A Cookie Family at NewBo City Market

This all started in January — when I got an email on Friday, January 4th from NewBo City Market confirming my market space for Sunday, January 6th.

I immediately went into a panic.  I did NOT sign up for that…  …or did I?  A quick check on their market signup site answered that one quickly.  Umm.  Oops.  I did.  I had intended to sign up for the weekend before Valentines day.  But somehow in my haste of checking prices and availability, I managed to sign up for the first Sunday in January as well.

I wasn’t going to back out, so I panicked instead.  I called Las.  I called Emily.  I called my mom.  And then I quickly had an ‘aha’ moment and remembered that my neighbor ran an event planning business, so I made plans to touch base with her for some serious help.

I’m a planner.  I don’t do things at the last minute.  Anyone that’s seen Averie’s birthday parties (here and here) knows this!  Everything needs to color coordinate and look nice — nevermind the number of cookies I still needed to make, and the fact that icing takes up to 24 hours to dry, I didn’t even have a table to put them on!

So my neighbor rescued me, and I will be eternally grateful that I didn’t have to think about table coverings and plates and stands…  And while she packed up some things for me to use on the tables, I spent 48 hours in a sea of cookies coupled with panic.  I didn’t have labels, I didn’t have a sign saying who we were or how much they were, I didn’t even know what to charge!

In the end, everything worked out okay…  but geeze I was stressed!

So that was the first market.  Then there were some orders.  Then we did a SECOND market, you know, the one I had already planned to do…  *shaking head*.

I was much more organized the second time around.  Averie had helped me make a banner, and I had all of the little things done that I knew I needed.  I had ordered the tablecloths, I had bought runners and coordinating ribbons, I had plates of my own, I had labels and a heat sealer…  All of my ‘OCD’ planning was (mostly) covered, and I was much less stressed out.  Well, until we pretty much sold out right away on Saturday, but… I’m not complaining there 🙂

I’m going to imagine that our next time around will be the smoothest yet.   We are still discussing when that will be yet, but I’m kind of missing it – and I’m ready to go back soon!!  I didn’t do all that planning to only set it up once you know!! 🙂

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