...an' the livin' is easy...

Finally, summer. Now I have time to actually post.

I have been doing quite a bit of baking and selling! I have now sold 3 cakes, and I have orders for two more. For my friend's son's birthday party I am making a dinosaur cake, and I am making a Georgia Tech football groom's cake (gross, I know!) for a wedding I'm in this summer.

In other news, I have found the perfect chocolate cake recipe. It's from Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible. All of her recipes are fantastic, but this one is over the top. It is a very dense cake with an excellent texture and a wonderful, rich taste. I paired it with a brown sugar/peanut butter filling and caramel frosting and it was divine.

I never heard anything from the Chocolate Perks people, so I guess that is just not happening. But that's fine. Who wants to make the same cupcakes week after week anyway?

So what am I up to now? Not much, really. Sam and I just went on a cruise, which was wonderful. And I'm sorry Carnival, but your desserts are awful. Your apple pie was decent, but everything else? Sub-par. I'm disappointed in you.

I do have some recipes I want to try this summer.

The first is something Sam and I ate while we were in Charleston, SC. We ate at The Hominy Grill and it was absolutely fantastic. We went for dinner one night and then breakfast the next morning, it was so good. They have a famous dessert: chocolate pudding. I know what you're thinking. "Chocolate pudding? I can make that in 15 minutes with a 50 cent box of mix! I don't even LIKE chocolate pudding!" But you're wrong. This isn't really like pudding. It's like a chocolate mousse, ice cream, chocolate pudding combination. It's divine. I could have eaten two. We tried it because we'd heard it was Alton Brown's pick on the show "The Best Thing I Ever Ate". We love AB, so we knew we had to try it. I'm so glad we did. Here's the recipe. If you ever go there, you should get coffee, sweet tea, and the chocolate pudding. I'll let you pick your entree ;). Another thing I loved about this place is they give you a postcard with their graphic (a really neat one) on it with your bill. I asked for an extra I loved it so much. We will DEFINITELY be eating there again.

The second recipe I want to try is Terrapin Oatmeal Raisin Stout Cookies. Terrapin is a local brewery here in Athens, and I'm told they make an Oatmeal Stout. So I searched for a recipe for oatmeal stout cookies and found one here.

Another "baking with beer" suggestion I got from a friend is Beer bread. She said it was delicious, so I looked up a recipe on FoodNetwork.com and found that Alton Brown himself has one! So I will be trying this one out for sure soon too.

I also have never made apple pie. So I am going to make apple pie and Sam is going to make some homemade vanilla ice cream. Get pumped. It's going to be awesome. He just made some basil ice cream that turned out pretty good. He put basil and lemongrass in there, but unfortunately the basil was way too strong and the lemongrass didn't come through at all. It's still good, but maybe he'll have better luck next time with the lemongrass.

Unfortunately, I am completely broke right now so all of these wonderful recipes will have to wait. Maybe I can at least get some chocolate pudding made before I have oral surgery this Friday so I will have something delicious that I am able to eat. :)

Thanks to all of you who have been following my fan page! Hopefully I will be updating more often now that summer has started!

'Till next time,
The Flower-Haired Girl

I'm still alive!

Hi guys. Sorry for the lack of update. Little known fact: it is hard to be a student, baker, daughter, girlfriend, roommate, swing dancer, friend, and blogger. So, in an effort to be all of these things, this post is coming to you from my PSYC1001 class. What? It's not like we're doing anything interesting anyway. :)


Okay, so here we go. Updates! I am now going to be working with Deb at Deborah's Specialty Cakes from time to time. She's going to have me help serve at events, and she's going to have me help her in the kitchen when she gets busy and teach me some stuff. Also, Chocolate Perks in Duluth is interested in selling my stuff, so I went and met with them on Tuesday and took some samples. They liked my stuff so I sent them prices today. So we'll see how that goes!

And I've been talking business stuff with a few of my friends, and there were a few ideas that really stuck out to me. First of all, Athens is a very Athens-centric town. People love things that are about/from Athens. So why not take advantage of that? Make stuff that uses stuff from Athens. Which brings me to my project for tonight: Red Eye Coffee Cupcakes. Red Eye Coffee is a local coffee shop where Sam is a regular and he has become friends with the owner. I am not a coffee drinker, but I go from time to time and drink some yummy teas. From what I hear, it is some of the best coffee you can get anywhere. So who better to get coffee from than Red Eye? So I'll get some coffee, try it out, and let you know how it goes.

