Sep 22, 2013

Sometimes, Life is all Cupcakes and Flying HeartsBy Suzanne ThompsonTheDay.com

Old Lyme, CT – There’s a new sweet spot on the shoreline road in Old Lyme. Cupcakes and Flying Hearts, an improbable but appealing assortment of decadent mini-cupcakes and a collection of beach cottage furniture, artists’ creations, whimsies and what-nots, is the collaboration of two enterprising sisters who grew up in East Lyme.

The Lacey sisters, now Pat Maillett and Teri Thompson, finish each other’s sentences, often with a punch line. They didn’t set out to open a shop last fall, but when Pat, a graphic designer and artist, found herself unemployed two years ago as the mail order catalog company she had worked at for 15 years folded, an article about two women in Rhode Island who started a mobile cupcake business got her going.

“I had never made cupcakes before, but I said to Teri, ‘This is what we have to do,'” Pat said.

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