I am retired after 20 years with AT&T. I have gone to culinary school to learn Confectionery Arts, better known as cake decorating. I have a small business doing mostly wedding cakes and other special occasion cakes. I have taken advanced classes with well known designers, Colette Peters, Sue McMahon, Ewald Notter and Stephan Treande. I love to bake and make desserts. If I won the Lottery tomorrow, I would open an exclusive shop smack in the middle of downtown Orlando selling fancy schmancy cakes to people who can afford to pay well.

I am married, have two children and two grand-daughters. I love to collect things, antiques, books, and lots of "stuff" that my family is after me to get rid of, so they won't have to deal with it one day.

I love the selling part of my business and delivery and set up of the wedding or special occasion cake. It is pretty and happy, although a bit stressful. Making the cakes is hard work and sometimes difficult to get it to turn out the way I envision it. Dislike housework, cleaning out closets or rooms filled with "stuff" is not my idea of fun. Selling, studying and researching, and actually making cakes and flowers to decorate them is my idea of fun.