Gourmet Tea Biscuit and Cookie Business Closes

orlan and the bee is closed as a gourmet tea biscuit and cookie business. 

My intention was to have this as my employment with the hope of eventually moving out of my parents' house.  I was to make $12 per hour, which is actually enough to live well in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and more than any job I've had on a permanent basis.  It is a great challenge setting up a business, and I put a lot of time, effort, and money into this venture.  Please peruse the photos.  I consider it a successful art project.

My hope for the future is for orlan and the bee to be reborn into a new business that represents who I am as authentically as a rosemary and lemon or dark chocolate tea biscuit.  I take great pleasure and baking and love my romantic potager.  I am now able to spend time playing in the kitchen and garden, not waiting for an order and baking many of the same thing.

Thank you to all of the family members and friends of family who supported me in my first business.

debbie

dark-chocolate tea biscuit wedding favors

Fold a strip of cardstock.  Staple the top of the tea biscuit bag to to inside of the folded cardstock.  Use double-stick tape to secure top of folded cardstock to the back.  Cut a hole for the ribbon.  String the ribbon through and knot at the top.

dreaming of france

Found a Plate of Gingerbread Cookies in the Forest

Sunset with a Gift of Gingerbread

4⅛" envelopes fit cookies perfectly.

Romance in the Summer Evening

dark-chocolate at the end of the day

marigolds, lantana, and cookies

red flowers and cookies

chocolate cake with rum chocolate ganache and sugared wild violets

chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and sugared wild violets, oak leaf hydrangea

sugared wild violets on cake

In the Forest with Cookies

Miniature Lemon-Rosemary Tea Biscuits with Dehydrated Wild Violets for Embellishment

Miniature Tea Biscuits are approximately 1.5 inches in diameter.

Wild violets were dehydrated for embellishing the tiny tea biscuits.

Four miniature tea biscuits fit in a 4" x 4" bag.

purple and patterns

Little Box of Cookies

Strung and Hung

Dark-Chocolate Tea Biscuits Grown into the Tree

Packaged dark-chocolate tea biscuits are used as wedding favors.

Fold a strip of cardstock.  Staple the top of the tea biscuit bag to to inside of the folded cardstock.  Use double-stick tape to secure top of folded cardstock to the back.  Cut a hole for the ribbon.  String the ribbon through and knot at the top.

Properly Dipping a Cookie in Coffee

Woodland Teatime

redrawing the world with whimsy and chocolate

Ready to Travel: Cookies First

art nouveau

write a letter

Love Cookies

dark-chocolate valentines

love

dark-chocolate tea biscuits for valentine's day

love of chocolate

White Piped Gingerbread

silk rose scarf

Sweet and Spicy

tea and cookies by a moss covered tree

Turquoise and Lemon

Lemon-Rosemary Tea Biscuits

Contemplate Gingerbread Cookies

Rayado and the bee

ado, the cat, and the bee cookie

coffee and cookies

gingerbread cookies and a cup of strong coffee

Lemon-Rosemary Tea Biscuit

lemon-rosemary tea biscuit hand-decorated with royal icing

Honey-Vanilla Cookies, Coffee, and Napoleon

dark-chocolate tea biscuit

There is a  lovely fluidity of line achieved with the royal icing piped on each cookie.

cookies presented in a handmade envelope

 a sweet package for your guests

Copper metallic paper used to make a handmade envelope.  Cookies fit into a 4⅛" envelope.