Dr's Orders

This week was another busy one. I had two cookie orders and attempted to get the house spic and span for my mother and sister's visit.  My first order was the mascot for "Monster High." (Shown below)  A girl I went to high school with asked me to make 20 and mail them to Wisconsin for her daughter's birthday - until she asked me for them I had never heard of the dolls.  The mascot reminds me of a gothic version of Hello Kitty, which is perhaps why I ended up making more Hello Kitty's this week.

One of the Doctors at my office saw the cookies I was going to mail off, which lead to me showing him my blog and his order of cookies for his granddaughter's birthday.  I hope he enjoys the Hello Kitty Cookies and I hope the Monster High cookies make it safely to Wisco.

Sunday Sunday Sunday

Finished up two projects today.  One for a baby shower and the other for a birthday party.  Happy with the results for both occasions : )  However it might be a couple of days before I willingly pick up a cookie cutter ; )

Beautiful Fall Morning - Weekend of Projects : )

Woke up early this morning to take advantage of this beautiful fall day.  I have two cookie orders this weekend to finish up - one for a co-worker's baby shower gift and another for a 10-year-olds birthday party.  Spent part of the morning outside finalizing and sealing the display below that will be used for the 10-year-olds cookies.  The letters were pre-made of course, but I did drill the holes and paint and seal them myself.  (I'm power tool illiterate - so I'm happy with the results.)   More pictures to follow : )

Anniversary Gift

Shortly after posting pictures of the BSU cookies I made for my grandmother, my cousin Layna's boyfriend (Ken) contacted me to make BSU cookies and Arkansas Razorback cookies for their 4 year anniversary.  Below are pictures of my attempts at each mascot.  I'm much happier with the coloring of the BSU cookies this time :)

Trying Something New

Sometimes the most difficult part of making goodies is finding something to display them in that matches the imagery of what I and whoever is making an order desires.  So.... I decided to try to create my own cake pop / cookie bouquet stand to see if making them is an option I'd like to offer in the future.  For a first attempt, and as someone who is power tool challenged, I'm reasonably happy with the way this stand turned out and look forward to creating stands that match the themes of the events I'm catering in the future.  Of course the decision of whether to use a basket or stand will depend on the recipients wishes : )  I'm just happy to be able to provide a way to more fully customize everyones order!  (I didn't have any ready made goodies on hand, so please use your imagination to place either cookies or cake pops at the top of the sticks in the pictures below. )

Crazy Busy Week

I made more cookies in the past week than I probably have ever : )   I began the week making the previously posted 50 wedding shower cookies.  Personally I LOVE the brides and grooms and they were a big hit at the shower!!!!  In fact they were such a big hit that I received another order for a dozen more in the middle of this week so that the hostess could give some to co-workers who were unable to attend.  She also ordered a dozen of the fall leaves and acorns.  I added gold pearl dust to those and was very happy with the results :)    I also wanted to give mailing cookies a try.  I made some BSU (Boise State University) cookies for my grandmother and mailed them out on Friday...crossing my fingers that they'll make it there in one piece!!!  Finally I made 72 Hello Kitty Baby Shower cookies and am happy to say that I am done making cookies for this week : )   We'll see what next week brings : )

Part Two

I finished up the other half of the order tonight by decorating the grooms and creating some silver centerpiece cookies. The future bride and groom's names are Rosemary and Gabriel - hence the ''R & G'' cookie and there future last name starts with a ''P''. I really like the way the final display for this order turned out - hoping the future couple agree ;)

Bridal Shower Part One

My Uncle Joe asked me to make 50 bride and groom cookies for a bridal shower this up coming weekend(25 of each.) I decided to start by making the brides because they are more fun.  I really enjoyed this project because it allowed me to try out different design options.  Each bride, except for the two with sprinkles, are uniquely designed.  I'm hoping this gives people with future orders a varitey of designs to choose from if they would like to custimize their order.  I also tried a new method of flooding the cookie frosting on the cookie instead of painting it which drastically reduced my production time :)