Van Leuven Wedding Cake

Van Leuven Wedding Cake
August 10, 2010

Monday, June 13, 2011

April & May done...June here...July to go

Looking back over the past few months, I see that April involved scones for birthdays and an afternoon catering of Westmont's Student Research Symposium (plan on 100...think we had at least 150! New Science building venue probably ramped up those numbers).

May was filled with wedding cake for 240 for nephew Chad's wedding -- lemon with lemon curd and lemon curd/cream cheese frosting served with blackberry sauce and carrot cake (2 sheet cakes). LOTS of leftovers, which were gobbled up by co-workers. Always a satisfying experience to feed my work friends :-)



There were also two days of catering IT meetings, cupcakes for 30, and a little Memorial Day BBQ with my parents.

June to date, in one week's time: two more mornings of IT meetings, 60 chocolate cupcakes for a baby shower, a morning meeting for our division of 30+ people, and a nice set up for a CIO Roundtable hosted by my boss/me, and a few French-type desserts for a going-away party.  This weekend: graduation brunch for 35 in Ventura and dessert for our PCPA play group (just 10 people for that). And then one more going-away dessert on the 30th.

It would appear business is happening...and it is definitely time to figure out pricing and a name and all that! 

July already has two wedding cakes, one gig as a "day of" coordinator and one wedding as reception coordinator (which involves one of the July cakes as well). 

Friday, June 10, 2011

Did I really just start my business??

Jun 10, 2011.

I wonder if a blog is the way to go? After catering three breakfast meetings in 1.5 weeks, baking additional desserts for a going-away party and THEN getting asked to make more food for another going-away party AND a graduation brunch, I got to thinking...

Is this the day I officially start my catering business??  Do I want to be "ICook4U" or "IBake4U"??  I like this title as my piano tuning husband has a license plate that says "ITune4U" - kind of a Sloan family theme :-)

Let's just say that after being asked if I had a website, I decided I'd try a blog as a starter site.  Post a few "what I'm up to"s...maybe a photo or two...see what comes of that.

So...did I really just start my business??