Archive for February, 2010

the biz: saying “no” to growth

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I’ve been reading a lot lately.  Nope, not the relaxing tomes I promised myself would make a re-appearance in my life for 2010 (hey, I’ve still got 10 more months to make that a reality!); I’ve been reading tons of business blogs.  Specifically, I’ve been trying to find guidance from others in the same boat I find myself.
Many are calling for Muddy’s expansion… everything from opening earlier,  opening every day to more locations, franchising (not gonna happen y’all), etc, but I can’t help but feel that in doing so this business would lose what’s at the heart and soul of it, what those people really identify with and why they love us.

I recently found this blog post on the New York Times website and was intrigued, especially by the variety of comments readers posted.  It seems there are some notable differences between this place and Muddy’s, but I’m definitely interested by the variety of comments and overall theme.  What do you think?

http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/why-would-a-business-say-no-to-growth/

nothing says romance like VD

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

*updated Feb 11 at 5pm: all pre-order slots are booked, so it’s first come first serve on Saturday!

Hello darlings, it’s VD time again at Muddy’s!  To what do I refer?  A wicked pestilence?  Kind of… everyone has an opinion about Valentine’s Day and I firmly fall into the camp of “made up holiday of forced affection”.

Thus, we will be continuing the Muddy’s tradition of the two-faced Valentine’s Day: half our products will be for you lovey dovey shmoopikins celebrating your luuurv and the other half will be for those of you celebrating being single or like me, happily coupled but just icked out by the shmoopiness on VDay.

So, without further ado, here are the items that are available for pre-order Thursday Feb 11 through Saturday Feb 13.  These items will be in the bakery case available for walk-in customers on Saturday Feb 13.  Yay!

Cookies:
toffee bars
chocolate chip cookies
peanut butter cookies
sugar cookies
love: brownies with pink strawberry icing
revenge: brownies with green mint icing
love potion cookies (chocolate cookies + white chocolate chips + raspberry)
heart cookies (shortbread-y cookies + cream cheese icing with a touch of cherry + sprinkles) $1ea
voodoo dolls shortbread-y sugar cookies with icing x’s for eyes $1ea

Cupcakes:
prozac
**capote
**plain jane
classic
strawberry fields forever
frankly scarlett
true love: chocolate cupcake + raspberry icing+ red sprinkles
love potion: strawberry cupcake + chocolate icing + pink rose
muchas smuchas: chocolate cupcake + strawberry icing + Hershey kiss
woman scorned: chocolate cupcake + rosewater icing + gothic rose
bitter with baggage: chocolate cupcake + coffee icing + bittersweet chocolate chips
ashes of old flames: chocolate chip cupcake + chocolate icing + skull and crossbones

Misc:
**conversation heart cakes: small heart shaped cakes perfect for one to three people!  $10 ea
flavors: capote and plain jane
icing colors: choose pink, green, or yellow
sayings: choose “be mine”, “i love u”, “kiss me”, or “bite me”

baby cherry pies with a heart on top  $2 ea
**4” cherry pies with hearts on top  $4.50
7” cherry pies with hearts on top  $12

** items can be ordered vegan; we will do our best to have a selection of items for vegans on the 13th!

diy cupcake picks

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Thanks so much to Allyson Stephens!  She bought cupcakes from us and then she and the children made these super-adorable cupcake picks to adorn them AND was nice enough to share the instructions with me!

Check out her blog HERE for the how-to.

happy birthday allen!

Monday, February 1st, 2010

This video epitomizes why we LOVE working in the bakery; we get to vicariously be a part of moments like these…


Original Video- More videos at TinyPic

Thanks so much to new daddy Mark for sending this to me and a very happy birthday to Allen, three days old as of today!