No, we haven’t fallen off the edge of the earth! Usually the client work drops off by early December; this year it picked up considerably. Such is the life of freelancers!

Here’s a fun website that I’ve been reading for a few months, to tide you over until we have something interesting in our lives to blog about: Cake Wrecks, which features disastrously-decorated cakes (done by so-called professional cake decorators, though admittedly a lot of them are of Safeway- or Walmart-caliber quality.)

The following cake wreck made me snort, though. (Both photos from Cake Wrecks.)

This is what the bride requested:

What she ended up with: