Thank you for allowing me to introduce myself! I own Sugar on Top Bake Shop in Genoa, Illinois; the same town where I live with my husband and kids.

 I started decorating cakes in the summer of 2000; right out of high school. I took a class at a local craft store, and by the end of the four week class, the instructor was asking me to help her teach the class. I started my career right away in grocery store bakeries, and worked my way into family-owned bakeries in the suburbs of Chicago. Meanwhile, I attended pastry school and business management classes at Elgin Community College. All of this while I was raising the oldest two of my daughters. One day, my oldest asked me why I was going to school and I answered "So I can open a bakery for us all to work in someday."

Life got a bit hectic, and I had to work "normal" business hours for a few years, so I worked as a legal assistant and law office manager. I also started and managed a haunted attraction for eight Octobers. During those few years, I missed making cakes full time and I continued to dream about that bakery.

Finally, in 2014, I decided to take that risk and start a business. Initially, Sugar on Top was run out of our home kitchen. Soon after, we moved into a commercial kitchen in Kirkland. And finally in 2019, we turned a store front in downtown Genoa into our little bakery.