New business venture!

My friend, Sam and I have started a new business. I'm not afraid to say I'm nervous about it but so far it's going really well.

This month, we started a business called Sugar Blooms. We make candy bouquets. We do any and all occasions. We just happened to start our business the week before Valentine's Day which was the perfect occasion to market our bouquets. Sam was unsure whether it would go but I reassured her that people would love them! They were new, different, outrageous, cute, and VERY fun! We made just a few and instantly sold them. We made a few more and they sold. We started telling more people about them and orders were placed and before we knew it, we sold more than we thought we ever would. We were stunned and speechless. We thought maybe, just maybe we were having beginner's luck (since it was Valentine's Day) so we held our breath the week after Valentine's Day but slowly, orders kept trickling in.

We had two birthdays, four just because bouquets, two baby showers.... then it grew some more. Two more baby showers and then a sweet sixteen birthday with party favors.

Can I just say.......SHEER HAPPINESS!!! I'm just so excited! I'm hoping the word gets out and we continue to get orders and business. I would love it if this just took off and went crazy!

Sometimes I'm fearful! Sometimes I get scared thinking about "What if we fail?" But while we have a lot of uncertain-ness right now, my nervousness quickly moves into excited energy as Sam and I make bouquets, make our website, our FB page and announce to the world "WE ARE IN BUSINESS!" We hope our creative energy is infectious and it catches on quick!

Spread the news! Sugar Blooms Bouquets...it's all about the Sugar!

Wanna visit our business blog? www.itsallaboutthesugar.blogspot.com
You can also check out our temporary website at www.wix.com/sugarblooms/s

A little Hard to Believe!

Here it is...February is nearly over and I'm still shocked to say we have not had ONE snow day this year. For those of you who do not live in Indiana, this is nearly unheard of around here. We ALWAYS have snow days. We ALWAYS have snow, fog, ice, icy fog or something that causes us to have school called off.

On top of that, we've had NO delays this year either. We either get one or two-hour delays when there is fog, or inclimate weather which causes bad conditions on the road in the morning especially. Two-hour delays help with it warming up a smidge so roads are easier to get down and buses can see better where they are going. After all, it's all about the safety of our kids.

I love a good snow day. I love a good delay. I love to be able to take my time in the morning and letting the kids sleep in a little bit. I love it when the weather is so bad and we don't have school which allows us to be lazy and play alllll day.

This has been such a crazy winter with above average temperatures and very little snowfall and LOTS of rain. It will be interesting what kind of Spring and Summer we will have this year.

A little hard to believe but I'm sure we'll live through it. Hopefully Spring comes early and before we know it, flowers and trees will be blooming and we'll be able to play outside soon.

If you love the unexpected, you'd definitely love Indiana!!!