Journey to the Jillicious Desserts Bakeshop (Part 1)

It's been an exciting, long, crazy, busy, stressful journey and just three months ago, I saw my dream of owning a bakeshop finally become a reality. So many things had to fall into place, so many people helped and hours and hours of planning, organizing and learning have all come together to create our new retail bakeshop.

Many people have asked me about our history and how we found this location of our bakeshop and although it may have seemed to have happened quickly, here is the timeline of what was happening behind the scenes and some of the details that made up this process.

If you have ever started your own business, you understand how much work goes into getting a real brick and mortar location up and running--but, for those of you that haven't experienced this, I hope I can provide the insight and details about how my experience worked out.

But I should start at the beginning, which takes us back to 2004...