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Stress Management
Topic Overview
What happens when you are stressed?
Stress is what you feel when you have to handle more than you are used to. When you are stressed, your body responds as though you are in danger. It makes hormones that speed up your heart, make you breathe faster, and give you a burst of energy. This is called the fight-or-flight stress response.
Some stress is normal and even useful. Stress can help if you need to work hard or react quickly. For example, it can help you win a race or finish an important job on time.
But if stress happens too often or lasts too long, it can have bad effects. It can be linked to headaches, an upset stomach, back pain, and trouble sleeping. It can weaken your immune system, making it harder to fight off disease. If you already have a health problem, stress may make it worse. It can make you moody, tense, or depressed. Your relationships may suffer, and you may not do well at work or school.
What can you do about stress?
The good news is that you can learn ways to manage stress. To get stress under control:
- Find out what is causing stress in your life.
- Look for ways to reduce the amount of stress in your life.
- Learn healthy ways to relieve stress and reduce its harmful effects.
How do you measure your stress level?
Sometimes it is clear where stress is coming from. You can count on stress during a major life change such as the death of a loved one, getting married, or having a baby. But other times it may not be so clear why you feel stressed.
It's important to figure out what causes stress for you. Everyone feels and responds to stress differently. Tracking your stress may help. Get a notebook, and write down when something makes you feel stressed. Then write how you reacted and what you did to deal with the stress. Tracking your stress can help you find out what is causing your stress and how much stress you feel. Then you can take steps to reduce the stress or handle it better.
To find out how stressed you are right now, use this Interactive Tool: What Is Your Stress Level?
How can you avoid stress?
Stress is a fact of life for most people. You may not be able to get rid of stress, but you can look for ways to lower it.
You might try some of these ideas:
- Learn better ways to manage your time. You may get more done with less stress if you make a schedule. Think about which things are most important, and do those first.
- Find better ways to cope. Look at how you have been dealing with stress. Be honest about what works and what does not. Think about other things that might work better.
- Take good care of yourself. Get plenty of rest. Eat well. Don't smoke. Limit how much alcohol you drink.
- Try out new ways of thinking. When you find yourself starting to worry, try to stop the thoughts. Or write down your worries and work on letting go of things you cannot change. Learn to say "no."
- Speak up. Not being able to talk about your needs and concerns creates stress and can make negative feelings worse. Assertive communication can help you express how you feel in a thoughtful, tactful way.
- Ask for help. People who have a strong network of family and friends manage stress better.
Sometimes stress is just too much to handle alone. Talking to a friend or family member may help, but you may also want to see a counselor.
How can you relieve stress?
You will feel better if you can find ways to get stress out of your system. The best ways to relieve stress are different for each person. Try some of these ideas to see which ones work for you:
- Exercise. Regular exercise is one of the best ways to manage stress. Walking is a great way to get started.
- Write. It can help to write about the things that are bothering you.
- Let your feelings out. Talk, laugh, cry, and express anger when you need to with someone you trust.
- Do something you enjoy. A hobby can help you relax. Volunteer work or work that helps others can be a great stress reliever.
- Learn ways to relax your body. This can include breathing exercises, muscle relaxation exercises, massage, aromatherapy, yoga, or relaxing exercises like tai chi and qi gong.
- Focus on the present. Try meditation and imagery exercises. Listen to relaxing music. Try to look for the humor in life. Laughter really can be the best medicine.
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Causes of Stress
A lot of things can cause stress. You may feel stress when you go on a job interview, take a test, or run a race. These kinds of short-term stress are normal. Long-term (chronic) stress is caused by stressful situations or events that last over a long period of time, like problems at work or conflicts in your family. Over time, chronic stress can lead to severe health problems.
Personal problems that can cause stress
- Your health, especially if you have a chronic illness such as heart disease, diabetes, or arthritis
- Emotional problems, such as anger you can't express, depression, grief, guilt, or low self-esteem
- Your relationships, such as having problems with your relationships or feeling a lack of friendships or support in your life
- Major life changes, such as dealing with the death of a parent or spouse, losing your job, getting married, or moving to a new city
- Stress in your family, such as having a child, teen, or other family member who is under stress, or being a caregiver to a family member who is elderly or who has health problems
- Conflicts with your beliefs and values. For example, you may value family life, but you may not be able to spend as much time with your family as you want.
Social and job issues that can cause stress
- Your surroundings. Living in an area where overcrowding, crime, pollution, or noise is a problem can create chronic stress.
- Your social situation. Not having enough money to cover your expenses, feeling lonely, or facing discrimination based on your race, gender, age, or sexual orientation can add stress to your life.
- Your job. Being unhappy with your work or finding your job too demanding can lead to chronic stress. Learn how to manage job stress.
- Unemployment. Losing your job or not being able to find work can also add to your stress level.
Post-traumatic stress
You may need help dealing with stress if you have faced a life-threatening or traumatic event such as rape, a natural disaster, or war. These events can cause acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). For more information, see the topic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Effects of Stress
Stress causes changes in your body. It also affects your emotions.
How stress affects the body
Common symptoms of stress include:
- A fast heartbeat.
- A headache.
- A stiff neck and/or tight shoulders.
- Back pain.
- Fast breathing.
- Sweating, and sweaty palms.
- An upset stomach, nausea, or diarrhea.
Over time, stress can affect your:
- Immune system. Constant stress can make you more likely to get sick more often. And if you have a chronic illness such as AIDS, stress can make your symptoms worse.
- Heart. Stress is linked to high blood pressure, abnormal heartbeat (arrhythmia), blood clots, and hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis). It's also linked to coronary artery disease, heart attack, and heart failure.
- Muscles. Constant tension from stress can lead to neck, shoulder, and low back pain. Stress may make rheumatoid arthritis worse.
- Stomach. If you have stomach problems, such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or irritable bowel syndrome, stress can make your symptoms worse.
- Reproductive organs. Stress is linked to low fertility, erection problems, problems during pregnancy, and painful menstrual periods.
- Lungs. Stress can make symptoms of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) worse.
- Skin. Skin problems such as acne and psoriasis are made worse by stress.
An extreme reaction to stress is a panic attack. A panic attack is a sudden, intense fear or anxiety that may make you feel short of breath, dizzy, or make your heart pound. People who have panic attacks may feel out of control, like they are having a heart attack, or are about to die. Panic attacks may happen with no clear cause, but they can be brought on by living with high levels of stress for a long time. For more information on panic attacks, see the topic Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder.
How stress affects your thoughts and emotions
You might notice signs of stress in the way you think, act, and feel. You may:
- Feel cranky and unable to deal with even small problems.
- Feel frustrated, lose your temper more often, and yell at others for no reason.
- Feel jumpy or tired all the time.
- Find it hard to focus on tasks.
- Worry too much about small things.
- Feel that you are missing out on things because you can't act quickly.
- Imagine that bad things are happening or about to happen.
How stress affects you depends on many things, such as:
- Your personality.
- What you have learned from your family about responding to stress.
