Was just looking for 21st cake ideas, and saw this one...read your blog and it really touched me. I just wanted to compliment you not only on you wonderful cake making skills but what you have done for your friend she is so lucky to have you and vice versa, its people like you that make this world go round. I hope treatment is underway and everything is well
Anyways back to cake hunting Sam-your fellow Aucklander xoxoxox
My name is Kathryn. I live with my husband and children in the beautiful city of Auckland, New Zealand. To the rest of the world NZ is a long way from anywhere. For a tiny country we have done some big things internationally. We’ve made movies (Lord of the Rings), competed in sport reasonably well and gifted kiwifruit to the masses.
This blog had its beginning because last year a very close friend of mine was diagnosed with HER2 Positive breast cancer. It was such devastating news for her family and for me. To make matters worse the drug to treat this type of cancer is only partially funded by the NZ Government. My friend had to find $93,000.00 (NZD) to pay for a 12 month course of the treatment.
To help raise funds I offered to bake cakes. The blog was a perfect way to get the message out. Within a short space of time I was inundated orders and had to turn people away. The good news was that the money needed was raised within four months through a combination of fundraising initiatives http://www.supportmaara.blogspot.com/
Although the fundraising is all done I continued the blog for my own personal interest and to keep in touch with other cake makers. Not only is it a joy making these cakes but there’s another passion in me that loves transforming them into memorable images. I hope you enjoy what I have posted so far.
For me cake making is my passion and not my profession. I am a self-taught amateur who has no plans (at the moment) to progress beyond that classification. There’s a real irony at play here because if you asked me to draw you a picture, expect to see an unrecognisable stick figure depicting something slightly more sophisticated than an ink blot. However, through some mysterious work of nature, sugar and I have connected.
4 comments:
Your cakes are beautiful. Where are you located ? How much are the cakes ?
Do you teach ? or have books ?
Pls let me know.
Hi Valeria
thanks for the nice comment! I am in Auckland, New Zealand.
I don't do this as a business... just for fun :O)
Hi Cake Maker
Was just looking for 21st cake ideas, and saw this one...read your blog and it really touched me.
I just wanted to compliment you not only on you wonderful cake making skills but what you have done for your friend she is so lucky to have you and vice versa, its people like you that make this world go round. I hope treatment is underway and everything is well
Anyways back to cake hunting
Sam-your fellow Aucklander
xoxoxox
Thanks Sam
Maara has finsihed her final treatment this week! Thanks for stopping by :O)
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