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The tinkling of the alarm sounded promptly at 1PM. Celeste yawned loudly, not used to waking up this early, but she had been tasked with a very important job for the big 20th TBT birthday bash at 4pm. After she designed the invitation for the party, Isabelle begged her to come up with the cake design. So now Celeste was in charge of picking up the cake that she had specially ordered for the momentous occasion. She had ordered the cake two full weeks ago with very detailed and specific instructions. The cake would look like a night sky with lots of stars and shooting stars. Some of the stars would be star frags that were to spell out Happy 20th Birthday TBT and be connected dot-to-dot style like a constellation. She knew without a doubt that it be beautiful. She got out of bed and got the coffee started and went and picked out her best party bow. While she waited on her coffee, she finished wrapping the birthday presents that she was bringing and texted her brother, Blathers, to make sure that he was awake. (He had had an early shift at the museum and was kind of known for falling asleep at work on occasion.) Luckily, he was already awake and on his way to pick her up so they could go pick up the cake.
10 minutes later, her brother was at her door, looking all spiffy in his new party tie. Normally, on a beautiful day, like today, they would just walk to wherever they were going, but since they had gifts to bring and a cake to pick up, they had opted to take Blathers’s luxury car. After loading his car with gifts, they were on their way. Meringue’s bakery wasn’t far, so it only took a couple of minutes to get there. When Celeste opened the door to the bakery, she was engulfed with a cacophony of delicious aromas. She had always loved going to Meringue’s because of this. They could see dozens of small and medium undecorated cookies on pans and it looked as though, fresh muffins had just been taken out of the oven. Meringue’s assistant, Zucker greeted them cheerily as they came in. Celeste asked him if their order was ready, and he replied that it absolutely was. As he walked over to the cooler to get Celeste’s order, he gushed over how excited he was that Meringue had let him decorate the cake, after she had baked it and did the base icing. With the TBT birthday bash being so big, Meringue had been baking like a mad woman to get all the birthday bash orders finished. Laughing, Zucker told them, this place had been wall to wall cookies and scones and cupcakes everywhere for the last 2 days. He had helped Meringue load all of it into her catering truck just a bit ago to deliver it to the party. He carefully pulled out the ginormous box from the front cooler and set it on the counter. He proudly lifted the lid, so Celeste and Blathers could take a peek. Celeste’s face fell immediately. This was NOT what she had wanted. While the night sky for the cake turned out GORGEOUS, (Thank you Meringue!), the wording was not right at all.
Celeste closed her eyes and sighed heavily. There were so many beautiful details, with teeny tiny glittering stars and shooting stars and the stunning aurora borealis in the corners BUT, although the star frags did spell out Happy 20th Birthday TBT, they were not connected and underneath it, were the words connected dot-to-dot. With tears welling up in her eyes, and the feeling of having a frog in her throat, she asked Zucker if she could see her order form. He could see that something was wrong, and anxiously shuffled through the completed forms at the counter. He found hers and handed it to her.
Pick Up Date: 8/25 Pick Up Time: 2 PM
Name: Celeste Phone Number: 555-0907
Flavor: Vanilla Filling: Lemon
Frosting: Cream Cheese
Order Details: Night sky background with aurora borealis in the top 2 corners and lots of stars, shooting stars, with star frags that spell out Happy 20th Birthday TBT connected dot-to-dot.
There it was… in black and white
Zucker did the wording verbatim.
It was an honest mistake that Meringue would have surely caught had she been the one decorating the cake. Or she would have called Celeste to confirm. Alas, with all the other orders, they didn’t catch it.
After taking a few deep breaths, Celeste looked at Zucker and told him what she had wanted. His eyes grew wide as saucers as he “connected” what the wording meant. He looked down at the cake, seeing the mistake for what it was. He felt TERRIBLE. Celeste, being the sweet owl that she is tried to comfort him, explaining that part of the fault was her own. She wasn’t mad, but she knew she couldn’t take the cake to the birthday bash like this. She asked him if there was any way to try to fix it without ruining the beautiful background. Zucker, anxiously shaking his head, explained that while he could definitely connect the frags the way she wanted, there was no way he could take off the words connected dot-to-dot without ruining the beautiful background underneath it.
