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Pumpkin cupcake for “A Shadow to Light”

Oct 29, 2026swankivy2026, Selfiescake, food, ivy

My short story “A Shadow to Light” sold to the Mystic’s Pen anthology (volume 2) so I am having my customary cupcake for the occasion. This one’s pumpkin.

Pumpkin cupcake for
selling my story “A Shadow to Light”

Cookies and Cream cupcake for “The Wagon”

Oct 8, 2026swankivy2026, Selfiescake, food, ivy

My short story “The Wagon” sold to an anthology so I bought myself a cool cookies and cream cupcake ’cause that’s how I roll.

Cookies N Cream Cupcake for
selling my story “The Wagon”

Vanilla Flower cupcake for “Karma Is Dead”

Oct 5, 2026swankivy2026, Selfiescake, food, ivy

I sold my novella “Karma Is Dead” to an anthology and I like to buy myself cupcakes when that happens so this is my cupcake. It’s vanilla and has a flower on it.

Vanilla Flower cupcake for
selling my story “Karma Is Dead”

Wedding Dress Shopping with Meggie and Katelyn

Oct 3, 2026swankivy2026, Hangoutscake, food, friends, ivy, katelyn, meghan, wedding

I obviously am not revealing the dress Meggie picked, but I’m so amazed at how wonderful the experience was going shopping to find the perfect dress for her to get married in next June.

Meg picked her wedding dress with her ladies!

Meg picked her wedding dress today!

We did get cupcakes to celebrate, though my cupcake was also to celebrate something else!

Meg & Katelyn got cupcakes too

Lovely vanilla cupcake from EuroCrave

Cheesecake

May 27, 2026swankivy2026, Cooking & Baking, Hangoutsbirthday, cake, food, friends, ivy, jeaux

I made a cheesecake for Jeaux’s birthday. Here are the various steps of creating it, ending with us eating it. 😉

Cheesecake in pan

Cheesecake out of pan

Cheesecake piece

Remaining cheesecake

Jeaux and Ivy eating cheesecake!

Lemon Dream Cupcake

Apr 9, 2026swankivy2026, Selfiescake, food, ivy

I like to buy myself a fancy cupcake whenever I sell a short story. Guess what, I sold a short story! This is the Lemon Dream cupcake from Gigi’s. I bought it for selling my short story “For the Record.” It will be out in November.

Cupcake haver

Lemon Dream cupcake

Cake for Breakfast

Jan 22, 2026swankivy2026, Selfiesbirthday, cake, food, ivy

Having cake for breakfast as a post-birthday treat is nice.

Cake for breakfast

48th Birthday with Jeaux

Jan 21, 2026swankivy2026, Hangoutsbirthday, cake, food, ivy

Jeaux treated me to a belated 48th birthday celebration by taking me to Vallarta’s (where I had my first ever horchata!) and baking me a birthday cake–grasshopper cake, which was minty frosting on chocolate cake!

Horchata!

Grasshopper cake made by Jeaux

My 48th birthday cake!

Meggie’s 50th birthday cake!

Jan 18, 2026swankivy2026, Vacationsadam, birthday, cake, dare, food, friends, ivy, jeaux, katelyn, kathy, meghan, ryan

We had a really special cake from Alessi to celebrate Meghan’s 50th birthday and played some games to go with it!

Meg’s 50th birthday cake

Meg’s 50th birthday cake

Meg with her cake

Me with Meg’s cake

Cake cutting

Cake cutting

Cake cutting

Cake cutting

Cake cutting

Cake cutting

Joking Hazard Game

Mug Cakes!!

Jan 17, 2026swankivy2026, Cooking & Baking, Vacationsadam, ben, birthday, cake, dare, food, fred, friends, ivy, jeaux, katelyn, kathy, meghan, ryan

Mug cakes for my birthday! Choice of banana, peanut butter, chocolate, or coffee!

Making mug cakes!

Making mug cakes!

Making mug cakes!

Making mug cakes!

Making mug cakes!

Making mug cakes!

Making mug cakes!

Dare’s mug cake

Dare’s mug cake

Jeaux’s mug cake

Dare’s mug cake

Adam’s mug cake

Ryan’s experimental mug cake

Mug cakes with Meg

Mug cakes with Adam & Meg

Mug cakes with Kathy & Fred

Mug cakes with Dare & Jeaux

Mug cakes with Ryan & Katelyn

Mug cakes with Benjamin