The next Athens-centered project is going to be Terrapin Oatmeal Raisin Stout cookies. Terrapin is a local brewery (brurarrarary!) and they make an Oatmeal Stout, so how perfect would that be?! I'm really excited about it. Those may have to wait until I can legally buy the Oatmeal Stout, however. Wah wah. At least I only have like 2 weeks to go! :)

So, there is no way I am going to be able to update about every single creation I make now, I am getting far too busy for that (as you can see by my lack of posts). All in all, that's a good thing. But what it means is that you guys, if you want to see my creations, are going to have to check my facebook fan page. Just look me up: Flower Haired Girl Cakes. Anyway, I will try and let you know how these cupcakes go since they're pretty unique.

So hooray for being busy!

'Till next time.
The Flower Haired Girl

Catching up!

I apologize profusely for not updating more recently. Spring break and stuff has taken over. You would think I would have had more time/motivation to write over spring break, but it just did not happen.

Okay, so let's start with QCLX! I had decided since I couldn't come up with any grand ideas that I just wouldn't make anything. However, once our wonderful hosts found out that I baked, I had to! So I was sort of in a pinch, and just went with something I had done before- sunflowers. Sam helped as well :) They turned out alright. I was really in a hurry so I didn't have much time to pay attention to detail, but I think they look decent, don't you?



They went over really well. Sam and I actually ended up staying an extra day in Charlotte because I had spring break and he had a furlough day on Monday. On Sunday, we left the afternoon dance a little early because we were so tired. So we decided since he loves coffee and we both love baked goods, that he needed to find a coffee shop and I needed to find a bakery. We just searched the GPS, so all we had to go on were names. There were about 10 bakeries, and the one that sounded best to me was Amelie's French Bakery, and it was only a few miles away. So we went. At first we couldn't find it, and I was about to give up on it, but Sam insisted that if we drove down the street again it would be there. And sure enough, it was. We walked in and I'm pretty sure I gasped audibly. It was gorgeous. They have a huge corner space in a shopping center, and they decorated it with French antiques and a lot of do-it-yourself type items. They made some lamps from old busts, and honestly, I would decorate my house like that. It was perfect. And they had 4 cases full of tasty treats! One thing I really liked was they had miniature versions of many of their desserts so you could sample a few things. I didn't do this though because I noticed they had a chocolate mousse cup with a chocolate covered strawberry on top. Chocolate mousse is my favorite, so I had to try it. It was heavenly. The strawberry was one of the best I have ever tasted. Sam ordered a Napoleon, which has layers of moist wafers and some sort of sweet cream. It was topped with melted white chocolate with a dark chocolate drizzle. At first I was hesitant to try it, as I thought the filling was cream cheese and I hate cream cheese. But Sam assured me it wasn't, so I gave it a taste and it was delicious as well! We were both so happy. And while we were eating, I picked up one of their old French books they had on the coffee table and started reading it. I could not have been happier. It was glorious.

Since we ended up staying an extra day, we decided to go back to Amelie's for lunch the next day. Sam got a roast beef sandwich and I got un sandwich jambon avec fromage. He also got some coffee and I got some hot chocolate with salted caramel. Delicious. And of course, we got dessert. He got a salted caramel brownie, which was really crumbly, delicious, and light. I got two little things: a little lemon tart with a raspberry on it, and a chocolate peanut butter petit four. Both were yummmm. It was so heavenly. We sat at a little table by the window and played Set and ate our delicious treats. When we were leaving I bought some spreadable cheese that they make there. It was roasted garlic and feta and I got some bread to go with it. I've been putting it on sandwiches and it has been really good. I also got a San Pellegrino lemon soda that was really good too. So yeah, Amelie's was a huge success.

Anyway, now back to what I have been baking! Last week was my friend Brandon's birthday, so I made him a cake. I used Paula Deen's Savannah Chocolate Cake, Alton Brown's cocoa whipped cream, and Emeril Lagasse's chocolate ganache. It turned out really light and yummy. And pretty :) The writing is white chocolate, by the way.

In fact, it was so yummy that my friends requested more, so I made two smaller cakes the other day:



And THEN this week, we had three girls with birthdays at swing night, so I made a cake for them too! For sake of getting this blog post up, I will post pictures of it later. It's a lemon cake with raspberry filling frosted with lemon whipped cream.

