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lol! Good one Michal!

2. …if before you’ve even finished reading the inside of a greeting card, you’ve already designed a whole cake based on the front of the card.

3. If you walk through Home Depot and find yourself looking for gadgets you may be able to use to create decorations on fondant and gumpaste!

DJ - Fun Fiesta Cakes

4. If you walk through the paint store for color swatches to help compare your buttercream & fondant colors to.

Monica Corley Ya'll Stay Sweet!! www.facebook.com/sweetsbymonica

@SarahBeth3 you took the words right out of my mouth. Sometimes, I buy cards to give to people and find myself taking photos of them for inspiration, before I actually give them away.

~Daniela xo www.facebook.com/itsacakethingwoodbridge

5. If you spend your money on cake supplies instead of buying yourself a new pair of shoes!

Jess B :-) https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweets-By-Jess/238113109569053

6. …if you use your mixer more than your TV.

7. …if you’ve answered yes to any of the above, and visualized the time you did it!

Stacy, Battle Creek Michigan - www.bumbleberries.net | facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/bumbleberries/160218613994258

8. …if you are quite capable of functioning on zero sleep – you pretend to live a normal life and be a normal person, but secretly you know you’ve had no or minimal sleep for days.

9. …if your workmates ask you when you’re making the next cake – purely because they want to know when more cake scraps and offcuts will be brought in.

10. …if you encourage people to buy your kids Playdough sets so you can use the cutters and molds on cakes.

11. …if you would be more starstruck to meet a famous cake decorator than you would be to meet a famous actor.

sry got a post another…

12. …you ever blew your nose and out came a rainbow of colors (anyone who has ever airbrushed would know)

and YES to all the above!

Jessica, Kodiak Alaska http://www.facebook.com/ConceptualConfections

13. …watching cartoons is considered research!

Laura, Centurion, South Africa, http://www.pinkberrycupcakes.co.za

Oh ladies (and gents) you all made my day! It’s so funny to read your comments. Funny because they are true!!

…..if you try tu turn your kids toys into cutters!!!

Ivy, Caerphilly, http://www.cupncakesbyivy.com

14. If your cuticles are hot pink…or green, or blue….

find me at: www.facebook.com/CorrieCakes

I was waiting for that one Corrie! Had dinner a few months ago with 2 other decorators and each of our hands were a different color.

Jessica, Kodiak Alaska http://www.facebook.com/ConceptualConfections

I had to laugh about the rainbow nose blow…I haven’t worked with an airbrush is years, but I remember wondering about ‘cake decorator lung’ whenever I would blow my nose after a day at work and seeing my tye-dyed snot LOL!

find me at: www.facebook.com/CorrieCakes

Hahaha Corrie! I did a lot of grocery store decorating for years and I could go home blow my nose and tell you was the majority of today’s orders girl or boy themes. There is no way to avoid it, I tried, but deep down how can you not giggle a little seeing all those colors. I too wondered about my lungs. Alright dont want to spam everyone with my comments but might as well do another one since I’m here

15. …If you stock up on X-acto blades and disposable gloves.

Jessica, Kodiak Alaska http://www.facebook.com/ConceptualConfections

Keep them coming, Jessica!

16. …if you think less of someone when you see store bought frosting in their cabinet.

I was so amused! :-) Yes, yes, yes, everything is true! :-)

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17…when you paint your living room walls and wish your buttercream would look that smooth.

Loren, http://www.thebakingsheet.blogspot.com, https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Baking-Sheet/210664827961

19. when you go to sleep with bits of cake decorating swirling in your head, and wake up with a vision of a perfectly “FINISHED” cake!

Janiepie from GA - Find me on Facebook Cake Studio J

20. You never have enough time to really get ready for the birthday party you just made the cake for, your happy you had enough time to change into clean clothes.

Jessica, Kodiak Alaska http://www.facebook.com/ConceptualConfections

21…if you get excited when powdered sugar is on sale.

22. you find yourself in the kitchen, scraper in hand and only when you can’t find the cake in the fridge do you realize its 3 a.m. and you’ve been sleep caking again….

