Showers, showers, and not just the weather!

The flowers to my left are for my friend Kendra's shower which is this weekend. She is having gorgeous gerbera daisies as her flowers. These are just cute. Well, cuter in person; the colors are showing kind of weird in the picture.

So the hearts below were for my cousin's wedding shower this past weekend. (The details were lighter pink, so they looked more like dresses than cheesey lingerie. Several of hers started out looking kind of tacky - I scraped off about 3 cookies before I settled on something I liked. I think I'll stick to white embellishments in the future.) Some of the dresses had to be improvised with some strap action when the last of the dough baked up with creases in it. This made the "bride" look like it had skin of an 80 year old! Hard to tell in these pics, but each one has a little pearl necklace.

Inspiration

Sometimes I get inspiration from things I see around me, or pictures I see of other cookies. Tonight I was inspired by my checkout person where I buy my baking stuff. She was so excited to learn I bake after seeing my 25 pound bags of sugar and flour and hearing about my cookies that I came home and baked a ton of different ones. So, thanks to Kim, you'll have some new cookies to see in the next couple of days. Nice to meet you, Kim!

Seasonal Suggestions

Please email me to get on my calendar for any of these upcoming events: I have many more cookie cutters in each theme, but here are a few to get you excited!

• Graduations or end-of-year class parties (Cutters: Mortarboards, diplomas, summer themes, chalkboards, apples, books)
• Assigned a treat night for your kid's summer sports team and don't want to turn on your oven - I'll turn on mine! (I can make balls, cheerleaders, jerseys, pennants, etc.)
• American pride dates: Labor Day (May 1), Armed Forces Day (May 15), Memorial Day (May 25), Flag Day (June 14). Sorry, not baking for 4th of July - getting married that day. (Flags, stars, bells, etc.)
• Mother's Day is May 10 (Several kinds of flowers, hearts, "card" - made to look like the paper kind, Alphabet messages)
• Father's Day is June 21 (Ties, grills, RV's, motorcycles, sports themes)
• First Day of Summer is June 21 (Flip flops, bikinis, sandy bare feet, flowers, suns, beverages, ice cream cones, etc.)
• And the usual birthdays, anniversaries, baby and wedding showers!

Large Cookie for Birthday

While we're waiting for my replacement cables to recharge my camera and to transfer images from my camera to my computer to arrive, I'll post a scan of a picture someone else took and post it instead! How tech savvy of me. When I get the cables, I'll post some other recent pics, including the other large cookie of a jersey-style shirt.

This cookie is a 9 x13 cookie, with an airplane cookie on top. I precut the pieces, "glued" them to the tray with icing, then iced and decorated the top. The cookie is a little over 1/4' thick. Yum!

Still here................

Hi, hi, hi.

I'm still here, really. And baking cookies; even though I haven't posted anything lately. I promise to post the pic of a large (9x13) jersey cookie I did for a ladies birthday that happens to fall on Leap Day. She's now.........6 and a quarter years old!!!

I'm going to have to ask that you look at last year's posts for St. Patrick's Day and Easter until I get some extra time. Please contact me if you need cookies at toocutetoeat1@yahoo.com. Cookie of the Month is still going strong. Please see the Aug. 8, 2008 blog post for info and mostly accurate pictures.

Latest update is that we are still working on the house (sparingly), planning our wedding for the 4th of July (feverishly) and have had some family illness thrown in the mix. (All better now).

If you know if anyone that is getting married this summer and might like to use my cookies as favors for their shower or Big Day, please let me know! Already have 2 planned and willing to take on several more (not baking July 1 - 15 or so - can you say HONEYMOON!!! Here I come, Mexico!!!!) Take care. I'll try to post more often.

Happy New Year! Not Baking Jan. 8-15 due to Big News!!

Happy New Year!

I hope that your New Year is fabulous! Mine is the busiest ever so far! We are packing to move into our new house next weekend (we close the 9th and move the 10th), and I got engaged on New Year's Day! So it's been an exciting whirlwind. If any of you would like to join us in our Wallpaper Removal Party, that will be Friday the 9th, all night long. : ) It's everywhere.

In light of that, it makes baking a bit difficult so I'm taking a hiatus while I move, sort, and find all my stuff again. : ) Feel free to email me about any cookies you need in the coming months.

Cookie of the Month cookies should be ready by Monday, Jan. 19.

Take care!

Shield your children's eyes! Naked cookies!

I know that decorating the cookies is the part that is most fun! So if you'd like me to make the dough, roll them out and bake them for you so that you and your family can get to the fun part, please let me know. "Naked Cookies" will be $8 per dozen.

Christmas Trays

Secret Santa, Holiday Parties, Thank You's..........and the start of deer hunting season

I'm always amazed by the number of uses my cookies are put to: wedding favors, thank you's, secret Santa gifts, placecards, etc. But the one that takes the cake happened last week; a friend of mine didn't want the cute little reindeer with Christmas wreath around it's neck. She wanted plain deer to give to her family for the beginning of deer hunting season. Who am I to say? Although I did want to put little cross-hairs on there or write something like, "Don't kill me, I'm Bambi!" Or add very small gunshot holes. Just for fun. : ) I didn't, though.

Christmas, Christmas time is here...............

I'm one of those people who don't like to think about Christmas until Thanksgiving is over! Except that people are already placing orders for cookies...................so I thought I'd better make some you could pick from.

All cookies, except where noted, are $16 a dozen (roughly $1.30 ea). Please try to give as much lead time as possible so I can put you on my calendar. Email questions and orders to toocutetoeat1@yahoo.com, and not my work email.

They will be done in a variety of colors; just a representation is shown. Many can also be personalized. I hope you enjoy them. If you read some of my first posts, you'll see how this tradition started; I'm so glad that you let me carry it on! Thanks!

Candy (Large is $2.00)

Various cuteness

More Various Cuteness

Santa

Train ($10)

Gingerbread (Gingerbread house and snowflakes are $3 ea)

Let it Snow, let it snow..........(Largest is over 7" =$5, Medium are $3 each, small is regular price)

Snowpeople (Large head $2 ea)

Presents (Large is 5" = $3 ea)

Ornaments (Large round $2.00 each)

Snowglobes (small $1.50 ea/Large $3.00 ea)

Christmas Trees

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!

I'm thankful for so much this year that there's not room to list it all. Thanks for being part of that. : )

And...........they're off!

The past couple weeks have flown by! We found a house to purchase, put ours on the market, made an offer on the other house, it was accepted, the sign went in our yard on Friday, MLS number received on Monday, Tuesday was the realtor open house and the day pictures became available online; Thursday we had 3 people in the house and that night (tonight!) it sold. Before our first scheduled open house on Saturday. Wow! What a whirlwind! Here's a sample of the cookies we had for the realtor open house.

Disclaimer: REMAX does not endorse my cookies, although some did go back to the office with the realtors : )

Everybody's favorite train

Can't remember if I've posted this before; I did these for a friend's grandson's birthday. Thomas is his favorite! I thought they turned out OK.