Today we’d like to introduce you to Joslyn.
Hi Joslyn, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I started baking when I was 6 years old at my grandma’s house. She would video tape my brother and I baking cookies and always bust us eating the cookie dough. I would bake here and there , give out cookie bags to family that they would look out for every year and then I stopped because it was honestly a lot of work. Then one day my grandma’s hair stylist asked her if I could make her daughter cupcakes for her baby shower she wanted 60 cupcakes Alice and Wonderland themed. Mind you , the most cupcakes I have baked at one time are like a dozen maybe 2. So I naturally I panicked and my mom would have to calm me down while I did the order. After delivering the cupcakes it turned out they were a hit ! I got 4 orders from that baby shower of cupcakes. I thought about doing a baking business but I never sat down with family and asked their opinion. So one day I talked to my support system and they all agreed to let’s start it and helped come up with a name and where to buy my supplies.
Business was slow not going to lie and I did get discouraged but then when covid hit , it was like business was picking up. I had started getting more followers on social media, getting invited to do pop ups because of them trying my desserts, doing weddings, birthdays , etc. I started taking classes to help with business and they really did help. After my grandma passed away I wanted to quick but my family always told me not too because she wouldn’t want me to stop doing what I loved.
I love doing brewery events because I have all my family go and especially my grandpa he was always my taste tester and my greeter for the customers that came to my booth. It was always my mom, my uncle, my grandpa and I. Doing events almost every weekend and I always made sure they never interfere with football season. And If it did I would ask my dad he would go with me and my brothers friend would help out as well.
After my grandpa passed , I went out to find a job to start working and I found one working as a teachers aide in a school close to home. So baking has been on the back burner . I do miss seeing old and new customers coming up to my booth and saying you have a great support nothing better than family or how they love my dessert so much they came back to buy another one.
Now I am only doing weekend events and its still my mom and uncle and I. The three of and both of them being my rocks I do not know what I would do without them.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
No it wasn’t a smooth road. Some struggles were i wouldn’t get any orders and months would go by. At events I would barely sell like 5 items where everyone else around me would sell out and it not going to lie it made want to quit. Because I would put so much work into my baking and people would smile and walk on by.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I would at an elementary school in speical education as a teachers aide. I work with 4th and 5th graders and I honestly can say that I love my job. Do not get my wrong it has its big challenges and some days are worse than others but the kids and my co workers are what me want to go in everyday to work of course unless I get sick because working with kiddos you never know what you are going to catch.
I am proud of being where I am at today in my life working in a school district that is close to home, having family help get this job and I have the patience to do what I love working the kids.
If we knew you growing up, how would we have described you?
Growing up , I was shy sometimes but I wasn’t loud either. I would I was in the middle. I always did good in school hardly got into trouble and mainted my grades. In high-school I played waterpolo for three years and thst was a sport I never thought id join. But I enjoyed it alot and made grwat friends that I still talk today. I wanted to be a teacher growing up and then I changed it to working with infants and toddlers I love babies and how their small little mind works. And now look at me I work in special education.
Image Credits
@bigdreammarket for my sold out photo
