Bryant's 3rd Birthday - Cake

I made this Toy Story themed cake for my brother's godson, Bryant.  Enjoy!

Riley's 2nd Birthday - Princess Cake

You'd think by now, I would have plenty of practice making cakes covered in fondant and working with gumpaste.  This is my 5th attempt and there is so much to learn - especially when transporting a 3-tiered cake over 40 miles away.

The cake made it in one piece, but not without a few minor upsets.  The 2nd-tier's fondant cracked a little, and the 2nd and 3rd tiers slid forward a bit as you'll see by the pearl boarders on both.  One thing I learned is not to use my pan with the well in the middle for fillings as it does not hold up well under the pressure of an additional tier.  Live and learn. 

I did, however, enjoy making this cake for my cousins little girl.  I only wish it would have been perfect. 

Riley's 2nd Birthday Cake - Princess Theme:

Katie's 10th Birthday Cake & Orlando's 40th Birthday Cake

I wasn't quite ready to do another cake, but my niece asked me to make her one for her birthday.  Of course, I couldn't say no.  My niece and brother share the same birthday, and my sister asked if I would put one together for him also.  So... 2 cakes for Saturday August 14th.

Katie's 10th Birthday Cake:

Orlando's 40th Birthday Cake:

I had a little trouble with Orly's cake.  It was still warm when I put the second layer on and the cake was so moist it cracked.  My sister helped me to disguise it a little with gold shimmer dust, but you can still see it.  Oh well, all that matters is that he liked it and enjoyed eating it.

Jaxon's 3rd Birthday - Ghostbuster's Fondant & Gumpaste Cake

I made this cake for, my grandson, Jaxon's 3rd birthday.  He's the pride and joy in his "Honey's" eyes.  I love him so much.

This is my second attempt of decorating cakes using fondant and gumpaste.  I did a lot better this time mixing the colors into the fondant.  You definitely learn to do a little more with each try. 

Jaxon wanted a Ghostbuster themed birthday cake.  On the cake you'll see Slimer, Ray, Winston, the car, Stay Puft man, and several different ghosts along with the ghostbuster logo.

I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Alexa's Princess Cake

I've been trying my hand at making cakes using gumpaste and fondant.  This is my first fondant cake.  I made it for my niece, Alexa's 4th birthday.  My niece is very particular about what she wants and told me her cake had to have ladybugs, roly poly's and "Larry the Lizard".

Towers were not attached in this photo.

There's Larry the Lizard

I wish I would have put some decorative flower or gumpaste cutout to cover the few places where the color and fondant were not incorporated well.

Gumpaste flowers were made without the use of tools.  I found some great videos on YouTube to help make these flowers.

Human Resource Professionals – How Do They Represent Your Company?

What happened to the days of common courtesy? Companies spend thousands of dollars each year employing Human Resource professionals to represent them in their business.

Human Resources staff members are advocates for both the company and the people who work in the company. Consequently, a good HR professional performs a constant balancing act to meet both needs successfully.

Depending on the size of the organization, the HR manager has responsibility for all of the functions that deal with the needs and activities of the organization's people including these areas of responsibility (recruiting, hiring, training, organizational development, communication, performance management, coaching, policy recommendation, salary and benefits, team building, employee relations, and leadership.)

The longer I'm unemployed, the more upset I become over the lack of consideration given regarding applications, and resumes submitted to companies for employment.

Let’s rewind and go back to the time before the internet. An individual looking for a job searched the local newspaper classifieds for employment, networked with former colleagues, or signed up with personnel agency.

Once you found a job matching your skills, you mailed your resume to the company advertising the position, and receive a letter back from them acknowledging receipt of your resume.

The general consensus would be if you were a match for the position, you would receive a call setting up a time for an interview. Or, you received a letter informing that the position had been filled, and that your resume would be placed on file for future reference. This is common courtesy, and was done at the company’s expense – the cost of a stamp.

Today, the internet has paved the way by eliminating the cost of postage, but does your HR department handle the simple task of representing your company well? After all you’re paying them top dollar for their services.

I have literally sent out hundreds of resumes trying to find employment. Yes, I know the economy is bad, and in the worst shape I’ve seen since I’ve been alive, but come on people; you have a job – I don’t. Have the common courtesy to respond back and let us know something.

They have auto responders that will do the work for you. The auto responder will acknowledge receipt of the resume, and once the position has been filled, it can reply back with “Thanks – No Thanks – The Position has been filled for you. All this is done with a click of a button. With technology this advanced – are you just lazy, or is this how you represent the company for which you work? We just want to cross you off our database, and move on to the next opportunity. It’s rough enough out here! Your insensitivity and lack of professionalism is shameful.

Maybe the unemployed should send letters to each company’s President, for whom they’ve submitted a resume and/or application, and inform them that they’re paying the wrong person to represent their company. Maybe then you’ll afford the unemployed with the consideration they deserve. You never know when the shoe is going to be on the other foot.

The Stupidly Simple System that rocked the SEO World

Phil Henderson, the Stupidly Simple SEO creator, knew he had struck gold when he sold 22 laptops from a one a page, free site that took only 10 minutes to set up...

Here's his story...

"I had been playing about with the usual methods of generating free traffic, you know things like, Squidoo, blogger, blogs, article writing, forum posts etc when I stumbled on this little site. At first I was using this simply to provide backlinks to my other sites. It was so far down the levels of my linking structure so I wasn't really paying attention to it fully.

Then one day I noticed something weird. The main site I had spent three weeks nurturing using top SEO strategies had been out-ranked by my free one page site I had built!!

I couldn't believe it... I had invested three weeks of my time and energy trying to get this site to page one of Google and here was this one-page site that had took me less than ten minutes to build out ranking me in under 15 minutes. Yep, within 15 minutes from pressing "submit" this site had hit page one of Google, more importantly it had ranked two positions higher than my fully optimized web site!!

It hit me like a thunderbolt... I stopped all my other activities and looked at that one page in detail. I looked at the way I had structured the post, the links I had incorporated, word count, keyword density, anchor text absolutely everything that I thought would have given this one page mini-site a better SEO score than my main site. I found nothing of great significance, nothing that I could see making that much difference.

I knew that this couldn't be a one off and I had to find out why this had happened.  The next four hours were spent breaking down each element of the post into minute detail. I simply had to find that "11th ingredient" and then I found it...

It was staring me in the eye all of the time. Excitedly, I began to churn out page after page and they all ranked on Google in a matter of minutes. The quickest being 3 minutes!!

I had found a seam of Gold and it was time to go mining".

When I first read the above I was skeptical; however, Phil has photographic and video proof of the examples above. More than this, Phil has agreed to shoot an "over the shoulder" video that outlines the precise steps he takes when building these one page profit pulling sites.

This system really is a game changer and many people who have struggled to make any real money online are using this to pay their car payments, mortgages and even exotic holidays.

Yes this system works; however, you have to know how to work the system.  If you really want a shortcut to online success, this might just be what you have been searching for.  But don't take my word for it, go see for yourself.

All the best,

Honey