- How you think about and handle stress.
- Your coping strategies .
- Your social support.
The type of stress matters
Stress can affect you both instantly (acute stress) and over time (chronic stress).
Acute (short-term) stress is the body's instant response to any situation that seems demanding or dangerous. Your stress level depends on how intense the stress is, how long it lasts, and how you cope with the situation.
Most of the time, your body recovers quickly from acute stress. But stress can cause problems if it happens too often or if your body doesn't have a chance to recover. In people with heart problems, acute stress can trigger an abnormal heartbeat (arrhythmia) or even a heart attack.
Chronic (long-term) stress is caused by stressful situations or events that last over a long period of time. This could include having a difficult job or dealing with a chronic disease. If you already have a health problem, stress can make it worse.
Measuring Stress
Feeling stress is a fact of life for most people. But it affects everyone differently. What causes stress for you may not be stressful for someone else. That's because how you view a situation affects how much stress it causes you. Only you can figure out whether you have too much stress in your life.
Ask yourself these questions to find out what is causing your stress:
What job, family, or personal stress do you have?
Stress can be caused by an ongoing personal situation such as:
- Problems in your family or with a relationship.
- Caring for a family member who is elderly, has chronic health problems, or is disabled. Caregiving is a major source of stress.
- For more information, see the topic Quick Tips: Reducing the Stress of Caregiving.
- Your job.
- Dealing with a family member who is under stress.
Have you had any recent major life changes?
Life changes such as getting married, moving to a new city, or losing a job can all be stressful. You can't always control these things, but you can control how you respond to them.
To find out your current stress level based on recent changes in your life, try this Interactive Tool: What Is Your Stress Level?
Do your beliefs cause you stress?
Some people feel stress because their beliefs conflict with the way they are living their life. Examine your beliefs, such as your values and life goals, to find out if you have this kind of conflict in your life.
How are you coping with stress?
Your lifestyle choices can prevent your body from recovering from stress. For example, as you sleep, your body recovers from the stresses of the day. If you're not getting enough sleep or your sleep is often interrupted, you lose the chance to recover from stress.
The way you act and behave can also be a sign of stress. Some people who face a lot of stress react by smoking, drinking too much alcohol, eating poorly, or not exercising. The health risks posed by these habits are made even worse by stress.
Your body feels stress-related wear and tear in two ways: the stress itself and the unhealthy ways you respond to it.
- Use this coping strategies evaluation form to help you find out how you cope with stress.
- Try this Interactive Tool: How Well Do You Bounce Back? It measures your ability to deal with life's challenges.
Ways to Relieve Stress
The best way to manage your stress is to learn healthy coping strategies. You can start practicing these tips right away. Try one or two until you find a few that work for you. Practice these techniques until they become habits you turn to when you feel stress. You can also use this coping strategies form to see how you respond to stress.
Stress-relief techniques focus on relaxing your mind and your body.
Ways to relax your mind
- Write. It may help to write about things that are bothering you. Write for 10 to 15 minutes a day about stressful events and how they made you feel. Or think about tracking your stress. This helps you find out what is causing your stress and how much stress you feel. After you know, you can find better ways to cope.
- Let your feelings out. Talk, laugh, cry, and express anger when you need to. Talking with friends, family, a counselor, or a member of the clergy about your feelings is a healthy way to relieve stress.
Do something you enjoy. You may feel that you're too busy to do these things. But making time to do something you enjoy can help you relax. It might also help you get more done in other areas of your life. Try:
- A hobby, such as gardening.
- A creative activity, such as writing, crafts, or art.
- Playing with and caring for pets.
- Volunteer work.
Focus on the present. Meditation and guided imagery are two ways to focus and relax your mind.
- Meditate. When you meditate, you focus your attention on things that are happening right now. Paying attention to your breathing is one way to focus. Mindfulness-based stress reduction is one form of meditation that is very helpful with managing stress and learning how to better cope with it.
- Use guided imagery. With guided imagery, you imagine yourself in any setting that helps you feel calm and relaxed. You can use audiotapes, books, or a teacher to guide you.
Ways to relax your body
- Exercise. Regular exercise is one of the best ways to manage stress. Walking is a great way to get started. Even everyday activities such as housecleaning or yard work can reduce stress. Stretching can also relieve muscle tension. For more information about becoming more active, see the topic Fitness.
Try techniques to relax. Breathing exercises, muscle relaxation, and yoga can help relieve stress.
- Breathing exercises. These include roll breathing, a type of deep breathing.
- Progressive muscle relaxation. This technique reduces muscle tension. You do it by relaxing separate groups of muscles one by one.
- Yoga, tai chi, and qi gong. These techniques combine exercise and meditation. You may need some training at first to learn them. Books and videos are also helpful. You can do all of these techniques at home.
You might like to try a combination of these techniques.
In addition to practicing these skills, you might also try some other techniques to reduce stress, such as massage or music therapy.
Ways to Avoid Stress
Stress is a part of life, and you can't always avoid it. But you can try to avoid situations that can cause it, and you can control how you respond to it. The first step is knowing your own coping strategies. Try tracking your stress to record stressful events, your response to them, and how you coped.
After you know what is causing your stress, try making some changes in your life that will help you avoid stressful situations. Here are a few ideas:
Manage your time
Time management is a way to find the time for more of the things you want and need to do. It helps you decide which things are urgent and which can wait. Managing your time can make your life easier, less stressful, and more meaningful.
Look at your lifestyle
The choices you make about the way you live affect your stress level. Your lifestyle may not cause stress on its own, but it can prevent your body from recovering from it. Try to:
- Find a balance between personal, work, and family needs. This isn't easy. Start by looking at how you spend your time. Maybe there are things that you don't need to do at all. Finding a balance can be especially hard during the holidays.
- Have a sense of purpose in life. Many people find meaning through connections with family or friends, jobs, their spirituality, or volunteer work.
- Get enough sleep. Your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping. If your worries keep you from sleeping, keep a notepad or your cell phone by your bed to record what you are worried about—to help you let it go while you sleep. For example, if you are worried you might forget to run an errand the next day, make a note so that you can stop worrying about forgetting.
- Adopt healthy habits. Eat a healthy diet, limit how much alcohol you drink, and don't smoke. Staying healthy is your best defense against stress.
- Exercise. Even moderate exercise, such as taking a daily walk, can reduce stress.
Get support
Support in your life from family, friends, and your community has a big impact on how you experience stress. Having support in your life can help you stay healthy.
Support means having the love, trust, and advice of others. But support can also be something more concrete, like time or money. It can be hard to ask for help. But doing so doesn't mean you're weak. If you're feeling stressed, you can look for support from:
- Family and friends.
- Coworkers, or people you know through hobbies or other interests.
- A professional counselor. (See tips for finding a counselor or therapist.)
- People you know from church, or a member of the clergy.
- Employee assistance programs at work, or stress management classes.
- Support groups. These can be very helpful if your stress is caused by a special situation. Maybe you are a caregiver for someone who is elderly or has a chronic illness.
