Well... maybe later
I kinda surprised myself today... I just finished a big two-layer cake for a shower (my first 'paid' job - yay!) at 2pm, it's not due to be delivered 'til 6pm, and I didn't have to stay up late for a change. I scheduled myself to do the gumpaste and the RI decorations earlier in the week, made everything up ahead, etc. and today just had to ice the cakes, decorate and assemble.
It's so not like me, lol!
I am SUCH a night owl. My new husband is too - it's wonderful.
My ex was an early bird, and he was soooo self-righteous about it. Ugh. Ok, you to to bed at 8pm, and get up at 5am. I stay up and work around the house til 2am (after working a full-time job), get up at 7am, and you work harder than me??? Whatever.
will anybody else join Procrastinator's anonymous?...
yeah I'll join but I'll do it later 
ah, this is my ONE weekend this month with no wedding!! But since my body clock is screwed up, I'll be up until my normal 2:00 a.m. Thank god for Lifetime and the 1-hour of Frasier and Golden Girls!!! (And CC!!)
Don't forget - Food Network has programming until at least 3am too, before they switch to infomercials....
Don't forget - Food Network has programming until at least 3am too, before they switch to infomercials....
Yep...if you're like me...have the FN on in the background while decorating...then too lazy to get up and change the channel when the infomercials come on....
I heard all about the tummy-roller thingy that massages you while you excercise before I rolled my eyes and changed it to Bloomberg!
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