About Kristen

As a young girl, Kristen spent as much time possible alongside her mother and grandmother baking and cooking. When she was in high school she spent time with her best friends mother, and learned how to enhance and change flavors using a variety of seasonings, spices, and other foods, wines, and things most people have in their kitchen but wouldn’t think to add to a recipe. This fueled her passion for the pastry and culinary world. She dreamt of becoming a famous baker or chef. It was a beautiful dream! She quickly realized this dream becoming reality wasn’t going to just happen, the only person who could make her dreams come true was her! Hard work, dedication, grit, and a bit of manifestation was what it would take to achieve a professional level baker and chef. 

Unfortunately, her parents believed in a traditional degree from a traditional college. Kristen paused her dream and several psychology degrees later had achieved what her parents dreamt for her, she was all set to be a psychologist. 

However, post-college, Kristen took a detour and entered the corporate world, joining HP as a marketing specialist. From there Kristen spent the next twenty years working for some of the largest tech companies in Silicon Valley, in the world! 

Along the way, Kristen married, had two beautiful daughters, Victoria and Ashley. Kristen worked hard to provide the lifestyle for her family that allowed them to live very well, traveling, attending concerts, making her kids dreams come true. 

As with many of us, with age Kristen’s desires changed, she realized that she needed to return to her original dream of being part of the pastry and culinary arts world. She needed to be in the kitchen.  In 2008 Kristen began her first new venture, Scrumptilicious, a bake shop that specialized in the most decadent, melt in your mouth, shortbread. It was a huge success, much more than Kristen ever imagined. Ultimately she sold the business to a competitor and began looking for her next venture in the world of pastry and culinary arts. During this time she returned to the world of tech marketing and quickly built a successful consulting business. 

One of the greatest moments in Kristen’s life was meeting the love of her life, John. Both were in Orlando on business, and after a long days work both went to the hotel bar for drinks with colleagues. John saw Kristen come in, and tried to send her a drink. She told the bartender that if someone wanted to send her a drink, he had to ask her. He approached her, bought her a drink, and they have been inseparable ever since. As their relationship continued, she began spending more and more time with John in Seattle, and places around the world. They both realized that they had found their true love, the person they would spend the rest of their lives with. That is when she took a deep look at her life and realized that, while she was making lots of money, she wasn’t truly happy in her career. Her kids were in college, she was no longer with her ex-husband, and she had finally found the love she’d been looking for. And she wanted to be with him. Commuting back and forth between California and Seattle, or meeting in cities around the world, wasn’t enough anymore. She knew it was time to make some significant changes. When John invited her to move to Seattle to be with him, to begin their life together, she jumped at the chance! And she hasn’t looked back since. And boy oh boy so many thing have happened since then. Kristen is no longer in tech marketing, and has returned to her true passion, baking and cooking every day, alongside her oldest daughter, Victoria, and the love of her life, John. 

We can’t wait for you to follow along and learn about Kristen’s move to Seattle, the opening of their fabulous bakery and cafe, and everything else that has happened since!