Sunnyside F*** up

For 10 years I wanted to open my own cupcake bakery just like Magnolia. I first visited in November 2001 and was completely smitten. So, in what some might say was a fit of pique, I eventually left my well paid job in marketing to start a cupcake business. What a cliche right? Possibly one of the most popular hobbies, turned into 'ooh you could get paid for this', turned into Mum who bakes cupcakes for a pittance.  www.sunnysidecup.com

To be fair it was pretty successful actually - for nearly three years Sunnyside Cup was Bramhall's, and I suppose the outer edges of Stockport's, premier cupcakery. I did countless weddings, Christenings and baby showers. It was rewarding. In the way that getting a gold star is - a brief glow of satisfaction followed quickly by a exhausted slump and a kitchen full of icing sugar. I loved it, I really did. Even in the early hours of a Saturday morning making roses, butterflies, delicate Chanel shoes, and possibly my weirdest order, Chewbacca. But it was always for somebody else's party. Time at the weekend I wasn't spending with my family - I was in the kitchen or in the car. Nothing prepares you for how physically hard the pipe dream is...and to think I thought working at home would give me a better balance. 

Then along came Felix. My boy. Even though I should have been on 'maternity leave' I didn't have an income. I did a Christening order for 50 cakes when he was 2 weeks old. Wise husband said you won't miss it. I don't. 

And so, my head was turned to more regular better paid work. and I'm back to where I was before, a full time marketeer. With a 15 month old baby, a spirited 7 year old girl, and Mia my 12 year old first born. And the reason I'm writing this blog.