Author: Elisabeth Antoine Crawford

This table sits in the shop's window. The wedding cake and "It's a Girl" cake were both gifts when I was a child. Here are a few items from my…

When I was in my late 20s, I got my sweet shop out of storage and set it up in my tiny studio apartment. Having experimented with polymer clay as…

My mom built this display case for me when I was a child. On the top shelf are some seeds I found in Arizona when I was 10 years old.…

The items in this display case are a mix of store-bought and handmade. The pink-frosted cupcakes, chocolate-filled pastries, chocolate-swirl cheesecake, and kiwi-topped cheesecake were some of my earliest childhood attempts…

This low display case was one of the ones my mom built for me when I was a child. The two cakes in the case, as well as the gumball…

As a child I was given these two sets of ice cream parlor tables and chairs, as well as a set of ice cream sundaes, banana splits, and milkshakes. After…

The sweets in the shop are a mix of store-bought and handmade. We made the floor out of black and white vinyl tiles. My mom made the low display case…

This room started out as just a storeroom. About 15 years later, I bought the desk and chair, so the room now doubles as an office. The hardwood floor is…

This is the upstairs kitchen in the Sweet Shop. When I was a child, my mom gave me an old-fashioned kitchen set that included a sink with a pump, an…

When I was 10 years old, my dad, a linguistics professor, had traveled to Phoenix, AZ, to do research for his life's work, a dictionary of the Cocopa Indian language.…