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#Episode 75: Falling In Love With Fondant; With Lady Berry Cupcakes
Finding your niche can be hard for some but for Lady Berry Cupcakes it boils down to two things, fondant and cupcakes! Lady Berry Cupcakes is located in the UK and teaches online classes as well. This episode promises a treat as we are joined by the fantastic Farley, the founder of Lady Berry Cupcakes who has a love and passion for teaching others the joy of fondant and cupcakes.
Her sheer enthusiasm that she brings to her work is infectious, making it a pleasure to learn and listen to her. From beginners to seasoned bakers, Farley's online classes cater to all, offering tutorials on everything from basic lessons to festive classes.
In this episode we will learn:
- How she started her baking business
- How she markets her classes and passion on social media
- What obstacles she has overcome with putting herself out there
- How she teaches her community and grows her brand
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Hey, sweet friends, my name is Chef Schaumburg. I started my baking business with a bottle of DeCerano and one Bundt Cake Pan. Fast forward to today, from news to magazines, speaking on national stages and more. I can truly say that baking has changed my life. So now, as a bakery business coach, I get to help others have the same success. I've helped hundreds of my students across the world in my global membership program create six-figure businesses, mainly from home.
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Speaker 1:Today we have a special sweet young lady who's traveled all the way from the UK to be here with us today, virtually. But today we're recording with Lady Berry Cupcakes. Farley is the founder of Lady Berry Cupcakes, which has group classes, tons of classes, but she is all about cupcakes, and so you've probably seen her beautiful pastel posts on your feed. But today she's going to talk about how she got started, how she grew her thriving online community, as well as all things teaching. And so, farley, welcome to the podcast. How are you doing today, darling? I'm good, thank you. Thanks for having me, you're more than welcome. And so, before we get into your online school, and because you have over like 160 courses, you love coming, I love it. It's too many Too many.
Speaker 2:I've got so many ideas in my brain and it's not enough time to execute them, so there's probably another hundred classes in my brain.
Speaker 1:Wow, that is so cool. So how did you get started as a baker? What got you interested in baking?
Speaker 2:A complete accident. I baked my boyfriend at the time some cupcakes and he was like these are so bad. And I was like, wow, thanks. And so I thought, okay, I'm just not a baker. And then as a joke for my birthday he bought me a baking class. And I was like, haha, okay. So I went along to the baking class, hated the baking, but then we made it like a little teddy bear to go on top of the cake and I was like, oh, I love that bit. And then it kind of took off from there.
Speaker 2:Then a friend of mine her daughter, was having a birthday party and the party entertainer cancelled last minute. She was like Farley, I don't know what to do. I've got 12 kids coming to the house on Saturday. I don't know what to do with them. And I was like why don't we just like decorate some cakes together? And literally it started from there Her daughter's birthday party and I was like this is so much fun decorating cakes with kids. And I was like brilliant. And I just started like advertising that to my friends and my family and saying I was doing it. And then I think a friend was having a hen party. I was like let's decorate naughty cupcakes and I just had the best time ever and they would kind of give me some nice feedback saying it was really good fun and I was quite good at it. So it just took off from there.
Speaker 1:Really, that's awesome, and so you sold your baked goods in the beginning.
Speaker 2:I did. I felt like that's what I had to do, because I just looked at what other people were doing and I was okay. So if I do this, I have to provide wedding cakes, I have to provide cookies, I have to provide cake pops, which are like my absolute nemesis. So I took myself off and started playing with all these things, thinking I had to do everything, and very quickly realized that hated the baking, really hated baking. I'm like okay, so I want to do this, but I hate the baking side of things. So what am I going to do? So I did.
Speaker 2:I did like four wedding cakes. They turned me gray overnight because it was so stressful and I thought I can't do this, that's not fun. And so I just experimented with different things and then more and more people liked my cupcakes and I enjoyed doing that much more. So I just carried on doing that and I started baking for orders and then I think I got inquiries saying oh, these are really cute, could you teach me and my friends how to do that? And it just kind of evolved from there.
Speaker 1:Really, I like that because too often people will stick to doing something even when it doesn't make them happy. So I liked how you were adamant and saying you know, hey, the wedding cakes, all this, like it isn't my thing, but you were comfortable doing your thing, which is just more so the decorating and stuff like that. And so what got you into teaching?
