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Sweet Valentine Suite
Two sugars make one delicious and romantic gift for your Valentine!
If you watch the Food Network, then you know that Crave Bake Shop is the gluten-free winner of the Cupcake Wars! Read all about it! But hey, you don’t have to be gluten-free to LOVE everything Crave Bake Shop creates, you just have to crave good bake goods!
ATTENTION OREGON CUSTOMERS
Crave Bake Shop and Hide A Heart have created the perfect suite of delicious and romantic sweets for your Valentine!
You must pre-order your Valentine’s Day package by February 10th to receive these special rates!
The Sweetheart Cookie platter (pictured) with a Hide A Heart for only $25.
Get one large decorated sugar cookie and a Hide A Heart glass valentine for a special rate of only $12.
There are small assorted treat samplers ($20 value for just $15), as well as Chocolate Shooter Samplers (1 dozen Shooters for just $20, or 2 dozen Shooters for $35). 
Add a Hide A Heart to any package for $14 more.
Pre-order your Valentine’s package now!
Phone: 503-212-2979 or Email: cravebakeshop@gmail.com
Crave Bake Shop located at 460 SW 5th Street Lake Oswego Oregon 97034
For Press: Creating Romantic Fun that’s Budget Friendly
What’s more fun than a greeting card? ...a HIDE A HEART! Most people read then discard a card, but giving a glass heart to say, “LOVE YOU” is something people will hold on to for years.
Made in the USA of ruby glass, HIDE A HEART is romantic, inexpensive and reusable when couples take turns hiding the heart in a secret place for an affectionate surprise. HIDE A HEART makes a perfect wedding, anniversary, empty nest rejuvenation, or relationship building gift. The purple glass hearts are given to offer comfort, support and honor courage for someone going through a life-challenging experience. Each heart is beautifully packaged for gift-giving.
MCatherine Lunsford-Bowles tells the story that inspired HIDE A HEART. “Twenty-seven years ago my husband surprised me with a little red glass heart he had hidden for me to discover. Over the years the meaningfulness of the little heart has grown.” After a lot of discussion and realizing the idea held great potential as a meaningful gift for other couples, they registered the name HIDE A HEART® and started their business. “We wanted to share with others this simple way to speak and keep the ‘language of love’ alive in a relationship,” says Lunsford-Bowles.
“It's the little things that count and HIDE A HEART fills the niche for non-verbal, positive communication so often over-looked by couples and families these days” continued Randy.
For more information and to see the HIDE A HEART Collection, visit the website: http://www.hideaheart.com or http://hideaheart.etsy.com
HIDE A HEART® launched in 2009 by a devoted couple of over 35 years and big proponents of keeping the spark alive in everyone’s relationship, Randy and MCatherine continue to hide a heart for each other at home in Oregon. They are available for interviews and speaking engagements. Email: hideaheart@gmail.com ###
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Dwindling 401K Leads to Business
My mother always told me, "when life hands you lemons...make lemonade!" It was true then and it's true now, but SURPRISE! She never told me HOW to make the lemonade!
Considering the age group that subscribes to the GrowingBolder.com newsletter, I'd be willing to believe you'll understand the following story.
My husband and I were sitting around chatting--well moaning mostly--back in March about the 401 K $$ we thought would be enough to live on through retirement--what to do now was a daily topic, especially since 6 years ago our youngest son was injured in a car crash and unable to work. We had not planned to be financially responsible for all three of us on retirement funds.
After brainstorming a while, we decided to start an Internet business. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. "In this economy??? What? Is she crazy???" And my answer to that is if you don't try, you'll never know. You see pretty much my entire life I've lived by the 'rhinoceros theory'...just charge!
So here's the story that inspired Hide a Heart®.
A Purple Heart for Spiritual Healing
In 1993, I was in the prime of my singing/performance career as a featured soloist with Symphony Pops Orchestras. While performing in a Tribute to Irving Berlin with the St. Louis Symphony, I noticed that the last two notes in my upper register could only be sung when I moved to one side the lump on the right side of my neck. Upon my return home, I told my voice coach about the problem and he suggested I see his ENT (ear, nose & throat doctor) ASAP.
I had found the lump a year before and had gone to an ENT who told me it was nothing to fear. When I asked if she shouldn't biopsy or remove it, she said, "it's difficult to get to and a messy operation. But, if it doesn't go away or it gets larger, come back to see me." It didn't 'go away' but it didn't get any larger, so I pretty much dismissed it until my experience in St. Louis.
Discovering the Perfect Love Note
When I was first married, my idea of a 'love note' pretty much filled three to four notebook pages and included love poems, little 'lipstick' kisses on each page, pressed flowers, a candy kiss marking the beginning of the newest entry...you know, all the things 'girls' are thrilled about and guys, well at least my guy, seemed to be hard pressed to duplicate. I thought I was giving him what he would like and not so subtly modeling what I wanted in return. What I received was VERY different. Who knew leaving a 'love note' would prove to be so tricky?
His 'love note' pretty much consisted of one to two sentences and did NOT include a 'lip stick' kiss... I knew it wouldn't... but I thought he might go through a kitchen cabinet and find the bag of candy kisses and leave one for me somewhere, like maybe on my pillow if he wanted to do something a little different from the way I was leaving the candy kiss. I also thought he might write a love poem once in a while, but what I didn't appreciate was that I had him at a disadvantage when it came to poetry writing.
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