Sweet Potato Festival=Success!

My sign

It has been one HECK of a weekend! My brain is still reeling from all the stress and activities! For three straight days (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) I had very little sleep from constant baking, chocolate dipping, sewing, cleaning, designing, and selling! The morning before the festival I got two hours of sleep (more like a power nap while my cake cooled) and we loaded up in our unseasonable cool weather (39 degrees when we set up!)
As we got all set up we realized our tent was much smaller than we expected and it felt crowded all day, but it all turned out fine. I sold a lot of different types of snacks, like marshmallow pops, rice crispy treats, cookies, brownies, candy corn almond bark, caramel cream cheese apple dip, cream cheese apple bundt cake (YUM!!!!) and more.

My favorite apron

We also had our homemade aprons that my mom, Meme, and Grandma slaved over for three days to make for me and they turned out so cute and sold very easily!

My little shop :)

We also had a raffle where if you guessed the correct number of candy corn in the jar (or you came the closest without going over) you would win a fun little prize package that contained a thermos  blanket, hot chocolate, snacks, and a car pass to Santa Land (a drive through Christmas light park in Lindale) It was a close call but Cindy Boffy (mother of a girl I graduated with) who came the closest to guessing the right number.

After a long day of constantly being on my feet, eating nothing but half of a cold corn dog, and spending the day talking to...ugh...people (something I HATE doing...lol) I think we did pretty good. I made a good amount of money that can definitely put a dent in my living expenses and I sold just about everything in the stand. I really had a great time and say alot of friends and people I hadn't seen in a while. After sleeping for a full 12 hours I scrambled to get my homework all done Sunday and turned it in just before it was due. Pshew....I need a vacation! Get me to California already!!!
75 more days and i'll be there!!!!

-Kayla

Lets Get Down To Business!

The Festival starts Friday! AHHH! Tomorrow we start making sure we have everything we need and planning how we want to decorate and making our grocery list. Plus we're trying to make these cute little aprons with frills but we've already been though three sewing machines trying to get one to work for us! I'm just bad luck with them! On top of the festival, I've also been asked to help make the Tinman costume for my old high school's production of The Wizard of Oz! I'm very excited and I love doing this stuff, but of all the times to ask! Oh well, we bought a pre-made costume but it's very plain and ugly so I'm going to be sprucing it up and making it look awesome :)
Oh, and I also signed up for my class I'm going to take while I'm at Disneyland! I'm going to be taking Corporate Analysis on Fridays from 8:30 to 11:30. This class is all about Disney as a business and how it is run and what Disney values in it's employees (Something I HAVE to learn!)
Here's a video about it(not very exciting, but it will do lol)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TilN6VIRd54&feature=youtu.be

Well, that's all for now!
Kayla

87 Days!!!

Good news! I've found a roommate! Her name is Cierra and she sounds like a perfect fit for me! We're both very laid back, obsessed with Disney and love to cook. How can we go wrong??? haha. I moved my check-in time to 9 AM to match hers. Hopefully this will let us get there before our other three roommates and we can get the two twin bed room instead of the bunk bed room...lol But she's from a city not far from Anaheim and she knows all about the area so I won't be totally lost in the big city alone :) 

The Sweet Potato Festival is in a 10 days! AAAHH!! So much work left to do! I might have to solicit my Grandma to come down for a couple days and help me get everything ready! Momma and I have decided to take some old aprons we have a make cute ruffles to put on them! Hopefully those sell well because it's going to take alooooot of work and when it comes to sewing machines, they ALWAYS tend to break on me...lol School is really starting to pick up now so I've been super busy, plus I'm thinking of signing up for the sub list at AG, I could make some fairly easy money that way. Oh well, life goes on. I'm just ready to be in California!

Kayla

Can I go to Disneyland now?

93 days until check in day!
Things are really starting to get hectic around here! This semester is going to be a very busy one! I've got three term papers to write, two major tests Monday, plus a play analysis to write over Of Mice and Men. Yuck. I'll probably procrastinate as always and put it off until Sunday. Today I'm practicing make treats that I want to sell at the Sweet Potato festival the 27th. I made some fairly cute marshmallow pops and I tried to make "zombie booger" popcorn (Popcorn covered in the stuff you put on popcorn balls but with green food coloring) but there was too much popcorn and not enough sweet gooey stuff to coat everything, plus the stuff solidified once it cooled off so I didn't even get to use it all, so I made some crappy popcorn balls...I think I'll call them zombie brains ;) lol I guess I'll just have to keep experimenting!

Sweet Potato Festival in T Minus Three Weeks!

Time to get busy! I'm starting to make plans on what I'm going to make to sell to make a little bit of moolah for dorm stuff. I'm going to try to decorate our little booth very Disney with lots of red, black and yellow :) I think I'm going to try to sell lots of Halloween themed crafts and treats since Halloween will be 4 days afterwards.  Plus a lot of people have already offered to make me cakes and cookies to sell and I'm so thankful for all the support! Plus a friend of my mother has decided to pay for the rent of my space as their contribution! HOW SWEET! I'm so overwhelmed with everyone's support and generosity that I feel like I'm not thanking everyone enough. I hope that if I work hard enough at making money here and putting everything I have into life in California maybe people will see how much all of this means to me. Well, that's all that's going on now! I'll report back soon!
Kayla  

Hello world!

Welcome to my blog!
Today I am three months and eleven days from my check-in day in sunny Anaheim!
I'm so excited I can barely contain myself!
Today I went into town to look at dorm things but I didn't realize just how much all of this is going to cost! Looks like I'm going to have to wait until after Christmas before I get to buy anything so I have time to save up. I'm planning on having a booth at the Sweet Potato Festival at the end of the month so I'm also trying to plan out all the things I want to make/sell. Plus I'm taking four classes at school and I'm constantly busy with that. Plus I'm coming down with a bad cold with sneezes and coughs all the time. My old high school band teacher used to call October "Heck-month" because of everyone's hectic schedule. It's only October 2nd and Heck-month has already settled in! Oh well, Fall is on it's way and I'm a day closer to realizing my Disney dreams! How can I not be happy and thankful?