Speaker 2:Well, as I said, people were interested and were asking me for different events and I always wanted to be a primary school teacher which is like a kindergarten teacher because I really loved younger kids and they've got such great energy. But I'm dyslexic and I couldn't get my maths in English enough to do a teacher's degree. So I was told, no, you can never be a teacher. And I kind of went off and scuttled off and did something else instead and then I kind of started with the baking and got into it and thought actually I could be a cupcake teacher. I don't have to have my maths in English for being a cupcake teacher. And it just evolved from there and I just started thinking about how I could make it into a business. I never thought.
Speaker 2:When I was told I couldn't be a primary school teacher, I was like, oh my God, what am I going to do? You know, it put a real spanner in the works. But actually I soon realized that I can do whatever I want to do and what I wanted to do was something that made me happy. Every single day it sounds really knit and naff, but actually just doing something that made me smile and I enjoyed so much is what it's all about for me, and the more I did it, the more hen parties I did, the more classes I did. I just and even now it's like nine years on and the other night I was messing around with Fonda at 11 o'clock at night. I'm so obsessed with it that I know it's my passion and I just I feel so lucky that I found it because it just makes me really, really happy. I love it.
Speaker 1:That is a blessing. I love the smile on your face. If you guys could see it, it's just a big, big, huge smile. But you can tell that you're really passionate about cupcakes and fondant and so you're always doing like fondant, just modeling it and making it look some different type of way. And so do you remember yeah, Do you remember your very first class that you uploaded to your online community?
Speaker 2:I think it was a free Taster class. I think it was actually the pumpkin class that I just put on my Instagram yesterday and I thought, oh my God, maybe I should redo that because that's really, really old and I just wanted to see how susceptible people were to an online class and lots of people took it and then they started making it and I was like, but they didn't. They people were worried that they couldn't make it for their customers. I'm like, no, I'm teaching you as maybe a small business owner, so you can make these for your customers. People worry that the designs they can't then use for their customers, but that's the whole point.
Speaker 2:My majority of my audience maybe 70% of my audience had their own small baking business and I want to be the person that provides them with designs and styles, and so their customers love their cupcakes even more. They're probably the best bakers in the world. And then sometimes they struggle with the sugarcrafting. That's where I come in, so I'm just about the sugarcrafting. Of course, I have to bake the cupcakes, unfortunately, in order to do the cupcake classes, but I'm all about the fondant, and I know there's lots and lots of people that hate fondant.
Speaker 2:Don't get on with it at all, but I love like miniature tiny tea cups and teapots and the tiniest ridiculous flowers which is bonkers, because I've got the chubbiest fingers in the world. So it's like I'm challenging myself to make tiny detail. But I'm obsessed with it even now and I think, oh, should I get into polytale? Should I make dolls, house miniatures and things like that? There's so many different ways you can go with if you're good at creating stuff like that. So yeah, I do worry I'm going to run out of ideas, but I haven't yet, and it's nine years on.
Speaker 1:That is amazing. And so for anyone else who is into fondant because Farley is all about fondant when you scroll on her site you'll see she has classes for beginners, classes for special occasion, classes for festive or fondant modeling, and so you can just scroll and see all the different types of things she has. And I really do like it because, like you stated, there are classes like when baking and stuff like that. But just to really hone in on fondant, that's awesome because you can really help people with something that a lot of people in our industry struggle with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure, and I think a lot of people struggle with it, and they because they don't have the basic skills to start with. So I always try to teach people that actually you don't need fancy fondant, you don't need fancy tools. I teach so many of my online classes are just using your hands. There may be like three or four tools, but people think they're going to have to buy a whole bunch of tools and that's not the idea at all and it wasn't intentional. That's just the way I design my fondant toppers by using your hands, and you can create a lot of them easily.
Speaker 2:People look at something and think, oh my gosh, that's so complicated, that's going to take me hours, but it really doesn't.
Speaker 2:When you break the shapes down and I think that's a lot of feedback I get from my students is when they come to class they look on the table and think, oh my gosh, I'm never going to be able to make those.
Speaker 2:And then three hours later they're like, oh, I made those and they're so happy and realize, actually you break every single shape down, put them together and they're beautiful. And of course, it doesn't take three hours to do the online classes because they're quick details but coming to an intricate class, you can achieve really beautiful things, and when you're starting out and you're beginning of course it takes a little bit longer, but the more you get into using fondant, the more you realize how it can be quick and you can make beautiful, beautiful things that nobody else has ever made, which is so lovely, because there's a lot of people repeating stuff, which I understand. If you're not a creative person, it's hard to come up with unique designs, whereas I feel I've got the capability to bring in something new, and I'm always trying to find something new, and that's what I feel like. I can offer people something unique that their customers have never seen before, and then the customers are going to come back to them because it's something really special.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and that's another thing that you mentioned. You don't just do the online classes, you also do workshops. You have family workshops, live workshops, so tell us about the workshops that you offer in the UK. How fun is that, and what do you walk your customers through?