The recipe for the lemon cake I used is technically a lemon bar recipe, but every other time I've made it it came out more cake-like than bar-like. Of course, as life would have it, this time when I tried to make it as cake, it came out really dense...like a bar. It was still alright though. It wasn't quite as lemon-y as I wanted either. I think next time I'll just find an actual lemon cake recipe.

Up next: lemon tart. I've been thinking about that one I had at Amelie's ever since we went there, and I want to see if I can recreate the deliciousness. Swung is going up to stay at a cabin in Blue Ridge this weekend, so perhaps I will attempt it then.

As far as the business/job side of things goes, still no word from anyone. I made a fan page on facebook and I've gotten a pretty good number of fans for it just being up for a few days. About 95% of them are people I know, but hey, it gets the word out. I also made a temporary logo and am in the process of getting a friend to make a permanent one for me. Here's the temporary one:



After I have the permanent logo I'm going to make some business cards to put next to my cakes when I take them places. Hopefully all of this will be done by next Friday because that's ATLX (Atlanta Lindy Exchange) and I'm making a cake for that. There will be a lot of people there so it would be great to have my cards out then.


Also, I think I have officially decided that I want to do this for my career. I realized that a lot of my hobbies and talents from my childhood up until now have prepared me for this. Even when I was a little kid I loved creating things. My mom can attest to the fact that I was always working on some project or another. I made all kinds of things. I also loved cooking and baking, and even made my own little "restaurant" one time, entitled "Le Petit Cafe." No wonder I loved Amelie's...it was Le Petit Cafe all grown up! I am still going to finish school, at least my undergraduate degree, and we'll see what happens from there. I won't even be finished with that until May of 2012, so I could be making wonderful cakes by then and making enough money for it to be my only job. That would be ideal. If that's not the case, and I don't have money to open a small bakery, then I will do my extra one year to get my master's. Then I could do counseling while I really try and get my business going.

I do have one "real" job lined up: I'm making the groom's cake for a wedding I'm in this summer. It's going to be a Georgia Tech cake (yuck!), but hey, it's a job.

I toyed with the idea of taking the Wilton Cake Decorating classes at Michael's, but honestly I just can't afford it. It's $90 for course one, plus the book and supplies. And I would need to take all of the courses I can. They have at least three right now, and there is no way I can even come close to affording it. Plus, I seem to be doing alright just teaching myself, but even that is getting expensive. Supply costs are beginning to add up. Also, I need to bake stuff to practice, but I really don't want to bake a whole bunch of stuff and let it just sit at the house. It would either get wasted, or we would eat it, which we don't need to do. I lost a lot of weight last semester, but recently I have gained a few pounds back and I want to prevent that from continuing as much as possible, so unless I'm baking for an event, I'm trying not to bake. But doing that is curbing my progress. So, I'm sort of at a catch-22. It's a little discouraging, but if I have to, I could just buy some styrofoam and practice my icing skills on that. I'd rather not, but I could. It seems like a waste of food, which I hate.


Well, this has officially been the longest blog post ever. Sorry about that. I'll try and update more often so it's not quite so much at once.

Side note: my new friend Sarah made a wonderful plum buckle and sent some to me (via Sam). It was delicious. I'm glad to have someone to trade food with. :) (P.S. If you click on her name, you will be taken to her cooking blog!)

I think that's all for now.

'Till next time,
The Flower-Haired Girl

Purple Rose

First of all, post titles are not my strength. Sorry. Maybe I'll get better at it. Today, since I am actually wearing a flower in my hair, I decided to put what kind. :)

I have done no baking this week. Tests took over. Also, Sam got me hooked on the new video game, Heavy Rain. Now you must understand that I am not a gamer. At all. My single attempt at Halo, if it had been recorded and put on YouTube, would be all over the internet with people laughing their heads off. I'm terrible. However, this game is more like an interactive movie. It's a serial killer mystery, and you play multiple characters. How the story ends depends on how you play the characters and what choices you make. Perhaps this game grabs my interest because of my theatre background. It is sort of like a play. It's a lot like the movie Saw, just a LOT less gory.

