SUMMARY: In the article, “Starting from Scratch” by Halley Griffin, Amanda Lloyd talks about cake decorating. Lloyd is a 27 year old who claims to be a housewife and a self-taught cake decorator. She started working with cakes when she was about six. Soon, her hobby just built into a part time job. She now owns Sunshine Cakes in Moscow, Idaho.
RESPONSE: This article was really inspirational. It was very simple to read and was just simply about someone who enjoyed cake decorating as a hobby and made it into a career. Lloyd says that it has been “twenty years of playing, pretty much” (Griffin). It seems to me like she has done more than just “play” to come from decorating things for her friends when she was young to making wedding cakes. Lloyd says that she enjoys coming up with new and not so much traditional ideas to put on a cake rather than just ribbons and flowers. To me it is cool to see that someone who was just very ordinary can take something they enjoy and make it into something creative and inspirational for other people.
Griffin, Halley. "SIDEWALK SERIES: Starting from scratch: Self-taught cake decorator enjoys the social aspects of her work." Moscow-Pullman Daily News (ID) (17 Feb. 2009). Newspaper Source. EBSCO. [Alabama Virtual Library], [Trussville], [Al]. 1 Apr. 2009
.