Don't Forget the Teacher!

Teacher Appreciation week is coming up soon (unless it has already passed)!!  I know when I was teaching, Teacher Appreciation week was always fun.  It was so sweet to see the kids come in with special presents for us teachers - not only were we excited to get a small token of appreciation, but the kids loved it just as much.  They loved to see what we were getting - and loved the feeling of handing us some sort of little gift.  

Typically, the things I got as a teacher were stuffed animals, fresh fruit (aka a banana that had been sitting at the bottom of the bookbag all morning), coffee mugs, and here and there, a gift card to Starbucks or a favorite store.  

Here are a few "sweet" things that I have done recently for teacher appreciation gifts- 

A flower pot filled with flower shaped cookie pops - These pots were painted by the children.  They each put their handprints around the sides and wrote their names on top of their prints.  So cute!  Another option for this is that I can paint these as well and personalize them with the teacher's name, etc.  

Another item that I did this week was for a preschool director - just another option of something to give to a teacher.  And what you may not realize from the picture, is that this is a JUMBO cookie.  This cookie is 6 inches around (double what they usually are).  

And last, this was a cookie platter (created for a teacher appreciation breakfast).  These are MINI cookies - these are about 1/2 the size of my normal cookies.  

 And to see some that I did last year, take a look here - http://creativecookies.blogspot.com/search/label/Teachers

LOTS and LOTS of options!  And as always, if you have an idea for something unique that I don't have pictured, please let me know and I will see what I can do.  

If you want to order a teacher gift, get your orders in soon!  I am filling up for the next couple of weeks - and I will not be taking anymore orders for the weekend of May 18-20th.  

Happy 1st Birthday Mia!

I am just in awe of how quickly all of my friend's kids grow up!  I feel like it wasn't that long ago that Sheila was pregnant.  And now Mia is 1.  Where does the time go???  I've enjoyed watching her grow over the past year and am just amazed at how quickly she discovered how to walk and is already saying a few words like "up!".  I am also totally impressed by Sheila's party decorating abilities for Mia's party!  Yellow and black everywhere, a super cute food table (including lots of goodies for the kids to enjoy), and Mia's cute little onesie to celebrate her day along with a matching tutu (made by Sheila herself!).  I'm so happy we were able to celebrate Mia's special day with her!

Summer is over...Back to School!

 As I'm trying to go back and post pictures of past cookies that I have done, I found that these would be perfect today.  As all of the kids go back to school, you can't forget the teachers!  As a former teacher myself, I would have loved to have a personalized present like this.  This was actually made for an end of the year present idea for a teacher but this would be great for any time of year - beginning of the school year, teacher appreciation, end of the year, or heck, anytime in between!

This was made for the teacher with a personalized drinking glass with her name on it and cookie pops coming out of it.  And below is a more up close picture of the cookie pops themselves.

The next pictures were cookies that were made for the assistant teacher.  I used the same design as the teacher present but didn't make these cookie pops.  I packaged them in a box with a "Thank You Teacher" tag and matching ribbon.  There were 8 cookies in the box (even though only 4 are shown).

Ava turns 6!

Right down the street lives sweet little Ava.  It's hard to believe that she is already a year older.  I had the pleasure of doing cookies for her birthday last year, so it's just hard to believe that it's ALREADY been a year!  Since this blog wasn't around then, I'll add last year's and this year's pictures.  

Last year, she was big into My Little Ponies (I used to LOVE these when I was her age too!).  So last year, she had rainbow cookies. 

Well, this year, we stuck with her favorite colors, pink and purple!  I mean what little girl doesn't like their pinks and purples???  And this year, they ordered the cookie pops.  I mean a cookie is great, but kids LOVE the cookies on a stick!    

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVA!!!  

Minnie & Mickey Cookie Pops!

I was asked to do cookies for a super special little girl's 4th birthday.  And what better cookies to have than Mickey and Minnie cookie pops?!  All of the Minnie's had a red bow made from fondant and were all tied with red polka dot ribbon.  The best part of doing cookies is when the birthday girl (or boy) sees the cookies and their little faces light up!  I was so happy to be able to meet the special little birthday girl!

Whit & Parker's 3rd Birthday

As you can tell, I'm playing catch up with the posts!  We are back tracking a little, but I just had to post these :)

For the boys' 3rd birthday this past April, I chose to do a Mickey Mouse theme.  If the boys had it their way, we would have done another Thomas the Tank birthday - but I just couldn't handle that again!  We went to Disney World in January so I figured since they were still hyped up about Mickey, we would make that our theme.  And as I said before, I like to really put my all into their parties....and this year, I really did!  I just know that their birthday parties are always going to be together, so I want to make it extra special.  So here are a few pictures...