This Christmas will be a very special Christmas for YOU and ME!!!!

Well, Fans of Harmony, I just wanted to take a moment and wish you all a blessed holiday season and a prosperous new year full of happiness, health, and most of all Harmony!!!!

I am signing off for a few day to spend time with family and friends. Enjoy the mini cupcakes that we delivered this morning to our neighbors.

Peace, Joy and Cupcakes!!!!

Smells like Cupcake spirit.....

Howdy Fans of Harmony! Today was a good day. Chaka and took in a movie at 10AM this morning. It was so fun and we only shared the theater with one other person. We saw I am Legend! Good movie, amazing acting by my hometown Philly boy Will Smith. Can you tell I love my "peeps" from Philly? Will Smith, Boyz to Men, Jill Scott, Patti Patti (LaBelle), Grover Washington Jr. have all helped to put Philly on the map.

The naked cupcakes were a huge hit and so where the xmas minis for Nalah-B's gymnastic team's holiday party. All the moms and dads raved about them. Getting these affirmations really confirm that the world is ready to embrace Harmony. I can not wait. I can feel it, smell it and taste the success.

Well, I have an action packed next couple of days. Lots of fun with family and friends.


I am out for today..............

Just fine, fine, fine,fine, fine, WHOOO!

Sorry for the late post, it has been a full day.

The title is from a song on Mary J. Blige's album "Growing Pains" that came out on Tuesday. The CD is decent.

The day was action packed. I spoke with our architect and we are scheduled to meet at the space next Thursday. She is going to help us access the space and talk about the preliminary design. She is also going to look at the structure and make sure we do not have any issues. I also talked to the realtor today and let her know that we are interested in moving forward once the architect accesses the space. Every time I road by "our space" (yes I am claiming it), I got butterflies in my belly. As I sat at the light to get on the expressway, I could see our location!!!!
I can't wait to tell you more.....

All else was nice today. I went to Amari's holiday party and had a great time with the kids. His class is really full of high energy cool kids. Amari's teacher has great control over the class. In a nutshell, she does not play. She has been teaching for over 30 years and you can tell. I am very pleased that Amari has her this year.

Tonight was also holiday girlz night and I had a blast. It is so nice to have such good friends. Who would have thought that 3.5 years ago that we would call this place home. I am so grareful for Heinz for bringing us hear. We had been searching for a "home" for so long and we finally found it here. I also knew that when I accepted the job with Heinz, it would be my last job in corporate America. I don't know why I said it, but I told Chaka when I got the offer that this was it. We are truly blessed that we were both able to follow our dreams in the Nasty Nati. Chaka has his dream job and I am working towards Harmony.

Well, my buzzer just went off. I am in the process of baking 72 naked I got da blues. I know odd request but hey, the customers asks and I aim to please!

Up for tomorrow, spend some quiet time with my boo. He has the day off and the kids are at school so we are going to get some things done and enjoy a moment together (with Z-man of course).

Anywho, have a great night....

The train is moving.......Progress is GOLDEN!!!

Chaka and I had a busy day. Not only did he work from home today (YEAH an adult to talk to!) but we were able to look at 4 possible locations for Harmony. I think we may have found the "Golden" spot and the owner is VERY motivated to fill the space, so this means that we have tons of room to negotiate a good deal. I am elated and I have had butterflies in my belly since we left the location.

I needed a day like today b/c I was starting to think that we would never find a place for Harmony. I will share more with you once Chaka and I make decisions about our spot and things are more final. We are planning on make a decision before the end of the week, so stay tuned. It looks like we are on target to meet or maybe even exceed my target grand opening date of April 2008.

It has been a long day. Between viewing the spaces, volunteering at my daughter's holiday party at school (1st graders are so full of energy) and doing some last min. stocking stuffer shopping, I am pooped. I am out for tonight.

Up for tomorrow, more baking, shipping the last round of cookie tins, and xmas dinner with the "girlz". Life is good. Nite.

Cute as Cupcakes

So I really just wanted to post a pictures of Nalah-B's new cupcake sweater from Gymboree (on sale for $15) but with 3 little ones, I always have to be fair. The Left is our Jr. Harmony Cupcake Chef and above is Nalah-B modeling her sweater and the top is my secret ingredient, a Z-man pot of "hunny".

Enjoy!

The Cupcakes are back!!!!

I have been completely consumed with cookies all month that I have not shared many cupcake pictures. I just wrapped up an order for a Christmas party. It was a very simple order, Harmony vanilla minis with red sprinkles and Over the rainbow (full size) in xmas colors. Cupcakes are so much fun to bake and the sky is the limit when it comes to creativity.

Anywho, I have also been on the horn all day. There are several updates to share.

Update #1

The pot of gold that Chaka stumbled upon last weekend turned out to be a bag of coal.

Long story short- a pizza place went out of business in a very sought after strip mall - great location for Harmony Cupcakes, so we thought- the strip mall had restrictions on having a bakery.

Update #2

Harmony is officially looking for a new location. Our old proposed location is just not going to work out - the build out is going to cost over 6 figures (YIKES). We are looking at 4 locations this week and I am somewhat optimistic that one of them will work out. All of them are still in my target area so stay tuned........ Oh, if you know of any vacant retail spots in Mason, West Chester or Liberty Township, OH, leave me a comment.

I am out..........

Oh the weather outside is frightful........

What is worse than snow, ICE! We woke up this AM to a thick sheet of ice on the ground. Driving in the snow is really no big deal to me but ice is a different story. We are expecting more snow this AM so I will have to see how the day's plans shape up.

Nothing to really talk about this AM. I am in a very mellow mood so I am not going to try and think of anything to say..........

Out for now, maybe more later......