Oh! The improvements that we have seen around here!! I think what plagued us over the years is not having enough time to make the needed changes, and not having someone here to just give us a little nudge in the right direction. My husband (Faron) came to work for us in February, after working in sales for the past 11 years. He came in and basically said “What needs to be done?” In which I started chirping off what seemed like a hundred things! But…..he went to work! He started with transforming an empty room, which was once a little craft storefront for a family friend and a candle making room (the time factor again), into a room for Brides to order their wedding cakes in, it allowed more individual attention and a lot less distractions. He cleaned, painted, put up shelves…..and rearranged, moved furniture and it looks beautiful! But…when that was done, here he came again…what’s next? We began looking for a contractor to help us transform an office into a public restroom, in which enabled us to install a counter top with seating, so our “great” customers could sit a while and have some coffee and goodies. He went to work!! We found a great guy, highly recommended, Mickey with the Happy Hammer. He went above and beyond to help us with our remodel project and got us on our way. In the meantime, I had got our face book fan page up and running , but I just didn’t have the time and energy to keep up with it. We decided on some incentives to gain some fans, some cupcakes, cookies, t-shirts, you name it! So I knew I would have to start keeping up with it, yuck, when could I?!! Soooooo, my witty and humorous husband again stepped up and offered to keep up. Well, if you have seen our fanpage, you know the rest of the story! If not…..please check it out, he still manages to make me giggle on a daily basis with his posts! He also reminds everyone what great stuff we have, what great history, great employees, and great customers we are soooo blessed to have! We are still working on some additions and improvements, but taking alittle more time to enjoy the ones weve made to date.
We’ve had some really great shout outs lately, and we are so appreciative! Tasha Does Tulsa, http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2010/10/anns-bakery-barbie-dress-cake/#comments wrote a wonderful blog about us and her birthday doll cake, she’s a real DOLL. Nancy with the Tulsa Historical Society wrote a great blog about our history on her personal blog, Tulsagal. http://www.tulsagal.net/2010/10/historic-food-anns-bakery.html Please check them out!
What can I say? October is the new June! This October has been the busiest I’ve seen so far, we have made more wedding cakes this month than any month this year. No wonder, the weather is beautiful this time of year. The only problem I have with it, is that I would love to be out in it! We are looking so forward to seeing all the pictures from the weddings, it always ties everything together that we don’t get to see, just making the cake.
Some of you may remember our face book wedding cake giveaway in the month of August, if not, it was a contest for couples to bring their friends and family to the Ann’s Bakery fan page and post which couple they are supporting and “like” our page. The winners Cody and Stacey, we married this past Sunday and we were so excited for them and are looking forward to seeing all the pictures from Andrea at Andrea Murphy Photography. We are hoping to have another contest soon, so check back and we’ll try and settle on a month to announce soon.
Looking forward to the coming holiday season, we are going to be busy making party trays and cakes for office parties so keep us in mind, were going to be making pumpkin, pecan and all the usual fruit and cream pies. Call us early to get in your orders, we don’t want to run out or not make enough! I will be posting our pie lists, and breads soon!
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