All the while this was going on, Blathers had been surprisingly quiet, though he’s normally a chatterbox. When Celeste turned her head towards him, she could see he was deep in thought. With question marks in her eyes, she asked her big brother what he was thinking. His eyebrows furrowed and told her to give him a moment. He stood there, with his wing feather tips tapping the air back and forth for a minute. All the sudden, he stepped back, his wings feathering out with shock, and you could almost see an ! above his head.
Blathers, then asked Zucker if the cookies that they had seen on the pan when they walked in were already promised to a customer. Zucker told him that they were extra that he was planning to maybe decorate and put in the window display later. Still deep in thought, and trying to find words for his idea, put conflicting expressions on his face. It took Celeste right out of her melancholy state and she burst out laughing, making Zucker jump, and taking the intense faraway look off of Blathers’s face. What if, he voiced, they could decorate the cookies to look like the 12 different zodiac star frags and placed them over the middle 12 letters, leaving the first 2 letters and the last 2 letters for something else. Celeste’s eyes grew wide, immediately seeing this idea in her head. She asked Zucker if they could purchase the cookies they would need if Blathers’s idea worked. Zucker told her, there would absolutely be no charge for the cookies, but as they were on a time crunch, he wasn’t sure if he could get them all decorated in time, but he could certainly try. He did have another possible idea to add to their solution, which was to use white and iridescent edible spray and edible fine glitter in a few colors that he could try to create a type of nebula over the existing letters to help hide them. He expressed that it might work, especially if they were planning to cover most of the letters with the decorated cookies. The only problem, was TIME.
Blathers and Celeste looked at each other, both of them thinking the same thing, and blurted out that they could help! Blathers, told Zucker that he had helped restore some of the fine art that came into the museum so he might be able to help decorate the cookies. Celeste, also chimed in telling Zucker that she had some digital skills, and had created the invitation to the party but she wasn’t sure if that could help. Zucker told her that she could absolutely help! His boss, Meringue had had a new software installed not too long ago that allows you to print digital or photo images on edible paper frosting so if Celeste could design one on the computer, and then just edit the colors to make the 12, then they could print it out and add them to the cookies. Zucker then told them, if Blathers could be in charge of icing the cookies and Celeste in charge of creating the 12 frags, then he should have plenty of time to be able to make the nebula on the bottom of the cake while they do that.
They went to work straight away. In no time, Celeste had drawn up a nice frag, and was busy replicating it, to edit in the 12 different colors. Blathers, loving to play with paints, had an even better idea, and was busying himself on icing 24 cookies now, instead of 12. Zucker, with a very intense look on his face, was hunched over the cake using 2 aerosol cans at once. Then he grabbed a blue and purple can and did a few short sprays, and then changed to pink and turquoise with even shorter sprays. Next he grabbed the big tub loaded with different beautiful edible glitter colors. Those ranged from super fine, to chunky. He got to work using some of the super fine first and then sprinkled a bit of the chunkier glitter in as well. When he stepped back to look at his work, he felt such a relieving feeling of accomplishment. His idea had worked. You could still see some of the letters, but only some of the ones that were to be covered up anyways.
He then went to check on Celeste and she was almost ready to print. She only had two more frags to color. Then, he went to check on Blathers and saw how many cookies were in front of him and asked what in the world he was doing. Blathers than explained that he was going to use two different sizes of cookies on top of each other to almost look like a little pedestal for the frags. He still had a bit of a ways to go before he was finished, but Zucker jumped right in and helped him. Once Celeste had hers printed out, she brought her frags over to add to the cookies and was delighted at Blathers’s clever pedestal idea. She started adding the frags at once, while the boys finished icing. A few minutes later, they were all finished and were ready to put everything together and fix the cake.
When Celeste and Blathers saw the nebula that Zucker had created, they were blown away. It was beautiful! They almost hated to cover it up! They each started carefully laying the 2 tiered frag cookies down and in no time, they were finished. The cake looked out of this world fantastic! Celeste thanked Zucker over and over for all of his help. Slightly embarrassed, Zucker told her she was more than welcome and apologized again for his blunder. Blathers pulled a twenty out and handed it to Zucker, as a tip for all his hard work and told him with a wink that if they ever needed another decorator, feel free to call on him. With only 15 minutes left until the party officially started, they loaded up the cake and headed that way. Celeste, feeling so grateful for the collaborative teamwork, could not wait for the guests to see how beautiful the cake turned out. But Hootie-HOO did she sure feel like she needed a nap now!