Change your thinking
Stressful events can make you feel bad about yourself. You might start focusing on only the bad and not the good in a situation. That's called negative thinking. It can make you feel afraid, insecure, depressed, or anxious. It's also common to feel a lack of control or self-worth.
Negative thinking can trigger your body's stress response, just as a real threat does. Dealing with these negative thoughts and the way you see things can help reduce stress. You can learn these techniques on your own, or you can get help from a counselor. Here are some ideas:
- Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) helps you cope with a problem by changing the way you think. How you think affects how you feel. To learn more, see the topic Stop Negative Thoughts: Choosing a Healthier Way of Thinking.
- Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event, find things you may be able to change, and deal with things you can't change.
Assertive communication helps you express how you feel in a thoughtful, tactful way. Not being able to talk about your needs and concerns creates stress and can make negative feelings worse.
- Stress Management: Reducing Stress by Being Assertive
Setting a Goal to Reduce Stress
Setting a goal in three steps
If you're ready to reduce stress in your life, setting a goal may help. Try following these three steps:
- Find out what creates stress for you. Try tracking your stress to record stressful events, your response to them, and the coping strategies you used. If you have a smartphone, you can download a free stress-tracking app to help you monitor your stress. If you don't have a smartphone, you can use a spreadsheet on your computer. Or pencil and paper work, too. The important thing is to keep track of your stress so that you can both learn what is causing it and work toward managing it.
- Think about why you want to reduce stress. You might want to protect your heart and your health by reducing stress. Or maybe you simply want to enjoy your life more and not let stress control how you feel. Your reason for wanting to change is important. If your reason comes from you—and not someone else—it will be easier for you to make a healthy change for good.
- Set a goal. Think about a long-term and a short-term goal to reduce stress in your life.
Examples of how to set goals
- Sheila is a customer service manager for a computer company. She's also the mother of two young kids. Between her job and chores at home, she feels overwhelmed by all the demands on her. She can't remember the last time she took a lunch break at work or took a class at the gym. While she's lying awake at night, she is worrying about getting everything done. Sheila's long-term goal: Find a better balance between personal, home, and family needs. Short-term goal: Take a 15-minute walk each night.
- Ray is a pretty easygoing guy most of the time. But he gets stressed over small things. If a problem comes up at work, he spends the whole night thinking about it over and over. He feels anxious wondering how he could have handled things better. Ray knows he needs to let go of these events and move on. Ray's long-term goal: Practice positive thinking when stressful events come up. Short-term goal: Try breathing and relaxation exercises when he feels stressed.
- Marta is a full-time caregiver for her elderly mother, who has Alzheimer's disease. Marta can't remember the last time she took a vacation or even met a friend for coffee. Her sister helps with care sometimes but is often too busy. Marta finds herself getting frustrated easily. She needs a break. Marta's long-term goal: Involve her sister more in caregiving. She also plans to find respite care so she isn't providing all the caregiving on her own. Short-term goal: Attend a caregiver support group every week.
Tips for staying on track
- Plan for setbacks. Make a personal action plan by writing down your goals, any possible barriers, and your ideas for getting past them. By thinking about these barriers now, you can plan ahead for how to deal with them if they happen.
- Get support. Tell family and friends your reasons for wanting to change. Tell them that their encouragement makes a big difference to you in your goal to reduce stress. Your doctor or a professional counselor can also provide support. A counselor can help you set goals and provide support in dealing with setbacks. (See tips for finding a counselor or therapist.)
- Pat yourself on the back. Don't forget to give yourself some positive feedback. If you slip up, don't waste energy feeling bad about yourself. Instead, think about all the times you've avoided getting stressed by making changes.
If You Need More Help
Stress can be hard to deal with on your own. It's okay to seek help if you need it. Talk with your doctor about the stress you're feeling and how it affects you. A licensed counselor or other health professional can help you find ways to reduce stress symptoms. He or she can also help you think about ways to reduce stress in your life.
A counselor or health professional is useful for:
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT teaches you to be aware of how you perceive stress. It helps you understand that the way you think about stress affects your response to it. CBT helps you create and use skills to deal with stress. (See tips for finding a counselor or therapist.)
- Biofeedback. This technique teaches you how to use your mind to control skin temperature, muscle tension, heart rate, or blood pressure. All of these things can be affected by stress. Learning biofeedback requires training in a special lab or a doctor's office.
- Hypnosis. With hypnosis, you take suggestions that may help you change the way you act. It's important to find a health professional with a lot of training and experience. Some psychologists, counselors, doctors, and dentists know how to use hypnosis.
Treatment for other health problems
You may need treatment for other emotional problems related to stress, such as anxiety, depression, or insomnia. Treatment may include medicines or professional counseling.
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JAROSLOVSKY: Well, I think it's a significant one. It really depends on how old the iPhone is. People with last year's model - the iPhone 5 - probably not going to encounter too much difficulty. But the older the phone, the more difficulties you're going to be running into; and there have been a lot of complaints from people with iPhone 4s, for example, that things are getting very sluggish, and that the battery life is not as good as it was.
GREENE: And this is something that iPad users might be confronting as well.
JAROSLOVSKY: Exactly. The new iPad Air went on sale on Friday. But people who have older iPads that have upgraded to IOS 7, the current version of the operating system, are also reporting problems. I've had some myself.
GREENE: I mean, the obvious question seems to be: Couldn't you just not upgrade your software? You have an iPhone 4, you have an older operating system; just, you know, stick with it.
JAROSLOVSKY: Well, Apple does everything it can to get you to upgrade the operating system. They want everybody on the same version of the operating system so that all the apps that you download will run on all the phones. And it's actually one of their big advantages over Android, where there are so many versions out there that the universe is very fragmented, and a lot of apps won't run on a lot of phones. So it's in Apple's interest to get everybody to upgrade, and they really make it hard to not upgrade.
GREENE: And there was a piece in The New York Times Sunday Magazine by an economics reporter, and she had her own phone issues. An older iPhone seemed to get slow, seemed to run out of battery juice when she upgraded. And she actually suggested that this could be a pretty shrewd business decision on Apple's part - trying to make life difficult for people with older phones, to force them to buy the new ones. Does it go that far, in terms of this Apple strategy?
JAROSLOVSKY: I don't think so. I think that Apple doesn't really want to tick off its customer base. It's got a strong incentive to keep everybody happy using Apple devices. But one of the things that they've done is to enable a bunch of new features in the software, to take advantage of the newer hardware. And although it's possible to turn those features off, a lot of people don't know that yet.
GREENE: You're saying that if they could communicate with their customers a little better, they might explain that if you turn some of these functions off, things might run a little more smoothly.
JAROSLOVSKY: Yeah, exactly. For example, the new operating system will update apps on its own. You don't have to manually go in and tell it, hey, let's go update the new version. And that's a feature that people have been clamoring for. Sen. John McCain pressed Apple CEO Tim Cook, at a congressional hearing, to enable a feature like that. Well, now, they've done it. But guess what? On the older iPhones, that takes up battery power; and you may want to disable that feature to make the battery last longer. But Apple really hasn't quite communicated that. Some of the whiz-bang visual effects in the new IOS also take up battery power. So, you know, those things are strictly cosmetic. You can turn them off, and you will find that your older phone will run faster and will last longer.
