HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKSON!!!

Happy Birthday Jackson!! These cookies are for a little boy who is a miracle baby! By everything we have known about him since BEFORE he was born, we know that he and his parents are soooooo blessed. While he was in the NICU his daddy posted updates almost every day letting us all know of his progress. Here I'd sit with my cup of coffee and my breakfast with tears streaming down my face, amazed at the strength of this child and family. We just prayed and prayed over this precious child, practically the entire community on their knees in constant prayer. His mama loved the cookies and she is a HOOT! I can't be in the same room with her without busting out laughing. Happy Birthday Jackson! You are a fighter!

More Wedding

These are some of my most recent wedding cookies. The photos certainly don't do them justice. The colors were eggplant and white and they were (If I must say so myself) gorgeous cookies. A return customer ordered them for her son who has just recently joined the Air Force and gotten engaged prior to his first real assignment. Good Luck with that relationship!! Been there and done that for 20 years!!! LOL!!!

Christmas Preview

Another fabulous weekend in Charlotte full of joyful baking. We put out over 200 cookies. These were ones that we made that are a preview for Christmas - I have never made Christmas cookies and it was SUCH fun!!!

Abundant Thanksgiving

Thanks to everyone who has ordered fall cookies - I've almost got Christmas paid for my children! My AWSOME SISTER LISA and I baked all weekend in Charlotte and here are a few of the two hundred cookies plus we produced! We got some additional help from my superb niece Krystle who is an excellent cookie filler. She said I worked them like dogs and she threatened to go on FMLA and workers comp from time to time - but we had SO much fun that she eventually spit water everywhere when I made her crack up laughing! She handled her two little girls amazingly during the entire time - very patient and firm so that we were able to do the job without major interruption!!

Thanksgiving

I am soooo Thankful. I was totally bummed that my Halloween baking was over. The very same day though, I started getting Thanksgiving orders. Right now, my baking schedule is SO full that I am hesitating to solicit more orders. I have put it into a great big excel spreadsheet so I can get my head wrapped around the logistics of getting all of them done. As of right now - I have 16 dozen Thanksgiving cookies ordered and other various orders that total 13 dozen. All due before Thanksgiving day. That totals 29 dozen!!! And we thought Halloween was big!

Build a Bear

I recently coughed up the dough to put an ad in our local monthly newsletter. The day after the ad ran, I got a call from a lady who saw it and placed an order for a dozen bear cookies. Apparently her 2 year old grandson is having a "Build-a-bear" party. She later called back and asked for 18 cookies altogether. I think I did a good job. The bear cookie cutter had been in exile for quite a while - as my first batch of bears months ago looked really terrible. Now Mr. Bear gets to be with all the other cutters in the rubbermaid container! YAY!!