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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3267 - TBT: Hand-Written Recipes Become Kitchen Wall Art

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, discover how one maker rescued stained recipe cards and transformed them into framed kitchen art. Her sentimental side hustle—complete with a done-for-you option—has already brightened 150 homes and counting.

Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.

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0:00.0

Lemonada. Today's story begins with a shoebox of flower-stained index cards. Our storyteller,

0:16.4

our featured saddustler, grew up seeing these cards for grandmother's peach cobbler, her

0:20.4

grandfather's

0:21.2

chili taped to the refrigerator at every holiday. While cleaning out a closet, she notices

0:26.0

these cards are deteriorating. She decides to scan them, clean them up in Photoshop, and make a gallery

0:31.3

quality poster for her own kitchen, which is kind of fun. My grandma also used to make

0:36.4

Peach Cobbler. A fun little throwback there.

0:39.6

Neighbor sees the print once one of her mother's recipes offers to pay. And so before long,

0:45.0

we've got a little business here. Let's talk about how it came to be as well as what's happened

0:49.9

since we first heard about it. This is part of our throwback Thursday series. She's charging,

0:55.5

well, let's see. Well, she'll tell us more about it. She'll tell us about how much she's charging,

0:58.8

how many she's sold. It's a good number. Definitely a well-run and meaningful side hustle.

1:03.9

So yeah, throwback Thursday segment. Last week in this segment, we heard how a campaign tool

1:08.5

turned into a software product now licensed by multiple counties

1:12.5

for political campaigns. Today, handwritten recipes become kitchen wall art. Let's hear the story.

1:19.0

I'll come back at the end with a few words of wrap up.

1:31.0

I never plan to monetize my grandmother's handwriting. The first print I made was just a housewarming gift to myself.

1:34.6

A five by seven of her lemon pound cake recipe, stains and all.

1:38.7

I printed it at the local copy shop, slipped it into a simple white frame and propped it against

1:43.6

the back splash.

1:45.4

Every guest who visited mentioned it.

1:48.3

One Saturday, my neighbor Carol Ann said, if I give you my mother's biscuit recipe, can

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