Speaker 2:Oh, I absolutely love. So I do hen parties, which are hilarious, and by the time I get there they've usually had a glass of prosecco or two. So I offer those, which are really good fun. I do children's birthday parties every weekend and every party is different and every party is just a lot of fun, very loud, and I try not to let them eat too many sprinkles or too much fun, so they're not too high by the time I leave. So that's every weekend.
Speaker 2:I do group classes in London and I also do things like in care homes. I go to elderly people in care homes and it's lovely to teach them because it's something creative and something fun and they just they're so happy and they're just creating something and it's I do simple design, so it's achievable. And then they get to eat the cakes and their little smiles is lovely. I do team building events in the city, so I've taught bankers. They're like Halloween classes, you know when they want something fun to do for a team building event. And of course the guys get really competitive over a cupcake. I don't know how they manage that, but they do. And then I do a lot of one to one private tuition with students in the UK and then I get international students coming to London and they come and book me for private, private tuition Monday to Friday, sometimes five days, two days, one class. It's such a variety. I think every week is different and that's what I really love about my job Meeting lovely people that come back again and again is such a joy.
Speaker 2:Like a lady came from where was she? Brazil, maybe? And she said, farley, when I have a daughter or her child, I'm going to come bring her to class. And I said, okay, yeah, that would be lovely, thinking she'll never come again. Six years later she was like, hey, farley, I'm coming to London, can I bring my daughter? And I was like, oh my gosh, and it was just like the sweetest thing ever and I love that because that creates a real warm sense of community and that's what I'm all about with my business just just making a space for people to feel like they can ask me any questions, they can learn and grow, and to bring their kids.
Speaker 2:It's just so lovely and I love it when maybe I do a group class or private tuition and somebody brings their mom. And I've had a family that brought their grandmother, the mom, the daughter and her daughter. So four generations. That was amazing. So I just, I just love teaching. It just makes me so happy seeing my students faces at the end of their class when they don't think they can achieve something like that and they can. Best feeling ever. And I'm still not bored of it. After nine years of teaching, I still get high from that.
Speaker 1:That's amazing. I think that's the gift of entrepreneurship. You know, when you're walking in your passion and you find something that lights you up, you just you don't get tired of it. You know we go to bed thinking about I'm sure you probably fall asleep thinking about fondant.
Speaker 2:I was dreaming about fondant last night and I was like, oh my God, it's 4am, why are you thinking about fondant? I was thinking, oh, I could do these pastel pumpkins in a stack and I'm like just switch off and go to sleep.
Speaker 1:I love these pastel pumpkins. That sounds so cute. I like the pink, and especially with October. Oh, that's so adorable. So she actually has a little turquoise one that she's showing. That is so cute because in October is also breast cancer awareness month and we call boobs pumpkins. I've got the best pumpkins ever. My pump, my pumpkin Pumpkins hurt my back. I wish they were a little smaller, but you need some pumpkins.
Speaker 2:You need some tiny ones like these.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. That is so adorable, but that that that is a lot. And one of the things you mentioned because I know my mom was elderly when I cared for her the senior teaching seniors. I think that's a market that a lot of people don't tap into, because we have nursing homes, assistant homes and people who are living in home care and those people they love activities just like, just like we do.
Speaker 2:And it's such a pleasure to teach them because they're just, you know, they probably a lot of these places don't get an awful lot of variety.
Speaker 2:So to go into and do something like a Christmas theme or something like I'm going to do some volunteering up the road because they haven't got the funding to pay me, and that's, that's something that it's quite hard to do in the current climate because the cost of ingredients, of course, is sky high.
Speaker 2:But the joy that brings me and doing something at Christmas time and seeing their little faces and making like a little pink, pink Santa Claus not red Santa Claus, a little pink Santa Claus, or you know, just I, I, that's such a privilege for me to get to teach them and I just I can't tell you how lovely it is and to to you know. Then then sometimes they call back and they want something for Easter or they want something for I don't know, for the summer or just a summer activity. But the sound thing is a lot of these places now don't have funding for extra activities like that. So it's, it's. There's only so much volunteering you can do as a small business, but it is something that I really, really want to do a bit more of as well in the future, if I can.
