My daughters party

Most of the time I have customers tell me what type of cookie I need to make for their party so when my own daughters birthday rolled around I started thinking what we could make. I had so many ideas. She was having a bowling party but figured I could go bowling theme or birthday theme. I thought about it for a long time. I sketched out cookies and about a week ago I took out all the cookie cutters I thought would work. I had everything lined up and I took my daughter into my work room and said okay, here are the sketches, here are some of my ideas, and here are the cookie cutters that you can look at to get an idea of size and shape. Did I mention this is her 5th birthday? A little overkill I know, but she is super smart and I knew she could follow all this ridiculousness I had done. I had three tier birthday cakes, I had sketched out a bowling shirt that had her name and a bowling ball on the back, I had cupcake cookies, party hat cookies, initial cookies, you name it. She looks at everything for 5 seconds and says "I just want a purple bowling ball cookie". Now I am thinking, UM!... okay but that is just a 4 inch circle cutter with some added details. Look at the cornucopia of detailed designs I have for you. Yea, no! She picked the BOWLING BALL! All my hardwork and brainstorming went right out the window. She did decide to add a sparkly number 5 to the ball. I was thrilled to make them for her because it is what she wanted. It matched her theme and her number 1 criteria was size and this is a BIG cookie.

I was also able to make her cake. I saw a picture of this cake on a food blog (that I can not remember the name of to save my life) and I knew I had to make it. So I was able to make her cake this year as well and she loved it.

We just got back from her party and I think it was a success. Everyone loved the cookies and the cake was a hit too.

Bowling ball cookie favors designed by my 5 year old:


The cake I made for the party:

A little break

Well, after last week (595 cookies) I really needed a break from cookies. I gave myself one week with no cookies (other than for my daughter's birthday party) and I made it to Tuesday without feeling the need to decorate. HA!!
I am still enjoying my week off and I have only done a few cookies here and there. This week has been great. I created a few new designs for my store and I had no deadlines!! WIN WIN!
My favorite cookie this week is not my own design but one inspired by Karen of Karen's cookies. She sells baking supplies and usually includes pictures of cookies she designed using the cookie cutters she sells. I LOVED her gumball machine and had to make one of my own. It is so fun and I really love how it turned out. I am happy with all the cookies I made this week but that is hands down my favorite. Without further ado... a FEW of this weeks creations.

Giddy Up Cowboy


Will you marry me?


Baby Time!


GUMBALL MACHINE!! (my fav)



Okay, so tell me your favorite from this weeks creations and any design you would like to see me try. Have a great weekend!!!

Pear cookies and more

In my last post I mentioned doing pear cookies for dear family members. Well, they are done and being shipped tomorrow. I am very happy with them and can not wait to hear what Joe and Betty think.



I have also been busy with end of year school cookies...


I even did some Hungry Caterpillar fruit cookies for a little ones 1st birthday.



I have baked and decorated 595 cookies in the last 6 days. It has been CRAZY!! I will post more soon but wanted everyone to see what I have been up to.
Thanks for the orders!!!

Busy, busy, busy!

I have a VERY busy two weeks ahead of me. I have tons of orders, some of which are very large and my dear husband is leaving for India for 2 weeks. I guess the silver lining is that I will have plenty of time after the kids go to bed to bake and decorate. I am super excited for one order I have coming up. I am making pear cookies for two of the nicest people I have ever met. My "step" grandparents have been married for 50 years. I have known them for over 10 years now and they have always been wonderful to me. It is truly my pleasure to make these pear cookies (because they are the "perfect pair") for their big anniversary party. I wish I could attend this party but it is far away and with my husband out of town a few special events of our own had to be pushed to that weekend as well. I will post pictures after the party so everyone can see how they turned out. I have the whole design planned out in my head but of course I have never actually made pear cookies before. This is typical me... remember my motto, "I will figure it out". This motto was tested last week. I promised my best friend Minnie Mouse cookies for her daughters party. I have NEVER made minnie mouse cookies and of course they had to be perfect. I made a test cookie, which I normally never do and boy was I happy I did. I changed the design a little and had to change the consistency of my icing for everything to work. I had a stomach ache about these cookies after that test cookie. In the end, I made it work and I love how they turned out. Thankfully, so did she. Most of my other orders are desings that I have done a million times so although still time consuming I am confident with what I am doing. I am hoping to sneak in a little time to work up new designs for my website and a little R&R wouldn't be so bad either. Look for more cookie designs soon. Below are the minnie cookies I did. What do you think?

