2012 is here! Roocke Cookies has applied for an annual food licence this year and hoping to be at 4 markets this year including The Nook Market in New Town this weekend, The Collinsvale School market next month, then The Valley Market in both April and October.
After feeling a little disheartened after my last market in Nov 2011, and running at a financial loss, I was ready to throw in the towel on this whole concept.
A few days passed, and I got thinking about how I could have done things better, and I thought I've come this far, I'm going to give it another shot.
So without getting out my son's "Down down, prices are down" cardboard cut out hands from Coles, I have revised the cookie pricing and made it a lot simpler.
Packets of 4 cookies will be $2 and packets of 12 cookies will be $5. Full stop. I won't be doing the gift boxes, mugs, glasses etc at this market. They are now in my cupboard!!
I am hoping these changes will encourage more sales and less giveaways to family and friends at the conclusion of the market. Having said that, I realised I gained just as much pleasure in giving them away, as I did selling them. But I'm fairly sure business doesn't quite work like that!
So it's now Thursday prior to the Sunday market and this is the least organised I have ever been - I have today to buy the ingredients, check my packaging/labelling stocks, then spend all day Friday and Saturday baking and packaging. But it WILL all come together.
So what do you expect this coming Sunday? - Fresh, homemade cookies baked the old fashioned way just like the ones Grandma used to make. I will have the usuals - Chocolate Chip, Afghans, Anzacs etc.
Hope to see some of my "Facebook regulars" and maybe some new faces too. The Nook Market is held in St James Church, Elizabeth St, New Town opposite Blue Gum service station. The market runs from 10am - 2pm.
Further information on the Nook Market is available through the Roocke Cookies page on Facebook.
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