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Is the end on sight?
No. No it is not. I've been baking and making for 4 days, and I'm still not finished with the stuff for the sale tomorrow... and I'm not over-doing it this year either! Yesterday I decorated my gingerbread houses... that only took 7 hours... for 2 houses. It consumed my entire day, and I still need to make a few cookies and popcorn. Not to mention that my kitchen looks like the decorating aisle of Michael's and a bakery blew up.
AND I still have to make cookies for Christmas presents. I promised my friend in Korea I'd send her a care package. And my friend in Texas. And my cousin in Florida. And my BIL+SIL in Vegas. So i also have to get to the post office.
And I need to get my cards out.. but we still need to go for a picture. We're looking for a place that will allow us to bring Pepper, but we may end up putting the camera on a timer.
Re: Is the end on sight?
Could you please add me to the list?
Only kidding!!! Good luck with all your baking. I think my mixer is getting lonely over there with it's lack of use.
OMG, what happened? That is TERRIBLE!
The pastor ordered a gingerbread house from me in September. I told her my price and she was still interested. I should have taken a deposit, but she's a woman of the cloth for crying out loud. Yesterday she comes to my table, looks at the 2 houses I made, and asks how much. I tell her the same price I quoted, and said it was negotiable, but everything was going to charity.. to which she responded with a hearty laugh and asked "who twisted your arm into agreeing to that?!" along with miming getting her arm twisted. I explained where the money was going and why. She bought a cookie and walked away. I thought maybe she would come back, but didn't. Instead she told the entire congregation that I was over priced (I've sold more than 30 of theses houses over the years at around the same price, and have donated quite a few for a children's raffle) and that I was selling under the guise of giving to charity to hopefully get people to overspend... and that she "knows" me and I would never do something so selfless. (found out the knowing me part later on)
Also, I was signed on to do the fall faire, and the women of the church that do the cake sale for the church said they wouldn't do it if I was going to be there, and backed out 2 days before. I ended up donating everything I made in the hopes of a peace offering. They turned around and had a gingerbread house raffle yesterday for 50 cents a ticket. It was a Wilton pre-baked house, nothing homemade, nothing made with love in the hopes of bettering someone else's life.. but why would people spend $50 for mine when for 50 cents they could have a processed one made from spite?