GREENE: Doesn't everyone wish that they could just drag an Apple executive into a hearing, and tell them what problems they have with their devices?
JAROSLOVSKY: Well, subpoena power is a wonderful thing.
GREENE: Exactly. Well, and we should say - I mean, there is a risk right now for Apple. I mean, they've been facing more competition from other smartphone companies, compared to the past.
JAROSLOVSKY: Well, absolutely. I mean, there are, you know, not just the Android universe, which has sort of taken things by storm - the market share of android is huge. But there's also, you know, sort of nipping at the heels, things like Amazon, which has a tablet already and is likely to come out with at phone, at some point; Microsoft, which has its Windows phone platform. So there's a lot of competition for Apple. That's why it's not really in their interest to tick off their users all that much. And that's why I kind of think this wasn't a deliberate strategy to get everybody to rush out and buy a new iPhone.
GREENE: Rich, thanks - as always.
JAROSLOVSKY: Thank you.
GREENE: Rich Jaroslovsky is the technology columnist for Bloomberg News, and a frequent guest on our program. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Here's what Jennifer S. wanted for her sister-in-law's baby shower:
So you know this is going to be good, right? [snicker] Here's how I imagine the conversation in the bakery went:
"So Lee, you gonna need a tracing for that cake design?"
[scoffing] "Puh-lease! Me? Don't you remember how I took that art class in night school last fall? I'm golden! Pass me the airbrush, will ya?"
"Wow, are you sure? It looks pretty complicated..."
"Only to the untrained eye, my friend. Now stand back and let the master work."
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[staring]"Gosh, Lee, I don't know..."
"Yeah, it's a little bare in the corners, huh? I better add some roses. Let's see, what color goes best with purple, orange, and yellow?"
"Maybe a light pur..."
[interrupting] "OH! I know: teal!"
(Note: The crazy names and question marks were actually requested, since the baby's name was still undisclosed. I'm guessing the damaged area was a result of Jennifer doing a face-plant after fainting in disgust at the sight of it. Am I right, Jen?)
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- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
Love the spaceship theme. I never would have thought of that for a baby shower. I guess I'm just not that creative.
- December 9, 2008 at 9:32 AM
- Boozy Tooth said...
Is it just me, or is that cake design out of focus? But then, I have the same problem with my high definition TV... without hi-def eyes, what's the point?
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Based on how fuzzy the design looks, my guess is that the 'oops' on the bottom was done by the decorator trying to get in close to do the detail work on those teal roses. When you see the original, you just KNEW a wreck was on the way. The mind reels at the possibilities. Would Dr. Seuss find it amusing or insulting?
- December 9, 2008 at 9:34 AM
- sweettc said...
oh my wow ummm. Yeah Im sure somewhere those colors really go together and Im sure if you squint really hard and tilt your head to the left ok well maybe the right. hmmm I think I can kind of see the resemblance to the picture.
- December 9, 2008 at 9:35 AM
This is horrible!!! What are they thinking honestly when they had over a monstrosity like this to a paying customer!
- December 9, 2008 at 9:35 AM
Spew-coffee-on-my-keyboard-pee-my-pants-snort-out-loud-funny as hell!
This is my absolute favorite wreck! - December 9, 2008 at 9:37 AM
I can't stop staring at the purple snail, it's got me in a trance....
- December 9, 2008 at 9:37 AM
- utaduta said...
aww cute! baby first snail ride!
- December 9, 2008 at 9:38 AM
this one cracks me up! it looks like geese pulling an alien in a spaceship. hilarious!
- December 9, 2008 at 9:38 AM
- joyce said...
It looks like a snail shaped alien space craft transporting a baby.
Yikes. - December 9, 2008 at 9:38 AM
That is such a complicated design - I'd never go into a bakery and ask for that. She was just asking for a cake-wreck when she chose that picture.
- December 9, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Now, expecting a design like that to be translated by a grocery store deli/bakery worker is asking for trouble!
- December 9, 2008 at 9:39 AM
- Heide said...
Holy moly, even in the home decorating department that would be a big fat fail.
- December 9, 2008 at 9:40 AM
- Megan said...
It looks like a spaceship.
- December 9, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- KT said...
It looks like a spaceship! Holy Moley, your baby is coming from outer space!
- December 9, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- Craig said...
Hmm...we always assumed that alien technology would be better, but this cake seems to imply that their flying saucers are actually pulled by teams of space-birds.
I'm not the only one seeing a flying saucer with an alien in it, am I? - December 9, 2008 at 9:42 AM
That's pretty Wreck-tastic! Although, part of me wonders if the people ordering complicated cakes like this from a grocery store bakery aren't setting themselves up for a Wreck-tastrophe. Walmart bakery does not equal Mike's Amazing Cakes.
- December 9, 2008 at 9:42 AM
- Angie McCullagh said...
Nothing says "Welcome to the World" like an alien in a strange spacecraft powered by pterodactyls.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - December 9, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- Alli said...
*complete silence*
No words can express the horror I felt when I saw this.
I had a similar experience 7 years ago (way pre-CW) and had a family friend copy a picture of bears on clouds. It was no way close and I promptly hauled to my nearest grocer for a replacement. Gosh, now I wish I took a picture of it! - December 9, 2008 at 9:44 AM
- Sarah said...
- December 9, 2008 at 9:46 AM
- WakeGrace said...
i think the poor kid looks like flubber but in yellow.
also i think think the " ropes" are the best part. the way they curl around the....necks of the.....
welll you know what i mean. - December 9, 2008 at 9:46 AM
I'm mesmerized....in a sick and twisted sort of way!
www.doodlebunz.com/blog - December 9, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Ummmm...this is a Dr. Suess reference.
- December 9, 2008 at 9:53 AM
Good grief!!!
You know there is a printer you can buy and use eatible ink. If you have no talent, at least get the right tools!!! I can't believe that they let that go out of the store.
Validation word regearr.... my point exactly!!! - December 9, 2008 at 9:53 AM
- Eternal Lizdom said...
Add me to "I see a fuzzy purple snail" group. Oh boy.
- December 9, 2008 at 9:53 AM
The horrors! Such shame.
...I am referring, of course, to the potential baby names. FritzPatrick? McTovish? Benton??? - December 9, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Beth said...
Has the cake decorator never heard of the edible rice paper??? Print the picture on the rice paper and stick it on the cake. Grrr it looks like a spaceship!
- December 9, 2008 at 9:56 AM
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- December 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- Alison said...
Aw, c'mon, if you're not paying a gazillion dollars for a professional baker, you have no business requesting such a complicated design.
