Beach Cake

Happy Birthday, Pam!!  This cake was made for my friend Pam's 50th birthday.  I have been blessed to get to know Pam through our church these past several months.  I got the idea for this cake from cookies and cups blog although hers was way cuter! :)  I started decorating this Friday morning, took a break in the afternoon and ended up very sick later that day when I was planning on adding more decorations.  So needless to say it wasnt as detailed as I would have liked, but its a fun cake and I hope to be able to make one again and build off this idea!

That thing up in the corner was a seashell.  I just realized you cant tell that very easily in the picture!

A little bucket of "sand" and flip flops.

Blessings for a wonderful year, Pam! 

Mother's Day ideas!

I promised I would get up some ideas I have had for Mother's Day.  Of course, Mother's Day cookies can include anything and be based on what Mom likes...the spa, golfing, running, etc.  But I know many moms like flowers, so I thought what about cookie bouquets of flowers?!  Flowers you can eat, I know that would work for me! :)

Those of you local to me can order cookies either as: individually wrapped in a cello bag with a matching ribbon; cookie platters, wrapped up and tied with a ribbon; or cookie bouquets, which I have a variety of containers and ribbons you can choose from.  For non-locals, I am able to ship individually wrapped cookies.  I ship USPS Priority Mail and have always had cookies arrive in perfect shape, although I cant claim responsibility for what happens to them after they are shipped.  Leave a comment with your email address if you are ever interested in ordering :)

By the way, I can't believe Mothers Day is less than 2 weeks.  Its been so busy around here lately, and then I was sick all weekend, and the time is flying by!  Wow!

Sorry for the quality of the pictures, I was in a hurry to get them done!  Yellow daisies, my favorites :)

Two-toned pink flowers.

Stitched daisies with a Happy Mother's Day "tag" cookie.

Tulip bouquet with a Mom "tag" cookie.

Another tulip bouquet, this time without any tag cookie. 

Can you tell I love daisies and tulips?! :)

Thank You, Sophia!!!

I've been meaning to post this for awhile, but things have been busy around here.  (It always seems that way!)  Anyway, before Easter I sent several cookies to my dear friend Sophia.  I wanted to test out packaging and shipping cookies, and she was happy to be my guinea pig :)  Thankfully, they all arrived perfectly and she even took some beautiful photos of them for me.  Here are the pictures she sent me.  They are wonderful, especially for someone like me who is a 'point-and-click' kinda photographer. 

Thank you, again, Sophia, for taking these pictures for me. :)  I think they look amazing!

Coming Soon...

...cookies for Mother's Day!

Of course, any cookies are great for Mother's Day, especially if Mom likes something in particular.  (Daisies (that's me!), VW bugs, cupcakes, etc.) But I have a vision in mind of lots of flower cookies for moms this year.  I mean, most moms love flowers, and these flowers you could eat.  Yumm!

I attempted tonight to get some flower cookies decorated so I could take some samples pictures.  Some nights, cookie decorating just "flows." I get in the zone and its sooo relaxing. ahhhh.

Tonight was not one of those nights.

Instead of "ahhh" it was more like "arghh!!!"

So the Mother's Day flower cookies will have to wait until another night this week.  For those of you local, or at least within driving distance, these would look great in cookie bouquets.  For those of you long-distance, I can ship them wrapped in individual cello bags tied with a ribbon.  I'm sure all the moms in your life would love them :)

Also coming soon...graduation cookies!

Happy 1st Birthday, Tyler!

I have to admit, I love facebook.  Especially as a stay-at-home-mom, it makes me feel connected to the outside world on those days where I don't even get to leave the house.  It has helped me re-connect with friends from both high school and college.

Plus I have gotten to show off my cakes and cookies. Which is always fun! :-D

Jeni and I went to high school together and her little boy just turned 1.  So I got to do his cake.  We dont live far from each other, but we communicated a lot about the cake over facebook.

This was his smash cake. Thanks to all those on cc for their inspirations!

Thanks to sue_dye on cc for her inspiration.  There were fondant tools to go on top, I'll post pics of that once I get them from Jeni.

Happy 1st Birthday Tyler! I'm so glad I got to be part of your special day!

Happy Birthday Miss Alexis :)

We just got home from our niece Alexis's 3rd birthday party.  I can't believe how big she is getting!  I remember so well when she was born and those first several months when I got to spend a lot of time with her.  She really pushed my baby fever into high gear!  I just love her so much. 

She LOVES Disney princesses and so this was her cake.  It was inspired by a cake from cake central.  I wanted to have a gumpaste bow, but my bow broke so I had to use ribbon.  Thankfully I had bought this as a back-up so it wasnt any big deal.  Plus I think she liked this better because it had the Disney princesses on it!  Plus she loved the tiara on top because she could wear it afterwards. 

and I didnt get a good pic of her cookies, but here's the quick shot I got of them.

a want, flower, cupcake, balloon, crown, and flower cookie bites.

Happy Birthday Alexis!! We love you!

Spring Cookies

You could say I'm kinda hooked on cake central.  They have a section for cookies, and there is a thread for Spring Cookies...so here is what I created.  The women at Bible study got these tonight and they really liked them.  That made me happy :)

I like the ones with eyes better than the one without, I think.

Daisies..my favorite flower!! (I have a tattoo on my back of 3 daisies.  I got it when I was 19.)

catepillars!! My first time doing these, I cant wait to do more.

I love doing umbrellas.  They're so simple but cute.

I love doing tulips.  I've had lots of requests for these for Mother's Day!

first attempt at dragonflies...this cutter was very difficult to use, so I definitely want to try it again sometime.

My first collection of spring cookies.  I cant wait to do more!