The tinkling of the alarm sounded promptly at 1PM. Celeste yawned loudly, not used to waking up this early, but she had been tasked with a very important job for the big 20th TBT birthday bash at 4pm. After she designed the invitation for the party, Isabelle begged her to come up with the cake design. So now Celeste was in charge of picking up the cake that she had specially ordered for the momentous occasion. She had ordered the cake two full weeks ago with very detailed and specific instructions. The cake would look like a night sky with lots of stars and shooting stars. Some of the stars would be star frags that were to spell out Happy 20th Birthday TBT and be connected dot-to-dot style like a constellation. She knew without a doubt that it be beautiful. She got out of bed and got the coffee started and went and picked out her best party bow. While she waited on her coffee, she finished wrapping the birthday presents that she was bringing and texted her brother, Blathers, to make sure that he was awake. (He had had an early shift at the museum and was kind of known for falling asleep at work on occasion.) Luckily, he was already awake and on his way to pick her up so they could go pick up the cake.
10 minutes later, her brother was at her door, looking all spiffy in his new party tie. Normally, on a beautiful day, like today, they would just walk to wherever they were going, but since they had gifts to bring and a cake to pick up, they had opted to take Blathers’s luxury car. After loading his car with gifts, they were on their way. Meringue’s bakery wasn’t far, so it only took a couple of minutes to get there. When Celeste opened the door to the bakery, she was engulfed with a cacophony of delicious aromas. She had always loved going to Meringue’s because of this. They could see dozens of small and medium undecorated cookies on pans and it looked as though, fresh muffins had just been taken out of the oven. Meringue’s assistant, Zucker greeted them cheerily as they came in. Celeste asked him if their order was ready, and he replied that it absolutely was. As he walked over to the cooler to get Celeste’s order, he gushed over how excited he was that Meringue had let him decorate the cake, after she had baked it and did the base icing. With the TBT birthday bash being so big, Meringue had been baking like a mad woman to get all the birthday bash orders finished. Laughing, Zucker told them, this place had been wall to wall cookies and scones and cupcakes everywhere for the last 2 days. He had helped Meringue load all of it into her catering truck just a bit ago to deliver it to the party. He carefully pulled out the ginormous box from the front cooler and set it on the counter. He proudly lifted the lid, so Celeste and Blathers could take a peek. Celeste’s face fell immediately. This was NOT what she had wanted. While the night sky for the cake turned out GORGEOUS, (Thank you Meringue!), the wording was not right at all.
Celeste closed her eyes and sighed heavily. There were so many beautiful details, with teeny tiny glittering stars and shooting stars and the stunning aurora borealis in the corners BUT, although the star frags did spell out Happy 20th Birthday TBT, they were not connected and underneath it, were the words connected dot-to-dot. With tears welling up in her eyes, and the feeling of having a frog in her throat, she asked Zucker if she could see her order form. He could see that something was wrong, and anxiously shuffled through the completed forms at the counter. He found hers and handed it to her.
Pick Up Date: 8/25 Pick Up Time: 2 PM
Name: Celeste Phone Number: 555-0907
Flavor: Vanilla Filling: Lemon
Frosting: Cream Cheese
Order Details: Night sky background with aurora borealis in the top 2 corners and lots of stars, shooting stars, with star frags that spell out Happy 20th Birthday TBT connected dot-to-dot.
There it was… in black and white
Zucker did the wording verbatim.
It was an honest mistake that Meringue would have surely caught had she been the one decorating the cake. Or she would have called Celeste to confirm. Alas, with all the other orders, they didn’t catch it.
After taking a few deep breaths, Celeste looked at Zucker and told him what she had wanted. His eyes grew wide as saucers as he “connected” what the wording meant. He looked down at the cake, seeing the mistake for what it was. He felt TERRIBLE. Celeste, being the sweet owl that she is tried to comfort him, explaining that part of the fault was her own. She wasn’t mad, but she knew she couldn’t take the cake to the birthday bash like this. She asked him if there was any way to try to fix it without ruining the beautiful background. Zucker, anxiously shaking his head, explained that while he could definitely connect the frags the way she wanted, there was no way he could take off the words connected dot-to-dot without ruining the beautiful background underneath it.
