This time last year I exhibited at my local food festival to test the market with my idea for a cake and cookie company. A year on and this weekend the local food festival is taking place again. Last year I spent days and days preparing, nervously wondering if anyone would buy these cakes which I had spent so much time on. With more than a little fear, I wondered if anyone would linger at the tables, (which the very kind Sarah from Xantippe had given me) to take a look at and, most importantly, buy my cakes. I needn't have worried. Over the two days I sold almost everything I had made (I'd made a lot!!), received some wonderful feedback and had taken my first orders for Christmas cakes. N spent the two days running back and forth, handing out flyers and cutting up cakes for samples - what a star!
This year I am not exhibiting. This year I can wander around the stalls, grab a glass of bubbly from the champagne tent, enjoy looking around me and celebrate how far I have come in a year. As over the last year I have set up iced and just yesterday made my first deal with a shop to sell my cakes for retail!
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Stopped by to visit. Nice blog, the pictures are wonderful! I'll be back to read more. Some of my family supposedly comes from Wales (from way back) so I am curious to read more about life there. What is cwtch, btw? And how do you say it?
Congrats on making a deal with a store to sell your stuff.
your cakes look yummy :)
Congrats - you are living my dream! Enjoy your well-deserved glass of bubbly. (We're going too - maybe see you in the champagne tent!)
Thank you Mrs D! Aha well there are many different meanings for the word cwtch - I wrote all about it in my first post back in August which I think you can still see on the blog! You say it Kutch (rhymes with butch!!!)
Thank you Brazen and Miss Meep! I'm very excited!!
Miss Meep I didn't see your comment until this morning (I'm a lazy blogger!) so I wasn't looking out for you. I hope you had a good time! I bought some caerphilly and leek bread which was lovely jubly and some curd which I'm quite tempted to eat straight out of the jar with a spoon but think I'd better make it into little tarts to save the old teeth! N queued for 30 minutes in the rain for a lamb burger which was burnt so he wasn't best pleased!! We did have a glass of bubbly though so that cheered him up!
The cakes are gorgeous! Cannot wait to see pics from the festival.
Best wishes!
XO,
Nola
Thank you Nola!
What a great idea! Your cakes look delicious and they're so cute!
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