Speaker 1:Absolutely definitely a heart to serve there, so for sure. And your work has been featured in cake masters. You've been featured a couple times. That's just how passionate you are about your fondant, and so tell us about that. How does it feel to be published as a teacher and just to have your work featured?
Speaker 2:It's so exciting and I can't help being a bit naughty and I go into supermarkets where the magazine is sometimes and I kind of go in and just open the page where I'm on and I just perfectly leave it open on the shelf and I take a little video of it and it just it just feels amazing and I have each magazine I've ever been in. I just have a little stack of them because, you know, those days where you feel a bit like oh, really struggling, to say, having a really tough time, and then I'll just pick up a magazine, like look what you did. You did that. You're in a supermarket all over the UK and online all over the world potentially sometimes, and I did that, and so it's that little pep talk and you just kind of have those little reminders that just keep you going when you feel a little bit, a little bit blue or you're struggling a little bit. So, yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2:And I do tell my, my students to be reasonable, just to say, like, reach out to the magazines. The worst thing they're going to say is no, you know, but you could just be in the back of you know, they have a little album of people's cakes there or you could offer to feature something or make something and, you know, just start talking to these magazines. But I'm aware that a lot of the magazines recently have had to close down, which is a real shame. So the Masters reach out to me, which is lovely, and I'm very, very lucky to do that, because that's a really nice feeling, because then you reaching maybe families or other people that you may not reach ordinarily through my own platforms. So, yeah, you just get that exposure as well, which is lovely.
Speaker 1:You have a love for fondant and it shows on your feet, it shows when you talk. But there are so many other people who have a love or a passion and they're afraid to put themselves out there, either because they're afraid to go live, they're afraid to show their face. And so how do you overcome Because I know personally you've shared a few things that you've gone through how do you overcome just putting yourself out there as entrepreneur and a business owner?
Speaker 2:Initially, I never put my face out there. I never put my face on my business, even on your website, and you have a little picture of yourself. I was like, do I have to do that bit? Can I just put my name? I didn't even want to put my full name, and I soon realized that actually, the way to connect with my audience and reach out to people was by being myself, and that was the way that I could talk to people and they become familiar with you. And that whole way of building a community is by talking to people and then recognize you, and then when they come to class, they're like oh my God, I feel like I know you, and so I kind of experimented with it for a little bit and then I realized how powerful that was, and now my face is all over my Instagram. I'm pretty probably sick of my face, but I think it's really, really powerful, and I understand that people are shy, but if you want the growth that is something that I always try to tell people Just put your face out, even if it starts with a photograph, and just say hi, my name's this and I've been teaching for this long, because that's your unique selling point. Nobody else can be you. And it's that, that that cliche where where people always try to stand out from the crowd, I'm like but you have you, nobody else has you, and that is how you will stand out from the crowd. And even if you're not confident on camera, just practice, just practice with your friends, practice creating videos that no one sees, and then the more you do that, the more confident you'll be, even if you set it up that you do it once a week. You didn't have to necessarily go live I don't really like going live, but I'll do it with my hands, but not with my face. But just just set yourself a few goals and you'll realize that it's not that scary and actually people will start relating to you more and then they feel familiar with you. Then when they want a cake or they want some cookies, they're going to come to you because they remember you and they relate to you.
Speaker 2:And I feel like the more I talk to my audience, the more they kind of relate to me. And I started sharing things about like my dyslexia. And then I got alopecia recently and my hair was falling out and I was like, well, how am I going to do this? Because that was a really big deal for me behind the scenes and I thought, well, every day I'm going to appear differently. And then I discovered wigs and I was like, oh my God, this is amazing, I can be different every day. And I thought, well, how am I going to do that? Because how am I going to transition that online for social media? Because every day I'm going to have different hair. Because I discovered bobs and I discovered brown hair and blonde hair and me talking about that. I had to tell them because they were seeing me with different hair every day and they're like, well, what's going on here? And so actually, me opening up and I did a video saying this is what's happening to me right now and I'm just going to tell you, because every day you're going to see me with different hair and I'm just embracing it.
