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🗓️ 11 December 2025
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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.
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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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