NY Mets

 Last week, the lovely Julissa (and fellow twin mama) ordered some cookies for a Zumba friend of her's.  She sent me a picture of what she had in mind and I used that to create these....

And here is a pic of the set up :)  

Peace, Love, and Sugar Cookies!!

I've noticed that the cool thing for kids and teens these days is the peace signs and the NEON colors!  Wow...that sentence made me feel really old.  I recently had a request for peace sign cookies.  And I made them about as neon as I could get.  LOVE how they turned out!  I guess you could say they were real "groovy".

Christmas Already???

Today, as we were having lunch, my boys mentioned that they wanted to watch a movie.  So of course, we did.  Well, I should have been thankful that they didn't ask to watch a Thomas the Tank movie but they did request The Polar Express.  Now, we watch this movie A LOT in my house but it makes me laugh every time when it is warm outside - yet they want to watch a movie about Christmas?  And snow?  And Santa?
So we watched it again....for about the millionth time....

But anyway, as I was watching it, it reminded me of a cake that I did almost a year ago.  My friend Cathy came to me and asked me if I'd be willing to do her twins' birthday cake.  Their birthday is really close to Christmas and last year, she took them on The Polar Express train ride up in the mountains for their birthday present.  This is really the FIRST cake (other than a box cake mix) that I had tried to make in my home.  And Cathy gave me free reign to do whatever I could create.  So here's what came out of it!

Baby Shower Butterflies

Recently, Corey came to me with a request to do cookies for her new baby that is on the way.  Once I told her all about them and showed her some pictures, she decided to order some for a baby shower.  She asked for brown and lavender butterflies.  I LOVE these colors together!

Can't wait until Baby Drew arrives!  :) (of course he will get something a little more boyish than purple butterflies).  I'll post pictures of those whenever Drew makes his appearance!

Fireworks, Sleepovers, and Monster Trucks - Oh my!

And the MVP (or customer) award goes to Nancy!  One thing I love about Nancy is that she gives me a challenge and lets me run with it.  She gives me an idea and every time I say "well, I've never done that before but I am happy to give it a shot."  And sure enough, I do it and she keeps coming back :)  The teacher cookies in the last post were actually for her too!  

For her daughter's birthday, they had a sleepover - so of course I made sleepover cookies!  I mixed up the designs on the sleeping bags and made each girl one with blonde hair and one with brown hair.  And each sleeping bag had the girls' names on them.  I'm sure those girls had a blast at that party (and I'm sure Nancy didn't get a bit of sleep) :)  Oh, and don't let me forget, her birthday is around July 4th, so I made a few firework cookies for the rest of the family to eat too!  

And the latest challenge was a monster truck birthday party.  Who knew that they made monster truck cookie cutters??????  Well, they do!  In our house, we haven't gotten into the monster trucks yet (but I'm sure it's coming).  So when I heard that her son's favorite was Grave Digger, I said WHO?????  Thanks to google, I ended up with more pictures of Grave Digger than I could ever want.  And here is the finished product!