Speaker 2:And the amount of people that then messaged me behind the scenes and I had an opportunity to start communicating with them and talking to them. And then they were talking about their business and how stressful that is. So I feel like it's. My community is about cupcakes and baking and running a baking business, but it's also about building friendships and a really lovely community and I think that's the biggest thing for me and my business is creating a fun community where I'm sharing not just selling my cakes, but sharing tips and tricks and just being funny and having a bit of a laugh with my audience as well and giving them an opportunity to ask questions and share things. And you know, I tried to do a shout out every now and again other pages, small businesses because we know we've been in the industry a bit longer and how hard it is to come up behind us. So as somebody who's been in the industry for a while, it's nice to help those smaller businesses because we were there once. So that's what I'm really passionate about as well behind the scenes.
Speaker 2:I just feel like there's not enough time to do everything. All my ideas I have in my brain of how I can help people, I just don't have enough time to execute them. And I don't know about you, but I've tried to hire people to help me do stuff. But by the time I've hired them and told them what to do, I may have well done it myself and I just think they can't be me. So I have to find a way to manage my time and do everything myself as much as possible, apart from accounts so you can get a accountant or whatever but the actual social media side of things, I just take control of myself.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I get a bit frustrated with it, but I post too much. Anyway, I get totally excited, I get too much content and post too much and too often, but I'm just, I'm always trying to learn the right balance for me and just leave posts to just be seen rather than, oh, I've got to post every four hours Like no, you don't. So I'm still learning. I've been doing it well, but I'm still learning of what I need to do as opposed to what I want to do. But I do like I love that engagement with people and chatting and DMs. I spend a lot of time in my DMs just chatting to my students, which is I just think maybe I need to set aside time just to do that rather than taking that out of my day.
Speaker 1:I totally understand. I'm very personal. The same city, I love DM and chatting my students, but you hit it on the head, though. It is about community and that is what we're there for to build and to foster community. And also congrats to you, because so many people they don't want to go live, they don't want to show their face, they don't want to tell their story but, as I mentioned earlier, there's only one. You like, we can all do the same cupcakes. We may all do the same fondant, but we all don't have the same face. We all don't have the same trials and tribulations and struggles.
Speaker 1:And so when you showed up and when you share that, I remember I saw the post. I thought, wow, this is like that's the post that stood out to me, that made me say, ok, let me invite her on the podcast. Like we all do the same work, but what's the story there, when you actually have something to say that can inspire and motivate someone, even if it's like you were saying, hey, look, I don't know what the hell I'm going to look like every day, I'm just here letting you know this is what I'm going through. It is what it is. People can relate to that, because I think too often we're trying to be picture perfect on Instagram, we're trying to always act like we have, we have our ish together, or that there's this work life balance, which it never really is. It's hard to balance the two and in the midst we can't just show up and be human. And so I love the human aspect that you show on your page and you have so many classes. So how many students have you taught over over the years?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I mean nine years of teaching. I teach every weekend. I teach every week. I don't know. I was thinking over the day. How many cupcakes have I baked Like over nine years? I mean I probably bake 300 cupcakes every Monday. I put them in the freezer and I just pull them out as I need them. That's a lot of cupcakes. I did celebrate my 1000 cupcake party children's party the other day. Wow, I started teaching parties in about seven years ago. A thousand parties. I'm like that's a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is. That is 1000 parties in seven years. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I mean I only do those at weekends because they're in school and then they're in the summer. They're not here. Half turn they disappear. I do do family workshops in half turn, but it's a kind of hit and miss sometimes, depending whether because my clients generally are people with money sometimes and they always head off for the summer or a head off for half turn. So that varies. But that's a great thing to do as well, because then you get the families coming along, which is lovely.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. What tips do you have for anyone else out there who wants to teach fondant or who wants to take their love of the craft and maybe start having in person classes in their community or online classes? What advice would you have to someone?
Speaker 2:Yeah, just do it.
Speaker 2:There's so many things, like even running a baking business, the amount of people that want to do it, or it's a dream of theirs and they don't even try. And there's like that winning the poo phrase I can't remember what it is, but it's like if you don't try, you'll never know if you're going to succeed or not. And it's like I'd rather try something and it not work. And then I go okay, I'll change direction. But a lot of people have an idea but they never try and execute it. And that could be what is their passion, that could be their forte, what they're really good at. So just go for experiment. If you're not sure, just experiment with a group of friends or a group of mum friends. Get them over one evening to your house and just put them around your dining room table and say, okay, I'm just going to try this out and give me some feedback at the end. And that's what I did with my friends. I just said, okay, this is my idea, I'm going to give it a go, just pretend I'm a professional teacher and then give me some feedback at the end. And they did. They were a bit rude. They were like Molly, you can't keep tidying up everybody's tools at the table. So I'm like I've learned to sit on my hands and not rearrange people's cupcakes in their boxes so they look organized, like things like that. Just I've learned to sit back and you know, not do that kind of stuff but just go for it, like just go for it and be yourself and find what it is you really love.
