Blooming Cookies
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30 months ago
I started Blooming Cookies out of my home in January 1984. I had no idea that Blooming Cookies would grow into the company it has today. I resigned from Delta after nine years as a flight attendant and began writing a travel newsletter about hideaway destinations around the world. I sold everything I owned at the time and though the newsletter gained a nice following, it was not enough to maintain a profit. In the waning days of the newsletter, while watching a morning news show, I saw a gift of long-stemmed chocolate roses. I immediately thought that doing something similar with fresh-baked cookies would be better. I went to a local florist and purchased a rose box, then off to a craft store to buy the necessary supplies from which to make the "cookie rose" stems. I proudly showed them to a friend of mine that managed the Epicure Department of Neiman Marcus. She loved them and said that if I could make the long-stem cookies she would sell them at Neiman Marcus. I was in business!!