Happy Mother's Day

I have a really great family. They make me laugh, they make me try harder, they sometimes make me yell but mostly they make me feel love like I never thought I could. My daughter thinks that every cookie I make is beautiful but is quick to point out my decorating mistakes. She is sweet but honest. She told her teacher her favorite thing to do with me is bake. I love that. My son has a sweet tooth the size of his head and can smell a cookie from two blocks away. He is the only two year old that uses the word client on a regular basis and can melt my heart when he asks if he can have a cookie or if they are for my "cients". My husband is supportive and the greatest taste tester I could ask for. If you ask him he will tell you that everything I have ever made has been fantastic. If you guys do not like a flavor I make you can blame him... he told me it was FANTASTIC. My husband also loves this new venture because now he never has to search for a gift idea. I have never been a jewelry girl so the go to necklace/ring never worked for me. Now it is baking pans, aprons, and today along with a few other goodies it was a large rolling container with three drawers for all my cookie cutters. I have over 250 cutters and I am still on the hunt for more.
I had a fantastic Mother's Day today with my family that I feel blessed to have. I hope you all enjoyed your day today as well. Happy Mother's Day.

I have been ending my posts with a cookie picture. So, here is the latest farm collection. My favorite is the cow print number 1's.

Not Enough Hours in the Day!

Have you ever felt like there are just not enough hours in the day? When business is slow I worry about boosting it but when business is booming I worry even more. I need to get my orders done, I need to keep my site updated, I need to create new cookies. The list goes on and on. Oh, did I forget to mention, make breakfast, lunch and dinner, keep a somewhat presentable home, give my family 100% of my attention and still have a few precious minutes to SHOWER.
I promise every post won't be me complaining and I am not really complaining in this post, I am just trying to find a balance. Last week I turned down 7 orders in an effort to get that balance and it worked... but I lost 7 orders. Is that what I need to do? Is there a better way? I am sure everyone that has their own business has asked these questions at some point. Heck, business or not I am sure everyone has had to search for balance in their life.

On the brighter side, I am coming up with new cookies. I am doing a glittery red apple for end of year teacher gifts and a "bucket of popcorn" cookie for a carnival birthday. I am excited to try a baby block and this neat pirate ship cutter I got the other day.
Oh the cookies I could crank out if I had an additional 5 hours in a day.

If you have a cookie you would like to see leave me a comment and let me know. I would love the feedback.



Here is another cookie pic for you. This cookie was inspired by Callie, a fellow cookie decorator.

I NEVER in a million years thought I would have a blog.

Although, opening up my own cookie company was a shocker to me too. Sometimes I get these ideas and act so fast I do not have time to doubt myself or think of the risks, logistics, etc. I just get in go mode and figure it out. That is my motto most of the time... "I'll just figure it out." Thankfully, most of the time, I do! I started this company back in January and I have spent everyday since then "figuring it out". I love it! I love the flexibility it gives me. I love the feeling of pride when someone asks me what I do and I say "I own a cookie company". Call me crazy, but that is cool. It can get nuts sometimes and I tend to overbook myself but I am slowly working out the kinks. I think I will use this blog to showcase all my new cookies, let my customers, friends and family know all the latest and greatest goings on with my company and last but not least give everyone a little insight into how a new company can drive you slightly crazy and over the edge some days.

Keep coming back to see if I can manage to turn sugarcoated cookies into everything I dreamed of... without losing my mind.


Oh, here is a cookie pic too.