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!

Another Satisfied Customer

It's always nice to hear from another happy howler. Here is an email we recently received from a four-legged friend:

My name is Little Richard and I am a seven year old standard poodle and I am very delighted with your Happy Howler Pup Cakes; good job. You can see in the attached pictures that I love them. Please give my regards to Cato and Darius.

Just look at Little Richard waiting so patiently. What a gentleman!

Thank you for your email! To our other customers, we would love to see more photos of your photogenic pooches. Send them our way and we'd be happy to add you to our blog.

Pupcakery Order Forms

Several people have been asking, "How do we order from you?" Well, we are thrilled to announce that it is oh so easy! If you like to order and pay online, you can visit our shop on Etsy at http://www.thepupcakery.etsy.com/. This is our online shop. It's brand new, and we don't have many options for ordering yet, but it's a start.

For a full list of products you can request an order form via email. Our email address is thepupcakery@gmail.com. You can then print out our order form, fill it out and mail it to us with your check or money order to the address on the order form. You can also email us your order so we can start working on it while you prepare and mail a check or money order. We also offer free delivery to those of you lucky enough live close to Warrenton!

The Pupcakery is only baking on Saturday and Sundays at this time. All orders will be ready to mail on the Monday after the order is received. We look forward to hearing from you!

What a Mess!

So, yesterday we were so pleased with our little pupcakes. They were beautiful. Remember? (See yesterday's post.) Well, today we put them into an airtight, plastic container so that they wouldn't get stale. We went to Portland for the day, and this is what we found when we got home.

We're not really sure WHY the frosting that was dry and a little crispy this morning is now moist and melting off the pupcakes. It may be that the sun was shining through the window and made the container like a little sauna. Maybe the moisture from the muffins was absorbed by the frosting. We're really not sure. We do know that Maia won't be selling this batch and we'll have to be careful how we package these in the future. More experimenting to come!