Why Cookies? Why not?

My journey with cookies started in November 2021. I had reached a crossroads in my life after struggling with some health issues. I needed to find a focus again, something that I would wake up and be excited about. I kind of just stumbled across sugar cookies, I can't even remember how or where but I do remember being intrigued by them.

I have always been creative, took Art GSCE and Graphics, Textiles and Photography at college. I think it came from my granddad who loved to draw and capture moments through photos.

I started making cookies for my family, testing out recipes and practising piping skills. They would say that I should sell them, were they really good enough to sell?

I got thinking about a business name, doodling logos and that's when Karla's Kookie Jar was born. My husband got to work on installing a brand new kitchen for me and I got everything ready for my inspection. I started to get busy, people were actually ordering from me and then imposter syndrome kicked in.

Impostor Syndrome - noun - the persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's own efforts or skills.

Self doubt is a wonderful thing, isn't it. However, I had finally found something I loved and I wasn't going to let a little (or a lot) of self doubt get in the way.

The kitchen was perfect for baking the cookies but I needed more space. Luckily my husband is an amazing carpenter and he built me a Cookie Studio in the bottom of our garden. It was and still is perfect. So this is where I create all the cookies orders.

Now nearly a year on and as I reach the 1st anniversary of Karla's Kookie Jar, I am just so grateful to every single one of my customers for their orders, multiple orders and believing in me to create cookies for their special occasions. Does impostor syndrome creep in? Yep and more often than I would like but I'm hoping in time that this will fade. Is this venture making me rich? Nope, not in the monetary sense and some would question the business's success, but to me it is so much more than that. It is making me rich in other areas. Doing something I love, creating a product people love and giving me purpose. I think a life with purpose is a life well lived.

Wow that got deep for a minute!

So as I come to the end of my first blog, thank you for taking some time to read it and I hope it gave you a little insight into where it all began. In this blog section I plan to have some informative articles, some teaching and some "follow me through this journey" kind of posts because this is definitely a journey.