Next Market Date: June 28 (revised)

Maia has been selected to dance in the Astoria Music Festival's performance, "The Fairy Queen." The show is being choreographed by Catherine Turocy from the New York Baroque Dance Company, and the girls will perform with a live orchestra and several opera singers. Maia is playing the part of a fairy.

Due to the amount of time scheduled for rehearsals and the performance, she will not be able to have her booth at the Astoria Sunday Market on June 21. She will return to the market on June 28. She will also be set up in front of the Natural Nook in Seaside, OR during the Art Walk on July 4, from 5-8pm. She will be selling her usual biscuits along with some star-spangled treats for the furry friends in your lives. Hope to see you there!

To Market, To Market

Yesterday the girls took their product to market for the first time. We arrived at the market square at 8:30 to set up. The set up took about 45 minutes, and customers started wandering through around 9:30. The market didn't officially open until 10:00, but Maia had already made her first sale by 9:50. Overall it was a great day. They sold 28 pupcakes, 12 Hefty Howlers, 32 large bags of biscuits, and 17 small bags of biscuits. The traffic was pretty steady all day with a bit of a lull between 1:00 and 2:00 in the afternoon. Ainsley woreher cupcake baker's hat and apron and passed out samples. Maia handled the customers and took in the money. They came home with a full cashbox and a pretty empty set of biscuit bins. Now it's time to start baking for next week's market!

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

We are proud to announce that Maia has won the top cash prize of $100 for her Pupcakery business plan in a contest through Harlem Hip-Hop Tours. We purchased the Entrepreneurship Workbook from H3 Tours to work through the important aspects of building a business. The workbook included all of the important components of starting a business, including: target customers, competition, marketing and distribution strategies, and profit projections. Maia completed the workbook and used the results to assemble her own business plan. She submitted her plan in the H3 Tours' monthly contest, and she won! She beat out 25 other plans! Congratulations, Maia! Click here to read more.

Introducing....HEFTY Howlers

Well, we're back after a long month off from posting. Our days have been filled with all that comes with finishing up another school year, and there has been very little time for The Pupcakery. We did, however, develop another fabulous product.....the HEFTY Howlers. These biscuits come from the same recipe that is used for our Happy Howlers, but they're much, much bigger. Our good friend Jackson agreed to model with the new product for us in exchange for some free biscuits. Thank you, Jackson!