My Online Booking Calendar

This is so neat, I love it. You can book a party through me by just checking out my online booking calendar to see what days I am open that work for you!

Please check out my calendar at the bottom of this blog, or you can go to: My online Calendar

Please click the "add event" button at the bottom of the calendar.
Then place "your last name" Party - DON'T leave any other details, this is a PUBLIC calendar.
Then email me @ iheartpamperedchef@gmail.com to let me know you have booked a date. This will alert me of your booking!

• IF you book an Open time highlighted in PINK, I will give you a $25.00 gift certificate to a restaurant in your area.
• If you book an Open time highlighted in GREEN, I will give you a $10.00 gift certificate to a restaurant in your area.
  

If you want to book a Catalog Show, just place Last Name Catalog Show on the date you would like to start your show. I will be sure to get you all the information in time.

• Have a catalog show with $500.00 + in sales and I will give you a $10.00 gift certificate to a restaurant in your area.
• Have a catalog show with $800.00 + in sales and I will give you a $25.00 gift certificate to a restaurant in your area.

Add Your Party Now!

Working the Business

I have been educating and refreshing my knowledge of The Pampered Chef®. I love the product. I knew I did, but I forgot how much I truly love all this stuff. I feel confident in booking shows and even in thinking of recruiting. I think this has to do with my true love for the product, and belief in the company.

The benefits are amazing compared to other direct selling/home party based businesses I am familiar with. They actually run a special for the first 90 days of your business they give you what is called PC Dollars. They are basically free money above and beyond the commission I make, and other free product incentives that offer. I can use this money to purchase items to help build my business, and to buy business materials. This is amazing! Other businesses usually make you purchase these things out of pocket.

I plan to use mine for the business materials, as I have so many products that I feel like I can save that money and not have to buy product with it right away.

So far I have 4 yes' on parties. And, that is not counting the people who I know will have a party, but I haven't officially asked them yet. My sister is thinking of becoming a consultant. Things are really looking good. I am just taking it one day at a time and feeling really good about it.

I can't wait to get where I am trying to go with this blog. I can't wait to take pictures of my shows, and post pictures of the recipes I make, and all that fun stuff!

I will say, deciding to sell Pampered Chef has certainly helped to get me out of those winter blues I was starting to fall into the trap of. I feel revived and good about the fact that I have reason to have some adult contact, yet do this on my own terms, and still get to see my daughter wake up in the morning, and sip coffee, while feeding her a bottle, and not rushing to go off to start the 9-5 day. I feel good that I can do the work for this business after my daughter goes to bed for the night. I feel like life is great!

Tomorrow, my sister is going to watch my daughter for a couple of hours so I can really get into some things I need to get done. I am excited about this. I will be working out the details for my business debut. I will post details on here once I have them all figured out. I am going to give away items, and decide how I want to handle my first shows.

Yay!

The first friend I told I was selling Pampered Chef agreed to have a party for me. :) Let's hope they just all fall into place for me.

My love for The Pampered Chef...

It probably started in 2001 sometime. I am not sure of the exact dates, but I know I moved into my house the September prior, and I know I had my first party soon after that, and having these parties is what helped me to build up my kitchen necessities. Actually, it did so much more than that... it cultivated a love for cooking and entertaining. But I am going to focus on the cooking part here....

I didn't have a lot of knowledge of cooking besides macaroni and cheese and frozen waffles. I remember when I was in college I called my mom to ask how to make hard boiled eggs. Sad, I know for a girl in her 20s not to know something so basic. I never had the responsibility to cook for my family, and the truth is, we were shooshed out of the kitchen while my Mom was cooking when we were kids. (Hey- she had a small kitchen, I get it now as I feel the same way while cooking.) But, I don't think I am that different than most any other girl in my generation, or ones before & after my generation for that matter.

So, here I am hosting my first show, and I honestly know NOTHING about cooking. Thank goodness that the consultant, who happens to be a good friend, does pretty much everything for me- or gave me very specific directions. I also remember watching her up there demonstrating, and thinking that I could/would NEVER sell Pampered Chef.

Honestly, hosting those shows helped me to get comfortable having people over, and the tools were really SOOO easy to use, it made cooking fun, and it made it easy, and the recipes are quick and easy, and I haven't made a recipe from Pampered Chef that I did not LOVE.

So fast forward to 2008, and you will find a completely different Me. I now LOVE to cook, and I actually experiment and make up my own recipes. I cook without having to follow the recipes word by word. And, I am going to become a Pampered Chef consultant...something I thought I would NEVER be. Funny how life does these things to you, isn't it?

Welcome!

Thanks for visiting my blog.

I have been thinking of selling pampered chef since I thought of quitting my job (.3 seconds after I had my daughter) ha ha.

I currently didn't know anyone selling pampered chef, so that had me a bit worried. Who would I sign up under, and what if I went onto the website and found someone who I just did not mesh well with.

Then I remembered that my MIL had a show back in August, and I still had the catalog she gave me. I emailed the consultant on the back of the catalog and told her about my interest in selling. She emailed back right away. We had a conversation and I knew after 15 minutes of talking to her that she was the consultant I was looking for. Friendly and down-to-earth. Motivated, yet not pushy. Someone who I could most likely be friends with. I was already sold on the company, I just wanted to find a consultant that I was comfortable to work under. Her attitude sold me on signing up in general. I am feeling positive about this!

Please keep stopping by. This is a place where I will feature my favorite pampered chef products (I have ALOT of favorites) and I will post recipes and entertaining tips. Both from Pampered Chef and my own experiences.