And, on the other hand, if you're not a professional baker who can command a gazillion dollars with your artistry & skill, you have no business accepting such an assignment. This decorator doesn't even have the ability to write levelly. What a waste of frosting. - December 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM
Holy hell..that is pretty awful! I, for one, would not have taken that order. I wonder if the bakery purchased thee rights to reproduce a copyrighted image..oh well, never mind..that doesn't even come close to a reproduction of a licensed image...Oh, come on you decorators!! You need to know when to say "NO we can't do that!!"
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they deserve a thrown egg-to-the-rump for that monstrosity! - December 9, 2008 at 9:59 AM
- Lady Éowyn said...
Lovely. My favorite thing about this cake has got to be the baby-alien's eyes and smile. (It looks like it's actually made by stray spatters from the purple alien airship.) Anyone else see this?
I think the baby-alien is looking to the left at its alien space-monitor (that orange square that's meant to be *choke* a flower), and smiling to itself over its evil plan.
New reader... I just found this blog the other day. I've already read the entire thing, though. Snarking, or reading someone else snarking (not to mention seeing other people FAIL so badly), really relieves stress. - December 9, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow
- December 9, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Missed Marks may be my favorite category! Is it just me, or by not leaving some white space for the baby's diaper... have we all witnessed the first naked-babyblob/purple-snail flight? No amount of blue flowers and poor penmanship can detract from this historic occasion. This looks like a job for an edible image-transfer.
- December 9, 2008 at 10:01 AM
I believe the original picture is from Dr. Suess. The cake is from hell.
- December 9, 2008 at 10:08 AM
- firesongix said...
the initial design was a bit much for a cake, wouldn't you say?
- December 9, 2008 at 10:10 AM
- Brianna T said...
The real question is, what name did that poor baby end up with?
- December 9, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Poor Dr. Seuss...little did he know something of his would be used to...umm...signal the mothership's return to earth? I really don't know what to say about that cake other than "wow".
- December 9, 2008 at 10:16 AM
- Eight Lives Left said...
I'd like to point out that purple, green and gold are the Mardi Gras colors. Not that that helps the cake any. :D
It's a damned shame to see Dr. Seuss abused that way. - December 9, 2008 at 10:16 AM
- Dea said...
I totally agree - no business taking such a complicated design to a regular bakery, nor did the decorator have any business agreeing to this one....
- December 9, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- Brooke said...
Do people really PAY for these cakes?? I'm pretty sure I would refuse to. Of course, then you don't have the fantastic picture and story for Cake Wrecks...
- December 9, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- Mari said...
Poor Dr. Seuss! I hope the baby didn't end up being an alien...
- December 9, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- etothepi said...
I guess I'm the only one who thinks the designer did a rather decent job with it, for being by hand. A printing would have made more sense/looked the best, but it's a good attempt at a complicated drawing.
- December 9, 2008 at 10:19 AM
- www.AForestFrolic.typepad.com said...
Oh girl...what in the world is that? Hehe...
- December 9, 2008 at 10:19 AM
- Marie said...
"Has the cake decorator never heard of the edible rice paper??? Print the picture on the rice paper and stick it on the cake."
Beth - I couldn't agree with you more. I have a feeling that is what the customer expected them to do. You see it in grocery stores all the time. - December 9, 2008 at 10:20 AM
- Unknown said...
Its sad to think that Seuss could be insulted so badly!
- December 9, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Why would the bakery agree to copy this design in the first place? Its one thing to request black and white kittens or a baby with balloons, but to ask for an exact Dr. Seuss image if they don't don't have a license right for it...well who knows what you're going to get. There's a reason for those books of screen prints at Dairy Queen and plastic bits that you can order from Deco Pak. People own those images and you pay a fee to use them.
Or maybe that's why its a blurry after image, but the bakery should have explained that's what they would do if that's all the closer they would do... - December 9, 2008 at 10:30 AM
haha priceless.
- December 9, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Someone else said it...legally you can't put a copyrighted image on a cake and sell it. THese bakers would be better off refusing to do it for legal reasons rather than their inablility to reproduce the image effictively. Sooooooo....what's the best thing for a baker to do? Either refuse the order....or do something unrecognizable and when the people who ordered it come to pick it up, give them a big wink.
- December 9, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- ilovebabyquilts said...
I personally think that the cake requester, being a fan of this blog, asked Walmart to make something complicated on purpose, just to get a wreck to send in. I just don't think she ever expected this level of wreckiness.
By the way, I just know they went with FritzPatrick. I can just feel it in my bones. - December 9, 2008 at 10:35 AM
- V. Nicharico said...
Scottish/Irish Alien babies arriving in a spaceship pulled by strange yellow birds...
Gotta love it! - December 9, 2008 at 10:35 AM
- Melissa Kirk said...
Okay, all other wreckiness aside, I really hope they didn't pick Renton as a name. Really. What better start in life than to be named after a fictional Scottish junkie with a penchant for toilet-diving?
- December 9, 2008 at 10:36 AM
It looks like one of those Magie Eye pictures!
- December 9, 2008 at 10:41 AM
- Missy said...
I also see a flying purple snail.
Maybe Mork would have been an appropriate baby name after seeing this cake...
wvotd: quenest. Must be the planet the slug is from. - December 9, 2008 at 10:44 AM
That is...I'm speechless...forget the stork...bring in the aliens!
For all those who think the design is too complicated....edible images is a pretty simple process. They can churn those suckers out to look like anything or anybody...they do photos of people all the time. All they need is for the original to be in soft copy. And if the baker really needed to frost it or whatever, they could have just traced the edible image.
So that is just a horrible, out of focus, wrecktastic design that we can now all use to brighten our day :)
~Bonnie B~ - December 9, 2008 at 10:48 AM
A spaceship that looks like a purple snail. Interesting.
- December 9, 2008 at 10:55 AM
- Queen Julian XIII said...
I see a chess piece on a devil ray fish chained to birds. What kind of fiendish torture is this??? Are the birds under water, or is the fish in the air? And what does the pawn have to do with anything??? If I'm reading this cake right, the poor child is going to be used heedlessly by parents who had no right to breed in the first place!
- December 9, 2008 at 10:59 AM
That there is the best airbrushed snail & butterflies cake ever!
- December 9, 2008 at 11:00 AM
- The Tildy Spot said...
This is absolutely hilarious.
- December 9, 2008 at 11:07 AM
- Unknown said...
Dr. Suess would be rolling over in his grave if he saw that one. YIKES!
~Amy B - December 9, 2008 at 11:10 AM
- Kathy said...
Fritzpatrick? McTavish? --Renton? Jabba the Hutt Jr? Slug Blob?
Oh, the amazing "Click to Enlarge" I love seeing these failures blown up in their full glory! - December 9, 2008 at 11:17 AM
- kath said...
But, I have to know - is it a gril?
- December 9, 2008 at 11:17 AM
- Zombie Edward said...
