I have been loath to admit that this day was coming, dear friends, but really, I’ve known since September that the day would come. Bakerina Kitchens is dead. Long live Bakerina Kitchens.
Of course, I may be overstating the case. Bakerina Kitchens isn’t exactly dead. But it does need to hibernate, at least until such time as I can treat it like a proper business. As little cottage industries go, it was delightful: I was lucky enough to be able to buy beautiful fruit every weekend, cook it down with sugar in a giant copper pot, decant it into shiny glass jars and send it out to people who wanted something special to put on their sandwiches and toast. In the end, though, I had to face facts: my costs are 55% of my sell price, and even before I hatched this demented plan to go to law school, my time and energy were becoming more and more circumscribed by the demands of LuthorCorp. It is simply not fair of me to keep an active site for an inactive business, or to offer something I cannot deliver.
Fortunately, this is not an irrevocable decision. While I’m betting that I won’t have a lot of free time for home businessing once school starts, I’m hoping that the day will come when I will have that time, and when it does, I will still have that beautiful template, created for me by my dear friend, administrator and overall keeper of the key Keith. (Have I mentioned lately that Keith is my hero?) In the meantime, I do want to thank everybody who was kind enough to support me, whether by buying my jam, by offering feedback and advice and helpful commentary, by spreading the word to friends and family, or just by being here, being your fine and splendid selves. Thank you, everyone.
If I sound more than a little sad tonight, fear not: There is some sadness here, but most of my low demeanor is brought on by fatigue, which, in turn, is brought on by the aforementioned demands of LuthorCorp. It’s 2007 and good things are afoot. They may not be jam-based good things, but they are afoot nonetheless. 
That is truly tragic. I kept stopping in occasionally to see if any new products were available. Now I’m devastated. (But I will be undevastated as soon as Bakerina Kitchens is revived.)