As you may or may not know, I am psyched to be on the judging panel for this year’s Threadcakes competition! If you’ve been eating fondand under a rock somewhere I’ll fill you in – it’s a cake decorating contest that melds the creative, crowd-sourced designs of Threadless t-shirts with the uber popular art of [...]

One of the cooler things I get to do as Community Manager at Reuseit.com, besides troll around Facebook for a living, is test new products for our site. We try everything out ourselves before we add it, and because I write a lot of the product copy it’s important that I completely understand how things [...]

Check it out, I’m starting to become a staple at Threadless. Between my lucrative t-shirt modeling career, their incessant need for vegan baked goods and my being one of the Threadcakes judges this year I’ve been at their office once a week every week for the past month. Sitting in the vintage airstream having meetings [...]

This past week end my mom and I set out to prove something to the world: baby showers do not have to suck. Now, my baby shower was attended by members of Sweet Cobra and one of my gifts was a breast pump wrapped in a Budweiser box,  but that’s not really the kind of gal [...]

In 2009 I found myself in a moral dilemma – the fancy apron company that had been sponsoring me (via giveaways and lots of free fancy aprons) up and fired the designer responsible for what I still consider their cutest aprons. That designer also happened to be a friend of mine and I had to [...]

A few weeks ago I received an email from the peeps Threadless that literally made me squeal with joy on the El. To paraphrase, it said, “Hey Natalie, I see that you are awesome. We at Threadless are also awesome. Perhaps you’d like to be a Threadcakes judge this year?” After I got done making all [...]

It’s time to party, let’s party Hang out with yourself and have a crazy party Hey you, let’s party Have a killer party and party! To know me is to love me – and to love me is to fully accept my Andrew W.K. obsession without question. There is nothing in this world that can [...]

Earlier this month I was honored to be invited to judge the inaugural Baking Magic for Kids Bake Off! It takes place on June 13th at Verona Wisconsin’s Hometown Days. First of all, it has been a life-long dream of mine to judge a cake contest at a country fair-type joint. I mean, that is [...]

Every barista (or in my case, former barista) has a name for it: a chai latte with a couple of shot of espresso. Some call it dirty chai, some call it speeder chai, but at Earwax Cafe we called it Bike Messenger Chai. If you saw a guy (or girl) walk in with one rolled-up [...]

Nate Meads is some kind of a pastry wizard. Before he and his partners Elaine Heaney (also his lovely wife) and Jared Nance opened Fritz Pastry I was a die-hard American bakery fan. Brioche? Gateau Breton? Stick it in your ear, Frenchy. I’ll have a big slice of chocolate cake with plenty of buttercream. My [...]