angela rodriguez

Creative baking

hello everyone my name is Angela, I’m 36 years old with two beautiful children and a part time job .. but this isn’t where my story starts .. it all started when I was about 9 years old , during Christmas time my mother had her good’ol fashioned cookie recipe as always .. this was about the age she taught me to bake amongst other crafty things, I fell in love. Baking became absolutely fascinating to me .. I want to say by the age of 12 I was already learning to bake and use an oven properly .. at this moment ill never for get my first time trying to make homemade oatmeal cookies, I thought I had used the proper ingredients as needed I was so proud of my self at this point thinking wow I’m ganna have the hole family so proud of me too as I popped my balled up oatmeal cookies in the oven as a few min passed thinking I was baking as the time needed .. I took out my cookies from the oven only to notice they where still in large balls and very hot at this point as I try to smoosh them down .. I let them sit and cool as I looked for my mother in the house wanting to know y my cookies didn’t bake properly .. she came to the kitchen to notice my cookies still in a ball shape .. she asked what did you do .. of course I said I don’t know I thought I put all the proper ingredients I needed she giggled as she picked one up and said these are hard as a rock my family laughed .. it was hard to take in and a let down wanting to make the perfect cookies all by my self at the age of 12 .. but my mom just told me it’s ur first try practice makes perfect almost wanting to give up I didn’t, I pursued baking for the next few years as well as arts and crafts creating curing and glueing all kinds of this together for creative decorating .. by the time I graduated high school I felt like a professional decorating and baking for family birthday party’s .. by the time I had my first child in 2007 baking slowed down for me as having a full time job and child wasn’t easy but I never gave up my dreams a few years later I decided weekends would be my time to bake .. but all this baking was going no where and my family was burned out on all my sweet treats , so I decided to make a lil extra cash and do a bake sale but the honest truth is I was more excited for pe to try my baking then making money to the point where I would most of the time give my treats away for free instead of selling them , it made me feel so good inside. I eventually decided to move my bake sale to the streets I would be everywhere I walked in parking lots in side small business offering my treats at a low low price almost free .. at this point I’ve become so popular in my neighborhood that’s I had made business cards and the orders started rolling In, I couldn’t believe it the most happiest baking moment of my life .. although life has not been easy for me moving twice a year where ever I could afforded from state to state I never gave up on my dreams to own my own baking shop one day till this day I’m still working twords my dreams getting closer and closer and I’ve also have found ways to be creative enough to emerge my baking and my crafting all into one .. people from all over love my creative ideas , and deep down inside that makes me feel amazing to know people out there really love my stuff .. just know this, no matter how hard life gets for you or how old you are it’s never to late to give up on what makes you happy even if it’s not perfect because what might not be perfect to you in someone else’s eyes it’s a masterpiece. Practice makes perfect .. and baking is my happy and that alone is perfect enough . Thank you 🥰