Auction for Julee

As most of you know, sweet Julee lost her husband Matt in a car accident weekend before last. I am so honored to be part of this auction to love on Julee and Preslee.

 

I will be auctioning off a credit for 2 dozen custom cookies!

Valued between $48-$72 and all shipping will also be included if highest bidder is out of town.

 

Open to U.S. residents only.

 

 

I am not taking any new orders for a while, so this gives all of you who have emailed me about orders a chance to get some cookies!

I will be donating 100% of the proceeds to the fund for Julee and Preslee.

 

To check out the other items being auctioned, visit one of these blogs:

 

She She Made

Life In The Green House

Life Sweet Life

Knee Deep In Munchkin-land

The Getts Times

 

Happy bidding!!!! 



A Year Later.....

One year ago this month, I made my first rolled sugar cookie. I had NO idea that a year later I would have made thousands of cookies and shipped them all over the U.S. I can't tell you how much I have learned about myself and life throughout the past year. I have no doubt that God has taken me on this journey and I am excited to see what the next year brings!
So, with that said I want to say a big THANK YOU to all of my customers and readers who have been encouraging and supportive, I'm looking forward to being part of many more parties and celebrations!

I can't celebrate 1 year of baking without some cookie pictures, so here are a few of my recent orders:

 

See you late Alligator baby shower.

 

 

Brody's 4th Birthday 

 

Addi's School Bus/Chevron Birthday

 



 

A close up of the rainbow chevron.

 



 

A colorful candy birthday party.

 



 

Another monogram.

 

 

 A Lululemon inspired baby shower.

 



 



 

And a picture of me with my sweeties :).

 

I have some really fun pictures to share at the beginning of next week, make sure you don't miss it!

 

*I am not taking new orders at this time. If you have an existing order with me this does not affect you.



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!

Playing Catch Up Part 1

I'm back! I was so busy with cookies last week I didn't have a spare second to sit down and blog so now I am playing catch up! I did around 175 cookies last week, so I am so happy to have a few days to catch up around the house and get my garden planted.
I know there is a first time for everything when it comes to the cookies, and I have tried to prepare myself for when those "firsts" happen, but one of them happened last week. I made 40 of these sweet monogrammed cookies for Erin:

I shipped them priority on Tuesday which is 48 hr shipping and.........they never showed up. They also never came back to me. Soooooo, some postman is sitting around eating sugar cookies. To say that I was sick to my stomach is an understatement. Not for myself but for Erin who had a shower planned for today with these cookies. I am SO THANKFUL for how sweet Erin has been through this whole thing. She was so understanding and nice.  So, there is a first time for everything and this was not a good first but I knew it could happen at some point.

I would like to bid my farewell to the USPS and I will now be using Fed Ex or UPS.

Next I did a soccer themed party for the winner of the giveaway from last month.

It was Parker's 3rd birthday and I did these to match some printables his Mom used for the party. I thought these were fun especially since I have a Parker too!

I also did some anniversary cookies for a sweet friend. I grew up with her husband and his family and now he is a coach at the High School I went too. They also have a little boy the same age as Taylor so we run into each other often at KDO. Courtney just told me to do whatever which I LOVE and so I used white, turquoise and red and came up with these.

Happy Anniversary Duane and Courtney!

I'm going to do a separate post with the last three orders from the week. But I have to post a few pics of my sweeties :).

I almost posted a normal picture but then thought........this is normal. Taylor is picking her nose, and Parker is climbing all over me and the swing.

I couldn't leave this one out. This may be the fattest happiest baby on the planet. Look at those cheeks!

I'll be back tomorrow with my last three orders for the week!

*If you have emailed me and I haven't gotten back to you I will in the next couple of days. I'm a little behind on emails, Sorry!

Baby Crew and Fireman Party

I hope everyone is having a good week, ours has been fairly relaxed which I needed this week! I only took 3 orders this week so that I could have a few days of just being with the kids.
I started off the week by doing some sweet cookies for Melissa. Baby Crew decided to come a little early and she wanted some cookies to give to visitors. She told me Crew had a light blue chevron print in his room, and that she wanted to use a modern elephant shape for one of the cookies. I went for a modern and sweet look for these and loved how they turned out!

I love, love LOVE the blue and yellow together!

My second party this week was a fireman party for a sweet little boy turning 3. His Mom was so sweet and basically just took my suggestions and let me run with it! She decided on fireman hats, 3's with a dalmation print, fire trucks, and hydrants. This was my first fireman party so I was super excited to do these!

These are headed off to Texas this morning!

I have one more party this weekend and the theme is Tom and Jerry. FUN!!!! Parker loves Tom and Jerry so I will definitely be making a few extra :).

Construction Party

I was planning on posting the promised Rock Star cookies today, but after looking through my camera I realized I did not take one pic of the cookies. I am so mad at myself. I will try to get some pics from the customer and share them!
On to party #3, and on a totally different note, construction!! These were for Aaron's 3rd birthday:

He loves backhoes so I did these with some hard hats and sent them off to TX!!

Many of ya'll ask how I do all of this with my kids. Well, I don't really know. A ton of late nights, lost sleep, and a grandma here and there :). I will occasionally decorate during the day while the kids are playing, but I don't really like to do that and here is why:

Sigh. Someone found my address stamp (for a 2nd time). Both times he has gotten it he attempts to paint his body from head to toe. The last time he did it his arms were completely black. He also got my couches and ottomans.

I laughed because I couldn't help it and sent him straight to the bath. I mean come on, look at that sweet face :).

CUTE party #4 up tomorrow! I promise!

Chevron and Dr. Seuss

My cookie orders this week were fun and colorful! My first order was for Emerson's first birthday. The theme was owls, so her mom wanted owls and something with her name on it. I used the colors she gave me and came up with some sweet little owls, and a chevron print cookie with her name on it. The colors her mom chose were perfect!

I love Chevron, and seriously fell in love with these Chevron cookies! I had to snap a few pics before I put a name on them because I loved how they all looked together.

Arent these colors so fun!?!?!

I also did some owls using the same colors. This is another perfect example of being creative with a cookie cutter. I used a tulip for these owls.

I always have to put a bow or flower on the owls I do for girls. It just finishes it off right :).

I also did a Dr. Seuss order. Who doesn't love Dr. Seuss?!

Anything that involves teal and red together is going to be good, add in Dr. Seuss and it doesn't get much better!

I have a ton of ideas running through my head for my next Dr. Seuss order!

I hope you all have enjoyed looking through these cookies as much as I enjoyed making them!

Angry Birds

WOW!!! I am so thankful for all of the sweet comments everyone has left on here. It has been so encouraging! I am having so much fun and I'm excited that I can share that with all of you!

A couple of months ago Jenna, from http://www.jennasjourneyblog.blogspot.com, contacted me about doing some angry bird cookies for her. Of course I said yes, and started searching for angry bird cookie cutters. I quickly learned there is no such thing, so I got creative!

Do you recognize these cutters???

If you guessed a Christmas ornament and a hershey kiss you were right! I used the hershey kiss for the yellow bird and the ornament for the blue, white and red birds, and the black bomb. I handcut the green bird and the pig.

These were so fun to do and I thought they turned out pretty cute!

I will work on getting back to all of my emails tonight, thank you for being patient with me! But for now I am off to finish some Dr. Seuss cookies!