Catch Up Part 2

I sat down with my computer for the first time all week yesterday and was shocked to see that my cookies had been featured on The Nester's blog. WOW!!! It was a fun surprise and I am so honored!!! If you haven't checked her blog out (which I'm sure you have because she has a gazillion readers), go check it out!! It is awesome!

Onto the cookies......
My last three orders were fun ones. Courtney (not the same Courtney that ordered Anniversary cookies) contacted me about doing some Airplane cookies for her little boy Titus that was turning 2. Courtney's Dad works for Delta Airlines and Titus has taken up a true love for airplanes and anything Delta. She also sent me a pic of the T shirt Titus was going to wear for his party.

I wanted to make the cookie similar to the plane on the tshirt so I drew the plane onto cardstock, cut it out, and used it to hand cut the cookies into the same shape as the airplane on the t.

I used the same colors as the t to decorate them, and added the Delta logo to the front.

Courtney also wanted some "2's," so I thought it would be so cute to make them look like a runway.

Happy birthday sweet Titus!!

Next up is a sweet Monogram themed set of cookies for baby Carlisle. I was really excited to do these because I went to High School with Carlisle's daddy. They wanted gray and pink, monograms and baby's name. I was also asked if I could incorporate the pattern of Carlisle's baby bedding. I took all of this info with the fact that Faith (Carlisle's Mom) has a simple and sweet taste, and came up with these:

I painted the same pattern of the bedding onto the gray cookie and added baby's name in pink. I also did a pink and white Chevron with a gray initial, and a round pink cookie with a white monogram. I love the feel of these cookies! Sweet, simple and baby girl!

And of course a couple of special cookies for big brother Jones.

Congrats Will, Faith and Jones on the newest addition!!!

Last up is a set of cookies for a Rock Star themed baby shower. David is a pastor at my church and he and his wife Rachel are INCREDIBLE musicians. They are not finding out the gender of the baby so I tried to match the cookies to the theme of the shower without being too girly or to boyish.

Guitars, onesies, music notes, rattles, metallic stars. these were fun and very different from anything I have done before. I was told to make them "glitzy" and fun. I used metallic star sprinkles on the ratlles to tie in the star theme.

I was happy to be a part of celebrating sweet baby McKinney and I can't wait to meet him or her!!

This week is full of fun Easter cookies and cupcakes! Check back for some fun posts!

Flying High and Cherry Chip Cake

First of all I want to thank everyone for their sweet messages, phone calls, emails and kind words about the news peice. I feel so blessed at all of the doors that are opening and it is so encouraging to have friends to share it with! I finished up this week with cookies for a vintage airplane party, and a cherry chip cake. A perfect end to a good, crazy week!
When I got the picture of the party supplies for this party I was super excited because the colors are too perfect. Very boy, very simple, and very cute!

I was so excited to use my cloud cutter because I just think its too cute! This was also my first time to do an airplane and I'm ready to do another party with this theme because I loved it. This just screams little boy!

This was my my last cookie delivery this morning so I decided to make a Cherry Chip Cake for Jason and the kids tonight. Every year I always request this cake for my birthday because its so good. Yes, my Mom still makes all of us our own homemade birthday cake every year :).

I am so happy to share this recipe with ya'll because I think its another one you will love!

Cherry Chip Cake

Ingredients

1 boxed Betty Crocker Cherry Chip Cake

oil

water

3 eggs

1 can sweetened condensed milk

1 tub Cool Whip

1 jumbo Hershey bar

1. Bake your cake according to directions and let it cool completely.

2. Take the end of a wooden spoon, and make holes all over the cake. This is where it gets good :)

3. Saturate the entire cake with the sweetened condensed milk, making sure you get it in all of the holes.

4. Cover the cake generously with Cool Whip. I usually use about 3/4 of a tub but I don't think theres such thing as too much.

5. Shave your chocolate bar with a cheese grater and cover the cake.

6. Sit down with a giant fork and eat it. Theres really no need to cut a peice because you will just keep going back to the pan for a bite. :)

I will post some pics of my taste testers tomorrow because I know they will want to test it out. They were snoozing when I made it.

I have some FUN parties coming up this week, including the one and only Tom & Jerry! I am so excited to do these!

I'm also thinking of doing a set of cookies here and there and putting them up for sale, first come first serve. Would this be something ya'll would be interested in??? I had a sweet twitter friend suggest some Hunger Games cookies, so I'm thinking if I do this that may be my first set. Let me know what ya'll think!

 If you go to my prices page you will notice the price of my cookies has gone from $1.50 to $2.00 per cookie. After being advised by numerous people who are in business for themselves that I needed to do this I knew it was time. When I started making cookies in October, I had no idea I would have so much time in each cookie. I quickly knew I was not charging enough to make it worth my time so I had the choice to either simplify my cookies, or charge more. I really didn't even consider simplifying my cookies because I really feel like I have just gotten started in the creativity department. I want my cookies to stand out, and I want each customer to be 110% happy. I hope ya'll understand.