Back to school!

I can't believe it's already back-to-school time, and it still feels like it's 200 degrees outside. It just seems all wrong. I am excited about it being back-to-school time, however, because it means that hopefully cooler weather is somewhere in the future. Distant future, but I'll take it! I was also super-excited when my friend Alison asked me to make some school-themed cookies for her daughter's first day of school. I had been wanting to make some and I was so happy to have the chance! I got a lot of ideas from Sugarbelle (of course) and Flickr too.

Of course a back-to-school set must include apples :)

The finished platter!

Thanks Alison!!! I hope the teachers love them :)

Baby cookies

I was going to title this post "Baby Bites", since it's about a bunch of baby cookie bites, but that just sounds a little weird. :) So we'll stick with baby cookies. :) Shellie contacted me about making eleven dozen cookie bites for a baby shower she was hosting. It was really fun to do these!

These bottles are teeny tiny!!

They wouldn't all fit on one plate, so I separated them.

Thanks again so much, Shellie!!

Owls

I have been wanting to do some owls for a long time......I just think they are so cute. Well, the other day I took my nieces to the mall, and they each picked out a few pieces of jewelry for school. It became a joke that Andrea, the youngest, picked out all of the owl jewelry in the mall, since everything she liked had owls on it. :) So I thought it was only fitting that I make her some owl cookies for her birthday!

Not the greatest pic lighting-wise, but I wanted a chance to use my new boxes!

Medical bites

I had some extra dough to play around with, and I had seen an idea online (I am so sorry I forgot where, but it was most likely Sugarbelle :)) for some medical-themed cookies that I had been wanting to try. I took them to my sons' doctors' office.

Baby boy onesies

My friend mary from high school saw some of the onesie cookies that I had done on Facebook, and ordered some onesies for a friend that just had a baby. These are boy onesie this time!

I'm trying to learn how to make the pictures a little more interesting, instead of just putting them all on a plate :)

I love doing onesies!

Thank you Mary!! I hope your friend enjoys them!

Cookie bites

I was playing around with some extra dough and made a few cookie bites for Jake and Noah's teachers at school.

Some itty-bitty baby bites :)

Zebra bites :)

Superheroes

You know, I never know if I am spelling that correctly or not......I consider myself a pretty good speller but that word gets me every time. Is it 'superheroes' or 'superheros' or 'super heros' or something else entirely? Oh well, since I can't figure it out, I'll just go ahead and post some pictures of them, however they're spelled! :)

My friend Alissa from high school asked for a dozen SH (much better!), and a dozen J's and 1's for a little birthday boy. Here they are :)

Alissa let me have creative liberty with the letters and numbers, so to some I added little designs, and to the others I simply put sanding sugar. I love sanding sugar :)

Thank you so much Alissa!! It was so good to see you again! :)

Gig 'Em!

My sweet, wonderful, precious niece Keely is going away to college this week. Thank goodness she's just going to be moving to College Station, or else I'd have to pick up and move too (and she might think that's weird....) ;) She asked me to make some cookies to take to dinner with her friends this week!

Congratulations, Keely! I love you :)

Crosses

My friend Crissy ordered a dozen crosses for her husband's and friend's baptism. She asked for pastel colors....

Thanks Crissy! :)

Birthday cookies

One of my mom's friends at work, Kim, wanted me to make five dozen cookie favors for her grandmother's 80th birthday party, all in bright colors. I loved how they turned out :)

I added sanding sugar to the middle of the flowers

More sanding sugar on a few of the Fs--I love that stuff :)

I just had to show my new containers that I ordered for the cookie bites--I love these!

Thank you so much Kim!! It was so nice to finally meet you! :)

Academy t-shirts

So I went back and forth about whether or not to put pictures of the cookies on Facebook (I guess I was worried it would seem "dorky", lol!) but in the end I decided to just go ahead and do it. Well, it may be dorky after all, but since I did, so many people have contacted me about making cookies for them! So I guess it was a good thing. :) These were for my friend Annemarie, who worked at Academy over the summer and wanted to take these to her co-workers for her last day. Isn't that sweet? At first I tried to make the actual Academy logo, but I quickly realized that wasn't working, so I just ended up making the "A" and adding a few dots, still using Academy colors.

Thank you again so much Annemarie! It was so good to see you again :)

Wedding favors

So, about a month ago Alison contacted me by email about doing to some cookies for her upcoming wedding shower. I asked where she lives and she told me Chicago.....I couldn't believe someone from Chicago had found the blog and wanted me to make cookies! So I asked her how she found me and come to find out, she googled "Chicago cookies" and my blog came up--I was confused at first until I remembered that I had done the Chicago cookie platter for my brother-in-law, and that particular blog entry was titled "Chicago cookies"! I thought that was pretty funny. :) Alison and I quickly became email friends as we talked back and forth about what she wanted for her cookies. I am happy to say that they all arrived in perfect condition and she was very happy with them. Yay!

So here they are....

Wedding cakes using Alison's and her fiance's initials and using their wedding colors

I know the picture quality is horrible, but I loved these dresses! I can't take credit for the idea, though....it's all over Flickr :)

Another shot with horrible lighting, but you get the idea!

Alison, thank you again SO much! I hope your shower is a huge success!!