Starting A Baking Business!

Hello Readers,

You're probably looking at the title of this blog and thinking, "A baking business? You're an ECE!" Believe me I feel the same way. This year has not gone according to plan whatsoever, and with the school board not hiring ECE's for Kindergarten I've been so discouraged. I love to bake and I always get so many compliments, it made me think that I could run a small business in the meantime until my career as an RECE takes off. I've also been in the works of starting a virtual tutoring company so that way I am still working with children and getting more experience. I was considering babysitting relatives children but I think going from house to house is not the best idea during Covid so the baking business was what seemed the most logical. Am I crazy for starting all these new business ventures, ya probably, but baking has always been a hobby of mine so if I can bake and make a bit of money then so be it. Now I'm not sitting here thinking I'm going to make it large, I've priced out my items and believe me I'm not even making minimum wage. But like I said, I enjoy baking, I'm going to make these things anyway, why not try to make some money too. 

If you told me a year ago I was going to start a baking and tutoring company, I would tell you you're crazy. Backtrack to last year around this time I was just starting my second year at Seneca. I was so excited to almost be done and I already had secretaries from schools that I've worked at previously emailing me asking when I could start working again. I could see my future ahead of me and then a massive brick wall (Covid) came and placed itself between it. Now I've learned from experience not to plan so far ahead because chances are it will not pan out that way. And I believe I've handled this past year pretty well. Ya at first I was devastated that after coming this far, my dream job was not available. But I have also considered that I am not the only person going through this, Covid is a worldwide pandemic. 

Now is this new baking business something I will do forever? Who knows. As an ECE I know I will not be making a large annual income, so if this baking business can make me some side cash while being able to do what I love full time, why not! Last night before bed me and Joseph were talking and he was asking me about my menu and when I will be launching it. And then he hugged me and said, "My little entrepreneur." He made me smile so hard when he said that, he has been my number one supporter for everything I do. He was the one that convinced me to start this business. He told me that everyone loves my baking and because I enjoy it so much why not start selling them. At first I thought it was such a joke but I have nothing else to do so I started making a menu and I started crunching numbers to figure out how much everything cost. Putting myself out there is really scary. I'm worried about making a fool out of myself, I'm worried people won't like my items etc. I've already psyched myself out several times before I finally just launched the business. I've already invested a lot of time in designing a name, a logo, a menu, I even I started an instagram page to promote myself. The only way to know if this is going to work out is if I actually give it a real shot, so I guess we will see what happens!

So below is my menu, feel free to check out my instagram page: DessertQueenDeanna. Thanks for reading and thank you to those who have supported me thus far and who will continue to support me through my new ventures!

Deanna