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I’m back from our first day at market. 

Today started early this morning….early!  We had all the cookie dough made in the afternoon, and the girls love to get in the action when we start baking for market.  The littlest is always the most eager.

We made many batches of cookies, white chocolate almond, chocolate chip and raisin oatmeal.  I made a huge batch of pumkin spice douhgnuts and vanilla ice cream as well as devils food snickers push pop cupcakes.  We got everything packed up and headed out at 8:30 AM to set up at 9.

 It was so great to be back… for the first hour.  We got our booth set up pretty quick and honestly it felt we had never left. 

An hour after market opened so did God’s wind machine.  A bad storm started coming in and though it never rained until after we left, the wind was so powerful that many booths almost lost their canopies and about every 10 minutes or so a big gust would get up under our tent and we would have to jump up and grab a pole.  Many of the 70 vendors packed up and left and with them the traffic that had been coming in.  We had no choice but to take our tent down and then just kept our tables up in the hopes we would sell our baked goodies.  In the next two hours we sold out of our pumpkin spice doughnuts and most of the push pop cupcakes. 

The highlight of the day was the food truck parked next to us, Zest of the Chef.  Since there were basically no customers, he brought me over a sample of a savory blue cheesecake and oh my goodness, just thinking about it right now gives me goosebumps, again!  It was so undescribably amazing. So much talent in our little town, I was so happy to meet him and his partner, she was so sweet.  I know what I am having next week for lunch, oh I hope he has it again or I will surely suffer.  You can see them here or like them on Facebook here. 

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Before Olivia was born I had a booth at our towns Saturday mornings farmers market. We sold organic cookies, cakes, pastries and lots of my crafts.  We were there for about a year and then as the time came for Livie to be born I took some time off. I said I would be back in a few months which kept stretching out until they became years. Olivia is now 2 and a half and I am going back!  I could not bring myself to leave her before because for the first two years she was nursing and does not like Momma to leave her, then it was one thing or the other. 

Iam so excited but also a little scared!  What if it does not go as well as before.  What if people do not like our goodies anymore or we just don’t do well???  I would not expect even one customer to still remember who we are though for a while anytime I went shopping at the farmers market customers and booth owners would always ask us when our cookies were coming back?  Would you please say a little prayer for me?

So I had to get my booth back together.  We used to sell under the name The Green Market but as I have said before, the word green makes me feel, well, green.  It is so abused by every single person who wants to exploit it.  After thinking for a while we are calling it ORANGE.  Haha, its the new green!  It stands for organic, renewable, artisan, natural, gourmet and eco-friendly.

Of course the orange also gave me a jump start on decorating my space with orange as the main color.  I am sewing like mad and starting friday I am making lots of cookie doughs (secret to really good cookies is to refrigerate the dough for at least 24 hours) and lots of other things.  I will try and share with you along the way as much as I can.

Here are the fabrics to make the aprons, tablecloths and basket covers and some other neat things.

 I want it to be happy and cheery

 some notions

 bakers twine is my favorite (it is really expensive though so I am working on making it myself) stay tuned for more on bakers twine.  I use it to tie around jams and packages.

 and then as I was on my way out… I ran into this fabric