ARF! Barking Fresh!

12/26/2024

Right after I made my Christmas Eve post, I told my mom I posted a pic of her tree. She panicked saying, “But the bows aren’t on the tree, I put your bows on every year! They make the tree!”. I like the tree either way, and the clarify, I had the bows made in 1992 at a local florist. They are still in perfect condition, and I guess if one is a bows on the Christmas tree person, then the bows do make a big difference. I like that almost every ornament has meaning to my parents or someone in our family and altogether on the tree everything looks how I think a classic Christmas tree should. I think of Christmas carols and get sentimental about my childhood, etc. So, here’s to bows or not on ones’s Christmas tree. And now most importantly my mom will be happy that people on instagram saw her tree how she likes it! Merry Christmas again! ;)

12/24/2024

Christmas ‘24 at mom and dad’s. Their tree is full of every kind of ornament bought or received throughout their 57 years together, especially the blown glass kind, the ones me and my brothers didn’t paint so well in the first grade, the special ones that mom bought when she thought me and my brothers were old enough not to break them, then found out she should have waited, and managed to save a few intact, that ornament you look at and say, “what the heck is this?”, and so many more.

05/22/2024

These days I don’t have much time to make the extra fun custom cakes. But, when I do…
I get to make things like this little enchanted pupcake forest. 🍃🍄🪺🥀🦄🦋🍂

10/24/2023

My first Bark mitzvah cake! I don’t know how it took this long. In an interesting twist this Autumn is also 13 years since I made my first Barkday cake for a customer.
Happy Bark Mitzvah Max!

05/07/2023

I wanted to be true to the original with a stamped cookie look but visually it needed the white piping. So, I wrote as if I it was the real vanilla cream filling.

02/12/2023

My Mom and Dad’s 56th wedding anniversary! She gave me the “Look”! I interrupted dessert! 🤣 She lost 40 lbs between 2020 and 21. Bad Med combo and more. Meds changed and she has gained 20 lbs since July. Now just hoping her kidney function continues to improve as she gets her strength back.

01/20/2023

“it’s a…” baby gender reveal party cake! 🎀🧢👶🍼

10/29/2022

Happy Halloween Weekend! 🎃👻🧙 - Possibly the littlest pumpkin patch, (on a pupcake) catching a late fall ray through the window. Get them at Petwants Chicago North all weekend!

09/09/2022

New mini layer cakes

09/08/2022

These little layer cakes! 💕 Delivery today to Pet Wants in Edgebrook.

05/29/2022

Was perfect Chicago Memorial Day weather for a Yappy Hour on the terrace. An at Hotel Zachary, of course.

05/02/2022

A few recents

05/02/2022

07/25/2021