Community Weigh In - How to Declutter Our Cake and Cookie Decorating Stations

Dec 21, 2022by Natalie Madison

IS IT TOO EARLY TO TALK ABOUT NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS?

As I find myself struggling to take all my cake decorating stuff from a large, organized, beautiful space to a much smaller shared-use room, I realize I HAVE to find ways to declutter and reorganize.

How have YOU done it?

🎉What are your best organizing tricks, tips, tools?
🎉Do you do some form of Spring Cleaning at the beginning of the year?
🎉How do you decide what to keep and what to toss?
🎉How have you designed your space to work smarter?

"I can't find my stuff in the clutter! Half of it's buried in storage, half is here in boxes. I keep delaying because I'm having trouble knowing what to do first."

I decided to start with the boxes of food coloring. (Emphasis on BOXES. Eesh.)

I had over 56 bottles (and that's after I tossed the dried out, mostly empty, or weird colors). I stopped counting at 56. I realized that I had a color collection addiction! All those one-off colors purchased because a client needed a specific color for their cookies or cake flowers. I have an art degree. I KNOW you can mix core colors to achieve secondary, tertiary, and all the other pretty color blends. So why didn't I mix my own?

how to mix your own icing colors

I'm determined to do just that.

🎉I purchased Artisan Accents Core Color Gel Starter Set containing 10 core colors and a bonus Breakfast Blue. 11 total colors to replace 56+ bottles. (Plus dilution solution to turn those gel colors into airbrush colors!)

🎉I've downloaded and researched their color mixing chart.

🎉I'm going to spend some time doing a little color mixing!

🎉And, I'm going to donate bottles of mostly full color to the local culinary school where they'll be put to good use (and stored in a space much larger than mine).