I agree with you guys but decorating is my therapy. I REALLY believe in the power of attraction, you attract what comes your way. If you have a bad day and say "Well this day really stinks and it's only going to get worse" well wouldn't you know it , it gets worse. So I always start to say to myself, Okay the day is going to be great, the cake will turn out beautiful and I will have no problems with the delivery and you know what Everything turns out fine. I guess you just have to get in the right frame of mind because I always think that there is someone out there that has it a lot worse than me.

i can definitely relate to this. my mood and my kids definitely affect how my cakes turn out. i know if i didnt have such a great day my cake will taste like crap or fall apart whatever. as for my kids i have 2 small children. my oldest son is 28 months and my youngest is 10 months old. they also seem to pester and scream and cry when im baking and i can never practice and try new decorating techniques because of this. so i havent been able to learn much since i started caking in january.

I have attention deficit disorder (officially diagnosed) and know my baking and decorating is very much affected by that. It can take me ages to get started on a cake and I invariably find myself asking why in heck did I volunteer to make this one!

Once I am started then I have to complete it. Any extended breaks and I find it hard to pick up the thread again.

What I am good at is thinking on my feet and when things go bottom up as they do from time to time I just get on and deal with it.

I have a short memory for the disasters and a long and precise one for the successes!

Housemouse

I agree with ashea but... when the motivation is not there... I am less patient, mistakes are miserable and visible (at least to me!).

I definitely have to chime in on this one. Last weekend was my daughters wedding, I did the cake, and I have to tell you, I was so stressed and nervous about everything, not just cake, that, I had the hardest time ever making her cake. It was one disaster after another, from the get go. First, I was baking the 14" and forgot to put cake batter in my heating core, let me tell you, it definitely effects the way your cake bakes!! Did it over because I was not going to settle for anything less than perfect. Then I had two tiers that were red velvet, nothing but trouble, kept having blowouts on one and covered it 3 time with fondant before I was satisfied, it was horrible, I was crying, shaking and literallly falling apart. My DH, stepped in and helped me tremendously, he calmed me and told me I had a job to do and was very capable, so suck it up and do it!! Needless to say I finished, the cake was beautiful, at least everyone said so, I didn't even want to look at it!! In the course of all the stress I forgot to take a picture of the cake so I have to wait for the photographer's photos, Oh well, they will be better than anything I could do. Thanks for listening!

When I'm feeling overwhelmed its really hard to get the umph to just get started sometimes --instead of writers cramp, I get cake cramp! Once I finally get pumped up enough to dig in & get going I enter the "cake zone" & tune everything & everybody out. It's just the cake & me til done!! Cake therapy really does work! Once I enter the "zone" I'm fine! Moods & emotions can be nasty things but turning them into good ones thru cake art "ROCKS"!

WOW. Miss Robin...My daughter wants me to do her wedding cake if she ever gets married....shes 26 and no prospects so I dont have to worry for awhile I think. I just don't know about it. I think I will have to have a fifth of wine beside me