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HOW SWEET IT IS Andrea McGary has turned a home-based business into the sweet life | By Kelly Twedell T
Sweet! | Andrea McGary makes delightful and delicious cookies in her home kitchen.
he first things you notice when you meet Andrea McGary are her contagious smile and her infectious laugh. It’s easy to feel undone as you size up her perfect hair and fashion-forward style. When you consider the rest of the picture, it’s enough to make the average woman feel frumpy by comparison. This fabulously talented mother
of two has an entrepreneurial spirit and has turned a common hobby into an appropriately-named successful niche business: Sugar Envy. You won’t find McGary’s custom-designed, intricately decorated
cookies in a storefront and she doesn’t work in a commercial kitchen. She takes orders online at her website, www.sugarenvy.net, and works out of her home-certified kitchen filling cookie orders to deliver locally or to ship across the country. Around the holidays she books up quickly and turns away orders for her elaborately decorated homemade sugar cookies with butter cream icing. Maintaining balance is a formula that works for this successful mom.
“I like taking on as little or as much work as my family calendar allows; my business won’t ever come first before my family,” said McGary. McGary’s cookies have won numerous awards
and decorating contests, but Sugar Envy really got a boost in sales when it was featured on Kourtney Kardashian’s blog. Andrea designed numerous pairs of Christian Louboutin high-heeled cookies that were a hit for the famous reality TV star, sending loads of business McGary’s way.
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