I see people saying she was asking for a wreck by asking for a complicated design. I say, the baker's shouldn't except a design they know they can't handle. They're be less wrecks if people would just admit that they have no idea what they're doing when it comes to cakes.
sure, life would be less boring that way but they're also be fewer frustrated costumers. - December 9, 2008 at 11:20 AM
E for effort, F for FAIL
Putting aside the legal question for the moment...
even my supermarkets have one of those scanner/printers that creates an edible image that could just be plopped on top of a cake
and who would walk out with a cake with that booboo on the edge? - December 9, 2008 at 11:21 AM
- Kat said...
What happened to the days of reverse transfers? Colored Gel anyone?
- December 9, 2008 at 11:21 AM
- Michelle said...
OK, is it just me, or do those names sound more like LAST names than FIRST? I mean, if the baby's last name (thus and therefore, baby's DADDY) is as-of-yet undisclosed, perhaps next time they should look for a cake wreck/ paternity test package deal. In mean, come on, Walmart's gotta have something like that, right? *snicker*
- December 9, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- エリック said...
Amazing commentary!!
Why is the baby just a shadow of a person, a yellow shadowy person? - December 9, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- Andrea said...
Someday, one CW reader is going to meet a kid named FritzPatrick and just know this was his cake.
- December 9, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- Clare said...
First time commenting.... but I just had too.
I read CW everyday and this is by far my favorite.
Honestly. Who knew that snails could fly if you hooked their....eyes? to flying yellow lizards with pompoms on their tails? Much less that you could ride in them.
VW: route. A planet, star and slime studded route to life.
http://www.mainelyclare.blogspot.com - December 9, 2008 at 11:46 AM
OK, after this, the Mowhawk carrot-riding babies starts to look good. At least you could tell what everything was!!! Wrecks like this make some previous wrecks not seem so bad. Still funny, of course, but maybe not as bad as we first thought. OH, NO!!!!! New category needed, When Wrecks Go Right.....
- December 9, 2008 at 11:46 AM
- Maulleigh said...
Let's be honest: she didn't go to ace of cakes. She probably went to a local bakery and paid local bakery prices.
You get what you pay for. - December 9, 2008 at 12:00 PM
- Cottagecheap said...
Um....why are those flying monkey hauling a snail carcass wrapped ameoba? Please tell me WHY?
- December 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM
I was rather charmed with the idea of telling the child, when it came time for the famous birds and bees talk, "Yes, the purple snail brought you...you're too special for a stork." But then I noticed that the snail is actually hauling a (gasp)giant baby bottle nipple. There's no baby there at all.
Yikes. word verification is copul. - December 9, 2008 at 12:04 PM
- HorribleLicensePlates said...
Someone definitely did some airbrush damage with that cake. Poor McTovish.
- December 9, 2008 at 12:11 PM
For those commenting that the design is too complex, a friend of mine has had cakes for her birthday that recreated a) the battle of Thermopylae (sp?), b) scenes from anime, and c) a famous portrait of Mme. de Pompadour. The bakers did it by making an edible print for the cake top, which is what these bakers should have done.
Re. the image being copyrighted, I think it would only be a problem if the bakery were illegally using a copyrighted image as a regular design. I could be mistaken, but I think a single commission, not for resale but for a private party, would be considered fair use.
Word verification: luoutonc. Lunatic or luau tonic? Take your pick; either is appropriate. - December 9, 2008 at 12:23 PM
- Debbi said...
I think "decorators" (and I am using that term loosely) should be licensed in airbrush usage. And get re-tested yearly. And if (ha! When!) you fail the test, your airbrush will be taken away from you.
Hehehe - my WV is aphall. As in "I am totally aphalled by this wreck"!!!! - December 9, 2008 at 12:23 PM
Oh my...
what a tragedy.
Spaceships? Geese?
Even THATS too crazy for Dr Suess' standards.
Love your Blog, Jen! Thanks for the wrecks!
word verification: oppoingl: as in OPPOINGL! that's one awful wrecktastrophe! - December 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM
- Garret said...
That is awful! Even the handwriting sucks.
Garret - December 9, 2008 at 12:33 PM
- Julie said...
They definitely should have copied this image. Did the original requester specify the airbrush technique? Terrible!!! I would be so disappointed to have space themed baby shower.
- December 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM
This cake it is a horrid wreck!
Poor Dr. Seuss, to inspire such dreck!
His innocence is clear to all,
'Tis the decorator must take the fall!
I would not serve this on a plane,
I would not serve it on a train.
I would not serve it on a caboose,
I would not serve it to a moose.
I would not serve it here or there,
I would not serve it anywhere!
verification word: promoa: being in favor of moas. - December 9, 2008 at 12:40 PM
- MaryO said...
I'm HOWLING !!!!!!!!!! This ALMOST surpasses the mohawk babies on veggies... ALMOST...!!!!!!!
Someone puhleeze pass the tissues! Major ROTFLMAO !!!!!!!!!! - December 9, 2008 at 12:50 PM
- Mikki Black said...
You know, everyone is seeing spaceships, but all I see is a pile of orange jell-o being toted by yellow griffins.
- December 9, 2008 at 1:09 PM
- Boozy Tooth said...
Pssst, Twisty...
Just a heads up from one friend to another... be careful what you say about moas on this site. wink - December 9, 2008 at 1:22 PM
- Anne said...
Re. the image being copyrighted, I think it would only be a problem if the bakery were illegally using a copyrighted image as a regular design.
Not to beat a nearly dead horse, but once they accept money for it, it's illegal whether they make it once or a hundred times. I worked for a large copy store chain that got sued for copyright violation - so I learned more than I ever want to know about that kind of thing :) - December 9, 2008 at 1:26 PM
- Scritzy said...
I've known for years that the Mother Ship was going to return for some people (including my Jerkoid Nephew), but I never knew she delivered them, too. I always thought they came in pods.
Word verification: rerine. Let's hope we never see this cake in rerines. - December 9, 2008 at 1:32 PM
- Dave D-O-Double-G said...
This is a horrible wreck. But am I the only one who thinks the writing was done with Colgate Cool Mint Gel toothpaste?
- December 9, 2008 at 1:34 PM
I'm just amazed how many people don't know their Dr. Seuss well enough.
- December 9, 2008 at 1:42 PM
I agree that it's a very complicated design; but I seem to remember watching Food Network and nowadays they have fancy edible icing sheets, upon which can be printed (with edible ink) any manner of neat designs. With that technology this design would have been a cakewalk (snicker--I couldn't help myself!).
An upscale cake place would have been able to do this...WalMart or Kroger, not so much. I would never have asked a supermarket place to do this--it makes me wonder what kind of bakery was asked to reproduce the design in question.
The colors are really unfortunate, though. No excuse for that! - December 9, 2008 at 1:44 PM
- Thistledew Farm said...
I have done a few projects that I wish I'd let a professional do....but then I didn't actually sell them to anyone!
- December 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM
- Hannah Schaefer said...
Wow. Looks like a giant purple slug.
Word verification: Sunpo. Like a depot, only for the sun. - December 9, 2008 at 2:11 PM
Those birds have balls and chains attached to them, but they still manage to keep flying. Even with hauling that chariot-slug behind them.
