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[oakenguy]

Well, my first night of being an actual vendor of chocolates is over. (Unless you count mail order. Or doing it in a LARP. Or as barter. Or a present. Look, work with me here: I had a change box and everything!)

Some notes and observations:

1) Performing is better. Ohhh, so jealous of the clowns by the end of the evening.
1a) Vending is *so* where the money is, though.

2) Decaf? Ha! We bought $35 of decaf; about .50 worth was drunk. I'm just glad the YMCA downstairs let me donate the leftover coffee--I would've felt bad dumping it.

3) flopart is as cool in person as she is online.

4) My "performers get 1 free" policy worked better than I'd dreamed! I'd meant to do it just as a goodwill thing, and so maybe good word of mouth would spread. Instead, I think about a quarter of my sales were performers coming back for more. Heh.

5) The new butterscotch-caramel flavor, easy success even though I'm not quite happy with it. Drizzling streaks of caramel across the top worked out darn well (if I do say so); it's easily the prettiest truffle. And the butterscotch liqueur kicks arse. But the crunchy caramel bits...just not feeling it. Too tiny. I think I'm going to switch to toffee.

It was a fun show, overall! The performers were all friendly and upbeat, the music was fun, the windows to the concession booth opened eventually (they'd been painted shut), and watching the coffee baristas wrestle a bag of coffee out of one cardboard box-dispenser (assembled incorrectly) and into another one, jumping and burning each other while this clear bag of black fluid gurgled around like a living thing, brought back all sorts of X-Files 'black ooze' memories, which will probably show up in my dreams. With clowns. So yay.

Sleep now.

Comments

[sistahraven.livejournal.com]

Oh! I almost forgot!

My mint is finally up for it's first harvest and drying :) I'm still happy to donate some yummy pagan-loved mint to your chocolate cause!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

YAY!

You're awesome. :)

[sistahraven.livejournal.com]

I'll get a bunch started on the drying process, and let you know when it's done :)

[tpau]

hey, random question. do you think either or both of hte following two things couldbe possible?

1- any chance i could barter/buy/whatever some custom order truffles from you for the thursday before Intercon (march, um, 2nd or somethign like that)?

2- do you want to donate a small box of some truffles to the Intercon raffle(also march somethign or other-ish)?

:)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Both of these are very possible. :)

May 21rst

[temperlj.livejournal.com]

Vendor or performer? :)
See you today?

Re: May 21rst

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Um...um...let me think about this!

Yes, today, yay! The gathering of circus performers on the Cambridge Common will just have to get along without me.

[ah42.livejournal.com]

Bri! Idea! Instead of diluting the cocoa on the truffles with sugar, in the future, why not try sifting cocoa onto them instead of rolling them?

That way you don't lose the dark color or teh cocoa powder, and have more control over how strong it is.

[flopart.livejournal.com]

3) flopart is as cool in person as she is online.

i'm cool! yay!

*muah*

[flopart.livejournal.com]

oh and i had dreams about magical science nerds. it was awesome.

[lemonediscream.livejournal.com]

uh... so for some reason I didn't see your previous post and hadn't known you would be there. I'm sorry! I would've stopped by and said hi, as is I walked blindly past! oh I feel quite rude.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh!! Your not spotting me is totally understandable, as the concession booth window was very small and low; how did I miss seeing you, though?