Gaining Momentum with the Pastry Cart

This week was a little challenging in a couple ways. First, I spent 8 hours in total at the hair salon to fix a problem with my highlight, time that I could not spend to prepare my baking for this week. Monday and Tuesday, Dick was in California for work, so that makes life busier for me anyway. Tuesday, Hank felt UP the stairs at school and busted his eyebrow, luckily I was still at school so I was able to help him. The rest of the week was pretty hectic. Wednesday it's Dick's guitar lesson day, so we have several students coming to our house. I babysat two kids this week after school. We had piano lessons and Youth Group, and home work and play dates.

Friday was the home coming game, a big event with a parade and then the football game in the evening. Saturday was home coming dance. We had six teenage girls in our house getting ready for this big event. It was their first official dance and they had a great time. And... after waiting for almost 6 months, our chickens lay their first egg. That was pretty exciting.

Business went very well this week. I got a call from a dental office with the question if we were able to bring coffee to go with the pastries this week. And a call from someone who had a staff meeting and was wondering if she could get a plate with different pastries from the Pastry Cart. This all happened before we headed out that Tuesday. Later that day, a doctor called with an order for Dutch Apple pie and Dutch Almond Buttercake.

On Thursday we went to some new businesses in Sherwood. One of them is owned by the State and is not allowed to buy from us, but the other business liked the idea of the Pastry Cart very much. We definitely go back to them. It was the first time I sold 20 pastries with the Pastry Cart.

Per Jamie's suggestion, we made a flyer from the De Roover Bakery with the option for businesses to order a variety of Dessert Trays for their meetings. I left those flyers while we were visiting those businesses with the Pastry Cart. That same morning I got my first order for a Pastry Tray! A little scary, because now you have to make your promises come true. With buying this weeks' ingredients and 100 baking boxes, I spent almost $100 dollars. But still with all those new orders I was able to make more profit than the week before. I feel like we're gaining some positive momentum here with our new venture. By the end of the week I got one more phone call from the editor of the local newspaper. More about that next week :)

~Santine