- December 9, 2008 at 2:22 PM
- Bri said...
Ok, yes, it is a "complicated" design. But it isn't SO complicated that ALL the dimensions are off, the colours wonky and the flying creatures (can't call them birds) look like they're involved in some bondage game. Uncool.
Who decided, 'yep! I can so do that!'
Shame on you Lee.
Brianna firstname.lastname@example.com
http://briannamccarthy.carbonmade.com - December 9, 2008 at 2:23 PM
- Eve said...
Oh wow - now that's BAD!!
- December 9, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Oh I don't think any copyright was infringed here. There's not even the slightest resemblance to Seuss' original image, so....
That said, I'm fairly certain this was served at the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes baby shower. Aliens, snails, pterodactyls... Perfect for a Scientology get-together. - December 9, 2008 at 3:03 PM
I see a snail! He's arriving via snail-coach (must be quite overdue) with ducks tethered alongside to hurry him along.
The question marks? Did "Welcome Baby" not cross anyones mind? - December 9, 2008 at 3:12 PM
oh. wow.
ouch. - December 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Oh, Jen, you have such a way with words (as if the wreck weren't enough!). Thanks for the [literal] laugh. :)
- December 9, 2008 at 3:48 PM
- Girler said...
HOLY HOLES IN A DONUT BATMAN! I just saw a flyin turd steal our bat saucer...
Having worked in several bakeries over the years I must say there are other methods of making a viable copy of that picture. One is an projector. Even the DQ I decorated cakes at had one. They didnt need to copy it perfectly but a simple line drawing over the smudgy airbrush would have worked just fine. I am totally offended at the HORRID printing. If you dont have nice handwriting leave the print work for someone that does. - December 9, 2008 at 4:55 PM
I'm sort of hoping the choices are last or middle names. This cake wreck only lasted a few hours but to go through life as McTovish or FriztPatrick... poor kid, I can hear the taunting now.
- December 9, 2008 at 5:10 PM
- NoneOfTheAbove said...
As nasty as the cake is, those names are pretty awful as well!
- December 9, 2008 at 5:16 PM
So in failing so miserably at the design and execution this is actually a legal win? Whodathunkit?
- December 9, 2008 at 6:03 PM
I, personally, would LOVE to see how much each of these bakeries are asking for their wrecks. and how many of the wreck victims got their money back.
- December 9, 2008 at 7:45 PM
- Suzanne Dargie said...
As soon as I saw the design I said, "Uh oh!" I recently painted a bunch of Dr. Seuss characters on my childrens' bedroom walls ...(photos are buried on my blog http://subrosa-rosamundi.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html
if you wanna see them....scroll to the bottom ) and THAT was a huge undertaking. To ask it of a cheap cake decorator would be asking a LOT!
But I honestly expected a better attempt. It looks like this cake decorator threw in the towel after 5 minutes. - December 9, 2008 at 8:12 PM
- Vodka Mom said...
wait. was that our craft today in kindergarten???
- December 9, 2008 at 8:45 PM
I just had a Seuss/ Oh, Baby, The Places You'll Go-themed shower. I also did not have a name chosen at the time of the shower, either! I am so sad at this point that my hostesses did not request THAT cake.
Maybe next baby... - December 9, 2008 at 9:09 PM
- the ginabean said...
Holy. Hell.
- December 9, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- Hyena Overlord said...
It looks like the little msn messenger guy got eaten by a snail. The the evil msn little guy eating snail had his flying bird thingys, (Fritzpatrick, McTovish and Brenton), from the movie Heavy Metal, carry him away to his lair in the rafters of Mount Doom.
wvotd is geollm..."the sun, shinig through the shell of the snail revealed a silohuette of the noshed msn guy trapped in the snails stomach. This is known as the geollm effect."
or it's Middle Earth gel insoles. "I'm geollm like gollum."
Or they were using up the last of the teal icing from the Bules Cleuless cake. Nice recycling bakerpeoples.
It was a long day at work today. - December 9, 2008 at 10:27 PM
- fuzzandfuzzlet said...
You could not make this stuff up.
- December 10, 2008 at 12:48 AM
- Melodi said...
It looks like a snail being pulled along by the flying monkeys.
- December 10, 2008 at 12:49 AM
- Bedlam said...
that is so cute.
- December 10, 2008 at 12:51 AM
- Maggie said...
I agree that the bakery never should've accepted this design because of the complexity and copyright issues. I also agree that you're asking for trouble asking a standard grocery store bakery (which is where I assume she took it) to do a design like this.
Maggie - December 10, 2008 at 1:37 AM
- Stephanie said...
this is one of the wreckiest wrecks you've posted in a while. i don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but dang.
- December 10, 2008 at 5:59 AM
I'm more horrified at the possible name choices, myself.
- December 10, 2008 at 8:10 AM
I love it! I'm looking at CakeWrecks while my 4 year old son is eating breakfast with me (I know, there goes the mom of the year award for me). My son immediately said, "Mom, that cake looks wierd- is that right?" Ha!!!!
- December 10, 2008 at 8:20 AM
WOW. I agree - I think this is the wreckiest wreck to date!
- December 10, 2008 at 8:52 AM
Is that a 'Lost In Space' episode that I missed??
- December 10, 2008 at 9:36 AM
- Gothic Dragon said...
Peopl who decorate cakes simply MUST MUST MUST learn piping skills! Argh, my eyes hurt!
- December 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM
- J said...
This may have been a design picked out from the decorator book... so maybe we should all stop commenting about the copyright thing.
Jen just said that was what they wanted and gee.. if it's in the darn book, you'd think someone would be skilled enough to make it.
As far as names... hmm... I think it's cute... as far as joking and that's what they were calling it. My cousin and his wife were calling their last child, Vladimir Nickel Iputin... they re not russian... name has absolutely nothing to do with their son... just drove his mom - my aunt- crazy for 7 months. ;o) I could see them putting that on their cake. lol
(Renton is a city near the Seattle airport... perhaps there was a hotel stay on a cancelled flight?) - December 10, 2008 at 12:50 PM
- Cynthia Z said...
wow... that's such a jaw dropper... I'm still gaping
- December 10, 2008 at 1:36 PM
the names!! I actually know a young man named Benton, not SO bad...but McTavish? OK, maybe they are Irish on both sides...but shouldn't that be FITZpatrick, not FRITZ...?
- December 10, 2008 at 1:59 PM
- Rachel said...
awesome. i love the missed marks!
- December 10, 2008 at 3:49 PM
- Unknown said...
ohhh...i'm laughing so hard that it physically hurts.
- December 10, 2008 at 5:19 PM
- Sheri said...
BaaaaaaaaaHAHAAAA! That is the most pathetic "art" I have ever seen. Well, maybe not considering I hang around here, but still...
Verification: monmens = my dudes = the guys in my life = my homies - December 10, 2008 at 5:28 PM
- um said...
I love this! Esp. the orange-blob baby.. aww!
