Friday, November 8, 2013

New Venture part I

I’m looking into the possibility of opening a new Sin! We’ll still be doing custom cakes, but will be adding some new components. Come along and join me on the wonderful, scary, exciting, frustrating journey of opening a business in RI. 

I’m hoping that opening this new version of Sin will be a bit easier, because I’ve already done this once.  I’m an existing business, so I won’t have to file for a federal id number, I won’t have to register with the city and the state and quite a few other small filings. But I’ve never done something of this scale and there’s a whole new area added, so it should be interesting! 

I’ve already submitted a proposal, written a rough business plan, met with some friends for advice and met with a financial guy.  

Now we’re just waiting for our proposal to be accepted. Once accepted we need to work out final details and adjust our budgets to make sure we can still do the project. Then... well, it all starts! 


Stay tuned! 

Friday, April 22, 2011

Recent Cakes....



Wedding Cakes
Cake Toppers
Kids Cakes
Carved Cakes

we do it all....





Sunday, February 27, 2011

Edible Rhody

This article has been out for a while, but I've just received the online link...

Friday, February 18, 2011

Sweetest Couture

Check out our latest interview with the blog site Sweetest Couture.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

We won, again!


WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce Sin as been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for Wedding Cakes

Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.

Sin stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud Sin for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”

We are happy to announce that Sin is among the very best Wedding Cakes within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Vacation and stuff.

I've been here by myself for the past couple of days. Just like it was when I first started! Every once in a while it's nice to be here by myself. I haven't frosted this much is months! It's good to get my hands "frosty", makes me remember why I love this so much.
We're taking a much needed vacation now thru January 11th. Manuela is going to Colorado for skiing, Keri to Columbia to visit family and I'm going on a short cruise to Nassau.
Boy do we need it, we did approximately 130 wedding cakes and over 250 other cakes, all unique and individually designed and decorated. Plus we did thousands of cupcakes, anniversary cakes, desserts, dummy cakes, events... so much cake!
But, here's looking to next year! Let's double it!!! Yeah!!!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Cookie Video

From our friend David Bettencourt... check it out here.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Ali won!

Ali's groupon guess was 220... we sold 214! Yeah!

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Groupon!!!

We've had a groupon coupon today for holiday cookie platters and have been scooping cookies and baking up a storm! We have an in store contest to see who's come closest to guessing the number of groupon coupons sold... so far it seems like it will be between our new intern, Ali, and Ginger. We'll report on the outcome tomorrow!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Fabulous FREE Facebook Fridays!!!

Ready for FABULOUS FREE FACEBOOK FRIDAY???


Giving you all 24 hours to respond this week-

3 winners will be chosen at random from all entries received by 2 pm tomorrow.

Share with us your favorite cake memory for (wait for it...)

a chance to win one of THREE cupcake 6 packs!
Flavors are Yellow, Lemon or Old Fashioned Chocolate.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Fabulous FREE Facebook Fridays!!!

Every Friday on our Facebook page, we will announce a FREE give-away from Sin!
It may be cupcakes, a cake, tartlets, brownies or some other delicious delicacy to fill your belly!


Go to our page- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Providence-RI/Sin/156789608229


"Friend" us, encourage friends to "friend" us and share in the joys of Sinning.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

GINGER takes over!


Hello- Ginger here, Office Manager for Sin. I have been asked to take over blogging for a bit so that Jen can focus on making her amazingly sinful & beautiful cakes.

Summer has been BUSY!
Lot's of weddings, awesome responses to the article in the PROJO & we were recently crowned winner of FOX 64 Cake Off!

My day-to-day existence at Sin is full of emails, phone calls, invoices, filing, ribboning boards but most importantly- eating CAKE! No, I am not a baker or decorator. I am an eater. Yummy delicious cake. My name has become a synonym for eating cake. Especially from a bucket of scraps. Such as- "Yesterday, I totally did a Ginger" or "Are you Gingering?" :)

Okay, gotta go, stuff to do, cake to eat. Until next week!
-GG



Saturday, July 3, 2010

Pro Jo Piece

Sorry we haven't been blogging as much as we did last month, wedding season has hit us! But here's a piece that appeared in the Providence Journal, hopefully that will tie you over until we can get some more pictures up...

Monday, June 21, 2010

City Bride Cake off...

I know this is late... but we participated in the WNAC Fox 64 City Bride Cake Off Competition last night. And WE WON! Keri came up with an incredible design and we rocked it out.
Check out the Cake Cam shots.... I'll post more pictures later.

Here's the winning cake....