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!

Instagram and Tea Party

I hope everyone is having a good weekend, we are finally getting some sunshine around here and I am so excited about that! I don't have any cookies to work on until tomorrow night so we plan on being outside all day!!!
I was contacted by Stephanie about doing some cookies for one of her clients who is doing a giveaway. She asked me to do the company logo and the instagram camera. I have been wanting to do the instagram camera for a while so I was so happy to do these!! Here is what I came up with:
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Instagram Camera

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The Mother Letters logo

Thank you Stephanie for asking me to do these, I am excited to work with you again!

Next I did a tea party theme set for a baby shower. 

I love these colors and the theme. I went with a teapot, a silver spoon, cups and saucers, and a teacup.

 When Tiffany contacted me about doing these she asked if I could use the trellis print that was on the invitation. I figured the best way to do this was to hand paint the print onto the cookie with white dye. I didn't have a stencil so I just freehanded them. By painting them instead of icing them they came out looking like China and I love that!

This was the first time I have "painted" a cookie. I will use it a lot more now that I know what I'm doing.

I hope everyone has a great weekend, we are off to play outside!!!

Black and White

My last out of town order for this week was for a black and white wedding shower. I did a simple white cookie with a black scalloped outline and a black monogram.

One thing I have learned in the past 6 months is that people in the South like their Monograms!

I have to say I am one of those people too, I just love the look of a monogram on a cookie!!

Speaking of Monograms, I am getting ready to do my very first giveaway!!!!! I am SO excited about doing this. I am going to be giving away store credit to Elle and Ollie Etsy Shop. For those of you that haven't checked this Etsy shop out GO DO IT!! Kari Beth makes the cutest stuff. I will be doing a separate post with all of the details but I'll leave you with a pic of some of her cuteness :).

Go check out her shop!!!

Owls and Flowers

I'm sorry I didn't get this posted yesterday like I said, we were busy celebrating my Dad's birthday all day. I could not ask for a better Dad, so Happy (belated) Birthday Dad!!!

I started off the week with 3 fun orders, Owls & Chevron, flowers, and a tea party theme. I am sad to say that I didn't get a pic of the tea party but I have another one this weekend so I promise to take a lot of pics. I did get good pics of the other two orders so here they are!

I get a TON of orders for these owls. These are for a sweet new baby girl!

Welcome sweet Ellen Jane!!!

I also did a fun flower set for a sweet girl who wanted to surprise her Mom with something special after she had surgery. I thought some flowers would be bright and cheerful.

I used the same colors as the owl order and added some yellow. I also used sanding sugar in the middle of the flowers to give them some texture. I'm looking forward to doing more of these!

I have a fun and exciting order coming up. I was contacted by Stephanie to do some cookies for one of her clients who is doing a photo contest. The cookies are going to be so cute so check back Friday for a pic!! But until then I have a "black and white" order that I will be posting tomorrow.

We are gearing up for some flash flooding in our area and I am NOT looking forward to it! The last time this happened the entire highway by our house was shut down. There's just something about being trapped at home that makes you feel like you need to leave ASAP. I have a hair appointment tomorrow so I may be rowing there but I'm not missing it! :) 

Pinterest Inspired Smash Cake

I just took out of town cookie orders this week so that I could focus on a smash cake and cupcake order that I had this weekend. This was a little out of my comfort zone but I was really excited to do something different and change it up a little bit! I did the smash cake for sweet Finley who is turning 1, and his party is a "Candy Bar" party. Its going to be so cute ya'll, the invite we got was a giant lollipop with the invite printed on the front. CUTE!!! So I went along with the colorful theme and thanks to Pinterest came up with this:

Cute, colorful, and very "Candy Bar." This was my first smash cake so I was just learning as I went. I hope to do more cakes in the future becaue I really enjoyed doing it. I also did 3 dozen "white on white" cupcakes with this order.

I made a few extra and we are finishing them off tonight :). I have to stop this because my sister is getting married in 8 weeks. It will not be pretty if I don't.

Happy Birthday sweet Finley!!!!!

On another note I'm gearing up for some BUSY weeks ahead. I counted the cookies I will make in the next month and it was around 1,000. If ya'll think of me pray for good time management!! My most important job is a wife and mom and I don't want to slack because I am baking. I have a lot of fun orders coming up and I'm excited to share them. I'll be starting off the week with a tea party order, an owls order, and a flower order. But while I am not baking, I will be loving on these sweeties....

This was before P began to hug and love on her. She automatically goes into defense mode when he approaches her because 50% of the time he is not hugging.

And this was after :).

We had a fun day of eating, playing and going to see the Lorax. We took Taylor with us and she did pretty good! Jason took her out once and rocked her to sleep and brought her back. She slept until the end of the movie so it worked out perfectly. Parker is an old pro at going to movies, he and his daddy do it often!

I'll be posting my first cookie order of the week tomorrow!

Toy Story

I have had a lot of fun with this weeks orders, and this one was a blast! Parker watches Toy Story at least once a week and has a Woody doll that goes a lot of places with us, so I was well studied for these cookies :). When this customer ordered these she told me that her little girl was crazy about Woody (which I think is so cute) so I centered the order around him and Bullseye and threw a few other toys in.

I had to draw the line somewhere on what characters to include, so now I need someone to order a Buzz Lightyear order so I can do him and Mr. Potato head. :)

These are headed to North Carolina!

Thank you for the emails about the shipping post, I'm glad I was able to answer some questions!