Confidence



Royal Icing Tiaras I've been practicing on! :)

The cake I made in Baking II! (:

A few weeks ago, I started working on my piece for the competition next month! When I first started, I thought I would fail miserably and there was no way I would ever be able to pull off something so incredible. Was I getting myself in over my head? The first day when we got into lab, I was really dreading it. I questioned myself and my abilities. Am I good enough to do this? This has been a big learning experience for me. It's all about confidence. I finally saw that everyone had confidence in me but I had no confidence in myself. Since then, I've been working on piping royal icing tiaras and have learned that practice makes perfect. You can't walk into something and think your going to be good at it the very first time. Especially, if you have never worked with it before. The first day actually wasn't that bad! I didn't do nearly as bad as I thought I would do and have been getting better with it ever since! Of course you dont wanna go in thinking your the best, thats not what confidence is. Confidence is simply believing in yourself. If you put your mind to it, you can do anything. It's not necessarily going to be easy and it'll take time, but this is where dedication comes in. It isn't really about the skill, of course you do have to have a little bit of skill, but its about the amount of time you're willing to put into it. Skill comes from practice. While everyone else is in bed at 5am, the team is usually at the bakery. Sometimes I really don't want to go in and wanna just take a break. But I know my goal is mastering this showpiece. & that won't happen laying in bed sleeping. Instead of dreading practice, now, I actually look forward to waking up at 4am to go work on my piece. College is teaching me a lot about myself. Sure, I still have my doubts, but this experience has taught me a lot about myself and I'm starting to gain confidence in myself. It's amazing that other people can believe in you so much. I love the team so much & were all starting be like a family.

-Allysa. :)