It’s my pleasure to introduce a new feature here at Your Web Chick, a spotlight on small business owners and their online presence. I like to call it ‘Small Biz Celebrity’.

Tell me a little about you and your background. I’m an artist at my core. I was an art major. I had exhibited and sold my art from the age of 12 until I was 21. From the time I was in second grade, I knew what I wanted to do with my life and I had a plan. That plan changed when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor at 22. I was lucky to survive, but I was considered permanently disabled. That did not sit well with me, the person who had always done everything for myself, including earning my own income since I was a kid! (I started cleaning houses for elderly women when I was 10 or 11, and had quite a following based on word-of-mouth. I also baby sat, raked lawns, shoveled snow in the winter…anything I could do to make an honest buck.)

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Here is the final of three storytellers who were chosen to share their tales of success with me and my community LIVE at Journey to Success 2014, a charity networking event that happened to coincide with my business anniversary. Enjoy!

I am Ruth Scott, Cupcake Queen of Cupcakes by Ruth! I wasn’t always the Cupcake Queen.  My journey to Cupcake Queen has a story and like all good stories, my story begins with, “Once upon a time…”

Once upon a time, there was a little girl in Louisville, Kentucky.  She was the youngest of 5 children and definitely the best surprise that her mother ever got (because my mother told me that all the time, and I’m sure it was true).  She also told me that I was her favorite and I believe that, too.  Because I was the youngest, I spent a lot of time with my mom.  My siblings were doing teenage stuff that they probably shouldn’t have been doing; they were in high school and college and I was the only one at home.  My mom had a home business; she was a pastry chef.  The pastry chef-ing turned into a catering business which turned into a restaurant.  But before all that happened, I used to frequent the library with her (yes, way back then, when people would go to the library to check out books and use the Dewey Decimal System).  We would pull stacks and stacks of books from the shelves and she would take copious amounts of notes.  Then she would scratch things out and make her own recipes and I would look at the pictures (what else was I gonna do?  I couldn’t read yet!).  So that is how I spent a lot of time with my mom.

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