A few weeks back, the girls had a play with some of their friends up the road. While they were playing, they set up a stall on the side of the street and sold some of the citrus fruit that was on their friends tree. They were quite ambitious in their pricing ($1 per orange), but with some assistance and repricing, they sold some to passers by. They had a great time.
Since then the girls have asked to set up another stall one Saturday. We have been planning to let them when we had a weekend with not much on. With the weather forecast looking positive, we decided that this was the weekend.
The girls (with the Country Boy’s guidance) decided to make some lamingtons, which I previously wrote about, and then sell them. It has been a great project for the weekend. Because of time constraints, CB made the actual cakes on Thursday. Yesterday afternoon the girls spent time making and decorating a sign for their stall.
This morning the girls made the cake slabs into lamingtons – they made 54! Admittedly they may not all make it into the Country Women’s Cookbook, but they did a good job, even if it looks as thought a coconut monster has exploded in the kitchen!
I took Toby out shopping and came home just in time to see the girls setting up their stall. There was a constant stream of visitors buying the lamingtons. The girls were kept busy serving their customers. I was so surprised at how many people turned their cars around to come back and buy a lamington (I thought we would be lucky to have 4 or 5 customers).
After an hour we had completely run out of lamingtons, and the girls wanted to keep going so I quickly whipped up some more cake. We iced some them (more coconut all over the kitchen) and opened for an afternoon session.
The girls really enjoyed talking to their customers and serving them. They were excited to have so many people wanting to buy their lamingtons. When it was all finished they enjoyed counting up the money and listing how many of each coin they had.
One of the great things about where we live is that there is a great sense of community. We don’t get any through traffic, so even though we live on the main road in and out of the area, it is not too busy, just enough people to sell some lamingtons to.
The weather was perfect. The girls sold their lamingtons, CB with Toby’s “help” did some work in the front garden, and I dragged the laptop outside and sat and browsed blogs, wrote posts, and chatted to everyone. A beautiful spring day in the mountains!
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I want to know who cleaned up the kitchen?? What a great day they must have had.
I had a great day today too, thanks for coming around. Nice to see Katie there as well.
Oh wow!! What a splendid idea. I am so impressed. I bet you made a lot of peoples' days – I can imagine driving past a lamington stall staffed by Han and Meg – who wouldn't want to stop and buy one? It would keep you smiling all day.