How do you know you are a cake decorator?

I'll start with two...

Your fingers are eternally stained with gel color...

Your boogers are tinted with whatever you just airbrushed.

ooh your second one is a shocker! I pictured it before I could help myself!

Okay, mine is... you always smell sweet (like pure icing sugar!)

... Your counters are eternally caked with buttercream, any your dishwasher is always full.

I think the bags under the eyes are a dead giveaway because you lay in bed at night picturing your next cake and the way you're going to design it, and then you tweak it, and then you tweak it again, and then you reach for that notebook next to your bed because you're afraid you're going to forget the great idea that you had by the time you wake up, and then you picture it again with this border, or with that border, then you look at your clock and can't believe you just spent an hour and a half thinking about this cake rather than sleeping . . . for that amount of time, you may as well have been online at Cake Central!

You can have a snow storm In Your House in the middle of the summer!

ooh ooh, I learned one today!

Ahem...
Your 4 yo is bounceing off the walls because it was easier to give him a glob of the MMF you are working with than to fix him a healthy snack of peanut butter and crackers.

Or...
Your 4yo is bounceing off the walls because you just cannot tell him "no, you cannot lick the bowl" when he has sat patiently and hungerily watching you mix buttercream, instead of fixing him a healthy snack of peanut butter and crackers.

Or...
you used all of the peanut butter in your last cake, so you give him cake and craackers

Guess what, I am a cake decorator and I have a 4yo, could life be any better?

Hey, come on... my 18 month old walks around the house saying "Cake, peas!" I mean, with that, how could I resist! With the practice cakes, and the "just because" I am in the mood to decorate cakes, there is always one in the house!

Here's another one...you always walk thru the bakery at a store JUST to see what they are doing. Or if your friends really love you, they compare other cakes to yours. Of course, yours are ALWAYS better.

here's one.........cake supplies in the kitchen,luandryroom shelves in under the























heres my two...cake supplies in kitchen,laundryroom shelves,boxes under the bed,totes out in the shed!...........and staying up so stinking late practicing cakes just because (or upcoming),that you start seeing double,things are crawling on you or you heard a noise and now you're talking to yourself














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You can't show up ANYWHERE without a cake "just because" (you had the idea in your head and have been working on it for three days and can't fit in the pants you bought last week)

also, running out of powdered sugar is a dire emergency, and cake supplies are staples on the grocery list

your DH/SO knows what merengue powder is

you understand green rings in the toilet are not mold, but from that cute neon-colored cake

anything in the house is fair game when working on a cake

there is a second table in the living room because the kitchen table has been requisitioned for cakes

your kids wonder why you shop in the toy section and they can't play with your toys

you learn bartering -- and your car care, lawn service, and other chores are paid in cake

pudding and jello boxes are off limits, because they might be a future ingredient

you buy everything in multiples -- tips, pans, jars of color..... one is never enough

every flower in the garden gets torn apart to see "what tips it could be made with"

LASTLY:

You have taken more pictures of your cakes than of the kids!

You know you're a decorator when............


.........you go to a wedding and end up taking pictures of the cake instead of the bride and groom!!!!!!!!!!

For me its the 1) Yeah! I got an order! 2) D - - - its not coming out right! 3) Why do I get myself into this?!?! 4) OK, its saved 5) Yeah! I'm done

Kinda a love-hate relationship.....you love it, hate it when it comes out wrong the love it again, then keep going back for more.

Naty

You never put away your KitchenAid any more. Or even cover it. 'Cause you use it every single day.

Friends start to show up on your doorstep at all hours of the day, just to "visit" and "see how you're doing". What they're really wanting is a piece of your latest practice cake!

You know you are a cake decorator when......

You collect Michael's and A.C.Moore coupons like a squirrel collects nuts.


You have gained atleast 10 pounds and have come to terms with it.

Oh, oh I got one

You know you are a cake decorator when you would rather have new cake toys than new clothes!!!

HAHAHA! I always think when spending money on myself...what cake toys could I buy with this $$$?!

-When you evaluate everything and anything to see if it will work for cake decorating.
-When you collect Michaels or Joanns coupons from friends.
-When you get to a store you run to the kitchen/baking isle first.
-When you are addicted to going to thrift stores for cake pans (just to see what they have).
-When you go to the hardware store looking for cake boards or utensils.
-When you put your kids off on your DH or mom and sit on cakecentral instead of doing housework.

These are just a few....
Jackie

you know you're a cake decorator, when not on CC, you go to Ebay, in the cake decorating section, and try to find the best deals on supplies, while the kids and dh are yelling: "what's for dinner?"

I know I'm a cake decorator when...

my boyfriend says, "You smell like vanilla!"

I meet someone's pet for the first time. They sniff my hand, start to lick it and then continue tasting the rest of my arm.

I leave the house with white stuff on my shirt. No, that's not deodorant, it's powdered sugar!

I am laughing at the "husband knows what meringue powder is" comment.

You know you're a cake decorator when you are practicing borders with your toothpaste on your toothbrush. It's true. I did it.


Angie

You know you are a cake decorator when your kids walk around saying: MMF, FBCT, that coloring book would work mom, and they start requesting very specific designs for cakes for no apparent reason.

You know you are a decorator when your grown children's friends envy your kids' birthday cakes, think you are the coolest mom in the whole world because you can make them, then give you their birth date AND their very specific requests for their own birthday cake next year.

Oh, and ... they start calling you "Mom" when they find out how much the cakes cost, hoping you'll create them for free

You know you are a cake decorator when your DH asks "What's for supper?" and you reply, "I've just levelled my cakes, here's some extra icing for the tops" or you reply "McDonalds!".

My puddings are off-limits too.

I don't know if any of you are Napoleon Dynamite fans, but I know I'm a cake decorator when I'm up to my elbows in buttercream and the family asks what's for dinner, and I reply,

"Fix yourself a dang quesadilla!"

You goto the store to stock up on powered sugar & you get all the boxes that they have, & its only 10 boxes

1. You habitually wipe out the store's supply of powdered sugar

2...when you're decorating you're either in heaven or hell -
either very happy or super mad and stressed