Growing up:)

I would like to start out by thanking ALL of you for being so supportive of Social Bites.
When I first started this little biz in September of '07 I honestly had no expectations. I thought, man wouldn't it be cool to have this as a full time "job" one day. Quickly that "one day" became a "right now". I was so overwhelmed with the response of people wanting MY cakes, something I came up with. It was such a weird feeling of people paying MONEY, real MONEY, to have something that I created.
Let me give you a quick background of where we began. I worked out of my parents house for quite awhile (almost 2 years) until I knew I completely out grew it and certain circumstances came along where I HAD to move. Well we searched for about 3 days when we received a phone call about a place that was for sale.It was truly a God thing, It was a little portable building that had to be moved but it came with most of the equipment needed. We jumped on the opportunity and now we have a little shop still located by my parents house. I was super excited to "have a place of my own" all of my cake "junk" was in 1 place!
I then quickly realized that I needed help. When I was working out of my parents house I would always have some family member doing something, whether I had my dad (who just walked in from a hard days work) mold me fondant figurines, or have my Mom (the perfectionist) make me what seemed like 100 buckets of icing, my brother roll out fondant or make bra and panty petit four toppers (we still make fun of him for that)or my sweet hubby to ice cookies. In this new place I had none of the free labor. I searched around and had emails of people looking for employment. This was a tough one for me, I have NEVER had an employee, I was only 21 years old. How in the world could I "boss someone around??" Well this is still a daily struggle but I think I am finally going in the right direction, I now have a employee,and just hired the 2nd!!! Is this real??
This business has completely changed me, I am constantly looking for inspiration, adding new things to the menu, thinking of business ideas and how to improve. I am still learning how to run a business. Sometimes I walk in the door and I have 10 messages on my voicmails, 14 unread emails and I am so completely overwhelmed. I am trying to do the best I can. Sometimes I make a mistake on a cake, or forget to call someone back, or think I have emailed someone back when I havent. I am asking for all of y'all to forgive me. I am working on being the best I can. I know I can't always please EVERYONE, but I can sure try to please as many people as I can. Happy Customer's = Happy Heather. Sometimes we as people want to point out only the flaws, I do this if I have a bad experience at a place of business, then I sit back and I say "Heather, think about this as if this was your business, do you want people to talk bad about you? Then my whole attitude changes.
Again, I am so BLESSED to have this business. We cannot WAIT to see what our future holds and we hope you continue to help us GROW GROW GROW!!

Dessert Bar -Ross + Rachel

I was given the opportunity to create my first dessert bar for a couple of pretty awesome people (Ross and Rachel)! The wedding was held at Lincoln Parish Park. It was the perfect day for a wedding! I was so excited to have this opportunity and I thank Ross, Rachel, and Kelly for thinking of me! Of course I have to thank my wonderful hubby and my parents for helping me at the last minute:). Brandi- Your vision was amazing!Thank you to Mrs Shannon Inman for the awesome calligraphy! You can see her work at www.paperglaze.com. Lastly thank you to the Moore family for all of your love and support!
Photos by: Kelly Moore

Here are the desserts:

Photo Shoot

About a month ago Valerie from Southern Fete contacted me, we were both fans of each other, and we began talking about doing a photoshoot together. She happen to have a few ideas and venders she wanted to use for the shoot and I was so excited to be one of them! A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Lafayette, LA to be apart of this amazing experience. We had such a great time, and it was so surreal to see everything come together! Valerie and Laura were such fun and so talented! Here is a sneak peek of the 2 shoots we did! Enjoy

Special Thanks to:
Laura Reaux of laurareaux.com
Tiffany Aragona with http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=49700075&ref=ts#!/pages/Rayne-LA/The-Warehouse/159525956610?ref=search&sid=1212990158.1057221790..1
Valerie Metrejean of southernfete.com

Valentine's Day

We've been super busy this week with Valentine's orders. It's not too late to order your Valentine a sweet treat! We will taking pre orders tomorrow for pick up on Saturday. We will have only a few goodies wrapped up and for sale on Saturday! We will be closed on Sunday.


Here's a few pictures Emma(www.emmmylouphoto.com) took at the shop!

This Valentine "take out" package is filled with assorted cookies and 1 lg sugar cookie. $14











We also did fleur de lis cupcakes today :)

Mardi Gras

It's been very busy here around the shop, I haven't been able to blog much lately. We have Emma joining our team that I am so happy to have her help! She's super creative check out her website www.emmylouphoto.com. Here is a Mardi Gras themed Dessert table we did last week. It was fun to set up and see it all together, a true southern event! Thanks Emma for the pictures, You Rock!

Fleur De Lis Cookies


The entire set up
Top to bottom: Banana Pudding Shooters
Mini Pecan Pies
Petit Fours and Red Velvet Cake Balls
To the right are Pralines





Valentine and Saint's post coming soon!

Valentine's 2010!

Place your order today! Order’s placed January 12th- January 26th will receive a 10% discount on Valentine items between February 9th-13th

Peter Rabbit Themed Baby Shower

I love it when I come across pictures that photographers take of my work. They do a much better job that what we can do here at the shop! When I was first contacted about doing these petit fours and heard the theme they were doing, I was so excited to have the opportunity to create them! Below is a couple of pictures of how it looked at the shower! Thank you Jenn of for allowing me to use these :)






Photos by: brennphotography