All the while this was going on, Blathers had been surprisingly quiet, though he’s normally a chatterbox. When Celeste turned her head towards him, she could see he was deep in thought. With question marks in her eyes, she asked her big brother what he was thinking. His eyebrows furrowed and told her to give him a moment. He stood there, with his wing feather tips tapping the air back and forth for a minute. All the sudden, he stepped back, his wings feathering out with shock, and you could almost see an ! above his head.
Blathers, then asked Zucker if the cookies that they had seen on the pan when they walked in were already promised to a customer. Zucker told him that they were extra that he was planning to maybe decorate and put in the window display later. Still deep in thought, and trying to find words for his idea, put conflicting expressions on his face. It took Celeste right out of her melancholy state and she burst out laughing, making Zucker jump, and taking the intense faraway look off of Blathers’s face. What if, he voiced, they could decorate the cookies to look like the 12 different zodiac star frags and placed them over the middle 12 letters, leaving the first 2 letters and the last 2 letters for something else. Celeste’s eyes grew wide, immediately seeing this idea in her head. She asked Zucker if they could purchase the cookies they would need if Blathers’s idea worked. Zucker told her, there would absolutely be no charge for the cookies, but as they were on a time crunch, he wasn’t sure if he could get them all decorated in time, but he could certainly try. He did have another possible idea to add to their solution, which was to use white and iridescent edible spray and edible fine glitter in a few colors that he could try to create a type of nebula over the existing letters to help hide them. He expressed that it might work, especially if they were planning to cover most of the letters with the decorated cookies. The only problem, was TIME.
Blathers and Celeste looked at each other, both of them thinking the same thing, and blurted out that they could help! Blathers, told Zucker that he had helped restore some of the fine art that came into the museum so he might be able to help decorate the cookies. Celeste, also chimed in telling Zucker that she had some digital skills, and had created the invitation to the party but she wasn’t sure if that could help. Zucker told her that she could absolutely help! His boss, Meringue had had a new software installed not too long ago that allows you to print digital or photo images on edible paper frosting so if Celeste could design one on the computer, and then just edit the colors to make the 12, then they could print it out and add them to the cookies. Zucker then told them, if Blathers could be in charge of icing the cookies and Celeste in charge of creating the 12 frags, then he should have plenty of time to be able to make the nebula on the bottom of the cake while they do that.
They went to work straight away. In no time, Celeste had drawn up a nice frag, and was busy replicating it, to edit in the 12 different colors. Blathers, loving to play with paints, had an even better idea, and was busying himself on icing 24 cookies now, instead of 12. Zucker, with a very intense look on his face, was hunched over the cake using 2 aerosol cans at once. Then he grabbed a blue and purple can and did a few short sprays, and then changed to pink and turquoise with even shorter sprays. Next he grabbed the big tub loaded with different beautiful edible glitter colors. Those ranged from super fine, to chunky. He got to work using some of the super fine first and then sprinkled a bit of the chunkier glitter in as well. When he stepped back to look at his work, he felt such a relieving feeling of accomplishment. His idea had worked. You could still see some of the letters, but only some of the ones that were to be covered up anyways.
He then went to check on Celeste and she was almost ready to print. She only had two more frags to color. Then, he went to check on Blathers and saw how many cookies were in front of him and asked what in the world he was doing. Blathers than explained that he was going to use two different sizes of cookies on top of each other to almost look like a little pedestal for the frags. He still had a bit of a ways to go before he was finished, but Zucker jumped right in and helped him. Once Celeste had hers printed out, she brought her frags over to add to the cookies and was delighted at Blathers’s clever pedestal idea. She started adding the frags at once, while the boys finished icing. A few minutes later, they were all finished and were ready to put everything together and fix the cake.
When Celeste and Blathers saw the nebula that Zucker had created, they were blown away. It was beautiful! They almost hated to cover it up! They each started carefully laying the 2 tiered frag cookies down and in no time, they were finished. The cake looked out of this world fantastic! Celeste thanked Zucker over and over for all of his help. Slightly embarrassed, Zucker told her she was more than welcome and apologized again for his blunder. Blathers pulled a twenty out and handed it to Zucker, as a tip for all his hard work and told him with a wink that if they ever needed another decorator, feel free to call on him. With only 15 minutes left until the party officially started, they loaded up the cake and headed that way. Celeste, feeling so grateful for the collaborative teamwork, could not wait for the guests to see how beautiful the cake turned out. But Hootie-HOO did she sure feel like she needed a nap now!