Obsessed with cakes, muffins, other baked goods and their decoration: What I've accomplished so far

I was thinking the other day trying to figure out how many cake recipes I've actually tried out...and I couldn't count all of them. Simple math tells me that it's something about 500 recipes...maybe more, maybe less. I am not very organized in keeping track of them as I had a cook-book with many printouts, which eventually got lost, given away or trashed.

I remember weeks which turned into years of non-stop baking :) My parents and friends were very happy about that as I was a person who always invited for a cup of coffee/ tea with a freshly baked slice of cake. Some weeks I baked 2 or 3 new different cakes or pies....I didn't like to repeat myself and kept experimenting with a dough and various fillings. Any birthday or invitation was an opportunity for me to BAKE. I can't say what was even more exciting- baking a cake or actually seeing the happy faces of those who tried it. But I was always thrilled even when I just started thinking about BAKING :)

But enough talking. I asked my mom a couple of days ago to find some nice photos of my creations. Most of them are from those sweet days in Russia and were stored on my parents' computer. It wasn't actually easy to find many nice pics, sometime we didn't even bother taking them. But anyway, let's consider these ones as my starting point towards an exciting process of cake decoration!