Come and GET YOU SOME!

Hello all my brittle friends….bet you didn’t know there are only 65 days left in 2010.  Isn’t that just crazy?  Oh how time really does fly, especially when you are making and filing brittle orders!  Kudos to all of our brittle fans in Fredericksburg, Texas who bought 62 pounds of brittle in 8 days!! Whoo Hooo!!!!

I also wanted to let you know, just in case you might not have realized it…..but brittle isn’t just for the Holidays anymore!!! That’s right, brittle is awesome any time of the day, any day of the week, any week of the month…I think you get it!!  I’m sure a lot of you have said “I think I’ll order some of that for Christmas gifts”, or “That will make a great treat for the Holidays”.  Well I am here to tell you that you need to order YOURSELF some right now!  The time is now to get some of that LUSCIOUS brittle and see for yourself what all the rave is about. We even received a phone call from someone who used to make it all the time and she said “I will be ordering 4-5 gallons at a time; it’s the best brittle we’ve ever had.  Now there, that ought to convince you that Butler’s Brittle really is the best brittle this side of…..well anywhere!

Please let us know how we can make your day a Butler’s Brittle Day!

Attention Brittle Fans!!!

Good Morning Brittle Friends!

We are going to be starting a montly newsletter! We are excited because it will let everyone know what is going on and give you the chance to win free stuff from us! We will feature a brittle fan of the month too! That person will also be given free brittle and have an article about why we chose them! We will choose someone who really sticks out and who is spreading the brittle word!

You can sign up at orders@butlersbrittle.com ! All you need to do is send an email that says sign me up! We will put you on the list and you will receive your first newsletter on November 1st!

If you are not following us on our other sites here are those links as well:

www.twitter.com/ButlersBrittle
www.facebook.com/ButlersBrittle

Make sure you are following us! You never know where the next free giveaway will be!

Have a great day!

Brittle Kick Off Sale!

Hello brittle fans!!! Yes, we are still here, just have been way too busy with our FTJ’s, so haven’t had a chance to hop on the blog and keep you updated.  I’ve also been busy preparing for a retreat that I am a team member on, so you won’t get any other updates this week since we are leaving tomorrow.

Let me start with our donation to a

United Way

fundraiser that we made.  Our ½ gallon jar brought $40.00, which wasn’t too bad for a small office.  I was under the impression that it was a bigger auction, but whatever it brings, that is great.

We also had a gallon jar in a church auction on Sunday, and I just spoke to the gentleman who bought it to donate, and he said that it brought $225.00.  Awesome!!!

We are very proud of BB for helping to make money for these great charities. 

Our “Brittle Season Kick Off Sale” on Friday was a huge success.  We had never done this sale before so I was a little skeptical, but as usual, we sold out in 2 hours!  Of course we could always make and sale more, but I get a little bit worried with a new venture.

We are gearing up for the holiday sales.  We will be at the Boerne Market Days the weekend of November 13 & 14 with both Thanksgiving and Christmas gifts.  If you are in the local area, be sure to stop by and visit, or better yet, buy some!!  We promise it will be the best you’ve ever had.

Sorry this is so short; we will get back on our regular schedule next week. 

Brittle Beverages Coming Soon!

We have been busily working to prepare for the upcoming holidays! We want our brittle customers to have a wide variety of gift items to choose from this year. We started brainstorming and throwing ideas around on what to put in the gift baskets for Christmas, and EUREKA! Tisha came up with a great idea! What about a brittle beverage to go with our LUSCIOUS brittle! The baskets this year can have ornaments, mugs, and a hot brittle beverage all wrapped up for your loved ones! You can let us know what you're looking for and we will be happy to take care of it for you . We will also be selling our brittle beverage with a mug, if you would like something like that as well. We are still working on the packaging, so pictures will be up as soon as we have everything put together.

Butlers’ Brittle is very proud to have been asked to donate an item for a live auction which will benefit the

United Way

.  Hopefully it will bring lots of money.  We will let you know how much it brings in a few days, the auction is tomorrow.

I know by now you are all wondering where the heck our CEO Tisha IS today? Why is she not writing for the blog? Well the truth is, she has been busy with her FTJ (full time job)  :|)  I am sure she will be back tomorrow! Actually, we would like to get rid of our FTJ’s soon, so get your brittle orders in today!  Hurry, don’t delay!!

Have a great afternoon!!

Happy Peanut Festival!

Good afternoon all our brittle fans….we will be back in the brittle factory this weekend!!  We have an order for a gallon of our LUSCIOUS peanut brittle for a church auction.  Boy, whoever buys that is going to be VERY lucky.  I’m told that brittle has brought as much as $400-$500 dollars in the past, so hopefully ours will make the church lots of money.

We are also having a sale on Friday and will be making both peanut and pecan brittle to sell. Also, our sales in Fredericksburg are going so well after the first week that we need to make more for the shop there. Soooooo, we will be very busy this weekend trying to get everything made. 

We are patiently anticipating the delivery of some very cute Christmas decorations that we ordered for our jars and baskets.  Hopefully they will be in sometimes next week.  We will start posting pictures of some of our decorations in the near future, so be on the look out.  Trust me, you will love it all!

Since we are from Floresville, the peanut capital of Texas, and maybe even the world, our annual Peanut Festival is this weekend.  The nut king and queen were crowned last night and the big parade will be tomorrow morning.  Happy Peanut Festival to all!!!!

New Website!

WHOOOOOHOOOOOO – Butler’s Brittle has its very own website!!  That’s right, thanks to the very technical savvy Office Manager Lauren; we now have a website where you can go to make your purchases of the LUSCIOUS Butler’s Brittle.  Please go to http://www.butlersbrittle.com/ and see what we have to offer. Lauren is so awesome; I don’t know what I’d do without her.  She is the technical genius at Butler’s Brittle along with being my right hand girl.  She keeps me on track when my head starts spinning and I feel like I’m out of control.  The only bad thing about her is that she has not been able to keep our security company, Rose Security, in line! (inside joke)

And if we haven’t announced it before, Butler’s Brittle is now able to take credit cards.  We take the usual, MC, Visa, American Express and Discover cards along with paypal. 

Our brittle was recently reviewed on the blog Armywifelife.  If you’re interested, take a look at

http://www.armywifelifeandreviews.com/2010/10/butlers-brittle-review-and-giveaway.html.

Thanks for checking us out and here’s to a very happy Wednesday!

New Cook :)

Well, well, we have a new cook at Butler’s Brittle.  I finally decided to let someone else besides me learn the “secret” to cooking LUSCIOUS brittle….and it’s no other than the Office Manager Lauren.  We had to make some yesterday evening to ship to Arkansas and we also had an order for a birthday basket.  Check out the picture below and let us know what you think.  I hope the 82 year old recipient will enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it!  But back to Lauren and her cooking experience, I must say she is a fast learner.  The first stage or the “threading stage” is the hardest to learn, because you think it’s ready and then when you do the “test” it’s not quite there, but she is doing very well.  I just might have to let her cook a few pots on her own and see how she ends up.  I can tell you that when the pots are being poured, she immediately knows if they are a good color and how they will turn out.  What a keen eye she has!!!  Our packaging manager Kirsten was a little bit messy yesterday, and we had some extra clean up to do, and since we are without our maintenance manager Brent for a while, it was harder than normal.  Hopefully we will have Brent back for our big sale on the 15^th and of course we will have to have him when we prepare for Canton.  That’s all we have to report for now.  Enjoy the beautiful weather.

Hugs and Kisses!