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Reply to "What is your "direction" with cookie decorating?"

Mallory- I was just asking myself the same question, though I'm starting in a very different place!  Great timing, and maybe some of you here can give me your two cents!  So, first and foremost, I am a "real" architect with my own business, two small children and a loving and supportive husband.  Still- I am also the primary breadwinner in my household, so architecture is here to stay! It was only in January that I started into cookie land and cookie decorating with any sort of seriousness, and I definitely approach it as my art and my craft, not my job. Up until now, the only money I have gotten was from the occasional contest prize- so we are talking gift card, not paycheck!  At one point I was approached about a corporation looking to create a promotional video incorporating my gingerbread replication of one of their buildings, but that didn't pan out, but it would have been well worth it to do it financially.

Now...my cookie work is getting noticed, which I love, and just today I've gotten my first messages, inquiring about cookies for birthdays (Ireland- ummm, no I don't ship to Ireland!) or a wedding..(Nantucket- feasible and $$$$, but...)  And, I don't know what to do. I mean, basically I say no, I'm not in business.  But I do have some cookie friends who are- so I can send them to the appropriate peoples.  But it just raised the question of what might I do with this cookie obsession- what paths are there realistically, and do any of them make sense in terms of finances, time involved, and keeping my cookie love fun and alive?   

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