It all started as a dream-like so many things in life. . .
My SISTER went to a play at our local Amarillo Little Theatre. During intermission she purchased a sugar cookie which she was less than impressed with both in design and taste. Since her and I are working hard to begin a party/cakes/cookies business and trying to get our name out that we are selling the best sugar cookies in Amarillo, she saw this particular situation perplexing. She could either sit on the sidelines and let everyone attending ALT programs eat sub-par cookies, or step in and help-which was obviously needed! If you know my older sister, Callie, she could not sit idly by and keep quiet. She approached the director of the upcoming "Tom Sawyer" production and said that her and I are starting a business and would he be interested in trying our cookies. All in hopes (dreams) that he would be swept off his feet and hire us to make the cookies for the upcoming production! Sure--dreams, dreams, dreams---
Well, Monday afternoon, my SISTER got a call from the director with a green light to go ahead and make some cookies for "Tom Sawyer" he loved them, loved them, loved them! Oh, and how many might he be wanting? 800. . . what? the most we've done in a day is 9 dozen, about 1/8 of that number, really?? 800??? That's 67 dozen. . . wow, ok, we can do this! He just needs 400 Friday at 4:00 and 400 Saturday at 4:00--no problem!
Thursday evening we began the baking frenzy, we had around 200 cookies baked and ready for decorating, we're doing good, real upbeat. If this takes us about 1 hour for 200, we'll be completely done with all 800 in about 4 hours, right? Well yes except the first 200 took us 7 hours to decorate! Boy did we underestimate the time and overestimate our ability! We started mentally crunching numbers and time and considered the fact that we only had 5 of the 25 boxes (for Friday) completed at midnight and decided that rest was for the wicked. Or at the very least, rest was for the people that didn't get themselves committed to making 800 cookies in ONE day. . . we pulled an all nighter and finished the 25th box of cookies at 10:00 Friday morning! We took a "nap" break and reconvened at 6:00 Friday evening for another fun filled night of cookie making!
On the bright side, Callie figured out a way to shave 6 hours off the second half of cookies making the process faster and more enjoyable. We completed our 800th cookie at 8:00 Saturday! Well before they were due might I add. . .
All in all, we had a lot of fun and learned so much about each other and perseverance!
We had to use the window seat to
hold cookies awaiting decorating!
My SISTER went to a play at our local Amarillo Little Theatre. During intermission she purchased a sugar cookie which she was less than impressed with both in design and taste. Since her and I are working hard to begin a party/cakes/cookies business and trying to get our name out that we are selling the best sugar cookies in Amarillo, she saw this particular situation perplexing. She could either sit on the sidelines and let everyone attending ALT programs eat sub-par cookies, or step in and help-which was obviously needed! If you know my older sister, Callie, she could not sit idly by and keep quiet. She approached the director of the upcoming "Tom Sawyer" production and said that her and I are starting a business and would he be interested in trying our cookies. All in hopes (dreams) that he would be swept off his feet and hire us to make the cookies for the upcoming production! Sure--dreams, dreams, dreams---
Well, Monday afternoon, my SISTER got a call from the director with a green light to go ahead and make some cookies for "Tom Sawyer" he loved them, loved them, loved them! Oh, and how many might he be wanting? 800. . . what? the most we've done in a day is 9 dozen, about 1/8 of that number, really?? 800??? That's 67 dozen. . . wow, ok, we can do this! He just needs 400 Friday at 4:00 and 400 Saturday at 4:00--no problem!
Thursday evening we began the baking frenzy, we had around 200 cookies baked and ready for decorating, we're doing good, real upbeat. If this takes us about 1 hour for 200, we'll be completely done with all 800 in about 4 hours, right? Well yes except the first 200 took us 7 hours to decorate! Boy did we underestimate the time and overestimate our ability! We started mentally crunching numbers and time and considered the fact that we only had 5 of the 25 boxes (for Friday) completed at midnight and decided that rest was for the wicked. Or at the very least, rest was for the people that didn't get themselves committed to making 800 cookies in ONE day. . . we pulled an all nighter and finished the 25th box of cookies at 10:00 Friday morning! We took a "nap" break and reconvened at 6:00 Friday evening for another fun filled night of cookie making!
On the bright side, Callie figured out a way to shave 6 hours off the second half of cookies making the process faster and more enjoyable. We completed our 800th cookie at 8:00 Saturday! Well before they were due might I add. . .
All in all, we had a lot of fun and learned so much about each other and perseverance!
We had to use the window seat to
hold cookies awaiting decorating!
This is about 164 cookies! We did 5 times that---!!!
New and improved design-time saver!
Final step--in the box!
Original design-box shut, 50 boxes!
WE ARE THE WOMEN!!
And a special thanks to our husbands and children who so patiently
put up with our stupidly optimistic original estimation of time!