ANYWAY, Sam and I did make lemon-lime sorbet last night. It's...interesting. He had made lemon sorbet before, so we figured, do the same thing just use half lemon juice and half lime juice. Makes sense, right? We thought so. We of course wanted to use fresh-squeezed lemon and lime juice, so Sam bought a lot of lemons and limes. So he starts squeezing lemons and I'm getting some lemon and lime zest to add into the mix. When I finish, I decide to try to squeeze the limes. I thought, "Lemons: citrus. Limes: citrus. They should squeeze about the same. Sure, limes are smaller so it will take more, but it should work about the same." False. So false. If you have never squeezed a lime, you may not know this, but limes do not like to be squeezed. They are infinitely tougher than lemons and nearly impossible to get any considerable amount of juice out of. Sam tried too, but to not much avail. So, we developed an official stance on limes, which I will not disclose here. It is the third of four points that are the foundation of our relationship, the others being:

1. Red Robin (a burger place) is highly overrated. (Their jingle on their commercial should sing: Reeed Robin...ehhh...)
2. Pickles are vile, disgusting, and evil.
and
4. Get me a fox.

Hm..3 of the 4 points have to do with food. I guess that's fitting. We both love food.

Back to the sorbet! So yeah, freshly squeezed lime juice did not happen. Luckily Sam, being pretty much the smartest person in the world, bought lime juice. He didn't realize it was key lime juice, but it's lime juice nonetheless. If anyone knows the difference between lime and key lime, we would love to know. We realized we have no idea. So, fresh lemon juice, key lime juice, lemon zest, lime zest, simple syrup (water and sugar boiled together) go into the fridge to cool, into the ice cream maker, then get moved to a container and frozen overnight. We tried a little bit of it when it came out of the ice cream maker. It tastes, as I said, interesting. Not bad. Not as good as plain lemon sorbet. It has an intense tartness about 3/4 of the way through the tasting process. It's like, "Hmm...lemon, lime, sweet, OH MY GOSH SO TART, sweet lemony-limey." So I guess that would be called a little bit of a tart kick. It's kind of cool though. He and I haven't tasted it since it froze overnight, and we haven't had a whole bowl of it, which is the real test. The tart kick may be fine for a bite or two, but it may be too intense to eat a whole bowl of the stuff. (Much in the way that Pepsi tastes better to have sip of, but Coke is better to drink an entire bottle of...with the exception of Pepsi Throwback, which is liquid heaven.) So the jury is still out on the lemon-lime sorbet, but we will see. We still stand strong to our stance on limes though.

Up this weekend is QCLX - Queen City Lindy Exchange. If those words sound foreign to you, I will break it down. "Queen City" is a name for Charlotte, NC. Yeah I had no idea either. "Lindy" is short for "lindy hop" which is a type of swing dance (the best type, in my opinion). So a "Lindy Exchange" is a weekend-long event at which a bunch of swing dancers get together for a weekend full of dancing, getting to know people, dancing, and more dancing. I only started dancing in September, and this will be my first exchange, so I'm really excited. It's really neat because we don't have to get a hotel or anything- dancers in the area offer housing to people coming in from out of town. The last weekend of March is ATLX (Atlanta Lindy Exchange) and then in May we're going to CHEX (Charleston Exchange) and possibly DLX (Denver Lindy Exchange). So lots and lots of dancing. Not to mention I got invited to join Swung, the swing dance performance group of the UGA Swing Club. So there is a whole lot of dancing in my future, which is very exciting! (If you have never done any kind of partnered dance, you should. I highly recommend swing dancing, but any ballroom is fun as well. It's not as hard/scary as you would think, I promise!)

For QCLX this weekend, I'm going to make some sort of cupcake. The theme is sort of gold-rush-ish, so I'm still working on ideas. I mean, I could be super un-original and just make cupcakes and put those little chocolate coins on top. But come on...lame. I have grand ideas for ATLX, and I will probably make something for CHEX as well, which is Wizard of Oz themed, so that shouldn't be difficult, as I will have lots of options.

I'm really excited about going up to Charlotte. We're going to have a fun weekend. And then it's spring break!! Hooray!

Oh! So I found out today that Alton Brown is speaking at UGA's commencement this May. I am so upset that I am not graduating! I'm going to try and swing a ticket to go though. I just want to hear him speak. Also, he needs to do a book signing sometime soon. I've been reading his "I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking" and I've been learning a lot. I could probably tell you more about eggs than you would ever need to know! It's really good though, it helps you understand why things are baked the way they are and what each ingredient's real job is. Who needs culinary school when you've got Alton Brown?!

