Be Excellent To Each Other

Heard on Radio 2 that it's National Cupcake Week.

Hope you reflected this in your marketing activity, Trooper.

Blimey, so it is! I think we are a bit late this year to get involved, seeing as the 2011 champion has been crowned.

2012 though, this is our olympics...

I think it might be reflected in my face activity.

Cupcake Hutch advertised in Watford!

Woohoo! Cheers dude

Latest cakes, all handmade.

Needless to say, these ones cost a little bit more than £2 each!

Bloody hellfire, it would be an utter crime to nosh on such loveliness. But they do look bloody lovely.

£2.25?








Seriously, wow. Those are awesome.

They look fantastic.

they take a while to do, so are much more of a special occasion cake, but they do look awesome

Thankfully, I have not drank enough beer to comment on the cupcake in the bottom right. The one with the braids
They look awesome, must have taken a while!

Lol!

Good work mrs trooper

Heh, I think I'll turn that one round when I take the photos for the website

I didn't realise Rabbis styles their vaginas as well. Learn something new every day. Cheers!

Mazel tav!

You should make fanny cakes.

What type of sponge would work best with cottage cheese though?

Mrs T has started up a cupcake blog

http://www.thecupcakehutch.blogspot.com/

If you like it, it would be much appreciated if you could link to it

We were all thinking the same thing.

Knackered this morning.

Phone call 9pm last night "We've been let down by our catering company, can you do 100 cakes for tomorrow lunchtime?" "You can, great!"

Glitter explosion in the flat till 1:30am

Afternoon.

Another 100 cakes to make tonight! YAY!

I have a favour to ask, I'm going to piss around with the website a bit tomorrow, and would like to add a few testimonials. For those of you that have had the pleasure of sampling Mrs T's delights , would any of you be willing to pm me a testimonial?

You know the sort of thing
"These cupcakes are totally awesome, I would rub them over my naked body if I didn't scoff them all in 3 seconds every time" Pete, 98, from Gloucestershire
etc...

I will love you all forever.

No worries, I'll send something over.

Ta, much appreciated

Lots of new photies on the website if people are interested. No testimonial page as yet, but i'll do that this week if I had a couple more <cough>

Weirdly, google results differ between browsers? If I search for "Cupcakes Milton Keynes" in Safari, Chrome and Firefox, the website comes back at different places in the listings?

Something odd going on with the layout - using IE9 in 1280x1024:

Same in Chrome in 1920x1080

Are you logged in to Google on any of them?

Jeez, I fixed that last week. Bloody sitefusion rubbish

Cheers I'll have a look tonight.

Not getting that though, working fine in my chrome here. You on 14?

I'll write something later for you.

yup

Ah, i've logged into a different gmail account on each browser. That'll be it.

Windows box I assume? Bloody Windows users

I think i'm just going to trash the page tonight and rebuild it, it'll be quicker than bug fixing sitefusion.
I'll probably post when I think it is fixed if people could give it a go.

Ta Although I should probably hold of the thanks until after I see what you write

In theory, the website should be fixed now?

Looks better. The writing is still pink though.

Browser info etc in PDF.

I get that occasionally, but a refresh fixes it. No idea why!

The task over xmas is going to be to rip the site out of sitefusion and make it a bog standard HTML site...

I'm not convinced you even need to be logged in. I think Google will customise search result ordering based on your search history, even if all it knows about you is a handful of cookies. In which case if you start with three browsers with blank cookies and log them all out, then search for different things in each one without logging in, then search results will diverge between them over time automatically.

Judy's going all-out to corner the market in pervy cakes. I approve.

Mildly NSFW!



Dares/special requests accepted.

"H, Kevn. We hear you like Chicks wth Dicks"

wtf?

So, a few more images of cupcakes:





and that is pretty much the end of our cupcake journey For a few not unsurprising reasons.

1) everyone who ordered basically wants the bog standard cupcakes, not fancy bespoke stuff.
2) making bog standard cupcakes 100 at a time is boring as fuck.
3) which was making Mrs T hate rather than love baking.

We made a few hundred quid in the end after the cost of setting up, and it might be something Mrs T goes back to in the future, but with working at Hotel Chocolate and her BA job coming up in a few months, spending her spare time making a million cupcakes that are all the same isn't the most fun in the world.

Not sure whether to try and flog the business, but the order book is nowhere near enough to get any sort of money that would be worth the effort, or to just shut it down. Mrs T has a friend over Bedford way who makes wedding cakes and cupcakes, might see if she wants to buy all our cake boxes and cupcakes stands, or even have them for free in return for making us a wedding cake!

Good fun while it lasted (or at least it was at the start ) but when the phone rings and your first thought is "oh crap" rather than "woo, an order" I think it's time to stop.

Well at least you didn't loose money from giving it a go. Hope you can sell your remaining cake related stuff to the lady you mentioned.

That's the trouble with customers, they always want stuff the boring stuff you can't be arsed making.

I look forward to designing the logo for your next venure.

Are those two points related?

Not at all.

*uncrosses fingers*