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I hate loving Walmart.

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Heather

I’ll admit it. A few years ago when I was a “fanatical, cloth diapering, organic only buying, breastfeeding warrior” I hated Walmart. I loathed Walmart. I also didn’t have one located near my house. I would watch documentaries from my couch while nursing the baby, claiming that “Yes! as soon as I quit nursing I too would be vegan, mass chicken product banning, only organic product, looking for every cause to better the world” person. I stuck my nose up at Walmart as if it was the most vile place on earth, because I had seen the documentary telling me to hate it. They treat their workers like shit, put small businesses out of business, suck suck suck all around.

And then they opened one down the street. Brand new. A little bit environmentally friendly. Clean. Organized. AND CHEAP. The economy tanked, every one was panicked, and I needed to cut corners like everyone else. So I went into Walmart.

Now you can’t get me out. They carry organic now. The clothes are a better quality. See my cute $3 hat? I ran into the store for an electrical cord, and took a picture of the $3 clearance purchase. And even if I knew how to knit, there’s no way in hell I would manage to make a hat for $3. You might be able to, but I would spend 10xs that by the time I got it right- and my right would not be a standard worth of wearing. If you catch my drift.

So here it is, I am admitting it out loud. I hate loving Walmart. But I love love the prices and the fact I can find many of my favorite high end brand foods finally. But believe me, I’ll never stop calling it Hellmart. Now it’s just a word referring to the people shopping beside me, not the store itself.

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Almost 1000 Cupcakes for Carolina’s Healthcare System.

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Heather

We had our largest store order to date this week, and it was actually a breeze. A division of CMC is celebrating some newly created software that’s being implemented. Apparently it was a ton of blood, sweat and tears to get it done and the event was to say ”thanks” for all of their hard work upon it’s completion. The picture above is only roughly half of the cupcakes. The table items were supplied by their caterers for us to use so it’s not set as pretty as I’d like, but the toppers that Adria from Anders Ruff designed for me using the new Carolina leaf logo were perfect! We are so hopefully that we’ll start getting some more corporate orders. (and maybe next time have some say in the set up!)

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Tardy for The Party Barbie cake for my Tricia.

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Heather

Everybody knows I am a Real Housewive junkie. My kids roll their eyes, and my husband sits in the room with me a bit defeated. But I have some friends that love to watch just as much as I do, and one of them is my sassy southern girlfriend, Tricia.

Speaking of Tricia, I’m not going to say we don’t all laugh a little that she gets a Barbie cake for her birthday every year, but if you click on the link below to her webpage, you will see how I made these two things come together for her birthday. That’s what friends are for!

http://www.thesouthernspark.com/2011/real-housewives-barbie-cake-i-die/

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Kilkenny, Ireland

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Heather

Kilkenny was a super cute town. We checked into the Pembroke hotel (I loved it, Bob thought it was too modern) and immediately headed over to the Kilkenny Castle. That’s what I was dying to see- castles. Since I was an art history major, I love churches but I was giddy to see a castle. Actually while driving all over the country, you see remnants of old pieces of a castle all over the place especially sitting out in pastures.

Kilkenny Castle

The outside of this castle was breathtaking. Sadly, the inside has been so modernized with a mish-mosh of unimpressive decor that I didn’t want to spend much time in it.

Going to Ireland in the fall was clearly brilliant, everything was changing color.

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Dublin churches and Dublin castle.

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Heather

There were too many to keep track, in all honesty. I saw this gate and took a picture. Once we turned the corner, we read that it was the oldest Medieval church left.

After getting lost for another hour with a crappy street map that didn’t make sense, we finally stumbled into St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Bob had one more place he wanted to look for, and

It was at this point that I was sick of walking all over the place, we’d been walking for about five hours including Guinness, so I talked Bob into riding a double decker bus for the rest of the afternoon. This was the most brilliant idea, if only we’d done it sooner. You can get on and off the bus, all over the city, all day at each of the sites we wanted to see.

Duh.

I have pictures of all of those other sites, too. But I’m actually too lazy to upload and label them at this time.

Lunch was spent at a little pub on a corner near our hotel, where we stuffed our faces on Beef & Guinness stew, the other stew was called Irish stew with cubes of beef, and then we ate an entire plate of Irish cheeses- blue, goat, and brie.

We spent the evening walking around and shopping, but weren’t starving for dinner. We caught a glimpse of the Bills game on a tv at the pub outside of our hotel, so we sat down to watch. We split a fish and chips (guess who ordered that) and mushroom soup.

Dublin was great and a lot of fun, but two days was perfect. I really loved the Westbury Hotel, I can’t imagine there’s a hotel with a better location. It was clean, modern and beautiful. Not to mention the full Irish breakfasts served in the morning were amazing. Bob and I were both addicted to their brown bread toast.