Hello, my name is Linda Bolen. I'm 37 years old and I live in Cool Ridge, WV. For the past 6 years I have ran a home-based bakery, Cake Creations by Linda LLC.
Birthdays, Weddings, Baby Showers, I make them all! My training was informal, mainly YouTube videos and random tutorials. I just decided one day that I wanted to start making cakes, practiced for a few weeks, and started taking orders. Looking back on some of those first cakes, I probably should have practiced just a little bit more. Check it out:
But as the old saying goes, practice makes perfect. While not yet perfect, I have learned so much during these last 6 years, all through a mixture of trail and error, countless nights of missed sleep, and some tears and heartache (there's nothing like messing up a couple's wedding cake and potentially ruining their big day).
A little about my personal life: I am married to an amazing man, Ken, and we have 5 kids. We are a close family and spend a lot of quality time together. I homeschool the youngest 3 and that has been an experience in itself, but an amazing one. While I currently own the cake business, I have other passions and interests that I am pursuing as well. I am in the planning stages of building my dream business, which I will divulge more info on in future stories, as it unfolds.
I'm planning to post stories about some of my own experiences; cake decorating, homeschooling, family life, etc. Hopefully I'll be able to make some tutorials on techniques that I use, it will be a first for me. And of course, my story collection would not be complete without some tales of my cake disasters (complete with the horrendous photos).
See you soon!
Nice cakes, wish i could buy them.
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Thank you so much
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