Like any good thing CooKiBooKi started suddenly and unplanned. When I left the bank at the end of 2010, I started to feel the need to learn something new that would give me the opportunity to implement some of my wacky ideas. It was at this time that cooking blogs were gaining in popularity, featuring incredible works of culinary art. For a few months I looked at blogs and forums and somehow I didn't realize how cooking gradually grabbed me and since I hadn't broken an egg in my life until then, I decided to take some intensive courses to learn at least the basic things. That's how I came across the website of the Academy and decided to enroll in a one-month course. To my greatest disappointment, the courses were not what I expected - they just used us as menial laborers in the kitchen of the Grant Hotel and basically taught us nothing. Then I realized that I would learn best by experimenting and reading various tutorials on the Internet.

I had prematurely engaged my friend to develop a culinary blog for me, where I could publish my culinary experiments :). When I decided to start my first experiment, my biggest surprise was that there was nowhere to buy basic things like modeling tools, pastry paints, sugar paste, etc. That's how the idea of ​​the e-shop was born, which was rather supposed to be a supplement to my culinary blog.

Thus, on 05/03/2011, CooKiBooKi was born. Already in the first week, it became clear that the electronic store would not be an "addition" to the blog, but on the contrary - its popularity increased at a completely unexpected pace. In the beginning, I was able to devote time to the culinary blog, but since the spring of 2012, it turned out that I had almost no time left due to the work on the e-shop. Then my friend shared with me his idea for an online print center, which did not yet exist in Bulgaria. It was quite an ambitious idea at the time, because firstly we had to find the time, secondly we had to develop a module that would allow customers to send their own photos for printing and thirdly, we had to organize the transport of the printed sheets. In addition, there was a lot of additional work on the preparation of the print center - choosing and purchasing equipment, consumables, installing software, organizing a database, etc. In the end, within 2 months, we were able to launch the print center project, which, to our delight, was running at full speed right from the start. A little later, we created the first online print gallery with ready-made templates for printing, divided by subject. The range of templates is constantly increasing, and at this stage we have prepared over 2000 templates ready for publication. At this stage, we have a few more crazy ideas that are yet to be implemented, some of which have not been implemented anywhere yet... or at least we haven't seen them yet.

And so somehow I was not able to enjoy my new hobby - cooking. The blog posts have drastically decreased - my only enjoyment left is cookie decorating - something that manages to calm me down after a stressful day at work. But what pleases us the most is the depth and masterpieces of the culinary art of our customers, to the realization of which, however small and modest, CooKiBooKi has a contribution. This motivates us even more to continue to develop our "child" in new and challenging directions, to apply all kinds of non-standard ideas that are the basis for someone's inspiration and to be realized in some form in the culinary creations of our customers and followers.
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