- December 10, 2008 at 5:36 PM
What is the worst thing of all, to me, is that this cake could be salvageable with a few more steps. Using the airbrush for basic color and shape and then going in with darker icing to create the outlines and detail.
Instead, it just looks like the baker got tired half way through and figured that teal roses would make up for the complete lack of effort they put into the rest. - December 10, 2008 at 5:46 PM
"Oh, I know! Teal!" I love it. :)
- December 10, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Hey, nothing says "baby shower" like an orange bowling pin inside a flying purple snail, am I right?
- December 10, 2008 at 10:37 PM
- Rookie Bebe said...
I just see a purple snail. If they weren't sure of the name, why not just say Welcome Baby boy? The person requesting the cake certainly had a hand in wrecking it.
- December 10, 2008 at 11:16 PM
To me, it looks like a nipple from a baby bottle, inside of a "Jetsons" car, being pulled by yellow Flying Monkeys from the Wizard of Oz.
Oh, and airbrushed by a severely nearsighted 5 year old.
Any way you look at it, I can't believe they actually let a customer see it! - December 10, 2008 at 11:46 PM
- Feisty Irish Wench said...
Poor Theodore Geisel,
spinning in his grave
As this baker turned knave
botched his character
beyond any recognition of Mr Richter
and his shaky scale.
Oh such attempts that pale!
That we must be made to see
such baked debauchery! - December 11, 2008 at 1:20 AM
The people that keep saying "it's such a complicated design" are morons. Have you never ordered a cak before? Most professional bakeries have the picture scanned onto edible paper/ink and place it on the cake. That's how you get photo cakes with the person's picture on it too. DUH. When the person went into the bakery and handed them this picture, obviously they expected that result. Who would purposely get a wreck for their sister's baby shower? How embarrassing!
- December 11, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Also, I highly doubt a guest at the baby shower would turn them in for using a copyrighted image... Everything seems to be some legal issue these days- it's a baby shower cake that will be EATEN, for god's sake! It's not like they are making a billboard or something...
- December 11, 2008 at 12:04 PM
*tilts head*
I guess this is what Mulder was really looking for all the time...
SK - December 11, 2008 at 12:21 PM
It looks kinda like an alien landing.
- December 11, 2008 at 5:26 PM
My local supermarket bakers don't know what devil's food cake is. No, seriously--I asked for a devil's food sheet cake and got a blank stare. I tried to explain what it was and got another blank stare. All this about 50 feet away from the aisle that sold devil's food cake mix.
I would never ever ask for something this complicated from a supermarket bakery. You're just asking for grief. - December 11, 2008 at 6:20 PM
I have a theory on the names: I think the actual name choices were Tavish and Patrick, and the shower hostess decided they were *so* Irish they must have a Mc or Fitz (or Fritz as the case may be) in front of them. I bet that under the smoosh was an O' or something (O'Renton).
Also, did nobody else notice that the poor snail is *bleeding*?? Oh the humanity.
wv: whianul whianot? - December 12, 2008 at 12:27 AM
- Unknown said...
I hope no one had to pay for that.
Actually, no. I would have paid for it and then promptly thrown it at the decorator's head. - December 12, 2008 at 12:57 PM
- sendingtheclowns said...
Hmmmmm....is it the Marlin or the Swordfish that looks like a stork?
IF storks were purple.
No matter.
But wait! Why is the Marlin /Swordfish trying to catch chickens on the wing?
Maybe it's a graphic for a new carnival ride, hence the bubble thingie bearing a little (uneasy) rider.
Ya THINK?
Now, about those NAMES...my heart says, "No!!" --but my mind is saying, "That'll be left up to the results of the multiple paternity tests..." - December 12, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- Unknown said...
This is just an ugly cake no matter how much you stare at it. I'm more mystified regarding the possible names of the baby.
- December 15, 2008 at 8:19 AM
- Rivkah Chaya said...
In Jen's defense, I think Dr. Seuss mentions a kid named "Fitz Patrick McTavish McBreem" in one of his books. If so, then it would make perfect sense, had the picture turned out correctly
- December 15, 2008 at 7:48 PM
- h. said...
I... there are no words.
there are some horrible cakes that get posted here, but I think this one is by far the worst. I just... damn. - December 16, 2008 at 3:28 AM
I am honored at all the attention my submission received. The baby's name is Nolan Matthew. It was not a Walmart bakery but an EAL (English as Another Language) bakery in Federal Way, Wa. I've taken Wilton Courses I-III and could have done a better job if I wasn't planning the rest of the shower. Thank you all for your hilarious comments.
- December 21, 2008 at 7:38 PM
- Magaidh said...
Congrats! The lucky boy has a charming name :) May his birthday cakes be Sunday Sweets and never wrecktastic!
- January 6, 2009 at 4:56 PM
- Heather said...
Dude, please tell me they didn't pay for that cake!
- January 12, 2009 at 10:21 PM
- Susie said...
My 4 year old son think it's awesome. The second he saw it, he said, "A dinosaur in a submarine! Cool!"
- January 15, 2009 at 7:51 PM
It looks like the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz have a side business of delivering babies...or stealing them...who knows?
- January 29, 2009 at 11:02 AM
- KDCRUOD said...
I'm father in law of the mother. The cake was pre-paid at $59 for a quarter sheet. The bakery assured us it was no problem. The names were a joke take on a Dr. seuss theme. I picked it up the day of the shower. What could I do at that point?
- February 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM
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Looking for dinner items, need food and beverages for the after-school crowd, or getting ready for a weekend cookout or summer celebration? It's easy to make a quick trip to your local Family Dollar and get the discount groceries you need for any occasion. Whether you're preparing for the big game, a party, picnic, holiday or birthday dinner, you'll find essential cooking, grilling and baking supplies, plus staples like milk, eggs, and bread, all for less. And if you're just looking for snacks, we have competitive prices on the same name brand chips and sodas you'll find at any other grocery store. Take a look at our Weekly Ad for great deals and low prices on all your favorites!
Household Supplies
We have your favorite name brand household supplies and you can get them all at your nearby Family Dollar store – for less. Shop now for great prices on laundry supplies, kitchen essentials, household goods, and the cleaning supplies you've always trusted. Stock up on all the kitchen and cleanings essentials you need, like paper towels, bath tissue, dish soap, laundry detergent, bleach, mops, brooms, and more to keep your home clean for less. And with Smart Coupons, our digital coupon program, you can save even more.
Seasonal Items and Toys
Did you know that Family Dollar also has the essentials for every special occasion? Shop your local store for Valentine's cards, Easter Baskets, patriotic decorations for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, and Halloween candy, costumes and décor. Plus, you'll find what you need for celebrations, like birthday and greeting cards, inexpensive party supplies, and party ideas that can make any get-together unforgettable. And when it's Thanksgiving and Christmas time, shop here for items to set a lovely table, low-priced holiday decorations, big-name holiday toys, discount holiday lights and ornaments for your tree, and inexpensive stocking stuffers at low Family Dollar prices. Your local Family Dollar can help make your home warm and welcoming for the holidays so you can celebrate – for less.