Stressful days off
So, basically, the lady from Craigslist stopped emailing me back. I couldn't figure out for the life me why and I was kind of bummed about it. I sent her several emails asking about colors etc. So never responded... I waited like a week, seriously.
So, I was thinking whatever, I'll look for someone else to help out. So, I found another lady on Craigslist looking for people to help her friend out. Her friend just lost her job and she was trying to help her find people to donate simple things to her like toilet paper, canned goods etc. Then she went on to say one of her little girls' birthday was this weekend and if anyone had any hand me down toys etc.
I emailed her and offered to make a cake for the girl's birthday. She was delighted and went on to ask me if I'd be interested in making a wedding cake in July etc etc. I was really happy to be helping someone and actually getting an offer for a paid cake out of the deal.
I spent all day today making this cake. It's my best yet.
I was really happy when I finished the cake. I felt like I was on top of the world. I'm probably going to make their day when I hand this cake over no strings attached.
I sat down, tired and pleased with myself and logged on to my myspace page to add photos of the cake to my photo gallery. I had a new message. As soon as I saw it, my heart sank. It was the original lady. She said she had found me by searching my name on myspace. She said she had been trying to email me back, but yahoo kept giving her an error message and it wouldn't let her send. She kept saying she was so sorry but she was still very interested in the cake. The cake I just spent all day making... and putting another little girl's name on.
There's NO way I will have time or the money to make another cake for this lady by this weekend. I feel awful! It probably cost me around $10 in materials to make the cake I made and about 5 hours of my time between mixing, baking, making frosting and fondant all from scratch and then the long process of assembling the cake. It was no picnic and I couldn't possibly do it all again for free before this weekend.
So, I made like my best cake so far, though it's kind of bittersweet for me at the moment. I have to figure out what I'm going to tell this woman. :/
So, I was thinking whatever, I'll look for someone else to help out. So, I found another lady on Craigslist looking for people to help her friend out. Her friend just lost her job and she was trying to help her find people to donate simple things to her like toilet paper, canned goods etc. Then she went on to say one of her little girls' birthday was this weekend and if anyone had any hand me down toys etc.
I emailed her and offered to make a cake for the girl's birthday. She was delighted and went on to ask me if I'd be interested in making a wedding cake in July etc etc. I was really happy to be helping someone and actually getting an offer for a paid cake out of the deal.
I spent all day today making this cake. It's my best yet.
I was really happy when I finished the cake. I felt like I was on top of the world. I'm probably going to make their day when I hand this cake over no strings attached.
I sat down, tired and pleased with myself and logged on to my myspace page to add photos of the cake to my photo gallery. I had a new message. As soon as I saw it, my heart sank. It was the original lady. She said she had found me by searching my name on myspace. She said she had been trying to email me back, but yahoo kept giving her an error message and it wouldn't let her send. She kept saying she was so sorry but she was still very interested in the cake. The cake I just spent all day making... and putting another little girl's name on.
There's NO way I will have time or the money to make another cake for this lady by this weekend. I feel awful! It probably cost me around $10 in materials to make the cake I made and about 5 hours of my time between mixing, baking, making frosting and fondant all from scratch and then the long process of assembling the cake. It was no picnic and I couldn't possibly do it all again for free before this weekend.
So, I made like my best cake so far, though it's kind of bittersweet for me at the moment. I have to figure out what I'm going to tell this woman. :/