Still no word from either bakery...I may call Bee's Knees today.

'Till next time,
The Flower-Haired Girl

Pictures!

So everything went over well. The sorbet did get made, and it was pretty good. Very strong lemon and pomegranate flavors. Sam and I agree that although it is good the way it is, it is not quite right and we are going to try to make it a bit better next time. The chocolate chip cookies did not get made, but we didn't need them, as we had tons of food already.

The cake turned out beautifully- pretty much exactly how I pictured it. I wish the polka dots had been a bit smaller, but I didn't have anything smaller to cut them out with. Also, the sliced strawberries in the middle were not a good idea. The chocolate frosting made them impossible to see, so your mouth was not ready for them when you bit them. It was sort of like, "OH MY GOSH there's something slimy in my mouth...oh wait it's a strawberry...it's ok." That's not exactly the reaction I was looking for with this cake. However, it is the cutest one I have ever made. See?

top view:



The strawberries were delicious as well. And we had cookies and cream ice cream. We watched Across the Universe, which is a movie I really do not like. I was willing to give it another try, but even the second time around, it just does not interest me one bit. I think people only like that movie for two reasons: 1. They think it's cool/trendy to like it, so they do. 2. They love the Beatles (perhaps for reason number 1) so they like the movie. However, if you are neither interested in the Beatles nor being cool/trendy, the movie doesn't mean anything to you. The music is excellent though, especially "Let it Be." I would enjoy the soundtrack, but please do not made me sit through that acid-trip...I mean, uh...film.

We also watched 10 Things I Hate About You. It was fair. Predictable, somewhat cheesy, but all in all, it a mediocre movie. I enjoyed watching it, but it is not one I need to see again. Also, I'm sorry, but Heath Ledger is not attractive. His nose does not fit his face at all. Eesh.

Playing rock band was quite enjoyable though. I think "Maps" (by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) is my favorite song to sing. Also, I am terrible at playing drums. Awful. Could not be worse. It's fun though.

All in all, we had a very enjoyable evening that included girl talk until almost 4am. It was great; I really needed that.

Up this week: test today, watching Return of the King tomorrow, test Wednesday, rest Thursday, my first lindy exchange starting Friday! Sam and I will be driving up to Charlotte, NC this weekend for the Queen City Lindy Exchange. The theme is gold rush, so I've been trying to think of some cupcake designs. Also, there's a costume contest on Saturday evening, and you're supposed to wear lots of gold. I haven't had a whole lot of time to think about it, but I'll work on that this week, when I'm not studying for tests and such. So sometime in the next week or so there will be pictures posted of cupcakes.

After this weekend, it will be spring break! Yay!! I don't really have any big plans. I'm staying in Athens and will probably go check out some more bakeries to see if they want me.

Still no word from Bee's Knees or Big City Bread. Hoping to hear soon...

'Till next time,
The Flower-Haired Girl

Busy, busy!

So today I woke up (late), went to class (late), went to the grocery store, and then came home and started baking. I decided to put some sliced strawberries inbetween the layers of the cake I'm making today. Alton Brown says that it is nearly impossible to bake a cake from scratch that is as good as one from a box, so I still use a boxed mix. I have an altered recipe for boxed cake that uses 1 cup of buttermilk instead of water, and 4 eggs instead of however many the box says. It usually turns out being pretty delicious. However, something weird happened today that has never happened to me before. I checked the cakes (2 8-in rounds) about 6 minutes before the timer went off, and they looked browned, so I did the toothpick test and it came out clean. So I take them out and cool them in the pan for 10 minutes as usual. Then, when I went to turn them out of the pans, the strangest thing happened. One of them turned out alright, and the other one split in have and uncooked-cake-batter-goo came out all over me (it was quite hot still). It was really strange. Luckily, I had another cake mix on hand and tried again using the box-prescribed method. I'm about to go turn them out of the pans, so let me go do that and I'll get back to you.


...

Beautiful! Moist, browned, spongy, and they smell delicious.

I did a dumb thing last night. I was trying to make Pomegranate Sorbet in Sam's ice cream maker, and I guess I should really leave the frozen desserts to him. The first time I tried it, I made a simple syrup (made by boiling sugar water), and then added some Minute Maid Pomegranate Lemonade. I took the ice cream maker out of the freezer, poured the mix in, put the lid on, and turned it on. I come back about 20-ish minutes later and nothing has happened. Thinking it was the watered-down Minute Maid, I dump that out, clean the ice cream maker, and stick it back in the freezer. I then made some more mix with real pomegranate juice (Pom Wonderful) and lemon juice, according to a recipe I found online. I stuck that in the fridge overnight.

