...till you turn it to gold!

isn't that what life is all about - opportunities and options that you can turn back to look at with pride? another such chance is ready to make my March brilliantly creative. a new cake order has been booked for the end of this month and this time, there is less baking and more clay modeling involved. i am palpitating already - scared to put myself out there another time.

i trust myself, that is not the issue. the issue is nerves. i have to steady myself and make a plan. the sketch is ready - ambitious but aptly so. i already have ideas for the characters that i need to build on and the clay is waiting, waiting for me to turn it into gold.

:)

baking builds character...

...and don't you doubt that!! when you are baking, all the love and dedication you put into a project is just half of what it takes. i came upon a severe baking crisis yesterday and all it would have taken to botch up the project would have been a moments weakness - one tear down and i would have crumbled. but the past wise words of the then sleeping husband drove me into talking myself right out of utter failure.

the project was not for me, but for sheetal (my friend who's going to be a new mommy soon). and for her alone. i got up, charged ahead with a new plan and was ready with a cake - an hour late, but ready!!

i'm very thankful to sheetal and deepak for letting me bake for their special day and for being so generous with their encouragement and their love. it is difficult to push your limits and to try your boundaries. but it is even more difficult without loving friends and their kind words to even find situations to test yourself with.

little baby on the way: you are blessed with really sweet parents (and smart, if deepak is reading this!), so smile and get ready, for your welcome in this world and your journey with your mum & dad is going to be so super special.

much love,
your flour-covered aunt!

ps: photographs courtesy Sheetal's awesome photographer friend: Bhumika