Pursuing Your Crazy Idea

It has been quite the journey learning about making and selling baked goods from my own kitchen! There was a bunch of researching of course, the Maine state home cottage laws (as they’re called, because you’re making food from your ‘cottage’ as it were) and going in circles a bit with various links and requirements.

It was a huge learning experience. Not least because it was actually a big self-growth experience, it turns out! Why do these things always turn out to be more than what it seems? It wasn’t really about my difficulty of filling out the form itself, and how the form was difficult to read and easy to miss things. (I almost felt like I was dyslexic filling it out and re-checking it 10x to make sure I didn’t miss a box). I realized it was really about my fear and lack of confidence around giving this business a try.