Rachel, Fondant Flinger New Orleans, LA www.facebook.com/fondantflinger

I thought I was the only one who thought like this!!! :)

23. Ok- You start planning your kids next birthday cake the day after their party!

Elysia, Pennsylvania, http://www.steelpennycakes.com http://www.facebook.com/steelpennycakes

24. You find yourself on cakesdecor.com looking to admire, get ideas, inspiration, advice and support for most of the day when you should be paying attention to the never-ending pile of paperwork on your desk at your 9-5!!

Elena Z, EZSweetShop, www.facebook.com/ezsweetshop, www.ezsweetshop.com

25. When your 18 month old twins say “Cake” as one of their first words. LOL Every weekend they wake up and run out to look on the kitchen table to see if there is a cake.

~ Melissa http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweet-Melissas-Cakes/164921970206423?ref=ts

26. …you refer to a pile of dowels as your support group.

27. Your only interest in the computer is to go cake searching on the internet where you spend hours oblivious to anything and everything else around you

28. You go to the fabric stores, not to buy fabric, but to look at all the pretty material for inspiration for your next cake.

Toni, Pennsylvania, https://www.facebook.com/WhiteCraftyCakes

29. You notice the neighbour’s light is on at 3am and get suspicious about what is going on there, and then suddenly realise that your light has been on at all random hours through the night for days on end, and wonder what the neighbours must think.

30…your husband starts complaining about you lugging his compressor from the garage to the kitchen every time you want to airbrush a cake.

31 (I think)…You find therapy and comfort looking at cakes and kneading fondant or gumpaste after a hard day ;).

Crystal Memories in the Baking

32. When all your friends know the intricate details of ganaching and covering a cake………even when they never asked for the information!

https://www.facebook.com/tortacouture | Perth, Scotland

33. When you realise that you’ve spent 40 minutes in a trance designing a cake in your head

https://www.facebook.com/tortacouture | Perth, Scotland

34. If you agree and are thinking the same thing that was previously posted… I am still laughing the “rainbow nose…” It is so true. lol

35…… You have ever rushed to the kitchen sink to flush the disco dust out of your eye.

Bliss Pastry, Deland, Florida https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bliss-Pastry/123883354373830

36. And tortacouture YES! And noticed your hands waving around in the air making all the motions needed to decorate that cake while you were in that trance!

Bliss Pastry, Deland, Florida https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bliss-Pastry/123883354373830

37. when you want to translate, EVERYTHING YOU SEE , in cake :)
this is how i see …

haha! spot on! Agreed with ALL of the above comments. How often my husband says in my ear when I am spotted photographing some random item in a shop window “let me guess …. a cake…”.

I just love you cake people. So unique and the only people who understand me!!

xx

'It Always Seems Impossible Until It is Done' Nelson Mandela http://www.facebook.com/CakesByFifi

38. when your pjs, duvet cover, bedsheet and towels have cupcakes printed on them. :D

http://www.facebook.com/Firefly.India.Fondant.Cakes.NewDelhi

39. if you are running to the grocery store with rainbow hands, powdered sugar in your hair and a piece of fondant sticking to your forehead and wonder why everyone is staring at you….yes, that really happend lol :-)

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40. when uv named your kitchen aid ‘Stella’. !

http://www.facebook.com/Firefly.India.Fondant.Cakes.NewDelhi

hahaha @Linda!! i remember when u posted that incident.. i cracked up!! :D :D

http://www.facebook.com/Firefly.India.Fondant.Cakes.NewDelhi

Hahah Pavani, mine is calles Raspy and I treat her as one of my kids lol :-)

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41. You browse “grocery chain cake freezers” and smirk or scowl and say to yourself “I can totally do better”….

Happy Decorating!

42… when you are constantly looking at clothing and making comments like “wouldn’t that color / draping / pattern look great on a cake!?”

Jenniffer White, Cup a Dee Cakes - http://cupadeecakes.blogspot.com

43. when you pop in @cakesdecor couple of times everyday and get inspired by amazing cakes..