Speaker 2:Like I said at the beginning, I thought I had to do everything and I realized actually that made me unhappy. Trying to do a big cake is not my thing. Trying to do cookies, cake pops yuck. And my heart is with cupcakes and that's what makes me happy on a daily basis. So do that, it's okay. It's better to be really good at one thing than be semi good at three or four things. And I feel like a lot of people, like I did at the beginning, feel like you have to offer so much when actually you don't. You can be the best at cake pops, you can be the best at cookies and I just feel like I've just focused on cupcakes for the last eight years and I just love it and there's just so many ways you can go with it. Even now there's so many different ideas that I've got, you know. So if you can be creative and just imaginative, then you can just do whatever you like and make it work.
Speaker 1:That is so true. It is always so much better. Like they say, the riches are in the niches, and it's better to go deeper and to serve and to do something that you're truly passionate about than to go wide and to do a bunch of different things that are pulling.
Speaker 2:You never really master it, if you are so many, I mean if you had a lot of time, maybe you could master three or four things, but you'll never be the best at something that you could possibly be, and I feel like, actually, then you get known for being that person. You get known for being that amazing cookie artist as opposed to somebody just of as everything that's all a bit average, absolutely. That is amazing advice. You are so awesome.
Speaker 1:I'm so happy that we got to have you here and to just hear your story and your evolution over all these years Before I let you go. Are you ready to play a game of Lightning Round? All right then. All right, let's do it. Farley, what is your favorite color? What do you think it is? It's pink.
Speaker 2:But not just pink. It has to be a blush pink, like it has to be that warm, charming. Yeah, it's a certain type of pink, not just a not very good bit like the really bright fluorescent pink or anything like that has to be a soft, feminine blush Feminine blush.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'll take it. What is a dessert? You cannot live without Dessert.
Speaker 2:Can I have two? Yes, go for it. Coconut ice cream and banoffee pie. So good.
Speaker 1:Oh, that sounds so delicious. I love it. Well, who is your celebrity crush?
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't have one. I kind of like it's like sprinkles. I take a little bit of Jason Momoa. I take a little bit of LL Cool J, because he's cheeky. Jason Momoa is like a big, chunky chocolate chip, like solid man. And then Louis Theroux I don't know if you know him. He's like a British, what do you call it? He makes documentaries. He's like I don't know. He's like his wit. He's very quick, witted and sarcastic and I like that. And then a little sprinkle of Idris maybe, so like a little sprinkle of people.
Speaker 1:Is that okay? That's okay. Multiple men are fine. That's awesome, all right. What is your favorite book?
Speaker 2:Oh, I just read a book which is very not like me, but it was called Interthineur by John Crackauer and it was so good. It was about the climb to Everest and how they came as a team and I don't know. I don't have a favorite book, I just like to read a variety of different biographies, or yeah, I just like whatever. I'm about to go on vacation and I've got like some fiction books, I've got some nonfiction, so yeah, anything that just will hold my interest.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cool beans. And lastly, what is your favorite kitchen utensil?
Speaker 2:Can a cup of a cup for tea be a kitchen utensil? I always have to have a cup of tea, very British, I don't really.
Speaker 1:Can a cake decorating tool set be a utensil, you know, like the one that does the little things that should the ball. Yes.
Speaker 2:Just like any Dresden tool, any little tool that I can make my miniatures with. I can't live without those set of eight tools. They are my life. If I didn't have those I couldn't make what I make. So, yeah, and I do love a blush spatula, but I'm sure lots of people say spatulas, yeah, so you love. So greedy, I can't decide on one thing ever.
Speaker 1:It's okay. And for those who are in the UK who would possibly like to take a one on one with you or learn more about you, share with us your website so people can get more information.
Speaker 2:Sure Thanks, amanda, it's ladyberrycupcakescouk. You can find everything on there. And then I virtually live on Instagram and I'm on Pinterest and TikTok and Facebook, but if you want to find me, I'm probably hiding on Instagram somewhere, so most people will find me there. And then the online school is attached to the website. You just go to the website and go to online classes and all the classes that are there for you.
Speaker 1:Awesome. I love it From the bottom of my little heart. Thank you so much for coming on today. I really appreciate you sharing your story.
Speaker 2:You're so welcome. Thanks for inviting me.