So today when I go back and try again, the ice cream thing is only about 90% frozen, but I figured I'd try it anyway. So I put the mix in and turn it on. I sit down to glance at the instruction manual and realized I had forgotten something: the agitator. Duh. I have seen that thing and cleaned it a million times before (I cleaned it last night!) but forgot to put it in. So I figured after all my failures thus far, I should probably just wait until the thing (I should find out the real name for it) is completely frozen. So when I get back from the gym (Hip-Hop Aerobics today!) I might give it a shot. I don't know if the sorbet is going to happen for girls' night tonight, but it will turn out eventually! Maybe I should just wait until Sam gets back from San Francisco so he can do it. He is the expert, after all.

I also decided to make some chocolate-covered strawberries with the leftover strawberries from the cake...yum. And I think Melissa is bringing ice cream, so all in all I think we will have: pizza, chips, salsa, queso, cake, chocolate-covered strawberries, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate milk and other various beverages, ice cream, and possibly some pomegranate sorbet. For 5 girls. Looks like I won't be able to afford missing any workouts next week...

I haven't started on the cookies yet. I'll probably just make them during girls' night rather than before. That way they'll be warm. Plus after the gym I have to put the cake together and frost it, maybe make the sorbet, and get stuff together for the evening.

Oh! I started reading Alton Brown's I'm Just Here for More Food last night. It's his book on baking. I'll be the first to tell you that science isn't my forte or anything, but I find his book really interesting. He is really focused on making his readers/viewers better bakers/cooks overall, not just good at making a few recipes. I really appreciate that. He's my favorite. :) Er...second favorite. Whoops. ;)

Pictures will be up eventually!

Flower-haired Girl

I really enjoy making fondant. Now, I don't use a recipe that is complicated or anything, but it tastes good. In fact, other than its consistency and use, I hardly think it's fondant at all. But it's just so relaxing to make. The recipe I use requires you to knead 2 whole pounds of confectioner's sugar into a whole bag's worth of melted marshmallows. The whole process takes 30-45 minutes. It requires a lot of arm strength, but it's pretty much a mindless task. Both times I've made it so far I've been alone in the kitchen during the afternoon, and it's just a good time to think. It's relaxing. It's like using one of those squishy stress balls, except you get to eat it when you're finished. I don't think I'm a very stressed-out person, but even the type-B personalities can appreciate a little de-stress session from time to time.

Still no word from Big City Bread. They said they weren't looking for anyone in pastry, so I doubt they'll call. I went to Bee's Knees today, though. This place is so cute. I talked to the lady who is in charge and she said that she is looking for someone, but she is wary about teaching people because she wants her recipes to remain secret. I can understand that. She looked at my pictures and seemed to like them, though. She said I seemed to be doing well for just starting a few months ago. In the end I gave her my resume and availability and she said she would think about it. So I'm hoping. :)

Making this week/weekend: round yellow cake with chocolate frosting and regular fondant, chocolate chip cookies, and pomegranate sorbet. Girls' night is tomorrow night so we have to have plenty of sweets. We decided we're going to bake half of the chocolate chip cookies and just eat the other half of the dough. :) I bought a gallon of chocolate milk today for the event as well. It should be a good time. I will post pictures of the cake (and of the festive evening) sometime this weekend.

I've been thinking more and more about opening my own bakery. I don't have the skills, time, or money to do it now, but maybe one day. I was thinking of calling it the Flower-haired Girl bakery. However, I also thought about going with the pun and entitling it the "Flour-haired girl bakery." I am still on the fence. I like the "flower" spelling because I do wear flowers in my hair often and I would love for that to be sort of my signature. But I also often have flour in my hair, and it's a bakery, and blah blah blah, it's funny to people like a few of my friends who like to make puns (you know who you are) and my dad. But I would need the money, time, and skills to do it first, so I guess the name decision can wait.

I'm still glad I changed my major to Social Work because I do still want to do marriage and family therapy, but I get so much joy out of baking. Baked goods are a certain type of therapy in themselves, though, right?

'Till next time,
The Flower-haired Girl