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Cake Chat

Lindy's favourite blog category!

Discover Lindy's inspirations and thoughts on a variety of topics including success and the pursuit of excellence. If you want to know what makes Lindy tick, this is the category to read and explore. Lindy talks, amongst other things, about why cake decorating makes us happy and how her genes have played their part in her amazing sugarcraft career.

Traditional Christmas carol inspires Lindy’s colourful Christmas cake design

29th November 2017 by Lindy Smith

Shush…don’t tell anyone…. but there are less than 4 weeks until Christmas! Now I love Christmas, I love the excitement of my young nieces and nephews, I’m very partial to a glass or two of spiced mulled wine and I adore the woody pine scent of a freshly cut and decorated Christmas tree. What I […]

Filed Under: Cake Chat, Cake Inspirations, In the Media Tagged With: cake design, christmas, Christmas ideas, designing cakes

Toastmaster speech: New crayons in the crayon box – the art of language, a cake decorating authors view

5th October 2017 by Lindy Smith

New crayons in the crayon box - Toastmasters speech by Lindy Smith

Like many, I have a love of learning. The world is a fascinating place and the more we learn, the more we find there is to discover. I became a member of Toastmasters (an international organisation for communication and leadership development), a little while ago, to help me improve and perfect my speaking skills. I knew […]

Filed Under: Cake Chat, Lindy's Cakes News Tagged With: author, guest speaker, inspiration, language, speech, talk

A Bauble Maker, A Colour Maker and Me – A Cake Decorator

10th May 2017 by Lindy Smith

bauble maker, colour maker and me - Lindy Smith a cake decorator

Everyone has a story; my story includes a bauble maker and a colour maker, but what about yours? Have you ever wondered what it is about your genetic makeup that makes you who you are? Do you sometimes wonder where your skills and talents come from? My story has always intrigued and fascinated me. Over […]

Filed Under: Cake Chat, Cake Inspirations Tagged With: ancestry, bauble maker, cake decorator, colour, colour maker, colours for cakes

Colourful Mandala Cake Design Project for Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft Magazine

22nd February 2017 by Lindy Smith

Colourful mandala cake design project by Lindy Smith

I loved creating the colourful Mandala cake design that appears on the cover of the current issue of Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft magazine. I was absolutely thrilled to be asked to create this cake for the magazines special ‘colour issue’. As many of you will know, colour is my trademark. I love working and experimenting with […]

Filed Under: Cake Chat, Cake Inspirations, In the Media Tagged With: cake decorating magazine, cake design, mandala cake

Cake decorating – the pursuit of excellence or is ‘good enough’ good enough?

30th January 2017 by Lindy Smith

The pursuit of excellence or is good enough good enough?

I knew that updating the Lindy’s Cakes logo and branding was never going to be easy but until this week I hadn’t appreciated just how tricky it was going to be. I’m working with a talented graphic designer but it’s tough as I’m feeling the pressure to get it right. I made a comment to […]

Filed Under: Cake Chat Tagged With: cake decorating, good enough is not enough, pursuit of excellence

Success and what it means to be a successful cake designer and decorator

22nd January 2017 by Lindy Smith

How would you define and describe success?

“How would you define and describe success?” is one of the more tricky interview questions that Cake Central has asked me. I often receive requests for interviews but this is the first set of questions from an American cake decorating magazine and is probably the reason why I’ve never been asked this question before. It has […]

Filed Under: Cake Chat Tagged With: success a definition, success quotes

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