The bakery and some scary life decisions

 So, the bakery has been slow, and to be honest, I haven't been putting in the hours I should. The kitchen remodel is moving quickly along, and the ceiling gets started tomorrow! *Yay* We've been extremely happy since we moved the living room back to Walker's old bedroom, it is great for watching t.v. Expanding the kitchen into the old "living room" space has opened up all kinds of possibilities.

 S and I have been talking alot, since our son is rapidly approaching adulthood, what to do with our lives post child rearing. There were some discussions on being gypsies and traveling, but realistically, neither one of us are much of travelers, we like to stay pretty close to home, and only travel once every couple of years. S is rapidly approching 40, which is near death to start a career in the computer industry. He has a good job with good benefits, so we have been casting around for ideas for extra income/second job kind of thing. I don't want to close the bakery, I love doing it, but we needed something S could do as well, and he didn't want to try to juggle a part time job working for someone else.

 Back in the day I had a funky little occult shop called Inner Sanctum, we sold nearly all handmade (Mostly by us) cool Pagan and occult items one can not buy locally. I love little cool funky hand made shops like that, so we have decided to wall in the weird little part of our front room and go ahead and turn it into a bakery/shop/art kind of place. Our part of town is fast becoming the Bohemian area, as the yuppies and neuvo riche/cool people push South Austin (SoCo) into a downtown Los Angelosy/New Yorky/San Franciscoy kind of overpriced big city/tourist trap/condos.  

  This does mean the bakery gets an overhaul, and I will no longer be doing catering/personal chef gigs at all, unless there is an insane amount of money involved. Also, no more deliveries, unless extra $$ is involved, and I will have a tiny walk-in bakery space where someone can stop by and get a cupcake or a cookie or three, w/o having to order a huge mondo amount.

 We have set our tentative opening date for November 1st, 2 years and one month after I opened Sugar ³.  This is a life-altering decision, and kinda scary, but I think it will be a good thing, and will increase bakery business, as well as get the Etsy shop things out there as well. The wider the audience, the better the business!