THE SWEET SPOT

Beach-theme Program Modern inspiration for weddings Sweetest Whimsy launches a new stationery website this month showcasing the Inspirations® and Programs Galore and More!® lines by McPhersons, a company that has offered social invitations for over 40 years. The Inspirations line presents a wide assortment of contemporary and traditional Christian invitations and accessories. Programs Galore and More! is all about printed programs with many options for a wedding or other event. C heck out the new designs for your upcoming special event and take 20% off on any order of personalized invitations or announcements by McPhersons! Other recent additions to the Paper lineup include: Chloe B.®, exclusively for Crane & Co . I have always loved the feel and look of Crane's stationery, so I'm pleased to be offering their personalized wedding and holiday invitations and accessories! Did you know that Crane & Co. manufactures their papers from tree-free fibers? ...

If you visit the Sweetest Whimsy website (and I hope you do), you may notice that it's a bit topsy-turvy in the next few days (probably weeks). I am in the process of watermarking my original photos of my cakes in the Cake Gallery and some of the products I sell with a prominent 'Sweetest Whimsy ©.' Why do I have to do this? Earlier this year, I discovered, while randomly surfing the web for something totally unrelated, that one of my photos of my own cake was on someone elses's website! It was really strange and slightly unnerving. Then it kind of made me mad. So I sent a polite but firm email to the owner of the site (it was a blog), and requested that proper credit be given to my photo if they continued to use it. Otherwise . . . they just needed to get it off their site ASAP. They were very nice about it and gave me full credit for my photo. Thus the Herculean project of removing all the photos from my site, watermarking them, and then uploading them...