Staff Spotlight: Molly!

Hiya everyone! I thought I would do something special this week. I have been wanting to do staff spotlight blogs for a while, and I just never get a chance to fit them into the blog. Well, as I was prepping for the blog this week, I realized that my work BFF’s birthday was this week! I thought to myself, classes and cake decorating can wait one week so that I can honor the birthday girl, and the familiar friendly face we always see when walking into the retail gallery: MOLLY!

Molly began working at ISAC in 2009, as a retail associate. I was hired in early 2010, and Molly helped to train me up to work in the gallery too. I really enjoyed working with Molly; she is hilarious, and has a great sense of humor. It didn’t hurt that we both loved some of the same campy shows from the 1980s (JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS). Back then our days were filled with stocking up the shelves with awesome cake decorating supplies, signing people up for classes, and even teaching a class together ourselves (that’s right. Molly and I developed and taught Camp Cupcake for kids). 

Since those early days, Molly has taught cookie decorating classes in Studio B; Molly designs and decorates some amazing royal icing cookies! And now she also manages most of the day to day operation in the retail gallery. Molly orders all the products we sell, manages our Amazon Prime storefront, responds to all of the ISAC emails, processes online orders, interfaces with Chef Nicholas and Scott on grander ISAC topics, and of course… Molly is there to brainstorm, help, and suggest ideas, methods, and products with all of our customers. I know that so many of our customers love Molly. I see it in the way they talk to her in the store. I hear it in their voices when they ask for her on the phone, I see their disappointment when they realize it’s Friday, and she isn’t working. When we host the master classes, we have a class dinner and all of the staff come along. The students always want Molly to sit at their table. You guys, even my mom, who is not a cake decorator, loves Molly. She thinks Molly is just beautiful. If I am on a work call and my mom is nearby, she will always say, “Is that pretty Molly?! Tell her I say hi!”

Chef Nicholas, Scott, Ann, Carol, Jan, and I are grateful to have the pleasure of working with Molly every day. So, if you see Molly this week, or talk to her on the phone, or send in an email, be sure to wish her a happy birthday (a little late, it was on May 1)! Thanks for all you do at ISAC Molly. We love you, and hope you have a great birthday week! 

Sweetly yours, 

Stephanie

2017 Finalist for the Cake Masters Cake Hero Award

WINNER of the 2017 Golden Tier Educator of the Year Award

Winner of the 2015 Craftsy Blogger Award for Best Craftsy Cake Decorating Instructor Blog

Chef Nicholas Lodge: 2015 Finalist for the Cake Masters Cake Hero Award